It appears that Apple will continue to buck trends, this time planning to open as many as 50 more retail stores in the teeth of the recession, at a time when most companies are closing locations instead.
Both the hackintosh maker and Apple had requested summary judgements from the bench, a risky move that could have delivered a stinging rebuke and lopsided defeat to either side. Nevertheless, it was the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone that prevailed with the judge coming down against the illegal cloner on nearly every charge — a likely death blow.
Over the life of the Apple App Store, there have been myriad stories written about it, many of them full of glowing praise and many of them conveying the problems its whimsical rules have caused.
Parents arguing in public — it’s just embarrassing and it’s impossible not to feel sympathy for their kids. In this case, it’s the word of a corporate sales guy who made an off-the-cuff remark about Windows 7’s origins and the operating system’s designers now saying those remarks were “inaccurate and uniformed.”
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.
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