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Wow. Another 15 seconds says that there is no real issues and that was just a bunch of BS.

So, no, you don't need to buy Apple HDDs or whatever nonsense you are spewing.

Please tell that to angry iMac Fans:

Yeah, because "angry iMac Fans" have never been wrong before.

BTW, the claim "you have to buy only Apple HDDs" is already wrong, and that is not what people actually complain about, so I'm not even going to waste more time with you troll.

http://forum.hardmac.com/index.php?s=c4ee13da3fefe1394852a4b8fa883faf&showtopic=10324&st=0&p=18910&#entry18910
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/13/hdd-fan-control-software-addresses-imac-hard-drive-replacement-i/
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1183176

So, no, you don't need to buy Apple HDDs or whatever nonsense you are spewing.

Please tell that to angry iMac Fans:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3053942?start=0&tstart=0
http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-imacs
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/12/apple-restricts-hard-drive-replacements-on-new-imacs/

Culture20 is talking about the new iMacs only (so far).

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/12/apple-restricts-hard-drive-replacements-on-new-imacs/

Try to keep up before falsely accusing others of spewing nonsense.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1104342

(So that's at least hope for some aluminum Macbook owners out there.)

I know this because Apple has announced as much. Look at any of the multiple tech news sites putting up comparisons of the services.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386491,00.asp

There was a better one on one of the other sites that I can't seem to find.

Finally, there are indeed people already using iCloud as you can see evidence of here:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/20/if-you-use-all-your-icloud-storage-apple-sends-you-this-email/

Apple will be Samsung's biggest customer this year, buying up components for iPhones and iPads. The bottom line is that Apple buys a massive amount of components from Samsung in order to build the very products Samsung is trying to stop from coming into the US. This is Samsung's own profits that they are trying to stop.

Many may already know this, but I thought I would post anyways... if you want to make greater use of gestures while browsing, and use Firefox, see the article here...

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=737074

There are assignable gestures hidden in about:config, and browsing is so much better once you find some customized combinations that you like. Here are the ones that I have altered and find helpful:
Swipe down: new tab
Swipe up: go home
Pinch in: close tab
Pinch out: toggle between full screen/not full screen
Rotate right: reload
Rotate left: undo close tab (for those times you accidentally pinch in)

Someone is an avid (pun intended) Apple fanboy.

The love fest that is your post is sad. Apple screwed up here. Badly.

Their "tool" is still working. All Apple needs to do is maintain FCP7...

Something that they have shown that they have little interest in doing. They have not updated FCP7 since 7.0.3 (a very minor update), September 15, 2010.

Combine this with the other Apple missteps of the last month, and it looks like Apple is losing sight of quite a bit these days:

iMac internal hard drives require a custom firmware and--far worse--a custom connection on the physical drive itself. Meaning you cannot replace a dead drive yourself. Good luck if you hang onto your computer after its warranty expires, or live no where near an Apple Store for that matter. This will be expensive in the future. (I have replaced the hard drive of an iMac that is currently three years old; it was not that difficult, but now it would be impossible)

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will supposedly only be installable after installing Snow Leopard on current machines. So, if your drive dies, then you must install Snow Leopard before installing Lion. And it sounds like you will have to redownload Lion every time you choose to install it. Around 4 GB of fun. That won't add to down time, will it...?

I hope that Apple is set for a huge backlash for this (Lion in particular, as the iMac issue won't surface for most people until years later). Their dominance of being a dream customer service company is about to hit a wall and lose. And, I say this as an owner of an iPhone 4, MacBook Pro and iPad 2. These will be my last Apple devices, at least until they turn themselves around like Microsoft (of all companies!) has recently with the latest crop of WP7 Mango and Windows 8.

Someone is an avid (pun intended) Apple fanboy.

The love fest that is your post is sad. Apple screwed up here. Badly.

Their "tool" is still working. All Apple needs to do is maintain FCP7...

Something that they have shown that they have little interest in doing. They have not updated FCP7 since 7.0.3 (a very minor update), September 15, 2010.

Combine this with the other Apple missteps of the last month, and it looks like Apple is losing sight of quite a bit these days:

iMac internal hard drives require a custom firmware and--far worse--a custom connection on the physical drive itself. Meaning you cannot replace a dead drive yourself. Good luck if you hang onto your computer after its warranty expires, or live no where near an Apple Store for that matter. This will be expensive in the future. (I have replaced the hard drive of an iMac that is currently three years old; it was not that difficult, but now it would be impossible)

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will supposedly only be installable after installing Snow Leopard on current machines. So, if your drive dies, then you must install Snow Leopard before installing Lion. And it sounds like you will have to redownload Lion every time you choose to install it. Around 4 GB of fun. That won't add to down time, will it...?

