According to Opera chief Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner the popular web browse is ready to run on Apple iphone 3G as it does already on other mobile devices and cell phones. Before you now click over to Apple app store I urge you to read on.

Now before bashing anyone it looks like the problem is in the iPhone SDK terms released in March. It became clear that Apple would “specifically bars third-party interpreters that call on non-Apple frameworks and languages, which by definition would include Opera’s web rendering engine. This would have left Opera Software converting software unlikely to be released in the near term.” according to a post on afterdown dot com. 

In forums and on other blogs Apple is facing mounting criticism for such practice. Apple wants to control what kind of apps are going on the iPhone and make some money along by providing a service platform for developers. It is in the best interest for Apple to do it and also for the iPhone user. The iPhone has limitations - mainly it’s battery - and uploading apps from all over the place can be nice, but would it be save as well…?

The point is, not many will mind to work and use the iTunes App store as the only means of getting apps on the iPhone for the exchange of knowing that certain standards are implemented. Having said that it is also very important that Apple itself will not misuse that unique position by preventing applications from using the iTunes App store, just because they are in direct or close competion to Apple own products. 

If Apple wants to do it, it should be honest about it and at the same time only allow unique 3rd party applications to be offered in the app store. Right now Apple appears to hit at random and to no surprise parallels to past Microsoft behaviors are drawn. In this respect I can not agree with Apple on what I know today, for me as consumer and user of an iPhone it is important to have a choice. Apple please iron out your policy be transparent, be open and don’t make the same or similar mistakes as other companies made. Be smart.

You always have to be skeptical of a post that starts with the words

“another little birdie told us…”

but a post over on ars technica (one of my favorite tech sites) certainly caught my eye today.

The posts reports that this Tuesday’s Apple event may be a bit more iPhone-esque than many of us expected. As they put it Click to continue »

Now just a little over 24 hours after the world wide launch, the news are coming in fast. It looks like almost everything went fine. There have been a few problems here and there, but all over it was a success day for Apple at it’s mobile phone partners. Everything was sold out at the end of day one, and lots of people had to walk home or continue to stay in line for an other chance.

It is not a surprise and it was expected. Apple was able once again Click to continue »

Yeap the first once are already in the hands of there new owners. This morning at 7am in Omotesando, Tokyo the long waiting had an end. With huge media attending a small opening ceremony was done and soon after the first in line walked in to the hundred waiting staff to buy and register there Apple iphone 3G.

The registration took about 30 minutes. The waiting line at SoftBank flag store was from Omotesando all the way to Shibuya Station. Not everyone in line was able to get there hands on the iphone today. At around 8 am the waiting line was cut at Click to continue »

If you understand Japanese this is something you want to check out. Up to now it was not clear if Apple will come up with a Japanese character recognition. But since it had one for Chinese, Apple was expected to offer the same to Japan. 

Matter of fact was or is, that people have been somewhat “upset” or disappointed that it was not offered from the beginning. After all Apple was set to sell the iphone 3G on 11 July in Japan. No such date is known for China.

Just in time, Apple posted the iphone guide tour on their Japanese site and it had a surprise included. The guided tour demonstrating the new character recognition feature that has been built into the Apple iPhone 2.0 OS firmware. Click to continue »