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I dunno. Maybe. Here is a nice shot of what "tablets" looked like before and after the iPad. Looks to me like no one thought of the simple, rounded-corner, black slate before the iPad. Maybe the idea to have a "device that has no controls except the touch screen itself" was the new idea.

I mean, MS included a BROWSER in their OS. ...and they didn't even give you a way to uninstall it! Now THAT is pure evil.

Absolutely! Good thing I can uninstall Safari from my Mac, easy as -- wait, what's this?

”Safari.app” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by Mac OS X.

The article does mention that you can rm -rf it from the command line, but cautions that this "could result in abnormal system behavior or improper functionality".

And this would not be mentioned in news if it wasn't USA or UK

Well, this prediction is probably correct, but what I see here as news is what can happen when you outsource your clocks/calendars. Microsoft is not that influential in that matter, but an iPhone bug like this one that affects when your morning alarm goes off, will probably end up with you arriving at work one hour late.

Not that it matters too much, because your boss, along with a fair share of the rest of your country, will be affected as well.

Actually - you're all wrong. In the US it's cracked 15%.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/18/mac-market-share-around-the-world-usa-15-canada-14-australia-14-and-more/

A typical iPhone contract will cost roughly $2500 (source: http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/06/iphone-4s-plans-compared-sprint-att-verizon/). You can get a bundle from Comcast that includes TV and phone for $75/month (http://www.allconnect.com/shopping/sc-bundles/bundles.html#selectedTab_bundle2_bundles) and save the difference which would be about $30/month. Or you could reduce frivolous spending by a small amount to make up the difference and live like a king. At the end of the day (and the beginning) technology makes it easier to spend money and easier to track expenditures (e.g. bank sites, mint.com, quicken, etc.) so it all depends on the maturity and responsibility level of the consumer.

You think Samsung/Android is bad? Wait until you get a load of Apple's supreme bullshit:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/wifi-dropping-in-os-x-lion-fixes/

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2391385?start=0&tstart=0

http://appletoolbox.com/2010/11/mac-os-x-10-6-5-airportwifi-connection-drops-repeatedly-fix/

Wifi drops every 15 minutes or less and has been for YEARS. I have found posts about this problem from back in 2007! Renewing the DHCP lease causes something to happen to restore the connection but it is VERY frustrating since NONE of the work-arounds work and Apple refuses to acknowledge the problem. For myself, the problem did not kick in until Tiger. I refuse to "upgrade" to Lion since it does not even fix that problem.

Since I know other people with Macs, I know it is not just something messed up with my computer. I can witness the behavior clearly on their computers too. If you do not have that problem, consider yourself lucky. No more Apple products for me if they are willing to let that bug stand for so long.

CAPTCHA was "trapped" ROFLMAO

Yup. Just deleted the app. I also recommend doing this.

Never heard of Instagram (but I have used Photobucket on occasion), and now I know I am unlikely ever to use Instagram. And BTW, my router already blocks all of Facebook's IP ranges, so I'm probably safe from Facebook's trackers. Actually, it's quite remarkable how many web pages have one or more "Forbidden" frames on them, not just the ubiquitous "like" buttons. Next, I guess the Instagram IP ranges must be added to the filter...

Yup. Just deleted the app. I also recommend doing this.

Mac Mini Media Center http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/22/how-to-setup-a-mac-mini-as-a-media-center-server-and-remote-torrents-box/ Now this can be cheap or expensive depending on the Mac Mini that you buy but I see Mac Mini's all day long on Ebay for a couple hundred bucks.

Ermm.. Nope. UNIX is the most widely-adopted open source OS. One brand of it currently has 15% market share in the North American consumer market. And key to its success? It's not GPL!

Ahahah, the only open source parts that you could find in that OS are CUPS (GPL) and WebKit (LGPL)...

The only successful and widely adopted open source OS says otherwise.

Ermm.. Nope. UNIX is the most widely-adopted open source OS. One brand of it currently has 15% market share in the North American consumer market. And key to its success? It's not GPL!

Linux is open source, but not free for commercial reuse. It has been exploited in some embedded devices (while more than not totally ignoring the copyleft/ShareAlike properties of GPL). A notable example is the unwillingness of Google to open their Linux source code, but there are thousands of smaller corporations out there who simply ignore the GPL when reusing Linux.

Verizon has [...] the largest, fastest 3G/4G cellular data network.

Largest, yes. Most reliable? Undoubtedly. Fastest? No.

Verizon's 4G is awesome. No doubt. But it's a real shock when you have to go back down to 3G.

Every menu can be customised with a shortcut key of your choice on OS X. Even menus which don't have a shortcut by default.

Don't remember the menu? Ctrl+F2 (Fn also if you have alternate mode for your F-keys). More keys here: http://osxdaily.com/2007/12/13/navigating-mac-os-x-with-only-the-keyboard/

You pulled that opinion out of your ass. Apple's products are well built. Apple consistently outdoes the rest of the tech industry on consumer satisfaction ratings.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/20/apple-customer-satisfaction-rating-at-all-time-high-dominates-pc-industry/
http://www.changewaveresearch.com/articles/2011/smart_phones_20110718.html
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Apple-iPad-Continues-to-Dominate-Consumer-Reports-Ratings-787644/
http://www.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2011030

And that is only one aspect of design. Apple selling Windows PCs or Android Phones wouldn't be nearly as popular. The software and ecosystem design is even more important than the industrial design.

