November 17th, 2009
When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone’s secrets. His unpaid labor eventually paid off. With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone, delivering the handset to international networks before Apple had a chance to. He got some perks, too. His unlock catapulted him to internet stardom, catching the eye of an entrepreneur who traded his Nissan 350Z car for Hotz’s restriction-free iPhone. (CNN)
For anyone wondering if the Computer World has rockstars, the answer is yes. The first man to hack an iPhone will live in infamy forever. Although, as usual, I am always torn… while it would be awesome to get a car for a hack like that, I would much rather be an actual student at a University then just be forced to pretend to be one to have a social life (see paragraph 4 of that article).
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November 16th, 2009
So, I’ve obviously had my head buried in books for too long, because I completely missed this until now:
Apple’s lips are sealed about its widely rumored tablet computer, but technology experts are giddy about the device, already exclaiming it will be the gadget to end all gadgets. [...] If the rumors are true, the tablet will be able to do basically everything a gadget could possibly do. It’s an e-reader, a gaming device, and a music player. You can watch TV and movies on it and surf the Internet (or so we’ve heard). And it will have thousands of third-party apps available for it … or maybe it will run Mac OS X. That’s all still unknown. (CNN Money)
The CNN article then continues to tout quotes from different individuals about the tablet, but it’s really nothing enlightening. It boils down to “It might exist and it might succeed,” which I already knew from the first paragraph.
But, yes, Apple is taking over the world. Wasn’t Steve Jobs retiring eventually? Not that it matters. He’ll just have all that free time to work with Al Gore on creating a system of government that runs on Mac OS X and the Internet… they might invite Google to come, too.
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