More and more developers are racing to release a jailbreak/unlock solution for the iPhone 3G. The iPhone Dev Team even announced within hours of the release of the iPhone 3G that they’ve been able to get iPhone 2.0 Jailbreak.

So the big news is that iPhone and iPod Touch SDK has a date of release - we don’t know the exact date but we know it’s going to be June. The good news is that SDK will be free to all iPhone and iPod Touch users. What will not be free are the third-party applications themselves that I’m sure will flow like the waters of the Nile to the Apple site. Why the Apple site? Because, my friends, Apple will have the last word on any third-party apps that they will support and they are NOT going to be free. Apple will launch and sell apps through the new App Store. When you purchase an app you will be given an electronic certificate. I’m sure this is good for people who want to make sure their apps do not jeopardize the iPhone or iPod Touch’s OS. This is what Apple wants, too. Developers will get 70% of the revenues. Already several software companies haveapps ready for the iPhone, among them gaming companies EA and SEGA (wow, a comeback?), AOL and Salesforce.com for business-minded iPhone users.

So far no complaints about Apple’s new business model.

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I know it’s too soon for guessing games but a few hours after the release of 1.1.4 firmware update, I have yet to hear of jailbroken iPhones being bricked by updating. Has Apple finally given up trying to get unlockers? Does it make sense to give up on their cut from the wireless providers from iPhones that were supposed to be operated on exclusive carriers? My opinion? Apple is planning to sell unlocked iPhones. It makes a lot of sense. If users are willing to risk bricking their iPhones just to get out of wireless slavery, they will be more than willing to pay for pricier iPhones that comes unlocked out of the box without going into the tedious and illicit process of software hacking.

The Core 2 Duo Penryn MacBook Pro with gesture pad (multi-touch trackpad) is now out. These are 2.5Ghz and 2.6Ghz options with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB of GDDR3 RAM. This new configuration is supposed to give you 50% more processing speed. Quite the upgrade. Apple had added an LED option only for 17-inch MBP.

The MacBooks have also been upgraded with the lowest end now having 2.1Ghz of processing speed and 120GB of HD space.

If you’re scheduled to get a new MacBook this is definitely good news, especially since the base prices have not changed (with one exception, which I will mention later), but for those people who’ve bought MacBooks recently, this news stings. My own MacBook looks a little runty now specs-wise, and I was never happy with it to begin with.

To equalize things a little bit, if you buy a MacBook or an MBP now, Apple Remote does not come with the basic package. You can only take it home for an additional $19. Looks like Apple has adjusted their business model yet again.

To learn more, visit Apple

iPhone 1.1.4 firmware
iPod Touch 1.1.4 firmware

The problem is, the MBA battery does not deliver what Apple said it should, that is, five hours of moderate usage with the WiFi turned on. In the Apple support forums, new MacBook Air users are complaining that MBA battery gives them only 2 hours, if at all. There are also reports that the MBA battery takes 10 hours to fully recharge. Say what! I think we’ve posted about this somewhere but due to expert reviewers, we gave Apple the benefit of the doubt and began buying one ultra-expensive ultra-portable MacBook Air. Apparently, real life use for many MacBook Air owners do not support the results of expert testing.

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Well, a team of Japanese PC makers thinks the MBA, Apple’s latest masterpiece of state-of-the-art engineering, is badly designed. Yep, the MacBook Air is built with so many redundancies it is actually more expensive than it should be. Yathink?

Mayuko Uno, a member of the crack laptop team says, Can we say that the MacBook Air has a perfect, sophisticated external appearance, but its insides are full of waste?” The team from the Nikkei Electronics Teardown Squad unanimously concluded that the MacBook Air design is different from anything they have seen before. They are surprised at the apparent waste in the design like the 30 screws simply to attach the keyboard. To be fair to Apple, it probably was their Chinese OEM that cost the $1799 MSRP to be $1799 and not lower. HonHai Precision Industry Co Ltd of Taiwan makes the iPod and iPhone but this may be the first time they made laptops for Apple.

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within every electronic device
there lies a seed
dormant and waiting to be…released
somewhere between 18mos and 2yrs
it will sprout…and begin to choke the life out…

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