Blag-o-matic

So I have a few lingering questions from the big iPhone event yesterday. First, what about Apple’s server products?  Where is the support for iCal Server?  Also, along that, what about wireless sync for non-enterprise users?  I realize this wasn’t the focus of the event, I just hope they’re going to provide something.  What I’d like to see is a no cost sync only .Mac account for all iPhone owners.  I really should be able to add a calendar entry on my phone, and have it show up on my Mac Pro without having to connect it.Second,  what about iCal and Exchange integration?  If Apple can make Calendar on the iPhone work with Exchange, I really hope they make it work with iCal.  I could completely dump the POS that is Entourage if iCal could read my Exchange calendar.

http://www.pascal.com/diary/?p=183.  The idea basically is to provide an option for power users that would stop Spaces from ever switching your space for you.  If Safari is open in space 1 and you’re on space 3 and click on Safari in the Dock, it would open a new Safari window for you, rather than darting you over to space 1.(via daringfireball)

This is just too cool.

I’ve been saying this ever since Boot Camp came out. At work the first thing we do when we get any new computer in is to wipe the hard drive and put our Windows image on it. After that you tend to spend a couple hours re-installing all of the drivers and the few utilities that actually add value to the computer. I will admit that IBM Lenovo has a decent auto-installer, it’s slow, and it bugs you periodically to press a button just for kicks, but it sure beats downloading and installing everything by hand.It just amazes me how Apple is the only company that can give you a single CD image that installs all of the drivers and utilities you need for all of their computers. One disk will cover you if you have a MacBook, iMac, MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro, and when you’re done, everything works. There are no “unknown hardware” icons left in device manager, no mysterious keys on the keyboard that don’t work. Hell, the latest versions of Boot Camp even support two finger scrolling. Best of all, when you’re done, there’s no crap to uninstall.(via daringfireball)

Do you like stickers as much as this guy?

That Mac WiFi bug that was supposedly found a year ago has been labeled the most overhyped bug.  They never did manage to produce a single shred of evidence that they weren’t completely talking out of their asses.(via MacUser)

Seriously, what? Eminem is suing Apple because iPods can play illegal downloads of Eminem’s songs.

“Eight Mile and Martin have demanded that Apple cease and desist its reproduction and distribution and Apple has refused,” the complaint alleges.

Reproduction and distribution of what? The iPod? Seriously, I don’t get this at all. Is his career that much in the toilet?(via fsj)

Charles Arthur of The Guardian makes the same point I did. Even if iSuppli got all of the component prices correct, it doesn’t mean that’s what it actually cost to make an iPhone. R&D isn’t free, neither is the talent that created the iPhone.(via daringfireball)

A brief history of Apple(via tuaw)

John Gruber has a piece on the figures iSuppli provides for the cost of the iPhone.  The one item that I think misses is the R&D for the iPhone itself.  I strongly doubt that the model everyone has right now is the first revision.  Apple needs to pay for all of those designs that didn’t work too.