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Who Preferes MID Over Apple UMPC?

ken75muraski — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:50:02 +0000

Sure, Steve Jobs and crew had a few clever innovations in there, but the market share for an Apple computer was nowhere the same market share experienced by Windows-powered PCs. These days, Windows machines still outnumber Apple machines, but the latter has made a lot of headway. As I m sure you already know, Apple is also experiencing tons of success with the iPod and the iPhone. Both of those product lines are literally selling like hotcakes.

How the Woz shaped Apple

ralyjones25 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:00:03 +0000

The Apple I was developed out of a joint effort to impress computer hobbyists and to realise his ambition of owning his own computer. It was never designed with the aim of selling millions of units. His reasons for co-founding Apple were to continue to design cool and elegant computers and gain peer recognition for doing so. The designs of the original Apple computers are still lauded as masterpieces of electrical engineering.

Apple tries to patent iPod interface

luiza — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:50:02 +0000

In the late 1980s, Apple agreed to license parts of the user interface that appeared in the Lisa and Macintosh computers to Microsoft, which was then working on Windows 1.0. But as Microsoft added more features in Windows 2.0 and later in 3.0, Apple in 1988 filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and HP (which at the time was working on an Apple-like skin for Windows called NewWave) to stop them using elements that it used in its Lisa and Macintosh platforms.

Apple lost all its claims, except those that related to the trash can icon and file folder icons in HP’s long-since abandoned NewWave. An appeal by Apple to the US Supreme Court was later denied.

Squashing bugs with an Apple fix a day

luiza — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:40:03 +0000

There is some debate as to the relative security of Apple and Microsoft code. Some argue that Microsoft code was flawed from the beginning, whereas Apple simply wrote more secure code. What’s your opinion? Mac OS X is comprised of a vast quantity of code from a variety of sources, including NeXT, The FreeBSD Project, The NetBSD Project and legacy Apple code that precedes their purchase of NeXT.

I don’t think one can categorically declare that such a complex system written by multiple individuals in different organisations at different times is entirely comprised of superior, better-written code. As an example, Firefox is a great browser, but the RTSP vulnerability in Apple’s QuickTime plug-in is sufficient to lead to remote code execution.

Apple megapatch tackles 45 flaws

ralyjones25 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:05:02 +0000

The megapatch is the seventh Apple security patch release in three months. It deals with vulnerabilities in Apple’s own software, as well as third-party components such as Adobe Systems’ Flash Player, OpenSSH and MySQL. Sixteen of the vulnerabilities addressed by the update were previously released as part of two high-profile bug-hunting campaigns .

iPod tipped to boost Apple’s desktop share

ken75muraski — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:40:03 +0000

Analyst firm Morgan Stanley forecast on Friday that the Mac currently on three percent of desktops could win its way to five percent of desktop sales this year. This was based on a survey of 400 iPod users that found that 19 percent expect to convert from PC to Macintosh. This conversion factor is double that previously expected by analysts, and over three times the six percent effect reported four months ago .

Apple versus Apple

Jeffrey Lewis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:35:02 +0000

As eager Macintosh developers waited for Steve Jobs to speak, the familiar strains of ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ filled the darkened hall at an Apple Computer conference in June. A buzz arose in the San Francisco hall.

The new iMac is here

ralyjones25 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:00:03 +0000

And what else has gone? Well, most of it. “Everyone is going to be asking ‘where did the computer go?’… The entire computer [now] floats in the air,” said Schiller. Apple is aiming for a machine users will be “proud to have in their den, their living room or in the front of small business”.

Apple Documentary adds Naperville Film Fest

Jeffrey Lewis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:30:03 +0000

Welcome to Macintosh is a documentary that mixes history, criticism and an unapologetic revelry of all things Apple. The film explores the early years of Apple up to the present through the eyes of Apple employees, engineers, resellers and supporters.

Interviews include notable Apple personalities: Andy Hertzfeld, co-creator of the original Macintosh, Guy Kawasaki, long time Mac evangelist, Leander Khaney, author of the book Cult of Mac , Jim Reekes, creator of the start-up sound and Ron Wayne, original co-founder of the Apple Computer Company.

HP sings swan-song for iPod resale deal

ken75muraski — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:15:02 +0000

For example, there was a significant period of time during which Apple had colour-screen models and HP did not. Also, until very recently, HP only sold the white iPod models and not the iPod Mini or flash-based iPod Shuffle. HP announced in June that it would start selling a Mini model and said earlier this month it would begin offering the Shuffle.