Some iPhone 4 orders prepared to ship, others getting cancelled?

Good news and bad news time — readers are letting us know they’re starting to get their “prepared for shipment” notifications from Apple, but others are getting order cancelations.

You can see the prepared for shipment notice up top. The cancelation is after the break and appears linked to a failure to authorize. There’s a theory going around that this has to do with people who, during the great order frak-up of 2010, ended up hitting the “submit” button multiple times, ..read more

UPDATE: It’s back! Apple online order status down

UPDATE: Order status is back, do you see any differences?

ORIGINAL: If you have an iPad, iPod touch, or anything else, on order from Apple and want to check the status online, we have some bad news for you — Apple has take their online order status down for the day.

My iPad 3G order, for example, just says Apple is updating their system and I can come back Sunday, May 16th.

UPDATE: It’s back! Apple online order status down is a story ..read more

Apple online order status down

If you have an iPad, iPod touch, or anything else, on order from Apple and want to check the status online, we have some bad news for you — Apple has take their online order status down for the day.

My iPad 3G order, for example, just says Apple is updating their system and I can come back Sunday, May 16th.

Apple online order status down is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.

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H.264 ascendant: why Apple’s no-Flash, no-Theora gamble is paying off

H.264, the video codec Apple supports for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad playback, and for the HTML5 video tag in Safari, and now Microsoft is supporting it as well, which means its 66% share will likely go up. Add to that Steve Jobs think the competing, Firefox-supported license-free alternative, OGG Theora, will face patent infringement claims, and it’s looking like we have a web video standards winner.

As anyone who read Steve Jobs’ thoughts on Flash knows, he made a strong ..read more

H.264 ascendant: why Apple’s no-Flash, no-Theora gamble is playing off

H.264, the video codec Apple supports for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad playback, and for the HTML5 video tag in Safari, and now Microsoft is supporting it as well, which means its 66% share will likely go up. Add to that Steve Jobs think the competing, Firefox-supported license-free alternative, OGG Theora, will face patent infringement claims, and it’s looking like we have a web video standards winner.

As anyone who read Steve Jobs’ thoughts on Flash knows, he made a strong ..read more

BlackBerry OS 6.0 coming soon, includes WebKit browser, multitouch

Apple has shown off iPhone OS 4 and now BGR has the first preview of BlackBerry’s attempt to maintain their messaging advantage and close the web-browsing and UI gap with BBOS 6.0.

BlackBerry is an email and BBM monster, no two ways about it, but until now we’ve been able to make fun of their ridiculously bad web browser and their inability (like Android) to store a large amount of large-sized apps (infinite app potential, tiny little onboard storage). And their ..read more

Updated: Apple releases New MacBook Pro [Apple Online Store down!]

UPDATE: Nothing for iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad owners to see here… unless you’re also in the market for new Core i5/i7 MacBook Pros. Apple’s got your press release and new MacBook Pro product pages ready. Now how about those international iPad pre-orders?

Here we go again — the Apple Online Store is down! As Apple’s strange and unique mix of old WebObjects technology and pre-launch hype bring it’s online sales to a sticky noted halt, we’re left to speculate as ..read more

Apple Cracking Down on Mass Produced, Low Functionality Apps?

TechCrunch is reporting that companies who mass produce (or provide tools and templates for the mass production of) “cookie cutter” apps are hearing that they need to add differentiation and functionality or risk Apple not allowing them into the iTunes App Store. Jason Kincaid says:

Between the developers I spoke to, the consensus was this: Apple doesn’t appear to be opposed to ‘app generators’ and templates per se, but in the last month or so it has started cracking down on ..read more

UPDATED: Manufacturing Problems to Lead to Constrained iPad Supplies, Launch Delay?

UPDATE 2: Apple confirms the late March ship-stimate to Wired [via @arsinfiniteloop].

UPDATE 1: Seth Weintraub at 9to5Mac puts up a thoughtful reminder about the nature of analyst notes:

If [analysts] do produce something publicly, that means one of two things: (1) Their clients have had the information for weeks and have had time to invest accordingly. (2)They are trying to artificially change the price of Apple’s stock because they have previously told their clients to invest based on the ..read more

TiPb Give Away: Motorola H17 Bluetooth Headset for a TiPb Facebook fan!

We’re moving TiPb’s Facebook presence from the old group and page to a newer, shiner, and — soon to be — better, unified TiPb Fan Page!

The bad news: since we can’t rename the old iphoneblog.com page or transfer the group to go with new, we have to apologize for asking everyone to move over with us, but we’ll do our best to more than make up for the hassle — that’s a promise!

So, please jump on over and become a ..read more

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