Archived Links for June 2007

06.25	MacDailyNews	Photos of first person in line for iPhone at Apple Store Fifth Avenue, Staff: Well, here he is, the so-far-nameless Apple iPhone (and Yankee) fan, who heads the Apple Store Fifth Avenue iPhone line.
06.25	CNET	Apple basks in iPhone buzz, Tom Krazit: Some day business students will look back at the first half of 2007 to learn about Apple’s best marketing campaign ever, and maybe one of the best ever in American business.
06.25	MacDailyNews	People begin forming lines for Apple iPhone over four days before release, Staff: Lines for Apple’s iPhone have started to form, according to Vicarious Music.
06.25	PC World	Macs ’Snap-Crackle-Pop’ After 10.4.10 Update, Gregg Keizer: Apple Inc.’s update to Mac OS X 10.4.10 last week is driving some users crazy from a new popping sound.
06.25	MacDailyNews	Sprint begins ’talking points’ campaign against Apple iPhone; expects initial customer loss up to 6%, Staff: Sprint has begun an internal campaign against Apple iPhone and A&T that consists of a series of employee aids designed to help Sprint employees counteract customers who, according to our sources, already canceling their service contracts with Sprint in order to prepare for Apple’s iPhone.
06.25	AppleInsider	First Apple iPhone shipments arrive stateside, Kasper Jade: The first retail-bound volume shipments of Apple Inc.’s hotly anticipated iPhone device arrived successfully in the United States this past weekend, touching down quietly at a handful of drop locations just six days before the device is due to go on sale at nearly 2000 Apple and AT&T retail locations.
06.25	Bloomberg.com	iPhone Euphoria May Lead to Investor Disappointment, Connie Guglielmo: Apple Inc., whose market value passed $100 billion in May as euphoria mounted over its iPhone, may be facing investor expectations that are too high.
06.25	Wired	Apple Teases Microsoft with Leopard Easter Egg, Charlie Sorrel: If this picture is real (and we have no reason to think otherwise) then it looks like Apple has taken a little dig at Microsoft.
06.25	TheStreet.com	iPhone’s $200 Million Jackpot , Scott Moritz: The temps are trained, crowd control measures are in place and the stage is all set for Friday’s debut of the huge iPhone. If Apple can pull it all off, this most orchestrated of product introductions should manage to move nearly 400,000 phones out the door on the first day.
06.25	SFGate.com	Call it the iPhone effect, Ryan Kim: Apple’s iPhone will change the very nature of mobile communications with its dazzling design and interface.
06.24	Herald Tribune	Does the iPhone have ’It’? Early signs are good, Alice Rawsthorn: The omens look good. First, there was frenzied blogging as to whether or not it would be launched. No sooner had that been confirmed than there was a hoo-ha about possible delays. And now that it’s about to hit the stores there’s a furor about whether it’s really as good as the bloggers had hoped.
06.24	Chicago Tribune	Apple’s iPhone casts big shadow on cell industry, Mike Hughlett: As if struggling cell phone-maker Motorola Inc. doesn’t have enough to worry about: Here comes the iPhone, heir to the mighty iPod, brainchild of tech golden boy Steve Jobs -- and riding a tidal wave of hype to boot.
06.22	SFGate.com	Consumers, industry eagerly await iPhone as launch approaches, May Wong: There’s hype. There’s hysteria. And there’s history.
06.22	CNN Money.com	Right phone, right time, Stephanie N. Mehta: The launch of Apple’s iPhone is just a week away, and much of the tech world seems to agree that the device will be the greatest thing since, well, the telephone itself. "I think the iPhone may really change the whole phone industry," CEO Steve Jobs modestly predicted during a CNBC interview shortly after he announced the product.
06.22	Architosh	Do Analysts and the Market get Apple’s iPhone Software Strategy?, Anthony Frausto-Robledo: Apple seems posed to unveil a slew of innovations and directions that the market can’t even image yet, as evidenced by the fact that they are wrongly criticizing its iPhone software strategy.
06.21	IfoAppleStore	Phone Window Displays, Staff: Late on the night of June 21, 2007 store employees installed new window displays in all windows (one or two, depending upon the store) for the debut of the iPhone on June 29th.
