Archive for December, 2006

Google: The Missing Apple Phone Component

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

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 [...]

Why the iPhone will succeed and succeed greatly

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

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 [...]

libicucore on Mac OS X

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

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. [...]