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by Maria Kiselyova and Sophie Taylor, Reuters
For now, Apple has given tacit consent to the informal supply chain by adding Russian and Chinese language options.
by Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet.com
Don't make Steve Jobs out to be more than he is. Stop worrying about what he's going to do to open source.
Make him worry about what open source is going to do to him.
However, Apple is not in the businesses where open source is of any significant threat. Except maybe Safari. But Safari is given away free; it is to support the real business of MobileMe.
by CCTV.com
Consumers in Beijing will soon be able to access Apple products directly from the company itself.
by Charles Arthur, The Guardian
Bottom line, Apple's iPhone still have a lot of room for improvement, especially if you are looking at it as a computer that does phone functions.
by Charles Jade, Ars Technica
"If you are a .Mac user and are trying to publish iWeb content via this MobileMe(ss), you can forget about it for now. It doesn't work. Period."
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
by Electronista
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
Aimed at small business users who need to create invoices to bill clients for products and services, Invoice lets you create colored invoices, keep track of payments, use drag and drop to create and arrange invoices, maintain currency conversions, save selected invoices as PDFs, create recurring invoices, manage smart folders and smart counters and more.
by Jeremy A. Kaplan and Sascha Segan, PC Magazine
We took a look back over the years at some of the greatest flops to come out of both Microsoft and Apple, technology that failed not because it was lacking in brilliance but often because it was simply ahead of its time.
by Brian Caulfield, Forbes
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
No, I don't believe in cross-platform GUI code. Never seen one that is good enough.
But, wouldn't it be great if I can start using my Macintosh to write Windows application? MFC, WTL, ATL, .Net and plain Win32. Pretty please?
(Yes, I've actually used Visual C++ for Macintosh. If you don't know what this is, you should be thankful. Worse than Bob.)
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
If you think that designing the UI for iPhone to do cut and paste is easy, just take a look at the mess which is Adobe Acrobat Reader.
by Technospeedia
Mac is ready to use out of the box.
by Paul Thurrott, SuperSite For Windows
Apple has a history of over-promising and under-delivering and they get a total pass on this with the press.
by Mike Elgan, Internet News
The handful of recent stumbles by Cupertino is just a temporary rough patch, right?
by Paul Taylor, Financial Times
The two most glaring problems from a business perspective are the lack of a physical Qwerty keybaord and, as most other commentators have noted, rather disappointing battery life.
by Fraser Speirs
If you haven't got it already, it's time to move your head to this place: iPhone OS is Apple's mainstream platform for 2012 and beyond. It's a bold prediction, but the numbers seem fairly clear.
by Rick Fay, TidBITS
by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Customers looking for an iPhone 3G may have to wait up to a month for Apple to boost its orders with suppliers and refill the pipeline, a Wall Street analyst said Thursday.
by Peter Cohen, Macworld
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