DailyTech - IPhone Grabs 16.6% of Global Smartphone Market:

…in less than two years.
quote Steve B.:
I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

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So, iPhone OS has been updated to 2.2, and along with it came some changes in the Safari UI.
Am I the only one to find the new dual-field address bar rather inelegant?

Of course, it makes some sense in that it more closely resemble the UI of the desktop Safari, and it seems lots of people [...]

Apple Web Server notifications:
Summary
This article provides credit to people who have reported potential security issues in Apple’s web servers.

Nice to see Apple giving credit to security experts, especially in a dedicated tech note…

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Daring Fireball: More Notes on Notes:
What many Apple apps do is take a screenshot of the current display when you quit, and overwrite the default.png file inside the application bundle with that screenshot. Then when next you launch that app, you immediately see the entire contents of the screen from when you previously quit — [...]

About the Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update:
Time Machine can now back up iPhone backups that are on your Mac, as well as other items in (~/Library/Application Support).
YAY!

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What’s with the funny title, since I haven’t been posting here in two years, you ask ?
Well, I’m referring to Japanese language support on the iPhone.
Back in the days of iPhone OS 1.1.4 (in Japan, available on the iPod Touch), the only way to input Japanese text was through the qwerty keypad interface, which was [...]

So, Mobile Me…
After my first unhappy experience with iPhone syncing using MobileMe, I deactivated it and went back to manually syncing using iTunes.
Until Apple published Mobile Me Update #3, where they say:
a syncing bug was discovered which caused contact and calendar data to not sync properly over-the-air with iPhones and iPod touch. For some users [...]

So, mobileme…
I really wanted to like it… the idea is good, it looks nice… but it seems to be .Mac all over again.
I don’t care about the issue of the “push” not being real push and taking 15′ to propagate from my Mac to the “cloud”.
My problem is the sync with my iPhone. I subscribed [...]