With just over a week left until Steve Jobs takes the stage for the keynote address at this years annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, I am thinking about what we might see. After every keynote there is always a short-lived euphoria that results from being inside the reality distortion field followed but a postpartum depression.…
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For what I think is the fourth year in a row Apple is offering their free iPod Touch with the purchase of a Mac promo. This is like getting $200 off. Even when you pay sales tax you still beat Amazon’s price.…
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For the last three years Apple has offered a free iPod with the purchase of a Mac. I’m hoping they repeat the trend this year.
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http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/sessions/
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Every time I try to access me.com it tells me that my account has been locked for security reasons. It is really annoying. I have to go and change my password everywhere. During the password change process I get a confirmation screen that offers to send me back to the Apple Store Japan.…
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I heard the new target for AAPL was $300. I’m starting to believe that.
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Conspicuously absent on the iPad are some apps that we have come to expect as part of the package. The iPad does not come with Calculator, Weather, or Stocks. Arguably these apps were not Best of Breed apps. Apple is clearly sending a message that they are not interested in providing applications that are not core to their business model.…
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I would be willing to pay $3 per month for Wired Magazine on the iPad. The pricing has not been set so its anybody’s guess how much it will cost.
Would you pay $18/month for the WSJ on the iPad? http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gGp0-d3Yfie4MFpV37mKnyPi2D8A…
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Each year Apple holds its World Wide Developers Conference. This conference used to be held in San Jose but had to be moved to San Francisco when it got too big. Attendance tops out about 5,000 developers who descend each summer to Moscone West.…
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I recently switched from iPhoto to Aperture to manage images on my computer. The experience has been mixed. I am really not happy with the performance. I’m hoping that will get better. Another annoyance it the fact that importing images from my iPhone does not prompt me to delete those images off the phone like it does for my camera.…
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I got this email from MobileMe. It was a strange non-apology. It was a litany of all the things that they have been working on without any mention of the things that were promised but not yet delivered. This message appears to have been sent out to all MobileMe members.…
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I’m currently running
Mac OS 10.5.6. This version is also known as
Build 9G55. Let’s take that build number apart and see what it actually means.
Major Version
Minor Version
Build
Update
9
G
55
b
The build refers to the Apple internal build process that does a full compile and packaging of the entire OS.…
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