Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Mobile software sales for the iPhone and iPod touch continue to grow faster than even iTunes’ groundbreaking song sales growth, building a critical mass to attract both new iPhone buyers and additional Cocoa Touch software development for Apple’s mobile platform.
iPhone App Store continues to exceed iTunes song sales growth

Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Apple announced quarterly iPhone sales that surpassed those of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion by nearly a million and a half units or 25%: nearly 6.9 million iPhones versus the 5.4 to 6.1 million BlackBerry units sold per quarter during the same third calendar quarter period of 2008. [Apple and RIM have non-overlapping fiscal quarters.]

Apple iPhone 3G sales surpass RIM’s Blackberry

Daniel Eran Dilger

The Energy Saver icon in System Preferences has changed from a light bulb to, appropriately, a CFL on the updated software that ships with new MacBooks. However, the slight update is not a significant operating system change. The system reports itself as still being Mac OS X 10.5.5, albeit build 9F2114 rather than the 9F33 that shows up as the latest update on other machines.

Rumors say Apple has slipped portions of QuickTime X into the build of Mac OS X shipping on the new laptops in order to unlock GPU hardware codec acceleration, but that’s not the case, here’s why.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

A variety of people have offered their viewpoints on Apple’s use of Mini DisplayPort on the new MacBooks and LED Cinema Display. Assertions range from the insistence that Mini DisplayPort is “proprietary” to the announcement that it is actually part of the DisplayPort specification. As is often the case, nearly everyone is wrong to some extent.
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