I hope that Apple is set for a huge backlash for this (Lion in particular, as the iMac issue won't surface for most people until years later). Their dominance of being a dream customer service company is about to hit a wall and lose. And, I say this as an owner of an iPhone 4, MacBook Pro and iPad 2. These will be my last Apple devices, at least until they turn themselves around like Microsoft (of all companies!) has recently with the latest crop of WP7 Mango and Windows 8.

i thought you were just idly guessing until I googled around and saw that Apple in an advert for the Mini which had a pair of hands in it said, "Keyboard, mouse, megaphone and display sold separately." and "Keyboard, iPod mini, dock, hands, AirPort, Bluetooth and PC sold separately."

so yeah. Apple has a sense of humor.

Apple didn't hire Jeff Han. Apple acquired FingerWorks, which was working on projects similar to what Han was doing. Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=272326

Actually... Apple did mention as part of "Find My Mac":

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/07/os-x-lion-developer-preview-4-adds-find-my-mac/

The idea has three purposes:

1. Guest Access (as has been pointed out here)
2. Recovery. If you hose up your HD it may be possible to troubleshoot using this browser. It actually boots from a "recovery partition"... so your actual OSX installation doesn't even need to work.
3. Finding a stolen / lost machine. The idea is that if someone picks up your machine and tries to use it.... they might use this browser mode for a while allowing "Find my Mac" to phone home and show the coordinates of the machine.

That last one seems dodgy to me.... but that's the rumor going around the Mac sites.

Personally, I think Guest Access is a great idea. If I know I'm going to have people over to my house all evening (maybe to watch football)... I can leave a laptop around in this mode for anyone to use all evening... without fear that they are getting into my personal stuff.

One final note: This is only enabled after downloading the iCloud installer to go with Lion preview.... just in case anyone else out there is trying to figure out how to use it.

The rules specifically apply to checkpoint information that is NOT published by law enforcement agencies.

Section 22.8 of the updated App Store Review Guidelines reads:
"Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected."

Some law enforcement agencies publish where DUI checkpoints will be located ahead of time, and these notices have been exempted from the ban.

Source

Quite likely actually. It seems these reports surface every few months.

Heck, last year we've had many reports of hacked accounts being used to buy in-app purchases or raise rankings of apps.

So, the options are either a very lowlevel iTunes hack that only seems to steal a few hundred accounts at a time (iTunes has over 250M accounts according to today's keynote), a very big breach of iTunes that someone only seems to be using a few hundred accounts at a time, or, a bunch of people got phished or used the same password.

In fact, I've seen a number of Apple phishing emails over the past few months - usually advertising some Photoshop sale or something. They look pretty real too, but they're phishes (I get them on my non-iTunes accounts).

The general goal is to use in-app purchases of some $99 things to get easy money, and the easiest way is to phish some emails (like the fake Apple ones - honestly, Apple only sends me emails about their products, not about Photoshop... and never about SALES of said product).

Most likely, either a reused password, or a phish. Besides the Photoshop bundle offer, I saw another fake Apple phishing email, but I can't remember for what product. I think it was for an Adobe product though.

Quite likely actually. It seems these reports surface every few months.

Heck, last year we've had many reports of hacked accounts being used to buy in-app purchases or raise rankings of apps.

So, the options are either a very lowlevel iTunes hack that only seems to steal a few hundred accounts at a time (iTunes has over 250M accounts according to today's keynote), a very big breach of iTunes that someone only seems to be using a few hundred accounts at a time, or, a bunch of people got phished or used the same password.

In fact, I've seen a number of Apple phishing emails over the past few months - usually advertising some Photoshop sale or something. They look pretty real too, but they're phishes (I get them on my non-iTunes accounts).

The general goal is to use in-app purchases of some $99 things to get easy money, and the easiest way is to phish some emails (like the fake Apple ones - honestly, Apple only sends me emails about their products, not about Photoshop... and never about SALES of said product).

Most likely, either a reused password, or a phish. Besides the Photoshop bundle offer, I saw another fake Apple phishing email, but I can't remember for what product. I think it was for an Adobe product though.

OS X Server is now integrated in the Lion OS. It does not say, but it once speculated to cost extra for the service. But Apple's site leads me to believe it does not.

