Source: Digital Life article on Arfa Karim Randhawa the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in the world. She passed away January 15th, 2012 at only 16 years old. Wikipedia entry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0

Un truc qui est souvent sous-estimé. Les mains ne sont pas les seuls membres de notre corps que nous pouvons utiliser. Tous nos mouvements finiront par contribué à l’intéraction que nous aurons avec les ordinateurs du futur.

This morning I booked an appointment at the Apple store. Nothing really special. What’s interesting is that I’ve done it through the Apple Store app on my iPhone. I actually downloaded the app to do it by using my Apple ID.

So, with the app on my phone I scheduled a Genius bar appointment and during the process they ask you to sign in. Again, I used my Apple ID. The appointment is booked and I received an email confirmation a few minutes later. Nothing fancy until I realized that the name on the appointment is my wife’s name. Uhh! What? Why? I went online and checked my Apple ID account and my wife’s name is nowhere to be found in my profile neither is her email address. We have separate account on iTunes. We probably have the same address though… For the billing address or credit card. which makes me believe that Apple is working on a family pack for Apple IDs

Really simple…

Let’s not forget the two major software releases responsible for all of this:

iCloud infrastructure (including iCloud.com)

iOS5 (iMessage, Notification center, Reminders, etc.)

Then, these apps needed a software update:

iTunes 10.5

Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2

Apple TV 4.4

Safari 5.1.1

iTunes in the Cloud services available in more countries

Airport Utility app

Find My Friends app

Aperture 3.2

iPhoto 9.2

iWork suite (Keynote, Pages, Numbers)

Newsstand app

Remote app

iMovie for iOS app

Cards app

iTunes Movie Trailers app

iPhone Configuration Utility

This post will be updated as new information becomes available.

Whaaaat? I can’t believe the attitude and comments of city representatives! (Mostly, the ones at 13:15 and 19:15)

Full disclosure: I am an Apple shareholder. Everything written hereafter are my own opinions. I don’t have any knowledge or little birdie (like John Gruber says) of what Apple is really coming up with in the next release. These comments are made just for fun and there will most certainly be mistakes in my predictions.

First, I think the File System will disappear. As soon as sharing information or documents between apps has been resolved, the Finder and other filesystem hierarchy will disappear.
Second, I think the App Store will become the only place where you will be able to download software. By doing so Apple removes a layer of insecurity and viruses/trojana will have to propagate by other means than downloading ‘image’ file (.dmg)

Mac OS X and iOS will merge into one product
Why? Because Steve Jobs said it in 1997 at the World Wide Developer Conference – Closing Keynote (at 1:01:45)

“Most companies can’t be successful with one stack of system software, rarely can they manage two, and we, I believe, are gonna succeed at managing two for the next several years”.

Steve Jobs talking about the transition between Mac OS and Rhapsody (Mac OS X).

If we extrapolate from it, we can believe that Apple will try to reduce the number of OS they have to support. Apple has already a few versions of iOS in circulation. iPhones on Verizon are not running the same version of iOS than the other ones. At the moment, iPods, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV are running a similar OS which could be ‘merged’. Mac OS X Lion is integrating iOS features “back to the Mac” and the difference between them will slowly fade. I guess that in a future not so far away, Mac OS X and iOS will become One (and only).

Let me know what you think in the comments.

Ceci dit, la semaine dernière Apple a demandé à Samsung de lui donner accès aux appareils suivants: Galaxy S2, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Infuse 4G, et 4G LTE Droid Charge. Ces produits ne sont pas tous sur le marché, mais Samsung a fait des annonces publiques sur ces produits et des prototypes sont en circulation auprès des développeurs.

Aujourd’hui, Samsung demande accès au futur iPhone et iPad. Bien que ceux-ci ne soient pas encore dévoilés, Samsung veut se préparer contre une potentielle injonction préliminaire de la part d’Apple. Un jeu dangereux puisque Apple exigeait l’accès à des appareils qui ont été annoncés, Samsung décide d’aller chercher des appareils qui ne sont pas encore publics. Si la court donne raison à Samsung, on peut s’imaginer qu’Apple ira dans le même sens. L’argument de Samsung est basé sur ce qui apparaît sur Internet et les activités passées d’Apple sur l’annonce de nouveau produit pour valider sa demande des appareils bien que leur existence soit inconnue.

Le débat entre Samsung et Apple est très épineux puisque Apple est le 2e plus gros client de Samsung après Sony en 2010 et il est prédit qu’il deviendra le premier en 2011. Apple a comptabilisé 5.68 milliards de dollars avec Samsung, soit 4 pour cent des 142 milliards de revenu de Samsung.