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The Leopard 10.5.1 update for client and server is out y’all.  We’re installing it now – how did it go for you?  We’re noticing that Time Machine is now fixed for NTFS partitions.  Head to the comments for more.

From Apple:

The 10.5.1 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306907.
For detailed information on security updates, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798.

The following improvements for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs are included in this update

AirPort

• Allows password-protected accounts on AirPort Disks to show up on in the Finder’s Shared Sidebar.
• Resolves an issue with saved passwords for wireless networks.

Back to My Mac

• Improves the reliability of Back to My Mac-enabled Macs appearing in the Finder’s Shared Sidebar.
• Improves compatibility with D-Link NAT gateways.

Disk utilities

• Restores the functionality of the progress bar during permission repairs in Disk Utility.
• Addresses an issue that could produce an alert when creating disk images using Disk Utility or Terminal.
• Improves disk partitioning when multiple RAID sets are created on the same disk.

iCal

• iCal alarms are now more reliably delivered via email.
• Resolves an issue when inviting attendees via a CalDAV account.

Mail

• Improves stability when resizing columns in the message viewer or switching between Stationery templates in email messages.
• Addresses an issue in which attachments enclosed inside an HTML link may not be clickable in email messages.
• Fixes an issue with email accounts added using the "Simple Setup" feature in which messages cannot be sent due to an SMTP connection failure.
• Improves Smart Mailboxes compatibility with .Mac Sync, and addresses an issue with To Do’s disappearing when using Smart Mailboxes.
• Resolves an issue with syncing Mail accounts with .Mac in which multiple On My Mac folders appear in the Mailbox pane.

Networking

• Addresses an issue in which Microsoft Windows shared folders may be read-only when connected via SMB.

Printing

• Resolves an issue in which user-selected values on Paper Feed PDE are reset to default while saving a custom preset.

Security, Firewall

• Addresses a code signing issue; third-party applications can now run when included in the Application Firewall or when whitelisted in Parental Controls.
• In Security preferences’ Firewall tab, the "Block All" option is now called "Allow Only essential services"
• Includes recent Apple security updates.

System and Finder

• Addresses a potential data loss issue when moving files across partitions in the Finder.
• Resolves an issue with login after turning off FileVault for a specific user account.
• Improves compatibility with Adobe Flash-based uploaders used by .Mac Web Gallery and certain other websites and applications.
• Resolves a potential text drawing issue with certain Adobe Flash-based websites and applications.

Time Machine

• Addresses formatting issues with certain drives used with Time Machine (specifically, single-partition MBR drives greater than 512 GB in size as well as NTFS drives of any size and partition scheme).
• Resolves an issue in which files restored in Time Machine may be restored to the backup hierarchy rather than the folders to which they belong.

8000 activations.

That is how many O2 reported on the first day of iPhone sales.  To put that into perspective, Apple sold 270,000 iPhones in the first weekend in the US.  At that point it was an untested product.  All of the reviews, mostly positive, have come in and have been taken in by British consumers.

Of course, there are a lot fewer people in the UK than in the US – probably about 1/5th.  The weather was also rainy on the day of the opening – which wasn’t a help either (not that the UK is known for its great climate).

There are obviously a lot of hacked iPhones that have trickled into Europe over the last 3 months.  That may account for some of the "opening day types" who went abroad and brought them back or bought them from ebay or other unauthorized resellers.  The US models, which are reportedly the exact same hardware, cost much less before activation than their European counterparts. 

Also there are many in the UK who have bought an iPod Touch over the past few months – which could be cannibalizing sales to a degree.

Then there is the 3G issue.

Back to the press.  Numerous reports in the British media were saying that the lines at the Apple Stores and Carphone Warehouse’s were below anticipation.  The Register said that it was a flop.

Incidentally, Tmobile reported 10,000 activations on their first day of sales in Germany.  Combined, the 18,000 activations so far tallied in Europe probably aren’t cause for celebration or concern yet for Apple.

We are looking forward to see how France does selling the unlocked iPhone later this month.

