Archived Links for June 2008

06.19	MacUser	Grand Opening of Australia’s first Apple Store on June 19th, Aayush Arya: After a lot of teasing, Apple has finally (and officially) announced a specific date and time for the grand opening of Australia’s first Apple Retail Store in Sydney, "located on George Street in the heart of downtown".
06.16	Macworld	MacBook Air won’t be a hit: Woz, Dan Warne: "A lot of its missing features bothered me"
06.16	iPodNN	RBC: iPhone 3G to trigger iPod-like sales boom, Staff: Apple may replicate the success of the iPod with the iPhone 3G, argues RBC’s Mike Abramsky.
06.16	MacNN	AT&T (not) limiting iPhone 3G speeds to 1.4Mbps, Staff: Readers of AT&T’s Apple iPhone 3G website, have this weekend been left confounded by information that iPhone 3G data download speeds will apparently be limited to 1.4Mbps, while other devices tout much faster speeds.
06.16	MacNN	iPhone 3G costs only $100 to manufacture, Staff: The iPhone 3G carries a lower price, but it also costs about half as much to make, according to a report in the EETimes.
06.16	Electronista	92 percent of developers ignoring Vista?, Staff: Despite Microsoft’s efforts, the majority of developers still aren’t writing with Windows Vista in mind, a new study by Evans Data says.
06.16	Macworld	New iPhone still faces corporate disconnects, Matt Hamblen: Apple’s announcement last week of a new iPhone designed to be more enterprise-friendly provoked a mix of curiosity and concern among IT managers who are weighing whether their organizations should purchase the trendy handheld for business use.
06.16	Mac Night Owl	Is It Time to Dump Your PowerPC Mac?, Gene Steinberg: I remember when the first PowerPC-based Mac came out in 1994. Despite the promise of greatly-increased performance, my initial encounter was a huge let-down, mostly because there wasn’t a lot of software supporting the new processor. So just about everything, including large portions of the Mac OS, ran in 68K emulation, where performance was reduced by two processor generations, so to speak.
06.16	Ars technica	iPhone 3G cost could be as low as $100, but not likely, Chris Foresman: The mere cost of the materials used, even when accurate, is still not a good indicator of the cost to produce any manufactured device--especially not one as complex as an iPhone.
06.16	CBC.ca	Big Mac attack, Luigi Benetton: Apple hasn’t traditionally been a common computer brand on office desks, except in certain niches, such as graphic design and publishing. But Macs are starting to draw the attention of mainstream businesses these days for a number of reasons.
06.16	vnunet.com	Apple Store to open in Beijing, Simon Burns: China may be about to see the opening of its first official Apple Store as the firm prepares to launch the iPhone in the country.
06.16	Barrons.com	The Promise and Peril of Apple, Eric Savitz: Apple’s new iPhone dials up the "wow" factor--but is it safe to bite into the stock?
06.16	BusinessWeek	The iPhone’s Impact on Rivals, Olga Kharif: As Apple looks to make further inroads with its soon-to-be-released 3G device, both handset makers and wireless carriers may suffer.
06.15	Cult of Mac	Mobile Me Shows Apple Still Dislikes Being a Team Player, Pete Mortensen: There’s a problem with Mobile Me: you have to use Apple’s Web applications. No GMail, no Flickr, no GCal, no Facebook. Rather than delivering on the promise of automating the process of keeping every aspect of your life up to date, Apple requires you to leave behind your existing digital life to build a new one.
06.13	Low End Mac	Powerful Classic Macs: Performa 5400 and Blue and White G3, Carl Nygren: Today it’s time to look at my classic desktop Macs.
06.13	Low End Mac	Tales of Old Mac Data Retrieval, Adam Rosen: Macs have been around for a long time, waxing and waning in popularity - 24 years as of this writing. Many people have used Macs in grade school or college, as business users, or personally, and have old data and software stored on floppy disks, SyQuest cartridges, hard drives, etc. from these Paleolithic eras in Macintosh history.
06.10	Apple Matters	Attention Cell Phone Makers, The End Is Near, James R. Stoup: If the original iPhone hurt Apple’s competition, this new phone should just about kill them.
06.07	MacDailyNews	Intel faces antitrust probe by FTC, Staff: Intel Corporation today issued a statement in response to the issuance of a subpoena from the United States Federal Trade Commission.
06.07	MacDailyNews	WSJ: If Obama wins, you might want to cash in your Apple stock before year end, Staff: If you are sitting on a huge profit in, say, your Apple stock, if the Democrats win in November you might want to cash it in before the end of the year.
06.06	MacNN	3G iPhone to make major impact on mobile TV market, Staff: Apple has a window of opportunity to make a significant impact on the mobile TV market with it’s imminent launch of the 3G iPhone around the world, according to the latest report from Analysys Mason.
06.06	Electronista	LG Dare for Verizon spied, detailed, Staff: Verizon’s first all-touchscreen media phone has been spotted late yesterday in a working form and has accompanying new details to match.
