Editorial

Apple lockdown plans thwarted

by Nik Rawlinson on 16 August 2010 in Editorial

Legalising iPhone jailbreaking will put Apple off locking down Mac OS X. So now it’s legal to jailbreak your iPhone, in the US at least, but why would you want to? Well, for starters, there’s the thrill of being somewhat subversive, bucking the trend and hitting back against the authority that is Apple’s approval process, [...]

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Apple’s golden opportunity

by Nik Rawlinson on 2 August 2010 in Editorial
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You can’t help but be cheered by the fact that in Apple’s latest earnings statement, released on the day we went to press, Macs are still going strong. Apple’s line of desktop and portable computers – note, not laptops – has lost its headline appeal over the past few years, and I’d wager that we’ll [...]

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Giving off the wrong signals

by Nik Rawlinson on 19 July 2010 in Editorial
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Apple has admitted faulty iPhone signal bars… but a fix is on its way. How embarrassing. Apple got its sums wrong. Those bars on your iPhone screen aren’t as big as you thought they were… or at least they shouldn’t be. For anyone who missed it, the company fessed up and sent out a missive [...]

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Get ready for iPhone 4 mania

by Nik Rawlinson on 29 June 2010 in Editorial

Forget the iPad hype – it’s the iPhone 4 that’s taking the world by storm… One of the perils of working on a magazine – any magazine – is that you eventually have to press print. There comes a time in every production cycle when you have to down tools and send your pages off [...]

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Detractors will eat their words

by Nik Rawlinson on 18 June 2010 in Editorial

iPhone 4 is getting slammed by the media, but it’ll still fly off the shelves. iPhone 4. What a surprise. Were you disappointed? I was. Not with the specs. Not with the hardware. Not with the forthcoming and slightly awkwardly named iOS4, but by the lack of, well, surprise. But enough of the spoilers. We [...]

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Genuine replies or just lies?

by Nik Rawlinson on 28 May 2010 in Editorial

Jobs has answered some emails, but how can we tell the bona fide ones? Steve Jobs has found the send button. Apparently. More and more people who send him a note are getting replies, but do you think it’s actually him? Let’s consider the evidence. For starters, the address: sjobs@apple.com. Can you imagine how much [...]

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