 

Hot on the heels of the  announcement that China’s largest Telecom, China Mobile, was in talks to acquire the iPhone, Singapore’s MobileOne phone operator is also announcing it is in talks to bring the iPhone to Asia.

Singapore, a tiny nation-state, is almost completely saturated with mobile phone users.  MobileOne sees the iPhone as a way to differentiate and upsell current mobile subscribers.  MobileOne also is in talks to acquire other Mobile carriers throughout the world.

From AP:

M1, Singapore’s No. 3 telecommunications company by subscribers behind Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. and StarHub Ltd., also wants to diversify its revenue base by offering wireless and fixed-line broadband services in its domestic market and branching out into new areas such as mobile advertising.

It’s starting to feel like Europe all over again.

Hey y’all.  I am honored to be writing a new  daily blog over at Computerworld called Apple, Ink.  Yeah, the hardcore enterprise technology media is getting hip to the Apple world and what better place to jump in than one of the heavyweights at IDG?  Of course, Computerworld and its IDG sibling Macworld have been doing fantastic Macintosh coverage for years.

I am hoping to bring more (cowbell) Apple perspective to all of the great writing on big iron and the general IT landscape.  Check it out.

Or grab the feed here

Today I did a quick overview of Bento, Filemaker’s new database application for Leopard. 

Don’t worry dear fanboys, I will still have some time to annoy you over here with both pro- and anti-Apple viewpoints.

According to the IDG News Service, Apple is in talks with China Mobile to sell the iPhone to the World’s most populus country.  While Apple has already announced that it will sell iPhones in Asia starting mid 2008, no formalized partners or locations have been discussed.  China Mobile’s 350 Million(!!) subscribers would go a long way in reaching the goal of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 however.

From the story:

China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company’s CEO said on Tuesday. But he’s not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.

Who is?

"Our customers like this kind of fashionable product," Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile’s CEO, on the sidelines of the GSM Association’s Mobile Asia Congress in Macau."

Who doesn’t?

As you may recall, China Mobile was also present at the unveiling of the Google Android platform that will likely be bearing some fruit about the time iPhones hit Asia.  It will be interesting to see what develops.

So you have your 1.1.1 iPhone/iPod hacked.  It is working great.  You are rockin’ the Voice Notes, Navizon GPS and Mobile Chat.  Of course you’ve fixed the TIFF exploit security hole weeks ago.  You have international languages and keyboards as well.  Heck, you might even be on another carrier than AT&T.

What is the reason to upgrade to 1.1.2?  Apple’s latest update doesn’t offer much that the community hasn’t already built/fixed.  For those of you in Europe who get a 1.1.2 out of the box, obviously (bummer) if you want to have all of the hacker goodies – you’ll have to do the downgrade/upgrade with the symlink.  There is currently no way to unlock a phone without activating it first. 

As for now, we are staying on 1.1.1. 

Oh, btw, for those of you who, when asked how long it would take to hack 1.1.2,  voted "Within a week" you were more optimistic (and correct) than us. 

Hackers 4, AppleT&T 3

 

Intel has released their new 45nm Penryn chips.  Yet, as of this morning there are no manufaturers listed as takers of the new chip.  Obviously if you are reading this here you aren’t expecting HP or Lenovo announcements.  So, ahem… Apple, what are you waiting for?

If you are into that sort of thing, we have some CPU porn after the break:

 Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series based server platforms 

