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Saturday, May 14, 2011

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  • Lone Deranger
    Mar 30, 12:54 PM
    The real question is why MS is so bothered about Apple using 'App Store'. Historically MS (almost) never used the word App, instead using the word Programs. Surely MS can come up with many alternatives that describe their own store equally well, if not better. Why fight with Apple over this? I can only conclude that it is to spite Apple, or to ride Apple's coat tails yet again.
    Even if MS is right, logically, linguistically, I find their attitude over this rather puerile. PR-wise it says to me "Apple, if we can't imitate you, we'll sue you"
    MS sinks lower in my opinion by the day.





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  • stol
    Apr 11, 09:36 AM
    Ever heard of Home Sharing?

    Well, thank you, I've heard of Home Sharing. I use it myself on my desktop and laptop. I was referring to an one-click streaming solution like Airtunes. More like "click there to stream music to my mac which is connected to my sound system" than "go to preferences, enable sharing; now wait while I browse your shared library".


    So, Airport Expresses are luxury but other WiFi routers onto which an Airplay hack could be installed are not luxury?
    You can rightfully slam Apple for not including Airplay into the Time Capsule and Airport Extreme but that is about it.


    I think you got it completely wrong here. How is my WiFi router which was given to me for free by my internet provider a luxury? Who talked about hacking my router? How could possibly a common router provide me with audio output?

    And of course Apple is getting greedy by not adding Airtunes to other wireless solutions they sell. One more reason to skip them altogether and go for a hack or other software solution. Once again, don't get me wrong, I love Apple and their products, I but there are some use cases where they just don't care or have completely other interests.


    To stream between computers, you only need iTunes and Home Sharing, which is, btw, free. And you now welcome/wish for a third-party hack to stream music and then in the same breath say that installing even bonafide software like the free Airfoil Speakers or iTunes is out of the question. What is it, you could convince your friends to install a third-party hack on their computers but not iTunes or Airfoil?

    Once again, my words are misinterpreted or you just don't understand.
    I just wish to stream to my mac which is connected to my sound system from other Airtunes capable devices. That involves a hack only on my part and nothing at all to be done on other computers or iOS devices. Call me cheap, but that would be convenient to me and my friends.
    And as I said before, I can see myself buying an Airport Express (although I would prefer the Airport Extreme, if it had an audio output) for a computer-less streaming setup, but for my current setup - which I think is the most common one - and budget I will opt for a tricky hack.

    To sum up, all I want is a Banana-TV equivalent but just for audio. It looks like it's just a matter of time.





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  • Bernard SG
    Apr 29, 03:10 AM
    Is the global sales growth drop due to Windows? How many percent gain of the overall OS market has Apple gained with the 26% increase in Mac sales?

    Windows representing AFAIK at least 90% of the worldwide installed base, the dip in PC demand is all linked to a drop of Windows PC demand.
    Apple's global market share progressed by 1.4 point YoY to 4.6% in Q1 2011. In US figures, Mac market share progression is similar, 1.5 to 8.5%.
    Those figures do not include iPad and other tablets and include netbooks.

    And a little correction: Mac growth is actually 28%, not 26% as I wrote before.





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  • lokey
    Sep 26, 07:46 AM
    This would be great. My Cingular contract ends in November so I'll be able to choose any provider at that time, but an iPhone will keep me with Cingular. Also, my current phone is on it's last leg... exciting news!





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  • mike2q
    Oct 27, 06:01 PM
    I think someone was right when they pointed out that Apple was attacked because Green Peace believed that we as Mac lovers are all tree hugging hippies. I think this thread alone put an end to that train of thought.
    This has NOTHING to do with environmentalism, president Bush, or freedom of speech. It has to do with a the organizers of a privately held event kicking out an attendee for violating the terms it had set. As the organizer and funder of the event it had every right to kick out anyone it saw fit for any reason. If green peace was making it slightly uncomfortable for Apples other attendees then they are very justified in their reaction.
    Just my 2 cents.





