Watch Out Steve! iCloud is crashing on my iPad!

Steve Jobs will come out of retirement for WWDC 2011 and deliver the keynote himself which is quite extraordinary and confirms that something big will be announced! 

Buzz word says he is supposed to announce iCloud, IOS5 and MACOS Lion but this is not very exciting. Unless MacOS has 3D, virtual games devices and iCloud replaces MobileMe and becomes free for all iPad users...

You may not know but iCloud alias CloudMe, is the new MobileMe. Apple bought iCloud from Xcerion, a service company based in Sweeden -Linkoping for $4M. You can get a free account here.

What I don't understand now is that iCloud says that Safari is not supported when I login. Can you believe that? An Apple site that does not fully support Safari? Weird (See left of login button)

I hope Steve Job's demo of iCloud on his iPad works! Here it doesn't!  See what I get when I try to login to my CloudMe account on my iPad. I put the developer debug on and as you can see below iCloud is asking for Java. How many days to WWDC 2011 ? 

Note:  @twisted_weasel  reminded me that this is NOT the Apple site but of a company called ... XCerion. I perfectly know that! The post above is just to point that at -72H iCloud is still in Sweden which I find abnormal and risky.


Let see, Apple took control of iCloud.com and iCloud.org June 1st as proven by NETSOL whois records. An IP trace of iCloud.com says it is still in Sweeden (traceroute to icloud.com IP=83.140.241.12). I find unwise for Apple to keep the Xcerion version of the web still opened. They should have switched to their Cupertino servers. 


We all know Apple, they will pull the drapes just when Steve Jobs enters the stage, only problem is that DNS propagation takes an average of 24H to propagate all over the world. We just hope that the Clouds will dissipate next Monday. 

MRIs prove that Apple is a new religion

BBC Superbrands' show has now demonstrated using MRIs that Apple devotees brain will have a religious experience when watching a new Apple product. As if this was not enough ye Bishop of Buckingham - who reads his Bible on an iPad, sees huge similarities between Apple and a religion. Those who hate Apple should then be called The Null-A (as in Van Vogt)

News from the A religion:

Persistent rumors claim that next IOS will integrate interactive 3D. There is a free app on the store called I3D from University Joseph Fourier Grenoble in France, yes like the series, but Apple has a dozen patents on 3D and augmented reality devices.

Another under the radar feature that could announced is a revolutionary "Virtual Device Interface" API where developers could create a virtual device on screen with all sorts of buttons and behaviors like ... gaming consoles for example.

News from China about Apple buying hundreds new glass cutting machines for manufacturers of iPhones and iPad there. The new front glass could be curved which will be good to eliminate reflections. Only problem is that applying the film sandwitch polarizers etc found in front of LCDs will be very tricky.

Strangely enough Apple is inviting foreign journalists to WWDC June 6, because they will announce something "Big". 

Big?  Sure. A Lion is bigger than a Leopard.

..._._

For those who are too young, or Science Fiction analphabets
The World of Null-A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

New IOS 4.3.2 for iPad, iPad2 and iPhone

Apple has released iOS4.3.2 for iPhone, iPad 2, iPad and iPod – no more FaceTime freezing or iPad 3G issues.

iOS4.3.2 adds the usual security feature enhancements and minor optimisations and bug fixes as well.

The biggest bug fix in iOS4.3.2 is that Apple has solved the FaceTime freeze issue affecting iPad 2 users.

Next improvement is iPad’s 3G performance. It is generally more stable.

iPhone 3G users are left in the dust at IOS4.2.1.

iPad documentation

Many people who use iPads are not technical and don't know half of the iPad best commands.

They also ignore that there is a world of information at their fingertip and don't really know about blogs, twitter and newsgroups. Most basic users have their apps installed by a son or daughter and use apps. The most advanced read news using the bigs news apps and that's it.

Apple help is difficult and intimidating. I for one, never seen any help when I booted my iPad the first time.

Apple help is difficult to find but it is there, just a few links to get you started.

The basic Apple iPad support page is here:  Apple Support - iPad  Français サポート

Choose your country    Apple choose Country

In general you take the basic URL :  http://www.apple.com/XX/support/

and replace XX by the two letter acronym representing your country.
Example Russia is ru -> http://www.apple.com/ru/support/
China is cn                 -> http://www.apple.com.cn/support/
En Français                -> http://www.apple.com/fr/support/

Manuals in English  Français  etc...