Smash your Apple devices and sell any AAPL shares you may be holding — without Steve Jobs the whole house of cards is gonna come crashing down. Well, not, and we know this because the master alchemist left loaves baking in the oven, enough for four years.
A place for everything and everything in its place. It seems Apple has chosen a Tuesday for their announcement(s) and the rest is similarly just as you’d expect: Mac, iPhone and iTunes betas are all winding down — the mothership is generally pulling together the other loose ends.
From 2007 through 2010, the mothership gave us new iPhones in the June/July timeframe. This year we’ve gotten none to date, but one is expected sometime next month. Likewise, in most years, Apple will update its MacBook Pro once, but there are exceptions to this rule of thumb and we might be getting one of those pleasant anomalies soon.
New kit coming and who doesn’t like fresh gear? Recently, the mothership rolled updated Airport Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule hub, bringing full 450Mbps throughput — soon coming to Airport Express, too, before Apple’s much anticipated iCloud reveal.
So, introducing a touch based desktop operating system, killing the mouse and dropping the optical drive for Internet only software distribution while introducing industry changing hardware designs at competition crushing prices isn’t radical enough? And, we haven’t even started talking about the iPad yet.
Reports circulated Apple was about to kill its no button, no wire Magic Mouse — its part number had been pulled from the company’s catalog and was all but kaput. That said, with touch and gesture based OS X Lion in circulation, not mention Cupertino’s penchant for killing anything superfluous, offing the rodent seemed a likely move.
Aside from superficial legalities, what’s the difference between Apple’s download and play anywhere iCloud music service, and BitTorrent? How you answer the question largely depends on which side of the religious divide you fall. Now, Apple’s moving to obviate some of that destructive rancor, though the debate won’t be fully silenced.
The rumors had just everything right about the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and MacBook Air except, of course, the date. Obviously, Apple shipped nothing new yesterday, but fresh whispers from “sources” say new stuff is coming and it will land late next week.
If you look all the way back to the beginning, long before Intel could be found inside, then Apple’s been selling white consumer grade notebooks since May 2001. Now, although the long-loved MacBook (nee iBook) isn’t dead yet, the time would seem to be right for it to fade to black.
I’ve got $30 set aside, mostly quarters and Sacajawea dollars, in a bulging envelope and now there’s a date written in pencil on it. Moreover, assuming I had a mayonnaise jar (or three) full o’ buck coins, the same day next month is expected to bring an updated Apple ultraportable, too.
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