In my analysis of Apple’s upcoming phone, I suggested that Apple will use iTunes to offer software syncing of address books and calendars. This led someone to ask the following question: I am just wondering how Apple can implement the iCal and Address Book features to an Apple iMobile phone if those apps don’t exist [...]
Bill Ray of The Register writes that the iPhone will fail and fail badly. The device doesn’t even exist yet and we’re already trying to predict its failure. Let me try to break apart his argument. First, Ray contends that a critical aspect of the mass adoption of the iPod was that it [...]
Mac OS X 10.4 includes the ICU library but no simple way to actually use it. ICU is an open source Unicode library developed by IBM for Unicode and Locale-dependent functionality. Apple provides the library (/usr/lib/libicucore.dylib) in a standard Mac OS X installation but no headers to compile against the library. [...]