Quite a bit has been made of Facebook’s refusal to allow Apple to integrate Facebook into the company’s struggling Ping social network service. Now, at least one corporate talking head is saying everything’s gonna be just fine.
People talk endlessly about what makes Apple and its product great. Unfortunately, most of this noise is just that and does little if anything to illuminate the fine work that the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad maker does.
Over a year, Apple offered blanket warranty extensions to MacBook Pro with nVidia 8400M and 8600M graphics processors. Although a proposed settlement promises repair, replacement or compensation, you’ve only got until mid-December to make a claim.
When announced at $499-and-up, the iPad effectively poisoned any price higher than that — more expensive than Apple just isn’t palatable. Thereupon, although there’s been a lot of noise out of the $400-and-under market, few actual products have shipped and the stage looks set for a bruising battle.
The price of Apple stock took a short but noticeable tumble amid rumors that Tim Cook, the number two exec at the company, is considering changing horses and going to work for Hewlett-Packard.
The Pew Research Center is out with a report that confirms what we all knew; Apple and Google get more tech industry news coverage than any other companies, with Apple coming in well ahead of even Google.
You might not know it hanging around here, but there are people who say that Windows 7 doesn’t completely blow. That said, there is a Dock “Taskbar” add-on for that other OS (Aero Peek) that gives users all sorts of shortcuts, window management and neato features — here’s the even better Mac version.
After what has been a less than enthusiastic reception to the iPhone for about a year, It would appear that the Chinese have caught the Apple bug. There seem to be a lot more buyers than phones in China.
You can stop your gnash, gnash, gnashing of teeth over potential Apple TV shipping delays. If you pre-ordered, it appears that all’s well as the mothership’s begun notifying buyers that orders will soon in the hands of Fedex et al.
This particular maintenance release, weighing a not insubstantial 84MB, arrives with fixes for a half dozen issues, as well as at least one requested Ping feature. Traipse inside for what’s new and newly functional in iTunes.
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