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iPhone Developers

Day Two #WWDC – Bluetooth and Passbook vs NFC?

June 12, 2012

Tweet Leaving the Bluetooth session today I was talking to a couple of Airline guys. The discussion started by focusing on Bluetooth 4.0 and wondering re the comparisons with NFC. Obviously, their interest was around ticketing and we quickly added the new Passbook feature into the  conversation. So when I came to write up a [...]

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Day One Notes from Apple #WWDC – It’s got me thinking.

June 11, 2012

Tweet I’m sitting down at the end of the day reflecting on what I heard or thought about today at the Apple WWDC or World Wide Developer Conference. It’s my gig for the rest of the week! Lucky me as tickets are hard to come by. After this morning’s keynote I wasn’t sure if I [...]

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Siri – What Will You Do For Me in 2012? #iphone #developers #api

December 29, 2011

Tweet As 2011 closes it is becoming more obvious that Siri really changed the perspective on how we communicate and use smart phones. Siri is beta for a reason. It doesn’t always work and you still have to learn to work with it. This is a post covering a few of my own observations and [...]

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iPod Touch4 and #FaceTime – This Disruption is Going to Hurt Google.

September 15, 2010

Tweet Over the weekend  Andy Abramson received his new iPod Touch 4 in the mail. Apple’s New iPod touch Part One-VoIP on the iPod – VoIP Watch. What he’s yet to reveal is his experience with FaceTime – Apple’s new video call solution which I’ve written a series of posts on. We had our FaceTime [...]

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iStore coming to the iPhone – 2012? Amazon’s biggest threat?

December 7, 2009

Tweet I’m reading the NYTimes article on Apple’s app store and for anyone that reads me there’s no surprises in it. So lets think more broadly about the real implications and the strategic options. How is the app store evolution challenging Apple or what options is it creating for it? Then what might it mean [...]

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WWDC Update.

June 11, 2009

Tweet The initial connectivity issues have now long gone away. WWDC for those that might not know is Apple’s world wide developer conference. It has pulled a very global audience and like me, 60% have never attended before. I’ve met some fantastic people here. The Apple staff are outstanding. Many have asked me why I’m [...]

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Word Magic Leads Collection of iPhone Games – Beta Tester a 4 year old

March 18, 2009

Tweet It’s the stories that really motivate developers. Last night we were treated to a surprise when the founder of Anusen.com presented her games at the Silicon Valley iPhone Developer Meetup run monthly by Tim Burks. Anusen is a new little educational software company that got a lot to be proud of. I think it [...]

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SV iPhone Developer Meetup – Oracle / Linkshare

March 17, 2009

Tweet Last night at the Silicon Valley iPhone Developers Meetup we had another great session. As always you don’t always get what you think. It’s the new perspectives that help. So when the guy from Oracle stood up to present I was a little like “why Oracle?”.  When the Linkshare presentation happened at the end [...]

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