Category — AI

Daniel Eran Dilger

While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the company now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and over three fourths Microsoft’s revenues.
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Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Apple has joined Google in publicly opposing California’s Proposition 8, a measure intended to ban the rights of gay Californians to legally marry, and has contributed $100,000 to defeat the measure.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the company now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and over three fourths Microsoft’s revenues.
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Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Apple’s newly redesigned 15“ MacBook Pro improves upon the graphics, RAM, and CPU performance of the previous generation while adopting the strong lines and unibody construction of the MacBook Air, the keyboard of the 2006 consumer MacBook, the environmentally friendly design of last year’s iMac, and the iPhone’s headphone mic, resulting a strong package of cross pollination across Apple’s various branches.
Apple’s unibody MacBook Pro: an in-depth review with video

Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Apple has published new terms for its registered iPhone developer agreement that defines new limits for “Apple Confidential Information” protected by the program’s Non Disclosure Agreement, allowing developers new freedom to collaborate with each other, conduct developer training sessions, and print guides and tutorials.

Apple releases portions of iPhone SDK from NDA limits

Daniel Eran Dilger

The fraudulent report of Steve Jobs’ heart attack that never actually happened was originated by an 18 year old with unclear motives. The motives of those repeating the story were very clear however.
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Prince McLean, AppleInsider

Had Apple succumb to calls from industry watchers to release a new MacBook at or below the $800 price point, it would have amounted to “a value-destroying event of epic proportions,” according to a newly published analysis

An $800 MacBook would be ‘the height of folly’ - report

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

Prince McLean, AppleInsider
Apple’s new MacBook and MacBook Pro models present a variety of changes in the way audio and video are handled, including support for iPhone-style integrated mic headphones and the new DisplayPort standard. Here’s what’s new in audio and video.

Inside the new MacBooks: Audio and Video