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By doing so Slashdot rewards these parasites with millions of hits, earning them a tidy sum for their plaigiarism. ThinkSecret has ads too, but they dig up their stories, not just copy and paste them from other sites.

http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/iphonetakeapar t/

I wouldn't do it with a brand new $600 piece of hardware.

From the tech specs it seems to be lithium ion battery.

The think secret gallery (along with the anandtech photos) clearly shows the battery to be a Lithium Ion Polymer (frequently abbreviated to Li-Poly). Couldn't you even have checked what the GP was referring to before posting?

at ThinkSecret. Plus they didn't destroy the case :-)

suggesting that Apple is competitive on the low end is just ludicrous. I'd call the low end $500-$1000. Apple's not even in that market.

Or
http://www.macintouch.com/
http://www.macrumors.com/
http://www.thinksecret.com/

[They may not be 100%, but proably are pretty close]

No doubt adding these sites to their tracking would change the figures dramatically.

That's a poor choice of words. You do realize that Steve Jobs has pancreatic cancer, don't you?

Notice how you take things off-topic.

There was a forged document, a problem with the accounting books, and emails captured that showed there was something screwy going on with the stock options.

Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, and must sign off on the accounting books, stock options, and other decisions that a CEO makes.

A CEO takes responsibility for his actions and behaviors and the actions and behaviors of his company and the people working under him. The CEO is accountable to the board of directors and the stock holders, but also the SEC and other government agencies. To suggest that the CEO does not sign off on the accounting books, official documents on stock options, and has no idea of what people under him are doing, paints Steve Jobs as a very poor CEO who cannot even manage his own company.

So I give you two possible options:
Option #1 Steve Jobs is incompetent and was used as a puppet by those under him.
Option #2 Steve Jobs is not incompetent and knew of everything going on, and is involved somehow but is using a lawyer to protect himself.

Because blogs are a way to reach audiences that are not reached through traditional marketing outlets

Yeah, because Apple has a real problem "reaching audiences." I mean, who ever heard of an iPod? They seem to think that TV commercials and word-of-mouth alone will sell the things.

they increase the amount of feedback you receive from your customers, and they provide a way to mine your user base for ideas.

If only there were some website where Apple could gather user opinions and feedback.

-- Brian Boyko
-- Professional Blogger.

It shows.

We'll your assuming that Mobile phone makers will pickup MP3 markets; however, what if the MP3 player makers pickup the Mobile phone markets - http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0609phone.html. I might be inclined to say that the current mobile phone companies are too complacent with the vendors and may not perceive the real threat of an outside vendor of stealing a butt load of the market. Imagine if Apple (or anyone for that matter) made the killer mobile phone leaving the current marketers in the dust - that is a huge market and a nice blazing target to shoot for...

If you'r R'd TFA... then you would have learned nothing other than someone has an interest in driving traffic to VarBusiness (whoever they are).

If, on the other hand, you had read the article that the incoherent rambling linked article was talking about then you would have learned that they were overheard talking about having downloaded Leopard in the store, which caused Apple Corporate to launch an investigation.

All of us know that we violated our NDA and ethics policy. Therefore, because we had the character to tell the truth and to face the consequences of our actions, we were terminated," said one of the fired employees, who spoke with Think Secret on condition of anonymity. "My only question is, if we all lied and denied it would we still be working at Apple today? Even more so, is that the kind of person that Apple wants working for them?

Would Apple have continued investigating? How would they have investigated? According to the ThinkSecret article this is based on http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0608retailleak.htm l? there may be dozens more people getting fired fairly soon. Good on Apple. The product isn't done yet, so it doesn't deserve to be seen.

This is an off topic post that is out of the scope of this site but I decided to publish it anyway. Steve Jobs might be ill. He looked somewhat weak. Could the cancer be back? Recall that he was diagnosed and treated for a "very rare" type of pancreatic cancer. Steve conducted the keynote by leveraging comments and demonstrations by three other Apple executives. Steve would present, call on an executive, then reappear. This happened several times. Steve had neither the stamina nor the passion he's put forth in past keynotes. You'll see that Jobs looks much thinner than he did eight months ago at Macworld.

