Articles by Mike Overbo
According to Walter Biscardi, one can install a lite version of Final Cut Studio on the iPhone if one already has a license, and capture and edit movies in the Apple ProRes 422 video codec. There are only two audio and video tracks, that’s it, but still, it’s video editing. On the iPhone.
I have no idea if the story is true, there’s no video of it in action; it could be a photoshop, it could be false, it could be a brazen lie by Walter Biscardi to capture traffic. But if it’s true, it should quiet the doubters worried about the application ecosystem a bit, especially if it’s a sign of things to come.
According to a recent Boy Genius report, AT&T has prohibited vacations during the iPhone launch period — June 15th to July 15th. This is in line with previous Apple statements, who have consistently stated the iPhone will be released in “late June.”
Probably not… Thomas de Monchaux pens a list of design gripes about Apple, the iPod, and the iPhone that are hard to argue with. It’s a very interesting read for anyone creative interested in design.
I’m changing the name. I’m calling them ’slices’ now, because the word ‘blurbs’ is onomotopoetically indigestive whilst ’slices’ sound delicious and desirable. “Another slice of pie?” Why thank you, I will! “His razor-honed wit sliced through the BS.” I like the cut of his jib!
I’ve posted short blurbs, little slices, really, about Apple and Greenpeace previously, but it seems that we now have enough green apple slices to bake a pie (I’m sorry about that, really, but I can’t help it).
Apple remains #1 on Businessweek’s top innovative companies list, followed by Google and Toyota. They handily beat out 2nd place Google with twice as many votes, and claim #1 for the 3rd year in a row. Here’s the whole top 50 extravaganza.
Businessweek’s top fifty is determined by a poll of 2500 executives — it’s not a customer poll, or a internet poll, it’s a poll of movers and shakers. This poll isn’t as subject to the usual online poll hijinx. Who knows, though; maybe they admire Apple as #1 because they think Steve Jobs’ paycheck is innovative. Over $600 million! It helps explain the so-called “Apple Tax,” for sure.
At any rate, not just one, but two #1s in one week. Congratulations Apple.
Steve jobs is really, really rich. He is the highest compensated CEO among the Fortune 500 companies.
Greenpeace responds to Steve Jobs’ environmental letter by issuing new challenges and upping Apple’s environmental score from 2.7/10 to 5/10. Here is Greenpeace’s news bulletin.
Steve Jobs just posted another letter, similar to his no DRM letter, to Apple.com. this one is about Apple’s commitment to a greener world. Bravo! [via Engadget]
Think Secret has posted a speculative story about who will carry the iPhone in Europe. Orange and Vodaphone are listed as the top contenders.
The article doesn’t mention the most important thing about the European carrier, however (important, at least, to North Americans). There are businesses who make it their work to take advantage of foreign economies to purchase an unlocked mobile device and then resell it in a different nation. Some nations, like Belgium, mandate that all phones are sold unlocked. So, one might be able to buy an unlocked iPhone via Belgium, for example. The purchaser may end up with a European warranty, sending their device across the Atlantic to have it serviced, or an outright refusal to service the warranty.
The idea is that the purchaser gets an iPhone on Rogers or T-Mobile, etc, instead of Cingular. It’s not possible to get an iPhone on Sprint, Verizon, or Alltel, unless you can get one of them to give you a SIM card, which you likely can’t. We will, of course, post updates as they come.