06.06	MacNN	Apple looking to poach retail workers?, Staff: Apple is openly seeking new retail workers from the ranks of other companies, information shows.
06.06	Low End Mac	5 Business Essentials for ’The Switch’, Jason Packer: Many small businesses are interested in making "The Switch" - taking the plunge and investing in Apple hardware. If you find yourself in that situation, there are some simple tools that you can invest in (sometimes requiring nothing more than an investment of your time) that will help make that switch a successful one.
06.06	Low End Mac	The iPhone Redefines the Mobile Phone and Mobile Computer Markets, Frank Fox: The difference between mobile phones and mobile computers is so blurred that the stereotype of what is a "real computer" will have to be adjusted. When this happens, sorting out who has the largest market share may be redefined overnight.
06.06	Wired	What’s Coming at WWDC: New iPhone, New Apps and Snow Leopard, Charlie Sorrel: For Apple watchers, next week will -- if rumors are correct -- bring a host of reasons to rejoice.
06.06	AppleInsider	Aussie Apple resellers receive boxes with "DO NOT OPEN" warning, Staff: Australian resellers began receiving mysterious packages from Apple on Friday with a warning across the top that breaching the boxes ahead of June 10th would be a violation of their non-disclosure agreements with the company.
06.06	ExtremeTech	Ten Reasons Why Steve Ballmer Should Be Fired, Jim Lynch: Microsoft has gone from being a feared technology powerhouse to being a mocked has-been and shell of its former self.
06.06	MarketWatch.com	A newer, faster iPhone expected from Apple, 06.06: When Steve Jobs talks, people listen. And when he doesn’t talk, people like to imagine what he will say.
06.05	Apple Matters	Come on Steve, at WWDC Make the Apple TV Great, Chris Seibold: There is an oft over looked component of Apple’s product matrix called the Apple TV. The reason people forget about the thing is because no one has one.
06.05	Forbes.com	The iPhone Stakeout, Brian Caulfield: A visit Wednesday evening to a West Coast distribution center of Apple contract manufacturer Quanta Computer shows a company hustling to get mysterious boxes of, well, something, on the move.
06.05	AppleInsider	Larger Apple multi-touch devices move beyond prototype stage, Slash Lane: There’s a 50-50 chance that Apple will introduce new form factor multi-touch devices at its developers conference next week, ushering the company into the ultra-mobile computing space, one Wall Street analyst says.
06.05	Forbes.com	Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS, Brian Caulfield: Monday, Nintendo will likely face a new and dangerous foe: Apple.
06.05	Mac Night Owl	The iPhone Report: A Few Irritating Problems Persist!, Gene Steinberg: Ahead of next week’s expected release if the iPhone 2.0 software and a new version of this hot-selling smartphone, I have to tell you I’m reasonably happy with mine.
06.04	Low End Mac	Left Behind by Mac OS X or Up to Date with Linux?, Dan Knight: I have very mixed feeling about Mac OS X 10.6, whatever kind of cat they name it after.
06.04	Low End Mac	Getting Xubuntu Linux Up and Running on Your Aging Mac, John Hatchett: I want to begin by saying that what I love about the Mac experience is its operating system. But I can’t help but wonder what it would be like to use some of the ultraportable computers in the PC market with a decent operating system. In short, I began to think about Linux.
06.04	Apple Matters	We forgot about OS X 10.6!, Chris Howard: Macrumors last week had an item that references to Mac OS X 10.6 appear in the iPhone SDK beta 6. You’ve got to chuckle, don’t you. It seems in all the hype of iPhone 2.0, and a possible new handlheld computing device, we’d all forgotten why World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) is normally so hotly anticipated.
06.04	InformationWeek	Microsoft’s Ballmer Touts Vista-To-XP Downgrade Program, Paul McDougall: CEO Steve Ballmer has a unique sales pitch for the company’s Windows Vista operating system -- if you don’t like it, you can turn it into Windows XP.
06.04	Ars technica	Mac OS X 10.6 code named Snow Leopard, may be pure Cocoa, Jacqui Cheng: The next version of Mac OS X is code-named "Snow Leopard," and will indeed be Intel-only, we have learned.
06.04	MacScoop	iPhone 3G: No GPS, Same Old 2MP Camera, Alexandros Roussos: The next major revision of the iPhone, expected during this year’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 9, could be a major disappointment for those who were expecting more than 3G connectivity on this new model.
06.03	MacosXrumors	Apple to revamp and rename .Mac?, Alexandros Roussos: Many reports recently indicated that Apple may be preparing to revamp and rebrand its .Mac web service, here’s a recap of what is known and what is expected.
06.03	Mac Night Owl	Are You Ready to Ditch .Mac?, Gene Steinberg: When Apple introduced a free set of Internet services several years ago, dubbed iTools, I jumped at the chance to have a genuine mac.com email address. When it morphed into a $99 commercial service, dubbed .Mac, I’m sure many of the early adopters opted out, and I was quite frankly on the fence.