The problem I see is that most people don't want to have to look at markup. A lot of people flat-out don't get the idea. Text that you write in, but it won't show up when you print it...?

I agree, though, that Word isn't well-suited for all purposes. I'm excited to hear about some of the supposed Pages improvements, including a separation of "Word Processing" and "Layout" modes. I've been suggesting something like this for a long time.

I know Office 2007 is doing something similar to this, but I've just always wanted to do those two things completely separately-- sort of like the separation between html and css. One for making sure your data is right, one for laying it out. But again, I don't really want to deal with actually writing the markup.

But to change course like that after a mere three months? Sounds expensive. There must be a story behind that, and plenty of disgruntled amployees. Who wants to spill the beans? (and get sued by Apple :)

Serious. Screw apple and their 'intellectual property' bullshit.

They are sueing their own customers! Nobody does that, not even Microsoft. And it's not like Apple hasn't been doing this before..

Putting DRM in their itunes products and then forcing a application that removes the DRM to be developed outside the United States.

Suing multiple websites and blogs for posting information about up and coming products. These are Apple's FANBOYS they are throwing lawyers at.

And now suing SomethingAwful??!! WTF are they thinking?

This goes to show you that between Microsoft and Apple desktops you should be happy that Microsoft won because Apple is worse then Bill Gates and friends... The only difference is that Apple is too small to cause much damage compared to Microsoft.

Seriously. Who do you think said this:
"The PC wars are over. Microsoft won a long time ago. If I were the head of Apple, I would milk the Mac for all it's worth and then move on the next big thing."

Steve Jobs, of course. And he was right, and is still right.

If your a Linux or *BSD user and somebody asks you why don't use just use OS X just point them at these links and remember that quote:
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/antislapp.html
http://news.com.com/Apple+lawsuit+Thinking+differe nt/2010-1047_3-5611497.html

Seriously. Do you want to want to give your money to a company that is trying to subvert the First Amendment of the U.S. constitution in the name of protecting their 'Trade secrets'?

I own a Ibook now, but I'll NEVER EVER BUY ANOTHER APPLE PRODUCT EVER AGAIN.
No itunes. No ipod. No Imac, powermac or any such nonsesense. Never again.

Since my own blurb for this was rejected (no blame on the editors, they were probably flooded with stories on this), I'll state an observation here: The 17" PowerBook G4 is now gone, but the 12" model stll hasn't been updated yet. Is that an indication that the rumors about a 13.3" MacBook to replace the 12" PowerBook and the 14" iBook are true?

I read this earlier this month and thought it could have some merrit, but probably not.

After all, we are talking Apple rumors AND it is April Fools day.

Other Apple-April Fools links:

iGame - yeah, right.
New video iPod - possible?
iNote - nice pics ;)
Media Center - err... nevermind.

Well if nothing else, maybe we get some fun new photoshopped Apple toys to dream about.

Predictable --- How Predictable !!

Apple has just released OSX 10.4.5.

According to
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0602briefly2.html
and
http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic= 9086

Get it at http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

Timing is quite interesting here.

Yes, in fact Apple did this last year with their Mac Mini computers http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0509macmini2.html however the upgrade has never been officially announced on their website. The other day I called up the local apple store and they said they are now selling the upgraded mini. At first you could only purchase an upgraded mini through the online Apple store. The general consensis I've seen is that they just wanted to clear out G4 cpu inventory, and this is how they did it.

I've since ditched the idea of buying a mini to upgrade my P4 (the girl at the apple store called the mini "a pc for grandma's") especially now that I'm seeing G5 Powermac's for only $400+ more. I feel it's worth it to be able to upgrade just about everything (except the logic board and chip) rather then be locked into an outdated CPU/Video Chipset.

nothing exclusive to ThinkSecret has been true for about six months.

