by Kenny Hemphill
on 28 March 2011
in News
This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference will be held in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from June 6-10, Apple has announced.
The company said it would ‘unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS’ at the event.
“At this year’s conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “If you are an iOS or Mac OS X software developer, this is the event that you do not want to miss.”
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by Nik Rawlinson
on 9 November 2010
in Editorial
It has begun. Apple has announced the Mac App Store and the response has been predictably mixed. I can see why. On the one hand, it will make it far easier for smaller developers to be found; on the other, it could well be the pointy end of a rather frightening wedge.
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Apple demotes Mac to ‘just a device’ as Mac OS X becomes OS X
by Kenny Hemphill on 7 June 2011 in CommentApple confirmed yesterday what many of us have suspected for several years: that the Mac is no longer its focus.
In a throwaway remark that was almost lost among the endless demonstrations of Lion and iOS 5 features, Steve Jobs proclaimed: ‘We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device.’ And, to underline that, in red, with several asterisks either side, Mac OS X became just OS X. It’s the first time since System 7 in the mid-nineties that the word ‘Mac’ hasn’t featured in the name of the operating system. And though it was a move made quietly, without any announcement, it’s a signifi