See subject-line, & this quote from yourself:

"I would not call the malware situation on OS X anywhere near rampant. Rampantly reported, maybe." - by Stupendoussteve (891822) on Wednesday June 01, @10:49PM (#36315642)

OK Then - Refer to this list of malware related incidents, + security flaws on MacOS X then (over 50++ of them easily & I have more than this IF you would like them as well):

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MacOS X - Techworld.com - Third worm hits Mac OS X:

http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5429

MacOS X - Slashdot Apple Story | Apple Quietly Goes After Mac Trojan With Update:

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/19/1811203/Apple-Quietly-Goes-After-Mac-Trojan-With-Update

MacOS X - Slashdot | Worm Threat Forces Apple to Disable Software?:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/08/03/1451217.shtml

MacOS X - Slashdot | Two Trojans For Mac OS X:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/25/0032226.shtml

MacOS X - Slashdot | Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/18/1919224

MacOS X - First Rogue Cleaning Tool for Mac - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001362.html

MacOS X - Mac malware authors release a new, more dangerous version | ZDNet:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/mac-malware-authors-release-a-new-more-dangerous-version/3385

MacOS X - Mac OS X backdoor Trojan, now in beta? | Naked Security:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/02/26/mac-os-x-backdoor-trojan-now-in-beta/

MacOS X - Mac Malware Evolves - No Install Password Required - Slashdot:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/26/1355243/Mac-Malware-Evolves---No-Install-Password-Required

MacOS X - New 'MACDefender' Malware Threat for Mac OS X - Mac Rumors:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/02/new-macdefender-malware-threat-for-mac-os-x/

MacOS X - New Backdoor Mac OS X Trojan Surfaces - Slashdot:

http://slashdot.org/submission/1485038/New-Backdoor-Mac-OS-X-Trojan-Surfaces

MacOS X - New Mac fake-defenders similar to Windows scareware â The Register:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/20/mac_scareware_win_rogue_similarities/

MacOS X - OS X Crimeware Kit Emerges MacDEFENDER- Slashdot:

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/05/02/2120203/OS-X-Crimeware-Kit-Emerges

MacOS X - OSX/Pinhead-B Trojan (OSX_HELLRTS.A, OSX/HellRTS.D) - Sophos security analysis:

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/osxpinheadb.html

MacOS X - Fake security software catches out Apple owners:

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Supposedly, copper Thunderbolt supplies more power than USB.

Unfortunately, iPhones are still selling like hotcakes, so I'm not convinced this is the reason. But I really, really don't like either direction. If people could be bothered to learn anywhere near as much about their computers as they typically understand about their cars, we wouldn't have this situation.

Users are complaining though. Check /. everytime an App Store article comes out and watch all the Android is better folk chime in on how the Market is freer.

The thing is, though, people don't care. They have a list of things they want, and I'm sure for a large majority, "being able to do what I want with it" is far down. Something like "I want to make a freaking phone call" is much higher up. And iPhones aren't selling as well as Androids - there are more Android phones sold than iPhones, and has been for many months now. (And here's why Apple probably doesn't care - 7% marketshare, but 57% of the entire sector's profits).

And people knowing much about cars? Honestly, that's a laugh. They know a little bit only because their driver's ed course taught them. If you want to license all computer users, go right ahead. But I can also say quite confidently that the vast majority of people don't know that much about cars period - not even simple things like ensuring the tires are at the right pressure.

Their responses are all - naturally - based on the assumption that their claims are valid. However, they have yet to explain how their patent -- which specifically encompasses a method of providing feedback to content creators from content consumers... has relevance to an in-app upgrade purchase. Nothing of the sort is referenced in the patent. The suggestion that such a purchase is a form of feedback is specious at best: the customer is offering no suggestions for improving or changing the product (the common example specified in the patent itself), but is rather paying continue using or unlock already-existing functionality.

One thing to bear in mind is that in the original Slashdot story, we never saw Lodsys' letter, but just the report from the guy who received it. Lodsys most likely is asserting several patents, not just the one. That's supported also by this story, which quotes Lodsys' statement that the inventor had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars obtaining the patents in question. It typically costs only about $25k to get a patent. There are probably at least half a dozen at issue here, but only one has been named.

To really conclusively say that Lodsys' patent portfolio has nothing to do with in-app upgrade purchases, you'd have to investigate their entire portfolio.

This isn't the first time Apple's apparently screwed over developers.

