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Apple pushes more XMPP

May 19th, 2009 David Banes No comments

Apple’s always had an XMPP (Jabber) solution within it’s OSX based XServe platform and supported it on the desktop with iChat so it’s nice to see that they’ve now used it in their new iPhone push notification service.

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Apple begins stress testing iPhone 3.0 push notifications
By Prince McLean

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Wrong turn for Apple

October 16th, 2008 David Banes No comments

I’ve been waiting to upgrade my MacBook after moving from a 15″ PowerBook a while back, we’re now heavily invested in Mac’s at home and at the business, and in FireWire storage. It’s already at 2Gb RAM, had a new battery and HD upgrade.

I’m also a bit of a minimalist, always gone for smaller laptops, the PowerBook being the exception that proved the rule, a bit big to lug around.

So I was gobsmacked when I discovered that the new MacBook has no FireWire! This creates a few issues for me;

  • Either I go back to the larger form factor of the MacBook Pro
  • Get a MacBook Air.. oh wait, no FireWire there either
  • Throw away all our FireWire kit and buy USB … Doh!
  • Stay with the old MacBook

Looks like the last option is my only realistic one, at least I won’t get any grief from the Financial Controller :)

What were you thinking Apple.

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