5M copies of Snow Leopard? Will you upgrade?
Analyst Gene Munster thinks Apple will sell 5 million copies of Mac OS X 10.6 before fiscal 4Q ends at the end of September, but we think he’s being too conservative. More: continued here
Month: August 2009
Apple’s FCC Response Infuriates Google Voice App Developer
Kevin Duerr of Riverturn was infuriated by Apple’s response to the FCC, proudly posted on Apple.com late Friday afternoon. Duerr described Apple’s FCC letter as “nothing but hot air for PR purposes.” He also suspects Apple is being more than a bit disingenuous with the FCC. More: continued here
iSuck: Apples Five Worst Products, Ever
Apple, it seems, is all about the hits. The iPod, the iPhone & the MacBook are all phenomenally successful, both as designs & as commercial wins. These highlights, though, lead us to expect a lot of the company & serve to make the misses stick out all the more. Apple has some embarrassing techno-skeletons in…
Upcoming Apple tablet is No. 1 priority of Steve Jobs
Since his return to Apple in June, company co-founder Steve Jobs has been focused on bringing the hardware maker’s yet-to-be announced tablet device successfully to market, a new report claims. Corroborating information relayed by AppleInsider weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal reports that Jobs has been personally involved with the tablet…. More: continued here
Connecticut man consults Apple Genius and gets arrested
A Fairfield, Connecticut man took his Apple G5 desktop to the Genius Bar at the Stamford Town Center store complaining about some issues with his image file thumbnails. It seemed some thumbnails were overwriting thumbnails on other images and they didn’t match up. More: continued here
iPhone Meets Genome
Illumina, a San Diego, CA-based biotechnology company that designs breakthrough tools for genetic analysis, uses iPhone to track customers and manage employees across five continents. And soon it will make it possible for consumers to carry their personal genomes with them on iPhone.
iPhone and iPod touch: Some slides from PowerPoint attachments in Mail may render incorrectly
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Apple to Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28
Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users for $29.
Apple hit with copyright suit for third party app
“Without permission or authorization from the plaintiff, defendants Apple and i.TV have impermissibly used, reproduced, copied, infringed, disseminated or otherwise exploited the plaintiff’s copyrighted image in the i.TV application,” the suit reads. More: continued here
Critics call shenanigans after Apple, AT&T letters to FCC
Everyone is puzzling over Apple and AT&T’s letters to the FCC about the apparent rejection of a Google Voice iPhone app. What matters the most, of course, is not what bloggers and pollsters think, but what the FCC thinks about what AT&T and Apple claim they did or did not do with Google Voice. More:…
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MobileNavigator for iPhone:The GPS competition is heatin’ up
G-Map from X-Road was an AWESOME replacement for my GPS needs, but it still lacked some of the other features that newer standalone GPSs offer. Enter MobileNavigator. More: continued here
Apple reconsidering C64 Emulator for iPhone?
Apple could be reconsidering allowing the C64 Emulator app onto the App Store, following its rejection in June. The developer, Manomio, recently claimed in a tweet that it was contacted by a senior director at Apple and there is “BIG news coming,” although further details have not yet been announced. More: continued here
App Store Exposed: Notes Of Interest From Apple’s Statement
Now that all of the letters to the FCC have been filed by Apple, AT&T and Google, we’re more carefully reading them over for interesting details. The Apple letter would seem to have the most interesting information, as it controls the App Store, and has given some new information about it. Here are some interesting…
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Apple answers the FCC’s questions
Today Apple filed with the FCC the following answers to their questions.
iPod touch and iPhone: Tips when using Wi-Fi
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