Key messages on performance, energy-efficiency, virtualization & scalability
Key message	Compared to	Supporting data	Comparison basis
Extending performance leadership for main stream servers on the current stable platform	Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 series	Up to 119% (2.19x) higher performance	Intel® Xeon® processor X5460 vs Intel® Xeon® processor 5160 – published/measured results on SPEC*jbb2005 – November 11, 2007.
	Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series	Up to 21% (1.21x) higher performance	Intel Xeon processor X5460 vs Intel® Xeon® processor X5365 – published/measured results on SPECjbb2005 – November 11, 2007.
New platform optimized for performance demanding HPC segment	Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series	Up to 30% (1.30x) higher performance for most HPC applications and up to 50% higher performance for optimized applications	Intel® Xeon® processor E5472 vs Intel Xeon processor X5365 – published/measured results on SPECfp*_rate2006 (30% claim) and Black-Scholes* (50% claim) – November 11, 2007.
Energy efficiency leadership with 45nm high-k & metal gates technology	Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 series	Up to 104% (2.04x) higher perf/watt	Intel® Xeon® processor E5450 vs Intel Xeon processor 5160 – published/measured results on SPECjbb2005 – November 11, 2007.
	Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series	Up to 38% (1.38x) higher perf/watt	Intel Xeon processor E5450 vs Intel® Xeon® processor E5345 – published/measured results on SPECjbb2005 – November 11, 2007.
Built for virtualization	Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 series	Up to 118% (2.18x) higher performance	Intel Xeon processor X5460 vs Intel Xeon processor 5160 – published/measured results on VMmark* benchmark – November 11, 2007.
	Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series	Up to 20% (1.20x) higher performance	Intel Xeon processor X5460 vs Intel Xeon processor X5365 – published/measured results on VMmark benchmark – November 11, 2007.
Exceptional scalability	Single-Core 64-bit Intel® Xeon® processor 3.80GHz	Up to 441% (5.41x) higher performance	Intel Xeon processor X5460 vs Intel Xeon processor 3.80GHz – published/measured results on SPECint*_rate_base2006 – November 11, 2007.

 

Apple has released some new ads that are taking a pretty serious swipe at Microsoft. Our personal experience with Vista has been lackluster but many of our colleagues have been fighting and clawing to get back to the normalcy of XP. We think it might have more to do with Microsoft’s five years between upgrades than anything else – imagine going from OSX 10.1 to OSX 10.5! It goes without saying that Leopard (heck Tiger and probably Panther) is a better operating systems than Vista. Apple, however won’t make the type of machines that will allow it to gain a much bigger marketshare.  We are starting to think that Apple is pretty happy with the 10% or getting the other 90% very slowly.

Also, is it us or are you kind of tired of this ad campaign?  There is a certain smugness about it that, combined with Mac fanboy arrogance, is probably a huge turn off for would-be switchers.
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Via Richi Jennings

OK Ipod Touch v 1.1.2 already hacked.  but iPhone…still wait

OK, here we are again.  Apple is updating the iPhone.  For most of us, there is no reason to upgrade.  YET.  Apple is reportedly bricking AnySIM iPhones again , breaking the iToner and disabling all 3rd party applications.  For the tradeoff, Apple is providing international keyboards (AZERTY and QWERTZ for our European friends) and fixing bugs – including the TIF browser exploit which was used to jailbreak the 1.1.1 version.

Obviously there is a subset of people who have no intention of Jailbreaking/ using any of the 3rd party applications now or at any point in the future.  If so, this upgrade is for you.  Enjoy.  Let us know how it goes.

There are those who are sitting on the fence and may want to use a third party application at some point but haven’t jailbroken their iPhone yet.  WAIT.  We know it is tempting but just wait.  WAIT.  If there is a jailbreak on the 1.1.2 or a Option-restore to 1.1.1 then you are golden – upgrade away.  If not, it is a one way street and your iPhone will be jailled.

If you are using/enjoying applications like Navizon (we luv u navizon), Voice Notes (Thanks Erica!), Apollo/Mobile Chat, NES,  Books.app, WeDict, Sketches, Widgets, iBlackjack, Term-VT100, PDF Viewer, Sudoku, Themes, or the many other 3rd party apps, you can’t upgrade.  Let’s just repeat it just in case there is some confusion:

DON’T UPGRADE YOUR IPHONE TO 1.1.2

If you are (rightfully) concerned about the TIF exploit, AppTapp has a great fix for it.  They will likely also be able to port any imrovements that you’ll see in 1.1.2, so again.  So, again…Wait.

Hopefully the community will be able to knock out a hack for this phone pronto and we can all unite again under 1.1.2.

Apple, we understand you are just doing your due diligence and look forward to the day when you aren’t doing the bidding of the wireless telecom industry.

 Until then.  Thanks for the update.  We are going to pass…for now.

EDIT: As an astute reader just pointed out – it would also make sense not to update iTunes to 7.5 until we see exactly what Apple has planned for us.  Patience!