They've done about 50/50, I'd say, although I'm not sure how many of those predictions are "exclusive". But the emergence of a large-screen viPod is something that people have been debating for a while now; it wouldn't surprise me if it emerged in one form or another this year.

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0506intelmac.html Has anyone else seen this?

Acording to this article it seems Windows XP does indeed install on the Intel-based Macs. Apple has indicated they did not cripple the possibility. Why the discussion? I think this has more to do with people who dislike Apple than with actual facts.

This link was actually posted on a previous slashdot story, but a simple google search revives it. http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0506intelmac.html

Those sources have told Think Secret to not rule out the possible release of other Intel-based Macs at Macworld Expo, but that it is more likely the initial release of products with the new processor will be consumer-based products only and not professional, high-end lines, such as PowerBooks and towers, as some Web sites have reported.

That is exactly what Apple figured out at least five years ago. That is why Apple is staking its future on media-centered products like the iPod, Front Row, and the soon-to-be-announced Media Center Mac Mini

And it is what I've already figured out in my household. I keep one old Windows machine around to run the CDs that my kids get on the back of cereal boxes. Anyone can pick up an adequate machine for this purpose out of garbage bins. Then I have Mac and Linux machines around when I want to do real work -- organizing family movies and photo albums on the Mac and doing web development in Linux.

Packaging windows alternatives as media appliances rather than Windows replacements is the proven way to get non-MS computers into people's homes. Apple is already getting rich doing it. There is plenty of room for Linux and others to play a role on the lower-price side of the same market.

I predict that, on January 10, 2006, Apple Computer will release an Intel-based iBook.

"Reliable sources have further confirmed recently to Think Secret that new iBooks and Mac minis--as well as iPod shuffles--will debut at Macworld Expo San Francisco next month. Apple's new Mac mini and iBook are expected to be among the first--if not the first--systems to feature Intel's new mobile processor, code-named Yonah."

Its too bad the iPod's form factor has pretty much been the same since coming out in 2001.

A search of ThinkSecret's archives puts a start date on rumors of the video iPod around the time of MacWord Expo 2003.

Wow, a blowhard with all the answers... how quaint.

Shadduppp!!! Jackass!!!

"The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include both Front Row 2.0 and TiVo-like DVR functionality.": From here.

Opinions are like assholes, everybody has 'em and nobody wants to hear 'em.

Could part of this sudden rush at Apple, as described by Think Secret, be in response to the XBox 360? As it is, the 360 is currently the closest thing to Apple's ideal behind the "digital hub".

The 360 software seems to accept almost any device you can throw at it. I imagine with a large external USB 2.0 drive connected to it, one could easily store their entire dvd collection on it and play it back using the 360 itself.

Also, the new XBox Live Marketplace could easily be made into the next iTunes Music Store, offering both music and tv shows on demand for a small price. Obviously bandwidth isn't an issue for Microsoft, since they already allow free downloads of game demos to the 360... many of which weigh in at 500MB-1GB in size.

I think we've only seen the surface of the 360's overall capabilities so far. The next year or so should be very interesting.

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1. Slashdot is to Google as Think Secret is to ???

Even though a lot of you seem to be bitching and moaning about the quality of the video encoding encoding, I think we're missing the so called "bigger picture" here. The ThinkSecret article pointed out that there would be another iPod released later on in the year with a widescreen display and presumably with better encoding. Now while I don't have any evidence other than this article to support that, it would stand to reason from a marketing perspective that Apple would hold out on rolling that better version out, because you don't roll out the best product that you have and then be left without anything to build on it.
So I think that they released this version as a primer for consumers, to get them accustomed to video on their iPod's, and then when they release the widescreen higher res version, people will be more willing to buy it.
Just my take on it though :).

Seriously, though, one thing to consider is that an average newspaper on even a slow newsday consists of hundreds, if not thousands, of articles, columns and features. Would it be fairer to compare the readership of a blog with the readership of one professional journalist's articles? Or should we consider what the distribution of a paper would be if it consisted solely of one journalist's works? Hell, we all know many newspapers' subscriber base would plummet if they didn't carry daily comics.

