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Comment on Kaspersky Lab Slams iPhone SDK, Drops Antivirus Solution by Falkirk

Falkirk — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:45:46 +0000

Let me see if I have the straight. Kaspersky:

1) Announced that it’s dropping it’s efforts to create an anti-virus product for the iPhone; and that

2) The iPhone SDK is LESS likely to allow viruses than they had originally anticipated; and that

3) The unlocked iPhones, - you know, the ones in violation of Apples EULA - are still vulnerable to viruses.

And somehow you come up with the headline: “Kaspersky Lab Slams iPhone SDK…”

How about a more realistic headline like: “Kaspersky iPhone virus warnings wrong, Wrong, WRONG!

Comment on It’s Wise to Protect MacBook Air with Slim Hard Shell Case by Mac

Mac — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:11:31 +0000

Hi Dan Heinze. No we don’t get commission on these cases, but I have recently purchased their hard shell case to protect my MacBook Air from scratches during travel.

Comment on As 3G iPhone Launch Nears, Apple Strikes Worldwide Deals by Mac

Mac — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:07:19 +0000

Thank you Mike for pointing that out and please accept our apologies. We’re not perfect, and when mistakes happen we are happy to have people like you to correct us. Yes, you are correct, the sentence was supposed to refer to the last year memo. We have removed that sentence altogether to avoid confusion. All the best. :)

Comment on It’s Wise to Protect MacBook Air with Slim Hard Shell Case by Dan Heinze

Dan Heinze — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:07:10 +0000

You’re crazy. Who would pay $1800 for a computer that’s only 3 pounds, and then buy a case for an extra pound? What terrible advice! You must be getting commission on these cases!

Comment on As 3G iPhone Launch Nears, Apple Strikes Worldwide Deals by Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:52:49 +0000

The BoyGenius memo seems to be about last year’s launch, not the one coming up.

Comment on In Defence of Apple Inc Environmental Record by mayadanteamihan

mayadanteamihan — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:39:44 +0000

What with this organization? Is it just trying to get in the news? Or is it trying to wheedle money out of Apple, like so many case-lodgers? Sorry, but I’ve never heard of it before.

Somebody must have noticed that when headlines contain the word “Apple,” the news item is read. I don’t read news myself unless I see it’s about Apple or, by a longer shot, Google, and only recently about Yahoo.

Comment on Apple Canada iPod Owners Eligible for $3.6 million Settlement by Mac

Mac — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:51:19 +0000

Thank you for commenting. At the end of the article above, you will find a link to PDF document titled “Full iPod Battery Settlement Agreement .” Look under “Claims Process and Administration” on page 9.

Comment on Apple Canada iPod Owners Eligible for $3.6 million Settlement by dreadpiraterobert

dreadpiraterobert — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:15:00 +0000

Cool. Now if your article specified how to claim that credit that would be some information I could use.

Comment on Kaspersky Lab Slams iPhone SDK, Drops Antivirus Solution by Dusty

Dusty — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:57:12 +0000

I just realized that by issuing a press release announcing their decision not to release a product, and repeating complaints from the initial release of the SDK that have since been determined to be non-issues, Kaspersky did accomplish one goal - free publicity at sites like these.

Comment on Kaspersky Lab Slams iPhone SDK, Drops Antivirus Solution by Dusty

Dusty — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:13:01 +0000

How is this worth posting a story here? This sounds like sour grapes on Kaspersky’s part. Maybe they just realized that the Apple model for distribution and control of the applications allowed on the iPhone is already better virus/malware prevention than Kaspersky could develop, so they wouldn’t really have anything to offer? At least nothing that anyone would pay for.

Given the overwhelmingly positive feedback and level of interest from the major players in gaming, CRM, and other software vendors, I would anticipate a rich and varied selection of software available for the platform come July of this year.

Maybe Kaspersky can develop something for HTC and their latest Windows based “iPhone Killer”. Of course, there probably won’t be much market for that either…

Comment on Apple in Dubai, Annual Gulf Photo Plus Exhibition 2008 by Mac

Mac — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:06:25 +0000

Hi Magnus,

Thank you for your comment. We changed Apple to “Apple IMC ME,” which acts as Apple Inc’s officially-sanctioned representative / distributor for the Middle East and we also added link sources to Apple Inc site confirming this information. I have also responded to your e-mail.

Nevertheless, we have updated the article with more specific information and we thank you for contacting us regarding this issue. We wish you and all Apple fans in the Middle East all the best! :)

Comment on Apple in Dubai, Annual Gulf Photo Plus Exhibition 2008 by Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:49:04 +0000

Note that it wasn’t “Apple Inc” that did all this, it was “Apple IMC ME”, or “ABM”, the regional Apple distributor, even though you write “Apple”. And you forgot to mention that the only Apple User Group in the United Arab Emirates, EmiratesMac (http://www.emiratesmac.com), was present on Photo Friday, chatting to people about all things Mac, and helping them out with their problems :-)

Comment on Flight Simulator Pedals for Mac Gaming by Mac

Mac — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:10:07 +0000

In response to: “What flight sims are for the Mac OS 10 except Xplane??”

Have you tried WarBirds 2007 and FlyBoys Squadron: Fly the Unfriendly Skies?