We made a quick little Automator application that removes the Time Machine restrictions on what kind of disk you can back up to.  We found the tip here.

We are now happily backing up or Leopard machines  to the SMB Share on or DLink DNS-323.

Download the Flux Capacitor here.  It is an automator action so you’ll see the unix command that it runs.  After you are done, Voila!  You’ll see ALL of your shares in Time machine – even wireless.

Obviously Apple closed this functionality for a reason so use at your own risk.

digg_url = ‘http://9to5mac.com/time-machine-fix-flux-capacitor-43262455’;

Its always exciting to see what iPhone software awaits us every morning from AppTapp.   In fact, we’ve gone to checking several times a day.  This morning was no exception.   A title in particular that caught our collective eyes is iRadio from Conceited Software.  While it is, of course in beta and only does MPEG streams at the moment, it worked great. 

It is, as you would expect, a streaming radio player.  The low speed streams even work over EDGE which we would have lost money betting against.  There are about 100 different stations to choose from.

It starts superfast, has lots of streams with different types of content and most importantly, doesn’t effect the other apps on the iPhone.  IT plays when the iPhone is locked just like iTunes does as well.

If you want to try it out – simply go to AppTapp and look under recents. 

EDIT: Upon further review we are getting some crashes and more importantly – it seems to be messing a bit with our synching…but – it is Beta Software…so, as always – use at your own risk…

Way to go Conceited…your software IS better than theirs!

Samsung has announced wicked-fast solid state drives that come in both 1.8 (ipod-ish) inch and 2.5(laptop) inch sizes.  These are 30% faster than the fastest solid state drives to date and come in sizes up to 64Gb. 

Yes of course we are thinking what you are thinking.  This would be the planets aligning.  Expect Apple to have a Macworld announcement.  This would be too good not to be true.

 

FEATURE COMPARISON (HDD/ PATA/ SATA2)

Product		1.8" HDD		1.8" SDD (PATA)		1.8" SSD (SATA2)
Density		60GB		64GB		64GB
Weight		61 g		40g/ 15g(Slim)		40g/ 15g(Slim)
Performance		Read/Write: 22~48MB/s		R: 64MB/s, W: 45 MB/s		R: 100MB/s, W: 100MB/s
Power (Active)		1.4 W		0.4 W		0.7 W
Vibration (Operating)		1.0G (22~500Hz)		20G (10~2000Hz)		20G (10~2000Hz)
Acoustic Noise		22dB		0dB		0dB
Endurance		MTBF: <300K hours		MTBF: 2M hours		MTBF: 2M hours

 

From the horses mouth:

SEOUL, Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, has become the first in the industry to sample 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64Gigabyte (GB) solid state drives (SSD) with a super-fast SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface. With a sequential write speed of 100Megabyte per second (MBps) and sequential read speed of 120MBps, the SATA II SSD is poised to expand the market for solid state drives from notebook PCs to corporate servers and other high-performance storage applications.

“The 64GB SATA II SSD is based on Samsung’s cutting-edge NAND technology with dramatically improved performance specs that are taking system performance to a whole new level of efficiency,” said Jim Elliott, director, NAND flash marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Samsung’s SATA II SSD combines a 50 nm-class, single-level-cell (SLC) 8Gb flash chip with a Samsung proprietary, high-speed SATA controller and supporting software.

The new SATA II SSD has a 3.0 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) interface speed which is twice as fast as its SATA I predecessor. Moreover, the SATA II SSD requires only half as much power as the 1.9 watts consumed by hard drives now used in notebook PCs and only one-tenth the power consumed by enterprise-class 15,000rpm hard drives in servers.

Everybody and their brother is talking about ASUS and their supposed new Tablet Mac contract.  While it is entirely possible that they are making a device for Apple. – they would be in DEEP DODO for leaking that information.  So, more than likely, they aren’t.  Well at least the guy from C|Net doesn’t know if they are.

The first rule about making products for Apple is you don’t talk about making products for Apple.  Steve Jobs has pulled whole product lines for much much less.  That reputation is well known from Cupertino to Shanghai.  And if you’ve been building stuff for Apple for more than a few years (Like ASUS has), you know – even if it has to be translated to Mandarin – that you don’t say ANYTHING about future Apple products.  EVER.  Especially not to an English bloke that works for C|Net.