Interesting unannounced fact is, iOS 5 does support widgets. They dont work as Android ones, though, and are not (yet) available for third party development. They are part of the new notifications pulldown and currently only have a Weather and Stock app extension, you can see them under the Notification settings appropiately named Weather Widget and Stock Widget, and the only setting is the ability to enable them in the Notification Center.

Here is a shot:
http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ios-5-videos.jpg

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/tablet-design-before-after-the-ipad/

In this case it appears that form followed Apple...

Look at this URL and tell me you don't see a radical shift in design thinking after the iPad. Can you not tell the difference at all?

No, they're just going to push forward on:

  http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/19/ipad-2-ios-5-airplay-video-mirroring-become-a-tv-gaming-console/

Tablet (with good processing power) + Airplay (or some other video/audio transport good enough for HD with acceptable latency over a local wifi network).
Which is, connecting the dots you already have, and realizing the console in the living room can become irrelevant or not necessary.

It looks to me that the experience isn't far off from Nintendo's new Wii U controller. But, with the big difference that you'll see thousands of tittles cheap or free on the app market.

yes, that is what I said, they won't be doing anything that someone else hasn't done before them. But I think the people that like gaming on ipads, aren't the type to buy a home console. They are the lowest of the low gamers. They are basicly the people who play solitare on windows. You don't need horsepower for the games they play.

No, they're just going to push forward on:

  http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/19/ipad-2-ios-5-airplay-video-mirroring-become-a-tv-gaming-console/

Tablet (with good processing power) + Airplay (or some other video/audio transport good enough for HD with acceptable latency over a local wifi network).
Which is, connecting the dots you already have, and realizing the console in the living room can become irrelevant or not necessary.

It looks to me that the experience isn't far off from Nintendo's new Wii U controller. But, with the big difference that you'll see thousands of tittles cheap or free on the app market.

It was Apple's mouth writing checks their ass can't cash.

I'm pretty sure Apple's ass can cash quite a big check, considering they have enough cash to acquire HTC, Nokia, RIM, LG, Motorola Mobility, and Sony Ericsson instantaneously

As always with Apple products it's alot easier.
No hassle with assembly and danger of hurting yourself in the process.

And ofc all transparent and glass for cooler looks: http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/18/boost-iphone-reception-with-a-glass/

There have been thousands of tablets before the iPad. Many of them looked very similar.

I don't think anyone is arguing the fact that there wasn't tablets before the iPad, but the "Many of them looked similar" line is what is getting everyone's panties in a bunch. There was not a single tablet on the market or even introduced to the market that looked anything like the iPad. Everyone had some sort of bulky case thingy that held the display, no one had a flat surfaced tablet. Tablet Designs Before and After the iPad.

Your comparison goes in line with the same people trying to make the argument about the interface. You know, the one where people say "Apple thinks they invented the grid of rectangular icons with text". With that, I'll just say you don't see Apple going after MicroSoft with their phone interface, do you? Of course not, because they came up with something completely different. But yet it's still just a grid of icons with text.

Tablets, before and after

That isn't exactly cool, as I'm sure you would agree.

The decision to release OS10.7, or Lion, for download only is hardly going to endear Apple to IT managers who need to conserve network resources.

They've already announced a volume licensing scheme which only requires one download and everybody should know by now that the "updater" app that you download can be copied to physical media and re-used, and if you dig it contains a disc image of a good-old-fangled bootable DVD which you can use for bare metal installs. Most big IT setups will do an install on one machine of each type and then image it, anyway.

The main annoyance is not for IT departments, but for microbusinesses and people running small groups of renegade Mac users in PC centric environments, where the minimum order of 20 licenses might be a problem (although if you phrase that as "$600 for up to 20 users" it sounds more reasonable).

Most of all, IT departments would want to see the Mac OS offering full support for virtualization, on the desktop and on the server.

Ain't gonna happen. First, Occam's razor suggests that the reason they dropped XServe was that they couldn't even sell it to themselves: who's going to buy a XServe when the makers have just built a big shiny data center full of Dells?. Second, they've passed on the realistic solution, which was to license Snow Leopard Server for non-Apple hardware: at $500 a pop (or sign a volume license) it would hardly allow Dell to produce a $500 MacPro-killing minitower, but would be competetive with other server-grade software. Now that Server is a $50 add-on, that is out of the window.

Thing is, Apple has to make the Mac play nice with Windows servers if they want any business penetration. With that as a given, there's not much of a case for using OS X in your general purpose server farm when you can use Windows or Linux instead: OSX's USP is its combination of UNIX with nice GUI and the availability of MS and Adobe applications, which counts for little on a server.

