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Apple news roundup

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I’ve been on the road again, so haven’t been commenting on much lately. Thus, my faithful readers (that’s all three of you) get one big post on various bits that I’ve been meaning to comment about lately.

Apple vs Apple: Apple Computers won the lawsuit. The judge said that Apple Computer is using its logo to sell music, not to make it, and thus isn't breaking the trademark agreements. This decision didn't really surprise me, nor did the decision of Apple Corps to appeal. (But you have watched the video of the cab driver that the Beeb mistakenly interviewed about the case, haven't you? Poor guy.)

Creative vs Apple: It seems that Creative is trying the ‘if you can't beat 'em, sue 'em’ approach of business. On a mostly-unrelated note, I'm amused that Creative is trying to say that ‘podcast’ stands for ‘personal on-demand broadcast’. Guys, you're trying too hard. Really.

Apple vs blogger: To round out the lawsuit trifecta, Apple's still suing Jason O'Grady. There’s no new developments here, but the trifecta was too nice to pass up.

Fox on the iTunes Music Store: I couldn't be less surprised at new content on iTMS. Don't get me wrong, I think it's nifty to see, but it’s not surprising anymore.

17-inch MBP: Took long enough! Yesterday's speed bump to the 15-inch MBP was nice, too. And thanks for the glossy screens.

Aperture: I was surprised at how many people thought that Apple would simply can Aperture. They've gotten a lot of interest in the product. They seem to have the right idea with their product. It's easier to fix quality issues on the right piece of software than try to make the wrong piece of software into something else.

Fifth Avenue Apple store : Sigh. I guess the San Francisco store won't be the coolest one anymore. But I'll add this to my itinerary for my next New York trip, assuming that I get to go to places that are more interesting than Rochester.

MacBook: I'm glad that Apple released these, if only so that I don't have to spend the next six months wading through rumour sites hypothesing about when they'll be released. All they had to do was release a story every week theorising that the new MBs would be released on the following Tuesday, and they'll eventually be right (a stopped clock is right twice a day ...). Apple made the super-special black case more expensive, which isn't surprising after the massive success of the black iPods. I do like that they've made the hard drives user replaceable –- I have replaced the hard drive (as well as the SuperDrive) in my old TiBook, but it's quite a hassle. I want to try out the new keyboard in person to see if I like it, not to mention see what the new glossy screen looks like. I'm vaguely annoyed that the power adapter can't be shared with a MBP, but this is really an academic thought since I doubt that I'll get a MB. I foresee a visit to my local Apple store soon. Dear manager – it's for business purposes, honest!

Darwin is now closed: Tom Yager got it immensely wrong when he said that OS X now ‘no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial OS’ now that Darwin is closed-source for the MacTels. Linux has its own reasons for popularity, but I can't call the ability to hack the kernel the single quality that got Linux where it is today, and I certainly can't agree with his statements about the PPC kernel. I'd say more, but it turns out that the Cult of Mac blog has already said it better.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    I'm not surprised that Mac OS X 10.4 on Intel has become closed off. Now, if Leopard follows suit, that would surprise me
  • Anonymous
    May 17, 2006
    Why's that?
  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2006
    Is MS going to allow Apple to use Windows API's directly from Mac OS X when it implements its own virtualization solution in Leopard? And will the API's be customizaable so they look more like Mac OS X windows then XP ones?
  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2006
    so does that makes me reader number 3 :)
  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2006
    well, if they put out the Intel version of Mac OS X 10.4 in Darwin, they now have two rather similar, yet just different enough code forks to maintain, neither of which even approach "small".

    However, with Leopard, it's one OS release for both platforms, and that would be a couple orders of magnitude simpler to maintain.
  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2006
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