There are quite a few online "news sites" that could end up in uncertain waters under this situation. Think Secret probably has a readership that greatly exceeds many newspapers, and we've certainly seen them in this situation before. Should the original articles on this site - such as book and game reviews - be granted any such shield? Maybe the game publisher disagrees with your statement that the plot for their latest game is poorly acted and an almost word-for-word reproduction of a two-bit action novel. That article you wrote had to pass before the eyes of an editor before reaching the front page, and the readership of this site is enough to kill many a newspaper's website; why shouldn't it earn protection as well?

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0510oct12e.html

Last sentence.

Yes, but you have to wait two weeks. http://www.thinksecret.com/

According to ThinkSecret (which tends to be pretty reliable):

The video playback capability, which sources say is in fact available in current models but is disabled, will be geared towards watching broadcast content, video podcasts, and other shorter videos, but Apple will not be offering movies to purchase at this time. Instead, the company is hoping to roll out a movie store later in 2006 when the "real" video iPod, which will sport a larger widescreen display wrapped in a new casing, will debut.

2.46 inch color screen
Resolution: 320x240
40GB for $299
80GB for $399

Although it will be able to play videos, the "real" video iPod isn't coming until next year, when they also roll out a video store at the same time.

Look like after all the to-ing and fro-ing, it's definitely not going to be a video iPod.

If you want to catch the latest products about to be released today, check out the rumor sites at 10am PDT, I'm sure one of them will be following it. They currently think the Video iPod will debut today.

thinksecret
appleinsider

Or just checkout apple's website later today!

Quote:
No PowerBook revision?

Sources are also reporting that the pending Power Mac revision will be the last Mac upgrade of the calendar year. Contrary to other reports, Apple's PowerBook line, last revised in February with only incremental upgrades, will likely not see an upgrade before Macworld Expo San Francisco in January 2006, at the earliest.

and think secret is saying the exact opposite: no vIpod, it's powermac and powerbook updates.

in a week we'll all know!

GP was referring to the Adobe patent that they sued Macromedia over, and won, a number of years ago. Here's an article about it, and another. The lawsuit was the reason for the UI change between Flash 5 and MX.

And the details are here http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0509builds.html)

When this happens, mac hardware will go up in price or be pulled out of the market completely for lack of necessity.

Everyone will be using Linux or Mac Os on their $100 pc's from china then.

And it should not matter whether he 'knows' mac hardware or not, I mean, what is the difference between knowing an intel based pc video card, or a mac one? Negligible I would think in this case.

:)

Apple have stated that the low end will switch to Intel first, so I don't really know what the basis for this `story' is. It seems much more likely that, if they are extending their purchasing options for G4s to 2008, they will stop selling G4s at the end of this year. This would then give them a supply of G4s to use in replacements until the end of the 3-year AppleCare period for the last G4 units sold.

I'm the sole IT guy at a medium-sized nonprofit. We're currently using a POP3 provider for email and need a better solution, which is a bit harder because we're all-OS X. Outlook isn't an option, Entourage support for exchange isn't 100% there, exchange is overkill for us anyways, and I have zero Windows Server/Exchange admin experience. (*NIX all the way here...)

I've been seriously researching and demoing MANY solutions for the better part of a year and I've pretty much settled on:

--Communigate Pro for Email, with either Apple Mail (most likely) or Entourage as an IMAP client. (Currently using Entourage for POP3.)

--Meeting Maker for calendaring and to-do. It has a native OS X client and good web access.

--A hand-built web interface to the shared files on our OS X server.

We just need the basics--calendar, shared contacts, email, remote access to shared files--and they need to be rock-solid stable.

Basically, Hula Server is *exactly* what I need, and I think it's what a LOT of SMB's need too. And indeed, there are rumors that it'll be rolled into future OS X server releases.

Unfortunately I need a solution now, and while Hula is just not ready for serious production use. I can see moving to Hula down the road when it's proven and even more kickass.