This is probably a just a rumor – taken from other rumors which could very well end up being true.  So more than likely, at some point in the future, there will be a Mac Tablet with a unique form factor.  If they want to get creds, I think we need to see some spyshots – or some specs – or something specific that shows they aren’t just guessing.

 

 

We really haven’t thought about it much but Google is in a bit of a slump lately.  The GPhone?  Nonexistant and just an SDK.  OpenSocial is more like a Facebook fighter.  And Search/Advertising is maturing fast.  Google Docs are great but not really being updated with features businesses need and monetized properly.

Meanwhile Apple is hitting all of its numbers and coming out with hit after hit -out innovating and out business modeling its competition.

Jordan Golson at Valleywag is thinking that exact thing.  Except he did it first. 

Well, one thing that is a known is that poor Eric Schmidt is going to be rich no matter what.

 

EDIT: These didn’t happen in 1.1.2 – most likely these will be a 1.2.x update.

Some tidbits inside the recently updated iTunes 7.5 show that the iPhone and iPod Touch will soon operate more like their older iPod bretheran in allowing direct disk access and manual media management.  Also, a voice memo sync seems to exist in the code as well – though it has been in there since iTunes 7.3. 

It looks like a new (sactioned) iPhone application will allow voicenotes (on iPhones only obviously – no audio-in on iPod Touch).  Voice memo.app anyone?  This should allow iPhone 1.1.2 or 3ers to have access to the same great functionality that hacked iPhone users have been enjoying for months thanks to Erica Sadun’s Voice Notes.

MacRumors via Engadget

Popular Steve Jobs satirist FakeSteve posted a nice piece on the percieved threat of the Google Open Handset Alliance on Apple and its iPhone franchise.  Google’s stock is up and all of the alliance members are getting plenty of publicity.  But in the end what have we really got?

• No devices for a year (!!) which is forever in technology terms.  The 6 months wait for the iPhone was eternity.
• An SDK – which is based on Linux.  Let’s reserve judgment until next week.  No news yet.
• Device manufacturers like HTC will build the equipment.  However, in hardware terms, since it is an open platform, they are already going to be building the same hardware anyway.  Its like Dell saying we are going to build Linux compliant computers now.  They already do and have for years.  They just usually install Windows on them.  It is a low risk for HTC because, if the OHA fails, they just sell the devices with WM6.  In fact, it would not surprise us to see the same devices running WM6 and OHA – just like Palm sells similar devices running PAlmOS and WM6.  Also – Rubin mentioned the low end processor for the OHA phone would be a 200Mhz ARM processor.  Something that has been out for a few years already.  IT was introduced in an iPaq about 4 years ago.
• Carriers like Tmobile and China Telecom and Sprint which say they are into interoperability and openness but when questioned had to rescind their open stance and say "yeah we are still going to lock these things down and milk our customers for features."  Its obvious that the carriers are not going to play ball with the customers unless they are forced to by law or competition.
• Qualcom: yeah we’ll build chips for this thing and any other handset that is out there.  Drivers?  sure.  No problem.  No real news here.  Sounds like they have some exciting chips lined up but they’ll continue to try to sell them to Apple and WM6 devices as well.
• Fake Steve makes note that alliances never work.  Indeed Symbian is an alliance and it is the very OS that OHA is competing with.  This is, however, Google and the OHA is fully open source which should give it some credibility in the developer community and some legs in the cash category.
• This alliance seems to be in RESPONSE to the iPhone – which of course is a huge compliment.  Obviously all of these companies are rightfully worried about the iPhone taking a large chunk of their future marketshare.  FakeSteve makes a great point that companies don’t form alliances when they are on the offensive – probably the reason why they rarely succeed.  Another great parallel.  Google’s OpenSocial – taking all of the losing Social networks and pitting them against Facebook – which seems to be winning bigtime in that space.
• Another great point – if the best way to acomplish something is by committee, why isnt Google forming an open search consortium to further its search and advertising goals?

