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Stories and comments across the archive that link to macaddict.com.
Stories · 5
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Linux Promises, Apple Delivers
Anonymous Mac OS X Coward writes "This is a pretty strong article talking about Apple's delivery of *nix to the common man, something Linux has been touting for a while. It has good points, like apple actually tries to make the OS user friendly while linux sees this as a side project." Valid points. I need to get a copy of OSX. I'm really curious if it truly can be the common persons *nix. Sure looks like it could be, but I still don't know. -
Apple May Have Broken Japanese Antimonopoly Laws
ecampbel writes "FTC officials in Japan have raided an Apple office seeking evidence that Apple's insistence that dealers not price its products below the Apple set Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) has violated some of Japan's antimonopoly laws.MacAddict has an old story about Apple's MAP policy. It points out that retailers are encouraged to follow MAP guidelines but not forced to." -
Apple May Have Broken Japanese Antimonopoly Laws
ecampbel writes "FTC officials in Japan have raided an Apple office seeking evidence that Apple's insistence that dealers not price its products below the Apple set Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) has violated some of Japan's antimonopoly laws.MacAddict has an old story about Apple's MAP policy. It points out that retailers are encouraged to follow MAP guidelines but not forced to." -
The 21" Frankenstein iMac
webslacker writes "One of the strangest hardware hack jobs I've ever seen: Some guy named Don Hardy decides that he doesn't like the 15" monitor in his iMac and happens to have a 21" Nokia lying around. Does he A) find some clever way to solder a VGA-out from his iMac to his monitor, B) toss them both out, or C) take them both apart and merge them into one unit? " -
EvangeList closes down
Otter writes " The EvangeList mailing list, the rallying point of the MacOS community during Apple's darkest years, has come to an end. Guy Kawasaki writes, "In the past two years Apple has experienced a stunning turnaround. This is due to many things including the steadfast loyalty of Apple's customers--and EvangeListas are the most steadfast of the steadfast. The original purpose of EvangeList was to counteract the negative news about Apple and Macintosh, and I believe that EvangeList has served its purpose--fantastically, as a matter of fact. So after discussing what we should do with EvangeList with the folks at Apple, we've decided to retire the list." As Apple has come off the critical list, EvangeList has pretty much petered out. Looks like Team Slashdot will be moving up in the distributed.net rankings. " Man, what's a guy to do? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)