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We all know, or should know, what the Apple App store is so I won’t get into explaining that. With the recent HUGE #AppleFail its approval process has been brought back into the spotlight. There is a strange disconnect between what Apple says it will approve and what they actually wind up approving. Apple needs to revamp this process and revamp it quickly.

My idea is this. Apple has the biggest group of the hardest core fans. Why don’t they make the first step of app approval a social experience. Bring in digg/reddit style voting, apps that move up the list the fastest or seem the coolest get a final review, also by volunteers, and get pushed into the store. You can tweak this idea as well. Instead of the voting method you could just get volunteers (I am sure you’d have no problem doing this) who would sign NDA’s and they would review and approve apps possibly pushing some to a peer group for a final review before getting pushed to the store. Since no one really knows what’s involved in the current process I am not even sure if this is any different that what takes place today. I just know this. The process needs to change and change quickly.

-Dave

As you can see to the left all the keys map fine to most OSX functions, the volume keys work, the nice OSX OSD comes up to raise, lower and mute. The other specialty keys work as well, play/pause and the track selection worked without issue.

I really enjoyed the mouse and it almost works like an iPod wheel, you sweep to move the mouse around and as you play with it more it gets easier, there is a click when you push on the pad or you can use the OK button on the opposite side as a left click. The FN buttons don’t all work, the only one that does was the FN+power which brought up the usually shut down/restart/suspend box. All in all this is an awesome keyboard for an HTPC environment. Blackberry users will love it because they are used to the “Thumb” typing and can do it rather quickly. I wouldn’t compose a novel with it but for quick casual browsing or instant messaging it’s awesome and fits in the living room with almost zero footprint.

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments!

Crazy Pictures capture this first time event! I wonder what this means for crocs now that leopards can take them down, and how can I turn this into a Apple (Leopard HA) vs Microsoft (croc) hahaha! Look who wins!!!

So while this is an interesting report the key words in here are “This is in addition to the ten million first generation iPhones that Apple has said it will sell by the end of 2008.” So I don’t think we’ll be seeing the 3G iPhone until Apple meet the first 10 million goal.

-Dave

Tags: apple, iphone, 3g

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