Panic made a better music player:
http://panic.com/audion/
http://panic.com/extras/audionstory/

Widgets didn't originate with Apple (at least according to Arlo Rose):
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=77382
http://www.konfabulator.com/cartoon/partOne.html
Alternative view here - http://www.randommaccess.com/articles/1088610260.shtml

Watson was slain:
http://www.karelia.com/watson/

iPodRip bullied into submission:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/jobs-may-make-mat-lose-his-job-20091125-jq6t.html

My only observation? Over time, anything that dilutes or threatens the iTunes/App Store/iDevice ecosystem is met with increasingly over-the-top responses.

Maybe that's how you get ahead in business, but it sucks nonetheless.

Its only/main real use will be DisplayPort.

Wow, for a "geek" site, Slashdot seems inordinately populated with techno-IDIOTS, who don't bother to KEEP UP on IN THE PIPELINE THUNDERBOLT PRODUCTS. And there is beginning to be interest shown by other companies, like Canon, AJA, Apogee, Sonnet, and others.

How non-technical, and after how thorough of a look?

I'll just leave these here...

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-297432.html
http://gigaom.com/2008/08/31/dont-like-the-iphone-check-out-these-touchscreen-phones/
http://www.gsmarena.com/newscomm-769.php
http://www.telecomasia.net/node/5199
http://www.google.com/search?q=SPH-1300&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jjfATeTDOIL30gHT_tXuBA&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1680&bih=947
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ET&p_theme=et&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EEF6B3EB0A8C768&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
http://cgi.ebay.com/SPRINT-PCS-PALM-OS-WIRELESS-PHONE-SPH-1300-DUAL-BAND-/180613037497
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2000-09-25/news/18143226_1_cell-phone-palm-os
http://www.geardiary.com/2006/11/30/the-palm-treo-700p-palm-os-smartphone-review/
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=1690
http://www.gizmag.com/go/2306/
http://www.google.com/search?q=sony+p900
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/10/13/lg.debuts.new.prada.phone/
http://www.esato.com/phones/compare.php?phone=433&cp=439
http://gizmodo.com/#!190670/cect-a1000-touchscreen-phone-with-1000-hours-standby
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/at-t-8525/4505-6452_7-32133413.html?tag=lia;rcol

these aren't phones, but what the hell... they could still be mistaken for an iPhone at a glance...

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/handheld.html
http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/curtismc/palms.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_III

People might be looking at the problem backwards. It's not what Android is doing poorly that's hurting it in the tablet market, as much as what Apple is doing poorly that's hurting it in the phone market. The answer is carrier exclusivity. iOS gained on Android in the US phone market for the first time in a long time recently, because they started selling Verizon phones. Perhaps as iPhones begin to support more carriers (assuming Apple can scale manufacturing enough), Apple will start to take bigger chunks.

Playing devil's advocate (even though I agree with you), do you think the general public can handle being able to choose their programming? Currently, I think a lot of people are used to watching what is fed to them by the networks.

Remember that too much choice paradoxically makes people unhappy!

Your TV (computer) could choose for you, based on what you say you like, what your social-network-friends like, what's popular, what the network recommends, etc.

But then, you get situations like "My TiVO Thinks I'm a Pregnant Gay Man."

Oh, and before it starts, this is NOT an invitation for another round of puerile Apple "Gay" jokes. That meme's getting really old...

If the iPad 2 is capable of 1080p without whirring fans and RRODs, then so should these cards. Graphics cards are becoming increasingly cumbersome and huge in a world where laptops and tablets are gaining market share over desktops. If AMD can fit the 6990 into an iPad then it will get my next purchase.

iTunes isn't a monopoly.

As always, that depends.

iTunes controls 64.5% of the online movie market. iTunes controls 70% of online music sales.

Remember, when you're talking about a monopoly, it's the market that matters.

.. Kotex is suing apple for copyright infringements on the maxipad.

Come on, how blatant is that, the new ipad even bleeds through on the edges!

How many people that have computer lockups on this relatively new Apple computer actually have the technical acumen to recognize and reproduce the symptom, recognize it as being a serious design flaw, and also find that particular thread on that particular forum on this particular Internet, register for the forum and post their experiences? I'm guessing the ratio is about 1:1000 or so...

If you want another idea of how Apple stonewalls and denys a manufacturing defect in a product line, have a look at this forum. 128 pages of posts about delaminating yellowing LCD screens on 27" and 21.5" iMacs. Apply similar logic: How many grandma computer owners actually recognize their computer screen isn't supposed to be tinged pink and yellow and would go to that particular internet forum and not just read but also register and post there?