06.19	The Wallstreet Journal	Companies Hang Up on Apple’s iPhone, Jessica Vascellaro and Nick Wingfield: While millions of consumers are eagerly anticipating Apple Inc.’s launch of its iPhone next week, Bill Caraher is bracing for the worst.
06.12	Macworld	PC World: First impressions of Safari for Windows, Narasu Rebbapragada, PC World: A first look at Safari 3 beta for Windows.
06.12	Macworld	Leopard preview: Desktop and Finder changes, Dan Frakes and Jonathan Seff: Leopard got some serious stage time during Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, with Steve Jobs detailing 10 of the OS X 10.5 update’s 300 features and enhancements. But the features garnering the most attention were the ones not included in previous Leopard previews: A new Desktop (referring, in this case, to the overall look of the screen, menus, and the Dock) and a new Finder.
06.12	Wired	Who in Their Right Mind Would Run Safari on Windows?, Leander Kahney: There’s only one problem with that scenario -- Safari sucks. A lot of Mac users won’t run the browser (I’m one of them), so why would anyone run it on Windows?
06.12	Forbes.com	Microsoft Versus Google: Apple Wins, Brian Caulfield: Who’s winning the slap fight between Microsoft and Google? Perhaps Apple.
06.11	Mac Night Owl	The WWDC Report: No New Hardware Folks!, Gene Steinberg: After all the anticipation and excitement about the secret features of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and possible hardware announcements, the cup was half filled. Of course, that’s not so bad, considering all the things that Leopard has to offer.
06.10	Electronista	Apple’s video rental service coming this fall..., Staff: Apple is in the later stages of negotiating an online rental service for feature-length movies on iTunes, according to at least one senior Hollywood executive.
06.10	PC Magazine	Is Apple Opening the iPhone?, Bryan Gardiner: Even with a firm release date and FCC approval, much about the iPhone remains cloaked in mystery. We know that the phone will run what Apple CEO Steve Jobs calls "a full version of OS X," but the company has yet to reveal some very basic details about the phone’s innards, keeping even its processor and architecture a closely guarded secret.
06.10	AppleInsider	Apple WWDC to focus on Leopard, web media, Windows converts, 06.10: Mac OS X Leopard is just one of three primary focuses for the 2007 edition of Apple’s developer conference, company officials say. This year’s gathering will reportedly stress Internet content more than ever while also catering to a rising niche: Windows switchers.
06.10	TUAW	Believing the hype on .Mac-Google, Michael Rose: Forget about not paying attention to other people; sometimes I don’t even pay attention to myself. Just four days ago, I went on record in the TUAW predictions post for WWDC with "the .Mac offering becomes an Apple-branded version of Google Apps Premier." Mayhap I should drink my own Kool-Aid, if I’m going to go to the trouble of mixing up a pitcherful.
06.09	Ars technica	Whither .Mac?, Charles Jade: The .Mac service turns five in July and has easily become the most stunted and neglected product that Apple offers. For $99 a year ($69 if you look around), you get an anemic and tortuously slow gigabyte of storage space for your iDisk (minus what is devoted to your .Mac e-mail account) plus a few services of wildly disparate quality.
06.08	MacNN	Apple, Google at WWDC: .Mac, partnership?, Staff: Pundits are speculating that Apple and Google will former a deeper partnership during next week’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco.
06.08	Macworld	From the Lab: MacBook Pro benchmarks, James Galbraith: The updated MacBook Pros released by Apple this week are performing in line with what you might expect, given the changes to the laptop line. But one puzzling result in a test we run to gauge graphics performance prevents us from making a definitive claim about the new MacBook Pros’s performance just yet.
06.08	Macworld	Will AT&T’s network be ready for iPhone?, Matt Hamblen: AT&T won’t officially say whether improvements to its EDGE network are being done to meet anticipated network demands of the iPhone, which debuts on June 29.
06.08	Macworld	Is ZFS Apple’s secret weapon?, Gregg Keizer: Apple collects secrets like a pack rat collects shiny things. It’s part of the company’s culture. So when someone breaks the code of silence, it sets virtual seismographic needles scratching.
