New firmware updates for the iPhone are inevitable but before they’re pushed out to the general public, they don Beta status allowing developers ample time to tweak and modify their Apps while providing bug fixes to Apple. Firmware 2.1 came out recently with Apple focusing more on stability and bug fixes, but this time around, a few extra goodies are being baked into Firmware 2.2; ‘Emojicons’ and Google Street View support for the bundled maps application.
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It’s been a busy week for Apple, what with launching a new iPhone in newly marketed territories of Euro land, releasing Software goodies for all and bringing up their neatly bundled web service that ties into all of these. Things got awry towards the end and looking back it’s no wonder why, shit happens when you don’t plan ahead.
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Back there was a time when Apple allowed the graces of the now defunct web service, .Mac, onto your computer for a generous 60 days to take for a test run before you shell out 99 dollars for what would then be considered an overpriced piece of shit. Free was a price point we could all agree on and much to our delights the criteria that needed to be met for an equally priced account was nothing more than a name that could be re-used to our hearts’ content. Sure exploitations of a service meant to rid your wallet of a Benjamin occurred, so much so that Apple has finally smartened up and made it a lot harder to “try out” .Mac or should I say, MobileMe more than once.
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Written by Tanner Godarzi on July 14th, 2008
Posted in: Mobile Me