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  • AidenShaw
    May 3, 03:54 PM
    A couple of years from now TBolt will be as normal as 1394.

    Agreed. In a few years - after some software updates, firmware revisions, and motherboard replacements - I also expect TBolt to be a normal (although perhaps expensive) way to connect peripherals.

    TBolt on the current Apples (laptops/all-in-ones) is an interesting thing if you don't need it. If you need it to work out-of-the-box - perhaps you should have a backup strategy in place.

    Apple couldn't even release laptops that worked right with their current display lineup - (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1114280) - and you expect a brand new bleeding edge hot-plug PCIe interconnect to work when it can't possibly have been tested with off-the-shelf peripherals? That's way too much Kool-Aid!





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  • PlaceofDis
    Oct 12, 02:44 PM
    kinda looks like a Target iPod Nano, no? :p





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  • AppleScruff1
    Apr 28, 05:47 PM
    Well thank you Steve Balmer. Why in the hell did Gates left him in charge I never will understand.

    While Steve Jobs is great.

    See you have two kinds of Steves, one is an idiot and other one is highly intelligent. :D

    And from this post one can venture a guess as to which kind you are.





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  • Sol
    Sep 9, 01:57 AM
    Did a certain platform jumping red-cap wearing Italian plumber write the headline?

    Mama mia! iMac Core 2 Duo Benchamarks!





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  • cwt1nospam
    Feb 1, 11:07 AM
    Yeah, the fact that there are no Mac viruses and Mac trojans are spectacularly unsuccessful means nothing. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
    And IOS devices are sitting ducks, being locked down to the point where users cannot load un-vetted applications. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

    Sheesh!





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  • luminosity
    Sep 19, 01:53 PM
    just depends on your connection.

    some people have extremely fast connections, of course, and others are still on the horse and buggy.





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  • iJawn108
    Oct 12, 08:23 PM
    Meh I want the black nano to match my macbook, not a red one. :\





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  • Ugg
    Apr 18, 10:02 AM
    I don't know if i can. Give me some time. But doesn't it make sense that if u stop using something that killed disease spreading insects that the insects will continue to spread the disease?

    Repelling bugs with Grapefruit (http://www.npr.org/2011/04/18/135468567/repelling-bugs-with-the-essence-of-grapefruit)

    Safe Enough To Drink


    That's why the CDC is pushing hard to develop a completely natural insect repellent made from a chemical called nootkatone, which is found in Alaska yellow cedar trees and citrus fruit.

    Dolan says nootkatone "is nongreasy, dries very quickly, and it has a very pleasant, citrus-y grapefruit odor to it."

    He recently demonstrated its effectiveness as a mosquito repellent, rubbing some on his hand and then sticking it into a cage containing 50 hungry mosquitoes. When he holds the treated hand near mosquitoes, they try to get away in the opposite direction as fast as they can.

    Even after five minutes, Dolan has no bites on his nootkatone-treated hand.

    Nootkatone is also effective against ticks, and scientists think it will work against bed bugs, head lice and other insects, too.

    Moreover, nootkatone is so nontoxic you could drink it. In fact, it's already an approved food additive, officially classed as "Generally Considered Safe." It's also a natural ingredient in some foods.


    The US became great, not because it relied on old ways of doing things, but because it created new ways that were more efficient.

    Malaria has been a big problem for decades and you want to know why? Because it affects mostly poor Africans, people who don't have megabucks to pay for exotic cures. Now I realize that the chemical producers of the world would rather that everyone take their word as gospel and pretend that the harmful effects of DDT, BPA, Benzene, Formaldehyde, PVC amongst others are highly overblown and that if we just believe in the chemical companies and their shills, we'lll be living some sort of magical 50s sort of life.

    If you'll read the article, you'll notice that the CDC owns the patents for nootkatone. Business is only interested in helping people when it fattens their bottom line. As a result, when it comes to things like malaria, it often takes government intervention to jump start issues.

