‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Aug. 21
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 21, 2008 at 5:34pm
“Will Windows Mobile Play DOS to Apple’s iPhone?: Today’s broad array of smartphone operating system contenders are offering lots of potential answers to a problem that only requires one. It appears the market has two options ahead: either pool generic hardware makers behind a single operating system and deliver a smartphone marketplace that resembles the Windows PC market, or watch them fall to a dominant leader and have a smartphone market that resembles Apple’s iPod ecosystem.”—Roughly Drafted Magazine
“Advice to Apple, AT&T: Send us a text message/Latest software update for iPhone is out, but how would you know?”—MSNBC
“iPhone 3G reports: I’ll add my name to the chorus of iPhone users having problems with Mail. Since I installed the 2.0.x software update on my iPhone Edge (4 GB), my mail will at least once a day stop updating. I’ve been rebooting the the phone to resolve the issue, but will try the suggestion for killing and restarting the application.”—Macintouch
“Apple’s MobileMe is the Christmas Grinch: Apple’s attempt to pacify customers over its MobileMe launch fiasco has seen the firm inadvertently take a chunk out of my Christmas shopping budget!” [“but Apple’s 90 day offer means all its oldest subscribers, around 200,000 people according to pure guessing, will now face the need to pay out for the service in the run-up to Christmas, somewhere between November and December this year. I think Apple should do the decent thing, and make the service free. It should be integrated with Google Apps in some way, and could offer modules offering extra features for a small fee.”]—Macworld UK
“Apple streaks ahead of competitors in customer satisfaction: A new survey of US consumers shows Apple dominates the PC industry when it comes to customer satisfaction. But would the results be the same if the recent iPhone 3G and MobileMe woes were included?”—IT Wire
“TransGaming Adds SecuROM To Ciderized Titles: TransGaming has announced that it will utilize Sony DADC’s SecuROM digital rights management (DRM) solution for all video game titles enabled through TransGaming’s Cider portability engine for Mac games. The move is intended to provide the company with “a high level of security against piracy and unauthorized copying for Cider enabled game titles,” as well as encourage more Windows developers to consider Cider.”—Inside Mac Games
“Retail sources say its closing time for current iPod line: Resellers both near and afar are reporting signs that Apple’s current line of iPod digital music players are on their way out the door, just as one prominent Wall Street analyst restates his claim that a $199 iPod touch is likely to be among the new models that will fill the void.”—AppleInsider
“Apple tries to de-bug iPhone: Apple acknowledged Tuesday that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G. Though mum on details, Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock said on Tuesday, ‘The software update improves communication with 3G networks.’”—USA Today
“iPhone 3G: Delete App Store Application: ow to remove an App Store application from your iPhone 3G device.”—Technipages
“Troubleshooting MagSafe power adapter strain relief issues”—Apple Support
“How to Delete Applications from the iPhone 3G ( a video)”—YouTube
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
