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• Apple Delivers New Macs, Multi-Touch Mouse

  Apple today unleashed a number of consumer computing products, all of which look quite interesting. The refreshed products include: iMac. Now available with 21.5- and 27-inch (!!!) 16:9 widescreen displays, the new iMacs look impressive. Apple today unveiled... Posted Oct 20 2009, 02:05 PM by pthurrott with | with 122 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mac, Alt. Windows

• Google: Apple DID reject Google Voice. Thus, Apple DID lie to the FCC

  Google's response ( here it is in PDF format ) to the FCC firmly states that Apple lied, pure and simple: Apple's representatives informed Google that the Google Voice application was rejecte d because Apple believed the application duplicated... Posted Sep 19 2009, 04:04 PM by pthurrott with | with 73 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Google, Cloud computing, Commentary

• AppleInsider jumps the shark, declares Zune HD 'failed'

  While I wait for what I just know will be hugely positive reviews of the Zune HD from Walter Mossberg and David Pogue (after all, these guys treat Apple product launches like just-discovered new books of the Bible), I can at least point to some of the... Posted Sep 16 2009, 03:45 PM by pthurrott with | with 118 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Commentary

• Apple offers up evolutionary iPod updates, Jobs at music event

  Today’s 9/9/9 Apple event was surprisingly light on surprises. Steve Jobs returned to the stage after almost a year’s absence and got a nice standing ovation. But Apple’s announcements were mostly lukewarm, and had been telegraphed weeks in advance. Among... Posted Sep 09 2009, 04:36 PM by pthurrott with | with 114 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Digital media

• iPod touch 3G and iPod nano 5G revealed

  It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Apple. First the Snow Leopard debacle, and now the 9/9/9 event has been ruined: An iPod case maker has inadvertently revealed two of the devices Apple will debut today, the iPod touch 3G and the iPod nano 5G. (According... Posted Sep 09 2009, 09:46 AM by pthurrott with | with 91 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, iPod, Alt. Windows

• The 'blame anyone but Apple cadre,' Part 217: AT&T

  So AT&T is finally adding MMS support to the iPhone 3G/3GS on September 25, about two months after Apple first announced the feature and other international wireless carriers provided it. Yep, AT&T sucks. And I should know, I've been using... Posted Sep 04 2009, 03:55 PM by pthurrott with | with 99 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Alt. Windows, Smartphone, Mobile, Commentary

• Apple's culture of lies, Part 2: A different way of looking at it

  One thing I've often thought with Apple is how much worse off the PC industry would be if they were ever dominant, because they're such a belligerent company. But a more level-headed way to view Apple's recent push-backs from the top of the... Posted Aug 26 2009, 11:53 AM by pthurrott with | with 160 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Commentary

• Apple's culture of lies finally dawns on a surprisingly unsuspecting world

  When it comes to my relationship, such as it is, with Apple, there's one thing that always gets in the way: Apple's culture of lies. The company is pathological about misrepresenting the truth. It's like they can't help it. This week,... Posted Aug 25 2009, 01:30 PM by pthurrott with | with 92 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Alt. Windows, Commentary

• Apple to ship Snow Leopard this week

  In a weird last-minute announcement, Apple announced this morning that it will ship its $29 Mac OS X service pack, called "Snow Leopard," on Friday. Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28 at... Posted Aug 24 2009, 11:17 AM by pthurrott with | with 138 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mac, Windows 7, Alt. Windows

• Apple's growing slice of the music business – in pie charts

  Some good info from Fortune (and NPD): The NPD Group on Tuesday issued what at first appears to be a pair of contradictory facts: Apple now controls the largest share of the music business, its iTunes Store accounting for 25% of unit sales in the first... Posted Aug 18 2009, 06:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, iTunes, Alt. Windows, Digital media

• Microsoft's Zune continues to struggle

  I think we all realize the Zune isn't exactly setting the world on fire. But in these days leading up to the release of the Zune HD, things have apparently gotten worse than ever . To be sure, the Zune provides a tiny, and apparently deteriorating... Posted Jul 30 2009, 04:12 AM by pthurrott with | with 82 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Digital media, Commentary

• LOL! Apple demanded that Microsoft stop advertising PC price advantage over Macs

  I'm sure you've seen the news. If not, I've written something up about it. Microsoft COO Kevin Turner relayed a funny story about Apple. The Cupertino Mac maker recently called Microsoft and demanded that the software giant stop running its... Posted Jul 16 2009, 12:25 PM by pthurrott with | with 201 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mac, Alt. Windows, Vista, Commentary, PC

• Apple releases iPhone Software Update 3.0 to the public

  Apple : The free iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update includes some great new features, as well as all the features from previous updates. iPhone OS 3.0 also lets you run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games and more. If you’ve never updated... Posted Jun 17 2009, 03:50 PM by pthurrott with | with 58 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Alt. Windows

• Mozilla puts Safari's '11 million downloads' in perspective

  LOL. As if it weren’t bad enough that Apple was force feeding Safari 4 to its customers and then gloating about the number of downloads it achieved, we have this bit of news from Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler, which really puts that figure in perspective. I just... Posted Jun 15 2009, 10:22 AM by pthurrott with | with 32 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Internet, Alt. Windows, Mozilla, Humor, Commentary

• 11 million Safari downloads? Um. Sort of

  Apple is no stranger to hyperbole. In fact, they sort of reinvented it, and regularly take it to new levels. The week of WWDC, you might normally expect the hyperbole to have burned out by the time Bertrand "Grima Wormtongue" Serlet disappeared... Posted Jun 12 2009, 04:46 PM by pthurrott with | with 102 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Internet, Alt. Windows, Commentary