06.08	Wired	Who’s Afraid of the Stevenote? Virtualization Developers Should Be, Michael Calore: While most of the developers and Mac devotees in attendance will no doubt be clapping and wailing with glee at every new feature debuted during Monday’s keynote address, a handful of people in the room will be quaking in their boots, praying that one thing in particular remains unspoken.
06.08	MacRumors.com	iPhone Details from AT&T’s Sales Training Workbook, Staff: We’ve gotten copies of the full iPhone Training manual provided to AT&T employees that gives us a few more details about Apple’s iPhone. Thanks to cindynjgirl79 for providing the scans.
06.08	MacRumors.com	Apple’s iPhone Specs and Requirements, Staff: Apple’s iPhone is coming on June 29th, and surprisingly few details have been leaked about the phone itself, beyond the original specs described in January.
06.08	The Utility Belt	A better way to position Apple TV: Photo station, Jon Fortt: Rather than sell it as a device for viewing standard-definition video on high-definition TVs - a substandard experience - Apple should sell it as a beautiful way to view photos and audio slideshows.
06.08	Marketing Daily	Microsoft To Sell New Zune At Target, Amazon.Com For 30 Days, Emily Burg: Microsoft unveiled the newest edition of its Zune music player this week with an announcement that the new, brightly colored red Zune will go on sale at a retail location whose brand is closely aligned with the very same color - Target - and also at Target’s online retail partner, Amazon.com.
06.08	Ars technica	Mac vs. PC prices, Iljitsch van Beijnum: Scot Finnie, the Windows expert who told Microsoft "Buh-bye" after trying a Mac for three months, has now undertaken a price comparison between the Mac and the PC.
06.08	Ars technica	"Get a Mac" wins Most Successful Marketing Campaign of 2007, Jacqui Cheng : Love it or hate it, Apple’s "Get a Mac" campaign has always been good at drawing eyes and ears.
06.07	Mac Night Owl	The Apple Product Report: Too Much Hype?, Gene Steinberg: You know, wherever I look online, there seems to be a story about Apple. Of course, that’s also what we do here, but even places where you expect to read about politics, the rush release of Paris Hilton from prison and other more traditional coverage, there’s something about the iPhone.
06.07	Ars technica	Netscape revives Navigator, only about 10 years too late, Justin Berka: Mac users are getting bombarded with browsers this week, since we’re getting another browser option hot on the heels of the Camino 1.5 release. This one is a bit more "interesting" though, since it’s bringing back a browser we haven’t seen on OS X since 2002.
06.07	BusinessWeek	How Big Will the iPhone Be?, Peter Burrows: The new must-have smartphone may be a $10 billion business-and could send Apple shares even higher.
06.07	AppleInsider	Apple iPhone ads shed disclaimer, depict Flash support, Staff: Several readers noted late Wednesday that Apple has removed a disclaimer from its new series of iPhone ads regarding contract requirements. Meanwhile, the latest ad for the Apple handset suggests Adobe Flash support has may be a done deal.
06.06	Low End Mac	Lisa’s DNA Is All Over Modern Computing, Ray Arachelian: The Lisa’s DNA is present in today’s machines. Just as a pair of eyes, a spine, and opposable thumbs bestowed great advantages to creatures bearing them, so do mice, icons, windows, pull down menus, and the like to modern computers.
06.06	Apple Matters	You Want a Phone with that iPod?, Chris Howard: At MacWorld San Francisco, 2007, on demoing the iPhone, Steve pitched it squarely at the smartphone market. Since then many have theorized if, foremost, it’s a phone or iPod.
06.06	Mac Slash	ZFS Default File System in Leopard?, Trollaxor: ZFS addresses modern storage needs arguably a lot better than the nine year old Mac OS Extended, which built on the now twenty-one year old HFS.
06.05	Mac Night Owl	The Return of Netscape Navigator: Does the World Need Another Browser?, Gene Steinberg: Holy nostalgia! Isn’t it strange how things sometimes go full circle? Take Netscape Navigator, the browser that I adopted and used on my Mac until Microsoft’s Internet Explorer came along and blew it away.
06.05	eWeek	Apple II Marks 30 Years as PC Breakthrough, Daniel Drew Turner: Despite the then-steep price of $1,298 (in 1977 dollars), monthly sales quickly reached $84,000 and annual sales nearly reached $1 million-for a company that was barely more than a couple of guys.
