One of the many ‘features’ that annoy me about Mac OS X Leopard is the removal of the SMS features within address book.Imagine my shock to discover this on apple.com, where they’ve taken a great deal of time to replace all the pictures on the apple site with desktops showing Leopard’s background … they’re advertising the SMS features that they’ve stripped from their new OS as a reason to buy a MacBook

Conjecture only, but the removal of the SMS feature might be due to the fact that the iPhone doesn’t support bluetooth for anything other than a headset… I always thought it was odd that Apple allowed every phone I’ve ever owned to work with SMS in this way… until I got my iPhone.

By taking this away from all those who’ve used OS X for years, it’ll soon be forgotten about and people wont think about why the iPhone wont work with it …

Just my guess

Today’s news almost makes me want to learn Objective C

Apple will be launching an official iPhone SDK in February 2008…

The downside is that it may not be an open platform… with apps requiring to be signed by Apple before they can be installed on the iPhone (and installation potentially being through a closed system like iTunes, rather than something like the AppTapp Community Sources) this will limit the choice of Applications, and potentially prevent free / open source apps hitting the iPhone. It will also allow Apple to pick and choose what apps they want (so you can bet anything that will eat into revenue from ATT/O2/T-Mobile will be a no-go, which means no IM, no VoIP etc….). A decision like that would also make it impossible to develop small apps for your own use only…

I’ll say it again, all I want is… SSH, AIM and an RSS reader… and i’ll be happy

My iPhone already has become indispensable…. even with it’s failings which occasionally have me longing for my old Sony Ericsson k800i

Here’s hoping it signals the arrival of Leopard

(p.s. does anyone else notice they’ve changed the font for this one to the font used by notes in Leopard ?)

Update: Well it looks I was right with my guess…. Leopard will be available to the masses on October 26th… Farewell Tiger, you were revolutionary (and lasted longer than any other OS X release)

Yes, this is my iPhone (on T-Mobile UK) running firmware 1.1.1 (see the iTunes Wifi Store) and with the excellent MobileChat and Stumbler 3rd party applications installed

I honestly don’t understand what Apple are playing at locking down these devices, web-based apps on the iPhone are impressive, but they dont feel as slick as native applications … and an iPhone version of iChat should have been in there from the start…

Only apps I want on my iPhone that aren’t there by standard is;

• A decent IM client (AIM and Jabber would be just fine, ala iChat)
• An SSH Client (big must for me, even had one on the k800i !!)
• A way to upload photos straight to blogger or .Mac etc
• A file browser / viewer so I could store things on the iPhone without emailing them to myself!

There’s a number of features missing from the built in apps (and OS) that i’d like… but that’s another story

I recently came across a website, bango.com, which provides mobile web services and it looked more than a little familiar… I then dug up a screenshot from a service of days gone by (I was one of the ePeople :)) …

Funny how someone can take a 12 year old design from Apple and pass it off as new and modern… Newton anyone?

Anyone else thing Apple Legal might be interested in this one

Note the total call duration…. 0000:00:00… yet it cost me over £8?! how does that work…

Joking aside, it’s clearly an error as there were calls made… however it doesn’t instill faith in the rest of their billing systems does it? Particularly since they insist in billing me for someone else’s phoneline as well!

I recently downloaded the Apple UI Guidelines for iPhone… it contains this paragraph on the first page;

Note: Currently, developers create web applications for iPhone, not native applications. Therefore, this document focuses solely on the presentation of web applications and other web content on iPhone.

Note the use of the word “currently”.

’nuff said.