Apple fanbois: good sports re. Steve Jobs press conference

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Dear Apple fanbois (and fangrrls). You're (mostly) all good sports. You (mostly) didn't object to yesterday's parodic "leak" of Steve Jobs' press conference script. In fact, some of you were even (mostly) complimentary. I'm truly humbled; thanks! Aside from the obvious light relief, there was actually a serious point behind yesterday's post. Yes, really! Read on, as I breathe a sigh of relief and talk more seriously about iOS 4.0.1, in The Long View...

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Steve Jobs' script for Friday's iPhone 4 press conference!

  The Long View (Computerworld)

This is interesting. My super-secret-squirrel mole inside Apple PR has handed me a red-hot leak. The mole, known to me only as Rodapy, managed to get a draft of that script -- the one Steve Jobs will be using tomorrow at the iPhone 4 press conference. Let's take a read, in The Long View...

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Google App Inventor for Android: brilliant for IT

  The Long View (Computerworld)

In this morning's IT Blogwatch, I rounded up bloggers' thoughts on Google's new App Inventor for Android. This is a drag'n'drop application development environment, which promises easy creation of smartphone apps, without mucking around with Java or other conventional languages. Interesting, but is there more to it than students and newbies writing trivial toy apps for phones? I think so, in The Long View. This is just one step on the road to IT freeing itself from Windows.

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