Does it not strike you as disconcerting that the manufacturer of a product pushes a $349(!!) extended warranty for their own product before you get out the door of their company store either?

I, too, would like to find a place where the editors edit. Maybe even research a little. And where they don't comment in the stories. Where non-stories don't get posted. I mean - this is /. You would think that an editor could pick up the phone and actually call the subject of a story on rare occasion and maybe get a little insight into what is really going on.

Oh, and a site that doesn't end up slashdotting the subject without warning.

I use
* http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/ for nano tech news
* http://www.macrumors.com/ for mac news

I would like to find outlets for
* Programmer related news (in addition to http://thedailywtf.com/ :-)
* Hardware related news
* Tech/Social new

To be fair, I think /. has done a pretty good job of covering tech and the recent middle-east events. It's just the other 95% that's pretty much crap.

Part of the problem here is Apple has already bought the parts before they were even made. To the point that second-tier manufacturers are having trouble finding components to even be competitors to start with.

Samsung can give an in-house team preferential pricing, but that doesn't help them if they've already contracted most of their production yield to someone else.

Not really. Take a look at post #29 in this forum to see what they are doing, and why.

I forgot to mention this in my last post:

iOS may not have the biggest absolute market share, but iPhones certainly command the bulk of the phone industry profit:
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/31/apple-rakes-in-over-half-of-mobile-phone-industrys-fourth-quarter-profits/

Your comments are bogus until you tell me how the malware is installed on my Mac. Oh, I have to enter an administrator password to allow it? Well, then, shame on me for allowing it in! If it can sneak in without my explicit permission, then your comments are valid.

The same way Android phones get infected - alternative methods of software delivery. I believe a couple of years ago there were pirated torrents of Microsoft Office 2008, iWork, iLife, and Photoshop CSwhatever that had an additional package in their dmg's that were NOT in the official releases. That additional package installed a simple botnet into your Mac.

It's not as uncommon as you may think. People wnat stuff for free, and everyone knows that, so malware authors hitch a ride by infecting keygens, cracks and other things to spread. You may think you're protected, but it just takes one torrent or other thing. (Or how and why people will go to great lengths ot use alternative Marketplaces for Android, as well).

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/22/iwork-09-torrent-carrying-os-x-trojan/
http://www.intego.com/news/ism0901.asp
http://www.techjaws.com/osx-trojan-on-the-loose/

I'm certain they have their own internal security experts, but if they were going to reach out to outside experts, they should have done it a lot sooner.

Mac OS X Lion was only released to developers this last Thursday. Bringing in security people to look at it earlier than that would require putting them under NDAs, which makes them effectively insiders and defeats the purpose of getting outsiders to look at it (i.e. peer review and sharing research results with other researchers).

Nope, I don't buy your argument. If they find something major now, the likelihood is it's not going to get fixed. If they found it six months ago, there's a lot better chance it could have been fixed by now.

Snow Leopard developer preview was June 2009, FCS was August 2009. If we can judge anything at all from that then Lion will ship in April or May. Three months is not enough time for a major overhaul if one is needed and QA, etc.

I know that Slashdotters assert Apple as evil, but good grief, rein in the jingoism, please.

Huh?

I'm certain they have their own internal security experts, but if they were going to reach out to outside experts, they should have done it a lot sooner.

Mac OS X Lion was only released to developers this last Thursday. Bringing in security people to look at it earlier than that would require putting them under NDAs, which makes them effectively insiders and defeats the purpose of getting outsiders to look at it (i.e. peer review and sharing research results with other researchers).

I know that Slashdotters assert Apple as evil, but good grief, rein in the jingoism, please.

Interesting. So this is false then?
Mac Rumors: Lion Core2Duo Minimum.

Cheers,
Ian

Give it a go Raven. You will find it is seriously buggy. Some parts scale, some don't, graphics show as black boxes...

It does seem that Lion will be the first version with usable resolution independence: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-building-in-support-for-super-high-resolution-retina-monitors/

Case in point- I also know quite a few video editors loyal to Final Cut that are now looking to move to Adobe Premiere

Its pretty clear that Apple are gradually shifting from the Pro Video/Graphics market and positioning Mac as a "pro-sumer" brand. What's not so clear is whether that is causing graphics pros to abandon the platform, or if the change was motivated by the fact that pros were already abandoning the platform.

