Hello all and welcome to the first AppleTalk Thursday of 2011! Got a lot to get into over the last 2 weeks so let’s dive into it!
McAfee warns Apple users of viruses in 2009...2010...2011
Yeah, we have heard this before, a company who makes money by selling antivirus software warns of how the Mac will be targeted for viruses, yet the threat never materializes as compared to a company in the Pacific Northwest that makes an inferior OS. I have never bought an antivirus program for my Mac and don’t intend to start now. Go scare someone else McAfee!
iPhone maintains lead over Android and BlackBerry in the US
Despite what Apple haters and Andorra fanboys say, the iPhone is still king in America over the Android and BlackBerry smart phones. Yeah all that talk about the iPhone 4 antenna issue was overrated too. A recent story said it was the biggest tech disaster of 2010, I disagree...that belongs to GoogleTV IMHO.
Mac and iOS alternatives to Delicious
Concerned about Yahoo’s long term prospects? Yeah, you are not alone. MacWorld recently wrote a great article about alternatives to Yahoo’s Delicious service. I really don’t use Delicious, but I know many of you might so it might be worth checking out.
Skype brings video chat to iOS devices on WiFi AND 3G
To quote VP Biden, this is a pretty big @#$% deal! Skype has a lot of users and now if you are out and about with your iPhone, you can now Skype video chat with friends on other iOS devices or desktop clients of Skype and you can do it on 3G as well. Which begs the question, when will FaceTime support 3G? Yahoo also supports video over 3G and WiFi as well with its Messenger app. But Skype is a bigger deal as it is based on audio and video communication. If you have an iPod touch and in a WiFi zone you can also join the party, The iPad can view video but until it has a camera (which is rumored in the iPad 2), then you can only watch one way on it.
Verizon iPhone by Valentine’s Day
Yes, another rumor regarding the iPhone for Verizon, but again it is coming from a reliable source. The timeline makes sense too and this will only help Apple maintain the iPhone lead over the Android and BB throughout 2011 in the US.
Well, that is going to do it for this edition of AppleTalk Thursday. The rumored Mac App Store may arrive in time for next week so I will have a review about it. See you next week!
I tend to think it's pretty close between GoogleTV and "antenna-gate" (gosh, I hate that name).
ReplyDeleteOrdinarily the antenna thing wouldn't matter to me much but I kept hearing all this hype about how innovative and "genius" ( http://goo.gl/ZgLF ) it was. Meanwhile just about anyone who had an older cell phone with a retractable whip antenna should'be remembered you're not supposed to touch the antenna.
But yes, Google telling TV manufacturers to tone down GoogleTV just weeks before CES must've made the manufacturers apoplectic.
Glad to see the MacWorld article had high recommendations for Evernote. I signed up there with a premium membership over the holidays and am impressed. I also recommend taking a look at LastPass to move your passwords, serial numbers, and PINs "to the cloud".
The Skype thing truly amazes me on two fronts: first video chat over 3G. Maybe the recent T-Mob ads struck a nerve? And second: Apple usually makes a big deal over not duplicating existing functionality. That barrier has been coming down lately. Now we'll see if they ever let the Manhattan Declaration app back on the market.