Apple’s new entry-level headless desktop spartanly beautiful on the outside and, unsurprisingly, the same visually simple design esthete can be found on the inside, where you’ll find a surprisingly few screws and components to misalign or lose. Another exquisite example of the mothership’s “less is more” philosophy.
The imminent arrival of the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 means a fresh version of iTunes to enable all those new features, but is there anything inside for the rest of us? In a word, no, but there are details to be chewed over especially if you own an older iPhone or iPod touch.
The hacker that found and disclosed the flaw that allowed personal data for iPad users to be stolen from the AT&T customer system says that he did it our of patriotic duty to the United States of America.
Yet another iPhone launch and yet another case of unprecedented demand leading to an easily predictable level of chaos. You know what would be truly unprecedented? That AT&T and Apple actually planned for and met this demand.
As predicted, the mothership is now shipping a new living-room-ready Mac mini with an HDMI port. Further, in addition to faster processors and graphics, this headless desktop also features a completely redesigned enclosure and look that allows easy access to the internals.
If you want in on a little secret, the word is out that some members of congress are taking a dim view of Apple’s notorious bent for secrecy, and seem to be prepared to make Apple let them into their corporate tent.
As is often the case with our favorite fruit company, Apple has under reported the number of apps actually available on the App Store for the iPad. Actually, it’s Steve Jobs et al saying one thing and the App Store saying another, but these are mere quibbles in the big picture of things.
This year’s Worldwide Developer Conference was of, by and for iPhone iOS developers and that’s left the company’s legions of faithful — you are still faithful, right? — Mac developers feeling a little lonely and left out. It’s now being whispered that the mothership is thinking about doing the right thing.
Recent comments by the Apple CEO that the PC is a dying breed caused more than a few link baiters to conclude that the company would soon be winding down the Mac. Well, aside from the fact that iOS development requires a Mac, there are plenty reasons the rest of us have reason to take heart.
The best game ever? If you’re a free range Mac purist, now you can find out for yourself. Best of all the system requirements aren’t too step and Valve’s offering this title at a greatly reduced price.
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