Comment on Flight Simulator Pedals for Mac Gaming by lh

lh — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:36:34 +0000

What flight sims are for the Mac OS 10 except Xplane??

Comment on Apple Store in Vancouver to Open August 19 by http://www.iphoneuser.ca

http://www.iphoneuser.ca — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:06:11 +0000

Yay, can’t wait, hopefull canada has the iPhone by then, I will be lined up then. Aug 19 is a tuesday and most things come out on tuesdays.

Comment on iPhone Shipments Slip, Apple’s Global Market Declines by mirni danena

mirni danena — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:17:05 +0000

D9: Since Apple decided to enter cell-phone market, they’ll be compared against them. The fact that Apple produces comps and iPods is as relevant as the fact that Sony produces Playstation. Also, N95 has easily outsold iPhone despite being more expensive. There are also high-end models by Samsung and LG that have each outsold iPhone, again despite being more expensive.

Barney: No, it’s mostly because Apple fanboys already bought one -or two.

Carley: Check again. Their most profitable quarter is on Mac sales.

Eliak: iPhone sales in Europe was 40% below predictions up to a month ago. Slashing the price might fix this, we’ll have to wait and see. I wonder since it sells so well why Apple slashed the price 3 months after its US introduction and 4-5 months after its Europe introduction -at an already reduced price.

Lipshitz: Apple definitely didn’t sell iPhone until June 2007. But the report is clear: “Apple’s global market share declined for the first time, from 0.7% in Q4 2007 to 0.6% in Q1 2008.” So, the fact that Apple start selling 06/2007 is irrelevant. What’s more, be careful what Q2 or Q1 or Q? means, not every companies follows the same nomenclature. Apple, case in point, doesn’t. Of course, no one would expect them to follow the norm.

As for the iPhone, it’s a great PocketPC (^^). Now, forget about the iPhone and go get the great iPod Touch and a decent cell phone and you’ve got the best of both worlds. But, of course, that’s why Apple made their first ugly-looking product in iPod Touch: iPhone would have been buried.

Apple will get it right, eventually. Even Microsoft got it right the second time round with XBox 360. But they’re not there yet. And they’d better upgrade that horrible camera. It’s reason enough *not* to get an iPhone.

-m-

Comment on Interview with iPod iWatch Inventor, Peter Burns by ryan cruz

ryan cruz — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:58:44 +0000

i really would want an ipod iwatch because i think that it would be cool to have that if it was here right know i would be the first to get it

Comment on iPhone Shipments Slip, Apple’s Global Market Declines by P. C. Lipshitz

P. C. Lipshitz — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:31:10 +0000

Ummm sorry, kind of hard to say that iPhone sales “decreased year-over-year” when they didn’t even start selling iPhones until July of 2007! Secondly, you said that sales dropped from Q407 to Q108. Sorry again but they just reported Q208 sales, not Q1! You don’t even know basic facts. And yes, their sales did decline from Q108 to Q208 but that’s to be expected since Apple almost always sees seasonal declines from the Xmas quarter in their products.

The iPhone is the hottest selling phone and is grabbing market share from all the loser firms that pay for this FUD.

Comment on iPhone Shipments Slip, Apple’s Global Market Declines by Thomas Carley

Thomas Carley — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:02:59 +0000

Of course we all know that IDC is the last word on cell phones. Apples latest corp. report makes the last quarter their most profitable in their history, I rechecked and can’t find any sign of the reported market share reduction. since I don’t live in western europe l could care less if they don’t like the iPhone.

Comment on Apple Store in Vancouver to Open August 19 by bob

bob — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:59:49 +0000

your are way way off the timeline

Comment on iPhone Shipments Slip, Apple’s Global Market Declines by Randall Eliak

Randall Eliak — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:04:25 +0000

http://www.havethat.co.uk/2008/04/iphone-it-got-me.html

’nuff said

Lackluster indeed, can’t keep them in stock.

Comment on iPhone Shipments Slip, Apple’s Global Market Declines by Barney Google

Barney Google — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:01:04 +0000

Umm perhaps it’s because everyone knows the new version is getting ready to come out?

Comment on iPhone Shipments Slip, Apple’s Global Market Declines by D9

D9 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:44:39 +0000

So how many computers did Nokia sell last quarter? How music players did they sell (oh, go ahead and throw in their music-playing phones which no one uses to listen to music)? Honestly, that Apple, a hadware/software company, w/ its single phone through single carriers is even in the discussion and equation is testimony enough about how well the iPhone is doing. How many mobile phones did Nokia sell in its first year? Or Sony? Or Samsung?

Look, it’s well known that IDC slights Apple anytime it can, even when the news is good. It also is well agreed that for a device that everyone seems to take shots at, the iPhone is certainly forcing all these “industry leaders” to scramble to redesign phones with a lot the features the iPhones provides today (touch-screen, true web browser, visual voicemail, etc.).

Is there one out there yet that does match the iPhone? Now have any of these new phones actually outsold the iPhone? That would be the real question.

Comment on Age of Empires 3 - King of Real-Time Strategy Games by Ra

Ra — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:45:31 +0000

Hey does this work on a mac? Why the hell do you post in-compatible games otherwise! ;(