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I saw a 3G iPhone on the plane last week (carried by an insider). Here’s what I can repeat:

1. The Enterprise apps will seriously threaten RIM. IT departments will be able to remotely enable/disable the handset just like a Blackberry. Exchange integration is tight & will be true push. The App Store [may] also be integrated into an enterprise portal. That may not be available day 1, but sounds like it is coming.

2. AT&T will heavily subsidize the phone for up to one year of sales. Details on the contract weren’t shared, but I understood it to mean AT&T was eating the cost-difference on the handset in order to maintain carrier exclusivity, at least for another year. Target street price in US: $199 with possibility of only one-year contract - that is speculation based upon the rest of conversation.

3. Apple was pissed that AT&T announced this (duh, but interesting to hear it confirmed).

4. The AT&T 3G network is up & running right now. The phone will be announced by Apple "sometime in June", with near-immediate sales availability.

5. The 3G form-factor, casing & color appear identical to the first-gen.

6. A "whole team of engineers" is working on bringing real GPS to the iPhone.

7. Battery life is a bit better than first-gen iPhones.

8. Connection & web usage on the 3G network "screams" - is "very fast".

9. I own a first-gen iPhone and will replace mine in August

Tags: iPhone, Apple, 3G

I originally posted this as a comment to John P.’s Digital Daily post on this topic.

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080324/lilly/

Summary: Mozilla CEO John Lilly is calling foul on Apple for both placing Safari into the update service as well as making the default action ‘Install’.  Lots of folks have jumped on Apple for the default setting; Lilly says it violates trust.

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What does this have to do with trust?

I’ll answer myself: nothing.

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This is the second time I’ve encountered a 502 error while attempting to connect to my mail account. 

This is not a very encouraging sign, as I’ve used the service for only about four months. 

Google has hundreds (maybe thousands) of servers assigned to GMail.  What actually happens in these cases?  Is a commodity server box failing while it is still in rotation?

I’d like to see a better explanation than a mildly fancified 502 page.

Tags: gmail, error, 502

I’m really beginning to wonder about Leopard.  In all the time I had Tiger - on both a G4 Powerbook as well as on this Macbook Pro - not a single kernel panic, ever.

Just had my first one this morning on Leopard.  It looks like the Airport driver crashed hard.  Something else that is interesting -  Leopard apparently still uses the Darwin kernel.  I didn’t know that:

Tags: apple, leopard, osx, mac