iJustine Has Nice Apps

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Internet celebrity iJustine has five screens worth of apps on her iPhone, and it’s really something that you have to see to believe. I have only two screens worth of apps at the moment (Twitterrific, Facebook, AIM, Last.fm, Remote, Pandora, PhoneSaber, Tap Tap Revolution, and Recorder, in addition to the standard issue apps) and even I find that excessive at times. But five screens? I wouldn’t know where to look for anything. I really wouldn’t.

In other Apple news, a man said by one insider to be as demanding as iJustine’s hero Steve Jobs has been placed in charge of the company’s shaky MobileMe service. Apple vice president Eddy Cue is now heading up the MobileMe team, writes Apple Insider.

Those who are familiar with Cue know him for managing the iTunes Store to resounding global success, but he was also a force behind .Mac and the ever popular Apple Online Store. “It’s the not-sexy part of the company, but it’s the guts that make all of the sexy front ends actually work,” says von Rospach, who crossed paths with Cue during his years of managing Apple’s email lists.

Cue’s teams have long been self-contained, von Rospach adds, spending most of their time in “uncharted territory,” implementing technology that never existed before on large scales “under really scary conditions.” Over the years, he’s earned the respect of Steve Jobs by delivering projects on time, to specification, all while keeping “the darn thing(s) a secret” in the process.

As a MobileMe user, I can only hope that the faith this “insider” has in Cue will eventually be rewarded. MobileMe has run pretty flawlessly for me, but I know it’s probably only a matter of time before it once again crashes hardcore, as it did at launch. When it does crash again, I’ll be very interested to see how swiftly and how decisively Cue takes action. 

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Where’s My Darn iPhone?!? (Video)

The world is out of iPhones, according to research conducted by Internet superstar iJustine. She called more than thirty-five Apple stores recently, and not a single one of them had an iPhone 3G in stock.

I ordered my iPhone at the AT&T Store in Manchester, NH last Wednesday, and I am still waiting. I was told that it would be 10-21 days, so I’m not really all that upset. But the people over on this AT&T message board are far less patient than me. They’re up to 516 pages worth of bitching over there, so far. I’m not even kidding.

According to Where’s My Damn iPhone, which I found on that AT&T thread, I am currently the 53rd person in the AT&T Manchester direct fulfillment line (which includes all phones, not just iPhones). I was the 48th about an hour ago, so I’m guessing the site’s not all that reliable. Still, it’s fun to poke around there and see what all the people on the AT&T thread are going nuts over.

In other iPhone news, The Unofficial Apple Weblog has interesting pieces on cluttered home screens and the applications one writer is actually still using, two weeks after the launch of the App Store.

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