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IMP Live 032 – The FAIL Episode

Posted on Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm, Jason Martin, Connor Jackson Michael King and back by popular demand Gazmaz

Special thanks to Gazmaz for joining us this week and to all of you for listening and subscribing. We’d like to hear from you so send your email / audio clips to haveyoursay [at] impodcast [dot] tv and we’ll get them into the mix

This week’s show notes can be found here

Categories: IMP Live, Shows

Mobile Me – A Polished Turd?

Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 by Bart Busschots
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The problem with .Mac (the previous name for Mobile Me) was never the concept, nor was it what was promised, the problem was always the implementation. I expressed my views on .Mac back in January 2007 in a post entitled “.Mac – The Devil is in the Implementation”, and nothing has really changed since. I had high hopes that Mobile Me would finally give us the .Mac we’d always wanted. If all Mobile Me had been was a working version of .Mac without any new functionality it would have been great! However, since it’s launch Mobile Me has just been one disappointment after another. Things started badly when it took them days to get the system even remotely stable, got worse when they permanently lost thousands of people’s email, and didn’t improve at all when we found out Apple had lied to us about push.

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Categories: Articles & Thoughts

IMP Live 010 – Good Apple Quarter

Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008
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This week’s panel are : Stu Helm, Lewis King and special guest Jonathan Davies

We talk about Apple’s Q3 results, give you the latest in iPhone news, talk about Mobile Me.

You can find the links to the stories we coverred on our del.icio.us tag

Remember to check out the details of IMP Live @ Leeds on the events page!

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IMP Live 004 – WWDC08 Round Up

Posted on Sunday, June 15, 2008
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Apple’s WWDC08 conference took place this from June 9th – 13th in San Francisco and is usually worth talking about so we gatherred Stu Helm, Lewis King, Jordan Drake and Ben Fryxell for a live discussion about the events and news.

We talk about the new iPhone SDK, iPhone Software 2.0, Enterprise features, Mobile Me and of course the iPhone 3G and it’s pricing in the UK, Ireland and USA. We also cover what we’ve heard about Apple’s update to Mac OS X – codenamed Snow Leopard and talk about Apple escorting journalists to the bathroom!

Categories: IMP Live, Shows