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I’m a new soul I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take.
But since I came here
Felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la…

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Happy Tuesday folks.  It looks like the Apple Store is down this morning, so we’re waiting patiently for some product updates to show their faces.  The store has been down a few times this month so far, and has included such updates as Apperture 2, the 16GB iPhone, and the 32GB iPod Touch.  Hopefully we see something a bit more exciting this time.  We’ll hit you back in a bit when updates come through.

• Christmas comes to the online Apple Store
• Microsoft Store proves yet again their power to imitate; and rather embarrassingly.
• A closer look at Apple’s new mobile checkout solution for brick and mortar stores

In another case of rumor-becomes-the-truth, Apple has just silently launched the new 16GB iPhone, and 32GB iPod touch via the Apple Store.  The new touch line comes in 8, 16, and now 32GB flavors, and the iPhone now comes in 8 and 16GB models.  The 16GB iPhone retails for $499, and the 32GB iPod touch for $499 as well.  Head over to the Apple Store to pick up yours.  Oh, and I’m glad there wasn’t a Macbook update - because as I mentioned, I just told someone to buy one.

16GB iPhone [Apple Store]
32GB iPod touch [Apple Store]

• Christmas comes to the online Apple Store
• Microsoft Store proves yet again their power to imitate; and rather embarrassingly.
• A closer look at Apple’s new mobile checkout solution for brick and mortar stores

We can’t say for sure what changes are being made to Apple’s product lines - if any - but the Apple Store is currently showing the classic splash-screen.  According to Gizmodo, the updates are going to be “minor,” and it’s only the U.S. store that’s down.  Will we see a spec boost in the Macbook line - or the Macbook Pro line?  Hopefully the latter since I just told a friend it was safe to buy a Macbook.  Whoops!

More to come as we find out what’s going on.

• Christmas comes to the online Apple Store
• Microsoft Store proves yet again their power to imitate; and rather embarrassingly.
• A closer look at Apple’s new mobile checkout solution for brick and mortar stores

So the Apple iPhone has been out for about a half hour now, and we’re already giving one away… really because we love you so much. Yes you will get a genuine 4GB iPhone that Adam stood on line for 4 hours (I know, not bad) to get just for you. It really wasn’t too bad since he made a few friends along the way.

In order to win, 1. Subscribe to our Feed and 2. Post a comment telling us why you deserve one. 

You have until 6:00PM Pacific (9:00PM Eastern) next Friday to enter for your chance to win, and we will ship out the iPhone to the winner the following day!

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Back to our regular stream of iPhone posts for a minute, but if you’ve been wondering how the iPhone sizes up to the competition, we’ve put together a comparison using Sizeasy.  Enjoy.

• Christmas comes to the online Apple Store
• Microsoft Store proves yet again their power to imitate; and rather embarrassingly.
• A closer look at Apple’s new mobile checkout solution for brick and mortar stores

Product: Aliph Jawbone
Price: $119.99
Rating: 9.0/10.0 (Excellent)
Pros: Noise cancellation, spring-loaded
Cons: A little bulky, earbud takes some getting used to.
Overall: A great choice for business travelers, and folks that live in a busy city due to the excellent noise cancellation technology.

With the recent news that the Jawbone will be sold alongside the Apple iPhone on June 29, what better time to post our review of the headset from Aliph?  Read on for our full review and post comments with any questions.  We’ll do our best to answer you.

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Earlier this week at Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote, he announced that Apple’s new iPhone will be available starting June 29 at 6:00 PM local time.  Since that is as vague as vague can be, there has been some confusion whether that meant 6:00 PM San Francisco time, or literally 6:00 PM for each market, AT&T has issued a memo on the topic:

The iPhone will go on sale on at AT&T retail stores June 29 at 6 p.m. local time in each market.

So whether you’re in New York, or California, when the clock strikes 6:00 PM on release day, you can expect to get your iPhone - that is if they’re not sold out already.

Read [MacRumors]

• Christmas comes to the online Apple Store
• Microsoft Store proves yet again their power to imitate; and rather embarrassingly.
• A closer look at Apple’s new mobile checkout solution for brick and mortar stores

Up to this point, it sounds like the iPhone will not support Adobe’s Flash plugin for Safari - which is kind of strange considering how great Steve Jobs makes the browser out to be.  Jobs has however, made it clear that the iPhone will support YouTube, but not by using their Flash player.  Instead, Apple is making them convert their library to a higher quality h.264.  According to MacRumors:

Jobs: “Yeah, YouTube—of course. But you don’t need to have Flash to show YouTube. All you need to do is deal with YouTube. And plus, we could get ‘em to up their video resolution at the same time, by using h.264 instead of the old codec.”

According to David Pogue, John Markoff of the New York Times asked Jobs about Flash on the iPhone.  His reponse: “Well, you might see that.”  We’re guessing in the near future since Flash has become so huge on the web.

Read [MacRumors]  Read [David Pogue]

• Christmas comes to the online Apple Store
• Microsoft Store proves yet again their power to imitate; and rather embarrassingly.
• A closer look at Apple’s new mobile checkout solution for brick and mortar stores

Yesterday at Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote, he made it clear that Apple was not going to make the same mistake with the iPhone that other device manufacturers have made with theirs. Manufacturers such as Palm have taken the open source stance on third-party application support, which has really become a complete hands-off approach. Apple on the other hand, is making sure that they can stand behind the security of their product by closing things off more than Palm has.

With the kind of support that Jobs mentioned, the applications will run via Safari - for security reasons - and will be limited in what information they can access from the phone. So the apps will really need to leverage the power of the web using technologies such as AJAX. It will be interesting to see how the apps turn out. Developers… start your engines, and we’ll see you on the 29th.

• Christmas comes to the online Apple Store
• Microsoft Store proves yet again their power to imitate; and rather embarrassingly.
• A closer look at Apple’s new mobile checkout solution for brick and mortar stores