A Dane in Luxembourg

Apple seems to have put to many things out at the same time on Friday: new iPhones, MobileMe is replace .Mac and new software for the 1G iPhone.
As Luxembourg doesn’t or at least not officially has the iPhone, I can’t say anything about activation woes or 1G phones in limbo after trying to update [...]

Browsing through the App Store, finding many interesting applications. Downloads a few… But why? The iPhone still isn’t here, so why bother? Talk about getting ahead of yourself! And who wants an iPod Touch anyway?

Via Macworld UK:

Apple’s new iPhone sold out online in Britain ahead of its Friday launch, defying general consumer gloom as the country’s economy threatened to tip over into its first recession in more than a decade.
Carrier O2 said on Tuesday its website had been unable to cope with demand, which peaked at 13,000 per second. [...]

Steve Jobs and his team presented the latest in the iPhone saga today. As expected, the device is improving and becoming increasingly available across the planet.
Quite a few will see the phone on 11 July, among them are most of the remaining big markets like Italy, Spain and Japan. Coming soon are countries like Malta, [...]

The keynote of WWDC on 9 June is approaching rapidly and Steve will be doing it himself. This indicates that more than just standard news will be announced.
As for the iPhone, we are seeing announcements from several providers that they are going to offer the iPhone is this and that and these countries “some time [...]

Above the title of John Gruber’s take on another stupid article…here:
Final words from Gruber:
Or, as Albert Einstein actually did put it, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Very good and rather sad to read. How can serious journalists put together such crap?

Technorati Tags: apple, daringfireball, iphone, [...]

If you absolutely need an iPhone right now :-) After considering the options, I think it would be wise to visit neighbouring country France to get an iPhone. Expensive at 749 € including the (legal) unlocking of the phone, but at least you will have no worries about the next firmware update. If you can wait [...]

For a great laugh
iPhone pilot ad causing trouble for passengers:
One of Apple’s second round of iPhone ads has apparently been raising hackles from a somewhat unexpected source: professional airline dispatchers. The spot in question deals with an airline pilot who reputedly used his iPhone to check the weather during a flight delay.
One apocryphal [...]

It is getting better and better An announcement date for Luxembourg would be nice New features described here. New video from “Bob“.