While the Mac Mini and Mac Pro servers are not a replacement for proper rack-mounted server hardware, they are fine for Mac workgroups. The advantages of "proper" server hardware only cuts in when you've got a hundred of the things and the overall MTBF starts to go down.

As for this whole Apple hates business thing: so much of the business sector is a MS or Linux closed shop than any investment Apple makes is a long shot. Its main "inroad" to business in the past was its present in the DTP, Pro graphics and video arenas which was established at a time when Apple and Adobe had a head-and-shoulders lead in those markets and the PC of the day wasn't technically up to competing. That is now going to be a war of attrition. Apple main weapon now is its ability to rapidly innovate and move on to new things: that goes down a storm in the consumer arena but is not so good to businesses who like nice stable platforms, roadmaps and 5 years warning before a product is discontinued.

There are rumors that Apple will, itself, run a virtualized version of Mac OS under VMware as part of its iCloud product.

Well, OS X is Unix and Apple own it so they can install it where the hell they like. Bet its stripped down to hell, though. Chances are though, it would be just as practical to run iCloud on Linux, OpenBSD or any other Unix-a-like - just a bit of an embarrassment if your name was Apple.

You must have failed to notice that most studios and creative departments choose Mac's. It's just the way it is.

As to market share, here in the U.S., Macs account for about 14% of the market.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/18/mac-market-share-around-the-world-usa-15-canada-14-australia-14-and-more/

There will be no DVDs for this one.

It is trivial to make an install DVD (or USB stick) out of the downloaded version of Lion. Whether or not Apple eventually decides to sell a DVD copy is another question. Given the ease that someone can put the installer on virtually any bit of memory they so desire, it may be a non issue except to the most technically challenged of people (who should probably just get an iPad).

It has already been reported that the App Store is an preferred option for upgrading, but I have no doubt you will be able to purchase it as well. Without a physical media option, it would be difficult to do system work (repairs, installs, etc) when you lack an internet connection.

Ref: http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/04/mac-os-x-10-7-lion-to-be-distributed-through-mac-app-store/

Distribution of Lion through the Mac App Store for all users is not too surprising considering it’s the primary method for developers to download and install the Developer Preview releases. This is not to say that a corresponding DVD installer will not be released alongside the digital distribution. Last month, a placeholder for a Lion installation DVD showed up on German Amazon, and there continues to be a possibility that Lion will also appear on USB installer keys for MacBook Air and Mac Mini Server users.

They already ship the Macbook Air installer on a thumb drive. I see no reason why that would change for users with caps on their internet plan, or for people who simply don't want to download it.

You can use the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPods as USB drives so I don't know what your problem is. http://iphonehelp.in/2009/10/07/usb-drive-converts-your-iphone-ipod-touch-in-a-pendrive-usb-mass-storage/ http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/28/use-your-iphone-as-a-flash-drive/ You can easily get your data on and off any Mac OS or iOS device. There is no secret formula or special connectors you have to buy unless you think USB is a secret add-on or that its proprietary to Apple. Apple's software can read and write commonly supported formats. I easily move data between my iOS, Mac OS/X, Windows and Linux devices. It's trivial. I have full access to all the files - text messages, voice mails, everything else callers or I create - on my iPhone, can move it to my computer and use it with third party apps on Mac, Windows and Linux. I swear, all the grousing about Apple being closed that I see on this topic is unbelievable - because it's not true.

Microsoft added Angry Birds to Windows Phone 7 site, Angry Birds developer say WTF!!!!??? They are so interested in making Windows 7 Mobile OS popular, they are making one sided friendships.

iOS 4 updates for iPad have been delayed multiple times.

They have? In July, Jobs said the iPad would get it iOS 4 "in the Fall," and at the beginning of this month he said November.

Doesn't look like it's been delayed to me, looks like it's right on track.

~Philly

Steve is running late according to the classic Celtic calendar....November is very definitely Winter...Steve needs to learn his Irish Calendar before making promises that will be listened to Worldwide :p

iOS 4 updates for iPad have been delayed multiple times.

They have? In July, Jobs said the iPad would get it iOS 4 "in the Fall," and at the beginning of this month he said November.

Doesn't look like it's been delayed to me, looks like it's right on track.

~Philly

Hypocrite: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.

Apple wants to share your location with the world, yet Steve Jobs doesn't even put license plates on his car for undisclosed (privacy?) reasons.

What I've never quite understood is why most operating systems boot every time like it's the first time. If you look at most operating systems, they run a bunch of scripts, initialize a bunch of things, thrash the hard drive with random read and/or write patterns, and end up.. at exactly the same state every time. Why not just capture that state, and restore it?

Mac OS X pretty much does just this. It uses several files such as BootCache, BootCache.playlist, and Extensions.mkext to store a preset startup state that it can load fairly quickly. There still need to be some sanity checks to make sure that hardware and software haven't changed but overall the Mac OS X boot process is pretty quick.

Here's a good summary of the boot process for Mac OS X. It's a little old but most of it is still relevant.

Here's that program... you piqued my interest. http://osxdaily.com/2007/01/24/capture-isight-imag es-using-the-command-line/