In the wake of this year’s “of, by and for” the iPhone 4 Worldwide Developer Conference, to say that Mac fans are hungry for news about the future of OS X is a huge understatement. A recent Apple job posting hinting at a “revolutionary new feature” has only served to feed this ravenous desire.
The promised big iron full-tower upgrade from Apple will be arriving in a bit over a week, which is perhaps a little surprising given that when most companies promise August delivery what they really mean is the last day of the month or even early September. Then again, Cupertino regularly under promises and over delivers.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that his company’s most important goal is moving Microsoft into the tablet computer market currently completely dominated by the Apple iPad.
This week’s iMac already shipping refresh saw the all-in-one receive significant internal upgrades. Likewise, the Mac Pro got big under-the-hood changes that will deliver a huge performance boost to the desktop when it ships in August. However, conspicuously absent in all of this is nVidia.
A little functionality love from Cupertino’s code meisters that extends undo and redo to playlist editing. However, don’t expect to delete a song from your library and then get it back by pressing Command + Z, it’s just not gonna work.
Magazine publisher Time, Inc. is having a very hard time reaching a deal with Apple about iPad subscription apps because both parties want to own and control subscriber information.
Apple has shipped an updated version of their popular WebKit-based browser, which officially delivers Extensions functionality a little ahead of schedule. Whereas developers and users have been using this feature essentially since v5.0 shipped back in June, now we have an Apple blessed gallery of extensions.
Some enterprising lawyers have decided that the common-sense injunction against using electronics in bright sunlight is not as good as a legal injunction, so they have filed a class actions lawsuit about overheating iPads.
In a move that could only happen with a very large government involved, The United States Patent Office has announced that it is no longer illegal to jailbreak your iPhone in this country.
Ah, yesterday is gone and so is Aug. 7, but today we have fresh desktops from the mothership. Visually, these products are the same, but there are changes o’ plenty under the hood.
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