Daily Update for July 27, 2012
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Daily Update for July 27, 2012 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple’s iPhone twice as profitable per unit than iPad
Though Apple is tight-lipped about the profitability of its individual products, a court filing in the company’s ongoing lawsuit with Samsung has revealed that the carrier-subsidized iPhone has margins north of 50 percent, nearly twice as high as the iPad.
AppleInsider
Apple mistakenly issues OS X Server codes to users entitled to Mountain Lion
Apple may have had some trouble with its Mountain Lion redemption codes, which provide a free Mountain Lion upgrade to new Mac owners who purchased a system between June 11 through July 25 via the OS X Up To Date program.
Instead of receiving a code for Mountain Lion, some customers are reporting that they received a code for OS X Server instead. OS X Server, normally $ 19.99 in the App Store, adds filesharing and web services to Mountain Lion, but it requires the base OS to be installed first.
This redemption process has not been as smooth as Apple would have hoped. Some of the early codes did not work, some were for the server upgrade and according to reports on Twitter, some people are still waiting for their code to arrive.
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Apple mistakenly issues OS X Server codes to users entitled to Mountain Lion originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Review: Saxby 15″ Laptop Messenger
Knomo’s compact Saxby Laptop Messenger holds your 15-inch MacBook Pro and everything else you need…but it can’t close when full.Review: Saxby 15″ Laptop Messenger
Another Likely Physical Mockup of Next iPhone Offers a Realistic Look
Gizmodo points to a newly-discovered product page from case manufacturer Shenzhen Coolzone Technology displaying what appears to be a high-quality physical mockup matching up with rumors and leaked parts for the next-generation “iPhone 5″.
Case manufacturers have become increasingly sophisticated with their physical mockups created for design and testing of new cases, giving their mockups very realistic appearances that have led to uncertainty about whether they are genuine devices or not. While the device shown in the photos certainly does look realistic in many regards, the low-quality photos leave many details unclear and we indeed believe the item to be a physical mockup rather than a leaked genuine iPhone.
Regardless, the photo provides a reasonable glimpse of what the next iPhone may look like, albeit with iOS 5 rather than the iOS 6 that the device will undoubtedly ship with later this year.
Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories
• 'Subscribe to Feed' Extension Puts RSS Button Back in Safari 6
• AutoCAD 2012 and 2013 Do Not Yet Work With Mountain Lion
• GreenBytes to Offer Free 'Community Edition' of ZEVO ZFS for Mac
• Chinese Consumer Groups Focusing on Apple's Use of Reconditioned Parts for Warranty Repairs
• Autodesk Releases 'Inventor Fusion' on Mac App Store
Another Likely Physical Mockup of Next iPhone Offers a Realistic Look
Gizmodo points to a newly-discovered product page from case manufacturer Shenzhen Coolzone Technology displaying what appears to be a high-quality physical mockup matching up with rumors and leaked parts for the next-generation “iPhone 5″.
Case manufacturers have become increasingly sophisticated with their physical mockups created for design and testing of new cases, giving their mockups very realistic appearances that have led to uncertainty about whether they are genuine devices or not. While the device shown in the photos certainly does look realistic in many regards, the low-quality photos leave many details unclear and we indeed believe the item to be a physical mockup rather than a leaked genuine iPhone.
Regardless, the photo provides a reasonable glimpse of what the next iPhone may look like, albeit with iOS 5 rather than the iOS 6 that the device will undoubtedly ship with later this year.
Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories
• 'Subscribe to Feed' Extension Puts RSS Button Back in Safari 6
• AutoCAD 2012 and 2013 Do Not Yet Work With Mountain Lion
• GreenBytes to Offer Free 'Community Edition' of ZEVO ZFS for Mac
• Chinese Consumer Groups Focusing on Apple's Use of Reconditioned Parts for Warranty Repairs
• Autodesk Releases 'Inventor Fusion' on Mac App Store
DevJuice: PlaceKitten and other handy placeholder sites
What do you get the dev who has everything? How about placeholder kittens, compete with their own API? The place kitten website provides on-demand placeholder art at the resolution you specify.
For example, you could ask for a 625×225 image by submitting a request to:
http://placekitten.com/625/225
If kittens aren’t your thing (don’t tell Steve), you can check out placedog.com instead. Same API but with a canine slant. For ursine lovers, there’s also placebear.com.
Other sites with less kawaii include Placehold.it, Lorem Pixum, and FlickrHoldr.com. For a while, apparently, there was also a disturbing “sheenholders” site, but it appears to have gone away.
One of the more flexible APIs comes from dummyimage.com, which allows you to specify background color, foreground color, and text to generate a string-based image, e.g.
http://dummyimage.com/300×400/000/fff&text=HELLO
Speaking of placeholder content, I’m a big user of Lipsum.com, a lorem ipsum-style text generator. A number of humorous spoof sites have recently launched including Bacon Ipsum, Cupcake Ipsum, Samuel L. Ipsum, Hipster Ipsum, Swearum Ipsum (NSFW), Trollem Ipsum (NSF TUAW readers), and Bogan Ipsum (NSFW).
For HTML content (perfect for developing web views) there’s Fillerama and HTML Ipsum. These sites provide HTML-formated filler elements. The former one lets you choose from various geek sources (like Futurama, Dr. Who, and Dexter). The latter offers basic HTML elements including lists, tables, and forms.
DevJuice: PlaceKitten and other handy placeholder sites originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Best Buy drops price of Apple’s iPhone 4 to $50 with 2-year contract
In what appears to be a permanent price drop, Best Buy is selling Apple’s 8-gigabyte iPhone 4 for $ 49.99 with a new two-year contract.
AppleInsider
Marco Arment on the Mac App Store’s future
Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, weighed in with his thoughts on the future of the Mac App Store. He argued that, unless Apple changes some of its rigid policies, the Mac App Store is doomed. He pointed to the recent departure of the email client Postbox, which in part was the result of Apple’s strict sandboxing requirements, as an example of what the future holds for the Mac App Store.
Because of Apple’s policies, Arment predicts that an increasing number of developers are going to leave the Mac App Store. Arment writes, “The problem with sandboxing isn’t that any particular app is incompatible with the current entitlements. It’s a deeper problem than that: Apple is significantly reducing the number of apps that can be sold in the Store after people have already bought them.”
This developer departure will not only affect developers, it will also affect customers who bought a piece of software that is now gone from the App Store. Arment says that even he has “lost all confidence that the apps I buy in the App Store today will still be there next month or next year.”
It isn’t just sandboxing that’s causing some developers to leave. The lack of a paid upgrade system, no access to important customer information and no volume discounts are making some developers return to selling their software through their own storefronts.
Arment makes a compelling argument for buying apps directly from the developer instead of through the Mac App Store, even through the App Store is convenient. You should take the time to read his post and consider what he says the next time you click on the “Buy App” button.
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Marco Arment on the Mac App Store’s future originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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