Apple got established in the pro graphics/DTP/video market partly because, back in the day, their hardware/software platform ran rings around MS-DOS/Intel systems. Today they don't have such a clear-cut advantage - the hardware is basically the same and, without getting into OS advocacy, Windows is no longer just a pretty shell sitting on top of DOS. Most of the killer pro applications are available on PC, or even PC only, or with Mac versions lagging behind PC releases and sometimes just plain shoddy. Its really going to be a war of attrition from now on, so Apple is right to look for an exit strategy.

...and that exit strategy is based on their success with "boutique" ultra-thin laptop and small form-factor computers for the home and "prosumer" market plus iPod/Pad/Phone for consumers.

One thing that would play well there is a "one connector to rule them all" solution: look at the design of the current MacBook Pros and see how the size and position of the circuit board is constrained by the need to have 8 connectors. As more and more functionality becomes available on just a CPU, the need for optical drives decreases and hard drives are replaced by more compact SSDs, only having to worry about routing one connector to the outside world (maybe even embedded in the power connector/a) would make for even more slim and sexy MacBooks.

In slightly related news, Apple is rumored to be working on both larger and smaller iPhones, thus blurring the line between iPhone and iPad.

And calling it the iPhad!

In slightly related news, Apple is rumored to be working on both larger and smaller iPhones, thus blurring the line between iPhone and iPad.

It doesn't matter. Someone at Microsoft ok'd that third party software without due diligence. It's their baby. Denying it just makes them look unprofessional. But we already knew that.

Sounds almost identical to this.

*fixed...

Apparently the author of this article is just throwing around words, instead of being aware that there's a difference between the actual processor core and the on-die GPU core.

Actually from what I read earlier, the quote about the graphics chip is accurate.

It is still in question, and likely to stay there. Apple doesn't have a history of giving details about stories like this.

But isolated reports I don't really agree with.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=960079
http://www.phonenews.com/did-apple-flip-the-ios-kill-switch-on-ndrive-11579/
http://www.slashgear.com/ndrive-gps-app-disappears-from-apple-app-store-kill-switch-the-culprit-0893419/

are just the first three links I clicked. All of them have people saying that the app was wiped from their iDevice as well as people who say it wasn't on theirs.

Also interesting to note is the lack of mention of the Mobile Hotspot feature rumored to be included in 4.3 for all iOS devices by the Verizon announcement yesterday."

Nope. Actually, it was mentioned by some leaky devs:
they even provided screen shots

Now that it settled... How do we stop AT&T from double charging for data? Pay for 2GB data, you should be able to use it how you wish... why would it matter to AT&T whether that data was going directly to iPhone, or by proxy to another device? It's still data you pay for.

someone must have an idea... it doesn't seem legal for them to do this for anyone but the "true" unlimited users.

"Eating someone's lunch" is a rather ambiguous phrase, so I don't know why you're being so contrary. Hell, I even qualified it with "starting to". If all you're saying is that Android's rise has hurt MS & RIM more than Apple, well then we have no disagreement. But I suggest that most of those lost Windows Phone and Blackberry users would have gotten an iPhone if Android hadn't come on so strong. Which of these trend lines do you think Apple would prefer to have? Android has not leveled off. In fact, Nielsen shows it increasing.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/04/iphone-continues-to-hold-off-android-in-u-s-smartphone-market-share/

Apple's iWork suite (Pages, KeyNote and Numbers) is rumored to be coming out at $20 per application, c.f. the current version at $80 for the bundle. That's a significant price drop but hardly a collapse (and could be self-compensating if it leads to more sales) - and Apple are probably in a position to price that as a loss leader to promote the store.

Something like Plants vs. Zombies (excellent casual game) is $3 on the iPhone, $7 on the iPad vs. (currently) $20 for the mac, which is a bit more of a price drop (I think the Mac version has a few extras, but there's an awful lot in the iPad version). Note that there's already a precident for charging more for iPad versions, so there's no expectation that Mac versions will match the iOS price. PvZ for Mac has already been on offer on Steam for less, at times.

Then there's things like CoPilot and TomTom at (UK) price points like £19.99, £39.99, £59.99 for iPhone - Probably not good candidates for a Mac version, but they give the lie to the idea that everything on the iOS app store costs $0.99. (Apologies for the currency mixing - but this is Apple so $1 and £1 aren't a lot different...)

Assuming they remember to disable it:

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-985908.html

First of all he didn't say that at all. Basically, what he said is that he doesn't want crappy software sucking the battery life.

Second, if Adobe themselves can make up to tenfold improvements, that says a lot about how crappy Flash really is.