ilamont/apple

From the page: "In late October, a buddy from my MacWeek days e-mailed me with this half-joking dig: �oeApple�s worth more than IBM. The Mac wins!!”

My friend wasn�t alone in his glee. Bloggers and Web sites devoted to all things Macintosh were quick to put a verbal boot to IBM�s keister when Apple�s market capitalization surpassed IBM�s. At one point this month, the stock market "

From the page: "There have been rumors that Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) would include support for ZFS and it appears, with the latest preview from Apple (see Ars Technica), that that rumor is reality.

This has caused an unsurprising fuss and state of excitement in developers and users. Everybody knows that HFS and HFS+ (the current filesystem choices) are really bad. They are comparatively very slow and inefficient and archaic from the perspective that they put some interesting restrictions on how files, file naming and individual partitions of a hard drive are used."

From the page: "Apple's Boot Camp, which allows users to create a dual-boot environment on an Intel Mac so that the computer can boot into either Mac OS X or Windows, may require Mac users to upgrade to Leopard. Boot Camp has been available as a public beta since last spring. Most Mac users have assumed that the free ride wouldn't last forever, but that Apple would eventually make Boot Camp a separate product available at a small fee."

From the page: "Cell phone, laptop and desktop PC markets are all well established, with dominant players in each category raking in billions in sales. But in the world of mobile computers, the field for laptops that are bigger than cell phones but smaller than regular laptops is still wide open. A shockingly large number of companies have invested millions of dollars developing products in this category. They've shipped dozens of gadgets hyped as the Next Big Thing. But the buying public has responded with indifference."

From the page: "Apple Inc. released its expected update for its iconic iPhone today, fixing several critical bugs and adding news features, such as the ability to buy tracks from the iTunes music store over a Wi-Fi connection."

From the page: "I had to rub my eyes when I saw this item from Techmeme, and Apple Insider: Up next for Apple: the return of the Newton.

That's right, the Newton. Apple's 90's-era PDA that ranks up there with other consumer technology failures like the IBM PC Jr. and Beenz."

From the page: "Apple's response to iPhone unlocking tools has been to release a statement that unlocking an iPhone may make it "permanently inoperable" if future iPhone software updates are installed on it. The news comes as little surprise after Steve Jobs referred to dealing with iPhone unlock hacks as a "constant cat and mouse game" in which Apple will continually attempt to thwart users who want to use the device with a carrier other than those it has signed partnerships with (currently AT&T in the US, O2 in the UK, T-Mobile in Germany, and Orange in France)."