Apple worries Nintendo on the game front
Despite statements to the contrary by the president of Nintendo, Apple is indeed a competitor to mainstream gaming devices and it may be the competitor that will hurt them the most.
Despite statements to the contrary by the president of Nintendo, Apple is indeed a competitor to mainstream gaming devices and it may be the competitor that will hurt them the most.
The biggest rumor ever from the prolific Apple rumor mill is undoubtedly the tablet computer. Are we likely to see such a beast before the end of the year, in time for the holidays?
You’ve really gotta give Apple and its marketing people credit for always being on message and keeping tight control of what’s said — you just don’t hear faux pas like this from them. Granted, they get caught lying from time to time, but never plumping other companies’ products, especially not Microsoft’s.
By now we’ve all heard how big nasty Apple killed support for Intel’s Atom processor, and netbooks in the bargain, with its second Snow Leopard dot update. What you might now know, however, is that while Cupertino was slapping the homebrew hackintosh crowd around with one hand it was massaging its codebase with the other to resolve a number of longstanding Photoshop issues.
NVidia CEO Jen-Hsun “whoop ass” Huang was recently interviewed in Dubai where he went on about his love for Apple products, which fill his home. However, as he went on about how well his company is getting on with the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone maker, there was something completely out of place on the desk in front of him, which looks remarkably like a legendary though still unreleased Apple product — the Mac tablet.
In a move sure to confound retail store openings by rival Microsoft, Apple has announced that they have opened a store in Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, just beneath the famous Louvre art gallery.
While the controversy over poor service from AT&T continues to swirl, Apple has said very little. Now rumors saying that Apple is planning to introduce a world-mode phone may end that silence.
According to user reports, the patch released Saturday only addresses the “lost all media” issue but not any of the other — freezing, random restarts, overheating, sluggishness, vanishing networks, display issues — problems that have plagued Steve Jobs’ hobby since the release of Apple TV 3.0.
As is oft the case with software updates, it’s two steps forward and one back. With the just released Apple TV 3.0, users are reporting that upgraded units lose or are unable to play all of the content loaded on those machines.
In the nearly 10 years I’ve been running OS X, it hasn’t happened to me yet, but the day when I stare blankly at my Mac’s login screen is coming — it’s just a matter time. Thereupon, it’s better to be prepared for the inevitable, so read this tutorial, print it out and put it where you can find it when the time comes.