Apple's new building in Cupertino

Steve Jobs Presents to the Cupertino City Council a proposal for a new Apple Campus:

Mac App Store

Mac App Store with more than 1000 (free and paid) apps has now been open for customers.

Buy, download, and even redownload.

Apple's Mac App Store Opens for Business

CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes® account, download and install them in just one step. The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard® users through Software Update as part of Mac OS® X v10.6.6.

"With more than 1,000 apps, the Mac App Store is off to a great start," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We think users are going to love this innovative new way to discover and buy their favorite apps."

The Mac App Store offers apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories. Users can browse new and noteworthy apps, find out what's hot, see staff favorites, search categories and look up top charts for paid and free apps, as well as user ratings and reviews.

Entirely new apps, as well as current Mac favorites, are available from developers such as Autodesk, Ancestry.com and Boinx. iPhoto®, iMovie® and GarageBand® apps from Apple's popular iLife® ‘11 suite are available individually in the Mac App Store for $14.99 each, and Pages®, Keynote® and Numbers® apps from iWork® are available for $19.99 each. Aperture® 3, Apple's powerful photo editing and management software, is available for $79.99.

"We're delighted to bring our professional-grade paint and drawing app, Autodesk SketchBook Pro, to the Mac App Store on its first day of launch," said Carl Bass, Autodesk's CEO. "We've seen tremendous success on the Mac, iPhone and iPad with multiple apps. We're excited to offer SketchBook Pro on the Mac App Store so artists can easily create everything from quick sketches to high-quality artwork right on their Macs."

"By offering the Ancestry.com Family Tree Maker app on the Mac App Store, we're making it even easier for people to discover and access their family history," said Tim Sullivan, Ancestry.com's CEO. "The Mac App Store will drive a new generation of innovation on the Mac platform."

"We're thrilled to have our award-winning animation, video production and photography software available on the new Mac App Store," said Oliver Breidenbach, Boinx Software's CEO. "The Mac App Store makes it easier than ever for consumers to access all the innovative software designed for the Mac."

To get the Mac App Store, download the Mac OS X v10.6.6 Software Update or visit www.apple.com/mac/app-store. To find out more about developing for the Mac App Store visit developer.apple.com/programs/mac.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Tomorrow at 10EST time. Part 3.

The Beatles it is! 

Tomorrow at 10EST time. Part 2.

Speculations on Tomorrow at 10EST time. Part 1. continue.
Macrumors suspects, that the big news Apple has is an "The Beatles" launch on the iTunes Store.

Tomorrow at 10EST time

The Apple's home page is showing now a very promising message :)

www.apple.com

www.apple.de

So, is that iTunes on the Cloud will be presented? Or my be some news from an iTunes + iOS devices integration... Let's see :)

"country of purchase"

Anar here...

Finally it has just happened. If you bought an iOS devise (iPhone for example) in one EU country, you can use your warranty rights in another EU country!!!
Brussels, 25 September 2010, Antitrust: Statement on Apple's iPhone policy changes (Reference:  IP/10/1175    Date:  25/09/2010):

...One focused on the "country of purchase" rule, whereby repairs service is only available in the country where the iPhone was bought, which made the exercise of warranty rights difficult for consumers who had purchased an iPhone in another EU/EEA country than their home country. The Commission had concerns that this rule could amount to territorial restrictions aimed at dissuading European consumers from buying iPhones outside their country of residence and so leading to a partitioning of the market...

Previously, if people buy an unlocked iPhone in Italy while being residents of Germany, for example, they will be refused to get it fixed by warranty in Germany. They were forced to send devices to Apple Service in Italy (by providing home addresses in Italy) :(

Now it seems to be over and the cross-border warranty repair is now allowed. Let's see...

Development under Mac OS X

Since long time already I have been not posting here... :( So, let's try to reload this blog...

With this post I am going to start a series of posts about development under Mac OS X. I will post about something I find interesting, difficult to implement, and some tricks I developed or just googled. :) Hope it helps to someone or at least it will help me to order my experience on that field.

Well, let's start from the environment.

I consider myself to be an experienced Windows and Linux developer. This stuff I do for many years already.

With Mac I met about five(!) moths ago. I mean, I knew it exists and I even worked briefly on it some years ago, but the truth is that, most of my projects were related to Windows or Linux.

I met Mac and that was love at first sight ;) As soon as I started to work on it I immediately suffered from the filling that I want to start an application development project under Mac and use it in my daily work... really!

As the hardware I use a new MacBook Pro, 15''

The only thing I can say is - WOW! It is a fucking amazing piece of hardware! Apple did a terrific job on this one.

I am just in love with the new trackpad device and the new keyboard of MacBook. No more words... Just get this laptop and enjoy!

BTW, I still do a lot of Linux development. In order to continue to do that on my Mac I use VMware Fusion. It works like a charm. One screen is a full screened Fedora 10 guest, another is a MS Windows XP guest and all under control of Mac OS X. ;)

The OS I am using is Mac OS X Leopard.

As the development environment I decided to use XCode (v. 3.1.2). Well, I am a bit disappointed with XCode and I tell you why. Mainly because of two thinks I see missing.

1. A terrible SVN support. For example, I didn't find a way to set SVN properties on files. Also SVN plug-in sometimes living its own live and could be doing something, which blocks all version control operations on files in XCode. I didn't find a better way to just stop that plug-in by restarting XCode.
2. No way to define custom formating rules. Formating preferences are very weak: a couple of checkboxes and that's it... If you do Objective-C development, then in a couple of weeks you will used to default formating and syntax coloring XCode does. But anyway, I would prefer to have a bit more flexible formating settings.

I think XCode is a very new and fresh product and Apple is developing it very fast (you can tell that from new thinks you get every new release). So I believe we will see soon a strong competitor to MS Visual Studio and to Eclipse. So far I would say MS VS is the best, at least for C++ development.

Anyway I would give a big plus to XCode and the best mark just for its very good integration with Objective-C and Cocoa. In combination with Interface Builder, which is by the way just the best GUI builder I have ever seen, XCode does all you need for application development.

James Bond will return... I mean, I will continue posting on that subject ;)