Money quote Money quote:

The Journal kind of nails the problem with this story. Money quote: Tech consortia for decades have been notorious for failing to live up to their promise. Google Director of Mobile Platforms Andy Rubin acknowledged the troubled history of previous consortia, but said that Android was different because "we’re actually releasing in one week this software."

But the issue isn’t about when the software ships. Consortia don’t work because nobody can ever agree on anything and everyone always wants to push the group in ways that advantage themselves and disadvantage everyone else. Reason #2 — the only companies that join consortia are the ones who are too stupid or shitty to make a great product on their own. It’s like, Hey, we’ve got forty spazzo companies that can’t fuck their way out of a paper bag; let’s put them all together and maybe they’ll magically become some kind of big bad powerhouse. More likely it’ll just be some scary ass Frankenstein monster, walking around drooling and tripping over its own tongue.

Think of what a customer wants. When you’re redoing your kitchen, and you’re choosing appliances, do you go out looking for some consortium devoted to food temperature management and environmental control technology? No. You go looking for a refrigerator. And you look for the coolest, best-looking, best-designed refrigerator, made by a company that put loads of effort and genius into making something mindblowing. That’s why iPhone has taken off. Because it’s beautiful. It’s amazing. It works. It restores a sense of childlike wonder to people’s lives. It wasn’t made by a consortium. It couldn’t be created by a committee. It is the product of one vision, one man, one genius — that would be me — with, to be sure, a bit of help from a few other people who played minor roles.

Finally, has anyone else noticed the way Google is kind of desperately grasping at straws lately? They spend years trying to do something other than search and nothing works. Then, despite their big brains and IQ tests, they get totally blindsided by Facebook and have to gin up this ridiculous OpenSocial thing. Just like with this phone thing, they round up all the losers in that social networking space to form some dumbass alliance. You know how it looks? It looks weak. Companies don’t form alliances and consortia when they’re winning. Also, whenever you see companies start talking about being "open," it means they’re getting their ass kicked. You think Google will be forming an OpenSearch alliance any time soon, to help also-rans in search get a share of the spoils? Me neither.

Apple fans, the industry is afraid of the iPhone and competition for this space is going to be great – which should make the products in the next few years that much greater.  These are very exciting times to be gadget freaks.

All of the big boys are there.  Linksys, Dlink, Netgear and of course, our little pony, Apple’s Airport Extreme, Gigabit addition.  We’ll get right to the results as the Ars can get a bit wordy.  The short answer is Airport Extreme is #1.  Especially with 5.0 Ghz (which used to be used in 802.11A) 802.11N only mode for its cutting through the household devices interference and Gigabit Ethernet for wired devices.

We couldn’t agree more.  If you are gonna drop a bill and a half on a wireless router (3 times the price of the capable base G models) you are gonna need a reason.  Gigabit Ethernet is a differentiator.  So is FAST wireless speed.  The other routers didn’t seem to offer much of a wireless speed increase – especially at significant distances with interference and regular ethernet speed.  The USB Hard drive/printer port also helps – though its reliability is still not up to Apple spec.

We are still a bit on the fence on when to update as some of our devices aren’t N capable and we won’t be able to enjoy the N only mode that shows the best speeds.  If we were in the market for a new wireless router today, however, the Airport Extreme would be at the top of our list.

 

 

Slashdot sends us to Tom Karpik who illustrates very plainly a significant bug in Leopard.  It turns out that if you are moving data to an SMB (Windows) Share and the connection to that share is lost, the data you are moving which hasn’t already been copied is gone forever.  It isn’t on the Mac and isn’t on the Share. (Update – it turns out that this is true for a lot of shares – USB/Firewire etc – and has been the case in previous Mac OS’s)

Tom does an excellent job of demonstrating why this happens – which is basically that Apple deletes the data as it is being copied. 

It is possible that this is due to the last minute changes in Time Machine which originally allowed users to set a Windows share to be the backup partition in Leopard Beta but in the final version was turned off.  Since this is a pretty significant bug and Apple is fairly good at quashing serious issues we’d expect the next update (10.5.1) to fix this.