    So what do you want? A nation that always strives for the best solution or one that is only interested in getting by as long as it makes them money? It doesn't take a genius to see that by constantly supporting outdated technology, the US will soon be left behind.

    Once again, what kind of world do you want to live in?





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  • YEMandy
    Sep 12, 03:30 PM
    You can return or exchange it but you'll have to pay a 10% restock fee ($25 or $29 depending on which one you bought). If you bought the 30GB just stick with the "old" 5G. If you bought the 60GB version then $30 is worth the price for another 20GB of storage. But my question to you is, what were you thinking buying an iPod the night before an Apple Special Event focusing on "it's showtime?"

    You can return ANY apple product for a FULL refund if the product was updated within 10 days of the original purchase date!! Or you can get money back if the price was lowered!





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  • Adidas Addict
    Apr 25, 01:27 PM
    This just threw a spanner into my plans !

    I've got a late 2007 non-unibody MBP - the "ultimate" which I've been updating as much as possible (Hybrid SSD 512Gb drive, 4Gb memory, etc etc) - I love my MBP but my applecare warranty just ran out last month. Which, I thought, was plenty timely so I could get the new MBP that just refreshed - quad core, 16Gb RAM seems like a LOT more power !

    But, I didn't "jump" immediately - I always wait a couple of months to see what issues develop with the product line (the 17" range seems to have some graphics issues evidently, which seem to be resolved now) - BUT, with this rumor, do I plump down $4k for a maxed-out MBP now or wait until this new case design ?!?!?!

    My current MBP is working great. The keyboard has a sticky "D" key, but apart from that, its been the best laptop I've ever owned, and the second longest I've owned before a refresh (the prior record holder was a Sony Vaio PCG-V505BX which I used/upgraded/refreshed a full 5 years before needing to upgrade !)

    So what do I do ? I wasn't planning on buying the MBP until next month, after I got back from vacation...

    Don't let the lack of applecare worry you, if it does die then replace it. Otherwise you seem very happy with what you have.





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  • JoshH
    Aug 28, 03:26 PM
    Come on Apple... open the doors. Let's not be too far behind, here...





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  • extraextra
    Oct 12, 01:35 PM
    That looks nice. If it doesn't have Bono's name/signature/U2-something on it, I might have to buy it!





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  • NutsNGum
    Mar 22, 02:19 PM
    I've been after a new iMac for a very long time.

    Hopefully the screen consistency will be better than on previous iterations. I returned the last two I'd bought for dead pixels and big dark bar disorder.

    Most irritating.:mad:





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  • sisyphus
    Sep 10, 10:40 PM
    Close, Manic Mouse. I dont understand people's belief that every Intel chip made has to go into an Apple machine. I doubt the Conroe will be used in any Mac nor the Kentsfield. The range is covered, and I'm sick of these silly rumors of Mac mid towers.

    There wont be a mid tower, not now, not "Next Tuesday".

    The thing is that it is very easy to layout a reasoning as to why Apple should/will use a Conroe chip in its line up. It is very difficult with the current product lineup to show why they wont.

    As noted in a previous post, there is a $1000US price gap in their lineup that has been left in the lineup. There is currently a chip that would fill in that gap. This machine would steal slightly from both the lower and higher priced machines, yet open another market segment.

    Apple has seen massive growth in the laptop market with the iBook. The MacBook perfectly filled a need with a certain market segment. The desktop Macs cover all of the segments except 1. This big gaping hole in their lineup has the perfect processor to meet its needs. Apple has designed a new case style for the Mac Pro. A smaller version would be simple to build re-using many of the components allowing for some economies of scale. This makes both the Mac Pro and the smaller sibling more cost effective in terms of components and assembly line manufacture.

    The argument against goes. Well apple hasn't had a mid range headless machine since the G3 era. Which is of course true. However there was no way to differentiate products because there wasn't enough variability to the chips.

