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NBC Universal's pullout from the iTunes online store is more of a loss for Apple and points to fierce resistance among media companies to potential Apple dominance of online video sales, an industry analyst said.
The first iteration of iWeb appeared a little more than a year and a half ago, giving iLife users a quick way to publish Web sites via their .Mac accounts. Designed with family users in mind, iWeb took the guesswork out of Web publishing. Without any knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, Web novices could publish home pages as well as beautiful, professional-looking online photo albums and video pages, and get started with simple blogging and podcasting.
With its low price and small size, the Mac mini has always offered a versatile and economical Mac experience. But, while Apple has regularly updated its line of consumer laptops and desktops, this year the Mac mini seemed to have been all but forgotten by the company.
Apple on Wednesday released a firmware update for its AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n. The update is available for download through the Software Update system preference and through the Apple Web site.
A video showing the founder of a Belfast, Northern Ireland company unlocking the iPhone hit the Web early Wednesday as proof that software exists that can unlock Apple's device for use with carriers other than AT&T.
Apple late on Tuesday sent out invitations to select members of the media to attend a special event at the Moscone West venue in San Francisco on September 5, 2007 at 10am.
UBS analyst Benjamin Reitzes said in a research note on Tuesday that Apple may sell more than 800,000 iPhones in the fourth quarter. That would top Apple's own estimates of 730,000 units for the quarter.
Apple has begun selling refurbished iPhones from its online store. The phones can be purchased for US$100 off the list price, which may be enough to convince some people that were concerned with the price to take the leap.
Apple Inc. has signed its first deals with mobile phone operators to offer its iPhone in three of Europe's largest markets, ending a period of intense negotiations, according to a report in the Financial Times newspaper.
Five years ago, when iPhoto was first released, digital cameras were not yet ubiquitous, and organizing photos on your Mac meant putting files into folders and praying that you could keep track of which version of which photo was the right one. Since that time, we've seen the rise of the inexpensive digital SLR, the emergence of the Raw file format, and the release of high-end photo management and editing applications like Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom and Apple's own Aperture.
Apple updated its Mac mini desktop offerings a little more than a week ago to very little fanfare. Maybe the company should have made a bigger deal about the new minis -- thanks to faster Core 2 Duo processors, the latest minis clearly out-perform their Intel-based predecessors.
There is, in the design world, always a natural tension between form and function.
If you watch Apple's webcast of its August 7 product announcements for news of iDVD '08, it may take you longer to jump ahead to that point in Steve Jobs' presentation (the 54-minute mark or so) than the 33 seconds Jobs spends on the DVD-authoring component of iLife '08 . That gives you a clue to how important DVD creation has become at Apple.
When Apple first released Pages in 2005 there was no question it would supplant the word-processing application bundled in the dormant AppleWorks suite. But even after a 2006 update, it was clear that the program didn't have the chops to replace Microsoft Word on most Mac desktops.
The latest iMacs replaces much of the body, with a solid piece of anodized aluminium, taking a cue from the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro models -- and they're a little more powerful too.
It's ironic that Steve Jobs, who's famously tight-lipped about unannounced Apple products, gives his audiences a sneak peek at Apple's plans for Keynote whenever he delivers a presentation. So while Keynote may have been officially a no-show at last January's Macworld Expo -- along with the rest of the iWork productivity suite -- eagle-eyed users spotted a handful of new features, including path animation, in the Apple CEO's Expo keynote. Those features, it was assumed, would show up in the next version of Apple's presentation software.
Apple's sleek new aluminum keyboard comes standard with the new iMac and is also available for purchase separately, for existing Macs. But if you haven't installed Apple's Keyboard Software Update 1.1, you're probably not getting full functionality out of the device.
Apple on Friday posted MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1, a new software update aimed specifically at newer MacBook Pro laptops operating a 2.2GHz and 2.4GHz.
The 24-inch iMac is Apple's first refresh to its all-in-one desktop line. Despite tweaks to the design and specs, this is a modest, nonradical iMac update. Even so, the striking system will make you look twice.
Apple plans to upgrade its iMac desktop PC line on Tuesday with a flashier design and thinner keyboard, according to comments and photos on industry blogs. Apple did not return calls for comment, but has already announced that it will hold a news conference that day at its Cupertino, California, headquarters.