Until this is updated, be extremely wary of moving data to SMB shares.

EDIT – the call is over – you can treat this as notes – not much really to see – we’ll check back next week when we see the SDK!

Ed Shaig – welcome who is here:

Eric Schmidt: Overview

3 blliion users.  Getting Google on there.

Want to create a new experience with android platform.

Not a Gphone.  There is no suuch thing – there will be many devices.  (Obviously reading this from a script)

Major platform change

Consumers have access to desktop type applications and new applications we can’t even imagine

Renee Olberman from T-Mobile

Mobile Web and Walk throughout Europe

Social Networks

Launch a device on Android in US and Europe in 2008

better than Internet experience.

details coming in coming months

engage with developers

social networking

things that haven’t been invented

Peter Chow CEO of HTC 

HTC – is focussed on delivering

One size doesn’t fit all

quick and easy fuctionality

HTC and google share vision integration of Hardware and software – Android.

New category of mobile device

2nd 1/2 of 2008 releasing a line of Mobile devices on the platform

Paul Jacobs CEO of Quallcom

has been in Android for over a year

optimizing multimedia on 7000 series chipsets

Snapdragon chipset fast and efficient

3d Graphics, Mobile TV, GPS, etc etc all in one chipset

Usergenerated content

seamlessly integrated.  Wireless is about experience, not carriers or hardware. 

Ed Zander CEO of Motorola

20 years ago talked with Eric Schmidt about this

announcement is about OPEN everything

organically connected to each other and the Internet

Product and applications for OHA

Effort will drive innovation.

Bill Wang from China Mobile in Bejing

Will develop co branded Android headsets – 340million subscribers

 Seregy Brin – Founder of Google

10 years ago in a cubicle at Stanford

Tools allowed them to build Google

Linux, Python, Apache etc

allowed them to do innovative things

Today, new open system

Todays mobile devices are more powerful than the big iron they used to found Google on with faster connections available

Q&A

to handset manufacturers – are you going to discontinue using other systems?

HTC- no – we will use other OSes(MSMobile 6) – will drive industry

Motorola – Zander – we luv Linux.  we still have commitments but Linux is where are heart is

Qualcom – growth is in Linux but will support all.

Competition? 

 Andy Rubin – software is available in 1 week.  IT is wide open for everyone to play with

WSJ – Google takes it from here?  Advertising/Services/Google Brand?

 No advertising for awhile – will be similar

Financial Times – GPhone?

no

FAZ Germany – did you ask Apple, RIM etc to join alliance?

Google: IT is an open alliance

RCR News – just for smartphones or regular phones as well

HTC – no details to give – but no reason to have regular phones anymore

Qualcom – smartphone will be sthe same price

Chicago Tribune – what is different about apps

Eric Schmidt – special engineering – Browser is the Platform.  Other apps as well

"Android" Name – Lifeless?

Rubin – that was the name of my company.

openhandsetalliance.com

Google Phone ever?

skirts issue.  Will be 100s of Gphones – the SDK is available next week?

Wireless Week: more detail on OS?  Relation to existing community

next week we’ll make announcements next week – it is linux based

Mr. Schmidt board of Apple – conflict – specs of Mobile Phone that android will need

not just phones – other stuff too

200mhz Arm 9 processor.  all different screens and input devices

Seattle Times – differences between this and WM9/Symbian – worried about fragmentation

 

Open Open Open.  We think that open will trump others

test will be developers emerge

Washington Post – Carriers can modify capabilities?  Minimum capabilities

Apache V2 license.  Skirts issue

Reuters – How many phones will ship?

Too early to make the decision…

PC Mag – Open Source protects users from the Manufacturers and carriers

Industry will decide

Locked devices will be unlikely because of competition

NYTimes – Advertising will change?

Tmobile – no

Daily Telegraph – iPhone in UK – to unsurp iPhone?

its open for everyone

Gphone?

no announcement

 

 Look and Feel?

Amazing – shown next week.  SDK – early look – Hosted services will make this easy

Bloomberg – Open Social coincidence?

Eric Schmidt – yes it is coincidence – but these 2 things are monstrously compatible.

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