06.04	Mac Slash	Dell To Beat Apple With LED 13.3" Portable?, Trollaxor: According to Engadget, Dell is about to blow Apple out of the water with their new XPS m1330.
06.03	TUAW	Rig of the Week: The "Boogie Hustler" sessions, Dave Caolo: This week’s rig - and we’re only guessing here - is owned by a musician. Here we see a Power Mac G5, Cinema Display, LaCie external HD, speakers and a slew of recording equipment.
06.03	Herald Tribune	With the iPhone, Steven Jobs casts a spell on the American consumer, John Markoff: Although the phones are expected to cost as much as $600 and they will not be available in the United States at Apple and AT&T stores until later this month, both companies have received more than a million inquiries about the product’s availability. Introduction in Europe is planned later this year, followed by Asia next year.
06.03	Times Union	Chances are, you’ll buy the next new thing, Mark McGuire: According to a consumer model developed nearly a half-century ago but still in use, roughly one out of 40 who will get an iPhone will rush out to buy one as soon as possible. Another 13.5 percent will buy one in the relatively near future.
06.02	Mac\|Life	Exclusive: A Day in the Life of an Apple Genius, Eugene Robinson: What does it take to be chosen as an elite power user - a Mac aficionado so advanced you even pass Apple’s muster? To find out, we asked some Genius Bar smarties.
06.02	globeandmail.com	I’m iFedup, Leah McLaren: Mac girl is tired of "i" everything.
06.01	Low End Mac	The Summer of Macs: Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac Overdue for an Upgrade, Dan Knight: In short, we can expect Apple to upgrade the iMac and MacBook Pro models any day now - probably as the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June. An updated Mac mini or, perhaps more likely, Mac mini replacement, may also be unveiled at WWDC.
06.01	Apple Matters	Memo to Steve Jobs: 7 Reasons to Decouple OS X from Apple Hardware Now, Hadley Stern: I have to admit it is a little strange writing to you. So many of us in the broader Apple family feel like we know you. We have watched your keynotes for years (for some of us, a lifetime!). We have watched you grow Apple only to be thrown out, only to come back and save the company from what seemed like a certain demise. And now, some of us are watching now and see what could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you simply cannot pass up on.
06.01	Apple Matters	The Eventual Death Of The Mac Mini And Why, Tanner Godarzi: It’s been rumored that Apple’s Mac Mini will soon bite the dust. Introduced in January 2005, the Mac Mini’s aim was to entice switchers and make the transition as easy as possible. Even though it sported an all new amazing form factor and became a popular hit, it’s neglected and overpriced. Apple’s reincarnation of the cube was once again a failure and will eventually be killed off.
06.01	Apple Matters	Microsoft Challenging Apple’s Multi-touch, Aaron Wright: Microsoft has just recently announced a touch-sensitive coffee table-shaped computer called "Surface."
06.01	TUAW	Is the Apple TV a dud?, David Chartier: Of all the products Apple has been rolling out in the past few years, the Apple TV is easily one of the most debated. While I haven’t seen any specific figures from Apple on how well or poorly the device is selling, Apple’s first foray into the living room seems to be getting off to at least a decent start. Jobs made another uncharacteristic move in revealing upcoming plans to support YouTube next month. But could the Apple TV be a dud?
06.01	Gizmodo	The Three New Apple iPhone Ads Teasing Us With the June 29th Release Date, Brian Lam: Here are those Apple iPhone ads, just seen on 60 minutes just now. They all confirm the iPhone’s June 29th release date, they all show lots of gorgeous video of the iPhone in use.
06.01	eWeek	Mac Coming into Focus As Attack Target, Lisa Vaas: There haven’t been mass Mac exploits to date, but interest is growing, as evidenced by the quick turnout of exploit code for a recently disclosed vulnerability.
06.01	MacMerc.com	More crappy video on your HDTV, RickMacMerc: YouTube is coming to Apple TV.
06.01	Mac Night Owl	Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Friends or Foes?, Gene Steinberg: If you saw the TV movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley," you probably have a negative view of how Bill Gates and Steve jobs get along. Certainly if you look at the ongoing rivalry between Apple and Microsoft, you’d get the distinct impression that these aging veterans of the technology wars are dire enemies.