    We now have:

    Duo<Duo 2 (Merom) <Duo 2 (Conroe) <Xeon (Woodcrest)
    (Mini < iMac < Mac < Mac Pro)

    So just because Apple has had a big hole in its product matrix for the last few years means that it will continue to have a big hole in its product matrix until the end of time? Apple left that hole because it wasn't possible to create enough distiction between the product lines if they closed it. Now with the processors available from Intel, it is possible.

    Apple is out to make $$$. It is a big corporation, and one that we all (usually) like because of the innovative easy to use products it delivers. It is making a MASSIVE consumer push right now. If a midrange machine will make them the most dough that is what they will deliver.

    SJ likes clean product lines and that is what is going on.

    Shuffle < Nano < iPod (< vPod)
    MacBook < MacBook Pro
    Mini < iMac (<Mac) < Mac Pro
    X-Serve

    They are all very clean product lines. The reason they destroyed all the product lines was that they had:

    PM 5XXX
    PM 6XXX
    PM 7XXX
    PM 8XXX
    PM 9XXX

    And there were overlapping prices and specs and God knows what. Unless you were a regular koolaid drinker it was extremely tough to keep track of what did what in the product matrix.

    This will be a very clean and easy to understand matrix.





    paradox00
    Apr 14, 04:53 PM
    Very true, but in the end, USB2 won out.

    Cere, on page one, you DID state that TB would (a) be mac only and (b) die and you've been backtracking terribly ever since.

    When you make a statement such as "unfortunately, also bingo" you are giving your full endorsement to that statement and you have accepted that as your own opinion with no ifs, ands or buts. In case you've forgotten, you gave your full endorsement to this quote:


    USB3=native to all platforms
    TB=Mac Only

    Sounds like TB just died.

    Since then, you've argued that what you really meant was that PC manufacturers wont support it (without proof to back up your claims) and made poor comparisons to Firewire.

    Let's compare the two for a second:

    FW was pushed by Apple
    TB is being pushed by Apple, but more importantly Intel (whose chips power most PCs)

    FW had a high per port licensing cost
    TB uses a royalty free port and support will be built into future Intel chipsets (making PC implementation virtually inevitable)

    FW was slower than USB on paper, but faster in reality
    TB blows USB 3.0 out of the water, both on paper and in reality

    Why do you keep insisting they are the same and will share the same fate? On top of that, as I mentioned earlier (http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=12392173&postcount=63) (and no one, including yourself has attempted to refute) TB isn't even a direct competitor with USB, it's more of a complimentary technology. You've done nothing in this thread but blow hot air.





    hsotnicam8002
    Mar 30, 11:37 AM
    Why don't Microsoft just call theirs the 'Crap Store' and have done with it? :D





    Mr. Gates
    Mar 23, 04:44 PM
    Looks like I have a new $#!T List





    Peace
    Sep 2, 08:53 PM
    ....but can't find anywhere hard evidence for September 12. Macbidouille is referencing conformation from sources, but don't have a date. Hardmac has a copy of a meeting invite for the 19th. So, will there be a September 12 meeting? I really hope so, as I will be in Vegas that day, and don't mind to pick up some stuff at the Apple store. :)

    It's not just you..

    I have pointed to the MacNN confirmation of an Apple event on Sept.14th several times.

    From MacNN :
    "In brief: Apple has confirmed plans to hold a special event on September 14, coinciding with rumors of an Apple movie store launch in that time period...."


    This is the ONLY confirmation from Apple to any online site I know of.

    http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/08/31/boot.camp.mac.gui/





    Erasmus
    Sep 11, 06:16 AM
    It's the same patent as the original cube.

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=231892

    specifically, read:
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=2812045&postcount=6

    nothing new.

    arn

    Ah, but note Fig 3, especially item labelled 38.
    I can tell you right now that today's cube does not have any type of fan.
    Multitasking right now, and my Cube is COMPLETELY inaudiable. No fan.
    If the patent includes a fan, as this one clearly does, it could well be new.