When it comes to the closure of the spectacular Lala music service, I’m still working my way through the five stages of grief. For the first time since Lala went bye-bye at the end of last month, I idly launched its iPhone application. (The company never released it, but it gave me a prerelease version in November, less than a month before Apple snapped up Lala and chose not to release the iPhone app it had just acquired.)
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Join Me on Monday for Live Coverage of Apple's WWDC Keynote
The pessimistic gadget freak would expect that next Monday’s keynote at Apple’s WWDC won’t be exactly spine-tingling–chances are that it will center on an iPhone which we already seem to know quite a bit about. But an optimist–like, for instance, me–would be inclined to hold out hope that surprises remain. (I’d be willing to settle for small ones, although a shocker or two would also be welcome.)
Either way, I’ll be sitting in San Francisco’s Moscone Center watching events unfold, and I’ll be reporting them at technologizer.com/wwdc2010 as they happen, starting at 10am San Francisco time. Comments from the Technologizer community are part of the fun, so I hope you’ll be there…
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AT&T Data Plans Get a Major Makeover, iPhone Tethering Coming Soon
Verizon Wireless’s Lowell McAdam keeps saying that the wireless industry will move towards “buckets” of data rather than unlimited pricing. AT&T Wireless is proving his point today: The company is going to phase out its current $30-a-month unlimited data for smartphones in favor of new, cheaper pricing plans with monthly caps on data usage and a tethering option (yes, even for iPhones).
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iPhone 3GS for Cheap. Don't Buy It!
Wal-Mart has the 16GB iPhone 3GS for $97–the best deal on an iPhone to date, and a major technology bargain, period. But don’t buy one. At least not quite yet. Wait a couple of weeks for Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote–he’s probably going to have something to say about $100 iPhones, and it’s possible it’ll involve an even more attractive offer than this one.
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Android vs. iPhone: It's War–and That's Great
As I sat in the audience at Google’s I|O conference yesterday morning, I watched Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra and others unveil Android 2.2 “Froyo,” an ambitious upgrade to the company’s mobile OS. Gundotra began the keynote by framing Android as a moral crusade against “a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice.”
In case anyone couldn’t figure out who the man, company, device, and carrier were, he showed a slide that alluded to Apple’s most famous commercial. Then, for the rest of the Android 2.2 announcement, Gundotra and others punctuated demos of impressive stuff–such as dramatic speed boosts and Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities–with asides about the iPhone and iPad that appeared to be intended to elicit snickers from the audience. Which they did.
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Goodbye Tweetie, Hello Twitter for iPhone
A little over a month ago, Twitter acquired Tweetie. Which was not only the best Twitter client for iPhones, but maybe the best way to use Twitter, period–and an exceptionally impressive piece of software, period. The company said that Tweetie would be relaunched as Twitter for iPhone–and the first (free) version under that name is now available in Apple’s App Store. It’s not just a moniker switcheroo: Tweetie’s last version was Tweetie 2.0, and this is Twitter for iPhone 3.0.
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Hands On Slacker 2.0 for iPhone (Caching!)
At long last, Slacker Radio 2.0 for iPhone is nearly here! Of course, the most notable and eagerly anticipated feature is the ability to cache stations for offline playback. Slacker’s updated app was submitted to Apple for review yesterday and, barring any show stoppers, should be available in iTunes in the next day or so.
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Adobe Strikes Back, Sort of
Two weeks ago, Steve Jobs published a withering memo explaining why Apple has prevented Adobe’s Flash technology from arriving on the iPhone in any form. Today, Adobe is responding in a big way. The company has launched an ad campaign in print and on the Web with an accompanying Web portal addressing Jobs’ points about Flash’s openness, security, performance, and compatibility.
Adobe’s response doesn’t match the blunt specificity of Jobs’ piece. The ads say that Adobe loves Apple (sadly, it seems to be unrequited–but it’s an improvement over “Go screw yourself, Apple“). And for the most part, its defense of Flash doesn’t address Apple’s stance head on. Except at the end of an open letter from Adobe cofounders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke:
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Fourth-Generation iPhone Found in Vietnam
What, another iPhone prototype found in the wild?
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AT&T Upgrades: Business as Usual
MobileCrunch posted a story about apparent improvements in AT&T customers’ eligibility for phone upgrades yesterday–prompting me to wonder what policies would be in place for the next iPhone. AT&T spokesman Seth Bloom wrote me with more info: Despite what MobileCrunch noticed, there has been no change in the company’s policies, which give each customer his or her own upgrade date based on factors such as length of contract and payment history. The date is constantly updated, which is why a customer might notice it change over time.
Of course, this doesn’t reveal all about how much existing customers will pay for the next iPhone–that’s something Bloom wouldn’t address now. But no, the company isn’t fiddling with dates in preparation for its release.