It seems to me that changes are coming to dot mac and we're seeing some of them now.

Dictate has been a good enough product that it has made it worth dealing with MacSpeech again.

What is the new iPhone Hacks really hacking?

Who doesn't care more about Java on the Mac--Sun or Apple?

Now that Jens Alfke has gone independent, he is working on an infrastructure that supports "a distributed, secure application-level messaging system."

Why should you go to WWDC this year?

Imagine giving your iPhone the power of a nearby eight-core Mac Pro.

What if Apple did the same thing with AppleTV that they've just done with the iPhone? What if Apple made AppleTV a platform by opening up the APIs.

There are a bunch of Mac developers who are really angry that Apple will be keeping thirty percent of the sale price of their software in return for giving them access to the iPhone sales channel. Apple could pretty much charge whatever they want --- it's your only sanctioned way onto the phone --- and they are taking 30% and giving the developer 70%.

As Apple prepares to announce the iPhone SDK in a couple of hours I'm torn. Haven't people been trying to convince us for years of the advantages of browser based applications? And Apple has put the browser on its list of strategically important pieces of the puzzle to own along with hardware and the operating system.