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On the 23rd and 24th of April, Digital Circle, in conjunction with the Digital Media Forum are holding an iPhone developers workshop in Dublin and Belfast.

General Agenda - the event plan will be much the same both days - some of the folk will be in Belfast, some in Dublin. The titles and names here are, in some cases, speculative.

TECHNICAL
Introduction to iPhone and OS 3 - NDA-permitting - Paul Burford, Apple
Developing your first app

UI/INTERFACE
User Interface for Small Devices
UI in Connected Health,

MARKETING
Marketing your App
The Business of App Development

This event is built upon the XCake.org iPhone Developer Community.
For those planning to make a trip of it - BarCampBelfast is on Saturday 25th April.

• $1.05 billion in profit, up from $770 million.
• Just under 2.3 million Macs sold — representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth. This is incredible. I remember being pleased when over 750 000 Macs were sold in a quarter. Now it’s three times that. If Apple were selling 750K Macs and had 5% of the market….and the PC market has actually shrunk….but Apple’s shipments have grown…what percentage do they have now?
• 10.6 million iPods sold, up 1 percent (but 6 percent revenue-wise). How many of these are shuffles? How many are iPod touch? That’s the important breakdown!
• 1.7 million iPhones sold. That’s not bad for this quarter and they have three more quarters before the end of the year. Apple reckons they will hit 10 million iPhones by year end.

It’s all very interesting. Still no official news on the Apple Store for Belfast, however!

Yesterday, for Apple’s portable lineup, there were massive changes.

The Macbook Pro and MacBooks were all updated with new Penryn processors. I don’t really care what that means except that they run faster and using less heat and power so there’s apparently a modest increase in battery life.
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Apple is running what is hopefully the first of a series of technical events in Belfast starting with “Server Infrastructure and System Imaging” using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server.

It’s going to be quite technical as you can see from the PDF and aimed at IT staff who have good IT and OSX skills.

You need to register as soon as possible! It’s a full day of information from Apple in their server technologies! If Apple get a good attendance from us they’ll consider doing more - we have the interest in Northern Ireland, we just need to tell Apple about it!

Click on the invitation link, read the details and send an email!

Server Technology Invitation (240K download, PDF)

Hope to see you all there.