It has been a seriously long wait for the millions of people who purchased Apple’s tablet computer since it’s introduction, but Friday looks like the day when iPad finally users catch up to iPhone owners.
The mothership’s previous record for problems patched of 90 was set back in the second quarter of this year. Nevertheless, celebrity Mac hacker Charlie Miller has popped up — palm planted firmly on forehead — to say that Apple didn’t fix any of the vulnerabilities he identified.
Rumors are just rumors until the skinny guy speaks. Although he’s remained silent on the issue, the acquiree has popped to voice his disappointment at not being acquired and then there’s the inconvenient truth that buying iMuff is illegal in most states.
Gartner has researched long hours, run all the numbers, and looked into its crystal ball and in the end determined that Apple’s iPad will the the dominant force in the tablet computer marketplace in 2011.
Verizon has begun running a national television ad advertising the Apple iPad tablet computer bundled along with their MiFi solution for broadband connectivity to kick off the Verizon-Apple relationship.
Why wasn’t Apple’s well-respected office productivity app suite updated alongside iLife at last month’s Back to Mac media event? The current scuttle butt posits that the mothership put it off until the launch of the sure to be revolutionary Mac App Store — makes sense to me.
Apple’s claim that the MacBook Air loses 33 percent of its battery life with Flash installed is just bunk? A piczilla talking head doesn’t dispute the claim, though he does say that if not Flash then something else would be sucking the life out of your laptop, smartphone or tablet.
The reason for the sudden end of the Apple Xserve line became very clear over the weekend, with CEO and head guru Steve Jobs saying in an email that they just weren’t selling enough of them to be worthwhile.
While it may not raise a huge hue and cry because the user base is relatively small, Apple’s decision to discontinue the Xserve line of servers will, at the very least, disgruntle a lot of people.
It’s been over seven months since the last point update and, although the nearly year-and-a-half old Snow Leopard made the platform 64-bit, this app still isn’t 64-bit. That said, there’s been plenty o’ grumbling from Final Cut Pro’s base of professional video editors.
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