MyAppleMenu | Tomorrow | Reader | Singapore
You are here in the archive: MyAppleMenu > 2008 > March > 26
by Katie Marsal, AppleInsider
An analyst for market research firm Gartner said Tuesday he believes Apple to have placed orders for 10 million 3G iPhones which would employ a more odern form of display screen that could pave the way for a slimmer handset with improved battery life.
I wonder where's the Apple's filing with FCC which, Steve Jobs predicted, will surely be leaked to the media?
by Jefferson Graham, USA Today
The music industry is fianlly comfortable selling digital music without copy protection, but the huge shift hasn't resulted in dramatically higher sales.
Instead, it produced something that major music labels have long sought: a strong No. 2 competitor to Apple.
by MacNN
by Lore Sjoberg, Wired
I want useful playlists. I want "Tori Amos songs that make a damn lick of sense."
by Michael Hall, Instant Messaging Planet.com
by George Koroneos, PharmExec
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
It seems that what Microsoft customers really want is for Vista to be more like Leopard.
by Ryan Faas, Computerworld
I have to say that the new Apple TV has more than lived up to my early expectations and truly blew away my previous experiences.
by Kevin Tofel, jkOnTheRun
I think the browser was just the beginning and Apple is poised to leverage "switcher" households and homes that have both PCs and Macs playing nicely. I realize how much .Mac integrates into the OS, but I think there's a case to be made here. Especially when .Mac earns Apple $99 a year in revenue per user.
by Adrian Bridgwater, ZDNet.co.uk
Criticised heavily in recent times for selling what some believe to be an overpriced and outdated product with a lack of customer support, Quark is at pains to affirm that it has finally got its house in order.
by Kevin Dangoor, SitePen Blog
Considering that the iPhone is much, much slower than the computers that Apple sells, squeezing more performance out of the browser will have a far greater visible impact on an iPhone than it would on a Mac.
The probably unanswered question is why Safari on Windows. Hopefully, we'll get a totally wide and great idea on one of these Tuesdays.
by John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine
I'm not denying that the trend in computing is moving away from the desktop machine. I'm just saying that this is not a train I'm ready to ride.
by Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine
The vast majority of consumers and businesspeople simply need their PCs to handle e-mails, web browsing, instant messaging, phone calls, word processing, videos, and photos. If they can get all of this from something that fits in their pocket and is ready to do their bidding anytime and anywhere, then why have a PC at all?
by Darren Gladstone, PC World
The air is a victory of industrial design and single-minded purpose. It has decent performance for an ultraportable, but few standout features to speak of beyond the superficial. And yet, I still can't help wanting to stop and touch it.
Few standout feature when compared with other ultraportable? How about Mac OS X, which no other ultraportable has?
by Jon Fortt, Fortune
Don't think for a minute that Microsoft is ignoring the iPhone. In fact, the software giant is probing the gadget for profit opportunities.
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld
While many users may not find Mail's new features useful, some will welcome the ability to organize other types of information in a program they have open all day long.
by Buttons Of Judgement
It's like the uncanny GUI valley: the closwer Firefox gets to emulating a real application, the more alarm bells start ringing when something's just a bit off.
I haven't seen a cross-platform toolkit that can do UI look-and-feel right.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Adam C. Engst, TidBITS
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
For people who value light weight, and are willing to give up other features to get it, the MacBook Air is a compelling machine. What's more, I think I underestimated the appeal fo the Air as a primary computer.
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
It's just not possible to lavish enough praise on Adobe for getting Photoshop Elements 6 running on Intel, even if took nearly three years.
by Jim Dalrymple, Macworld
by Danny Shea, Huffington Post
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.