From Multi-Touch Coming to a Mac Near You?: “As we all know, multi-touch is the Apple patented technology being used on the iPhone. It’s apparently a bit better than the standard touch-screen stuff we’re all used to, especially since it ignores accidental touches of the screen with stray fingers. So if Apple has patented this [...]
February 12, 2007 – 11:39 am
From Stained Glass?: “Boston’s first Apple flagship store is coming soon to the Back Bay - a smooth, clear jewel box of a building - and it promises to be the Hub’s most exciting piece of retail architecture in years. Its arrival shows that Boston wants contemporary design to blend in with the historic. But [...]
February 6, 2007 – 06:33 pm
From Thoughts on Music, written by Apple CEO, Steve Jobs: “With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to ‘open’ the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be [...]
February 5, 2007 – 11:59 am
From I hate Macs: :I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who [...]
January 2, 2007 – 11:56 am
From Mac Rumors, the Macworld San Francisco 2007 Rumor Roundup: “With Macworld San Francisco MWSF quickly approaching, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the big event.”
September 13, 2006 – 09:47 am
Over at Roughly Drafted, which is quickly becoming my favorite Apple-focused analysis site, Daniel Eran looks at Apple’s “surprise announcement of a $299 ‘iTV’ set top box.” What with the new iTunes, the addition of movies to the iTMS, and the revamped iPods, I somehow missed this in the list of announcements yesterday. Daniel writes [...]
September 12, 2006 – 01:55 pm
According to Macworld, Steve Jobs has just said, “‘Today I want to talk about adding movies to the iTunes Store and the whole iTunes-iPod experience. Today we’re starting out with films from Disney, Pixar, Touchstone and Miramax — four studios owned by Walt Disney Co.’ The service launches with more than 75 films online, starting [...]
August 18, 2006 – 03:31 pm
According to iPodNN, “In a recently held Lions Gate quarterly conference call, company executives revealed a digital licensing deal, indicating Apple is prepping the launch of an iTunes movie store.” Now announcement of exactly when Apple will launch the movie store, but Lions Gate did say that they expect it to be running by the [...]
August 9, 2006 – 03:12 pm
Two days ago, at the World Wide Developers Conference 2006, Steve Jobs introduced the world to Leopard, the next iteration of Mac OS X. I told you last week that I’d give you my thoughts on the whole thing. And though I may be a couple of days late, thanks to the design update of [...]
I know I haven’t posted much on the Mac recently, by Daring Fireball has an interesting take on the Microsoft/Apple rivalry: “In the very worst tradition of punditry, allow me to make a sweeping generalization based on a few almost completely unrelated observations: Microsoft is suffering from a lack of confidence, and Apple is brimming [...]
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