Archived Links for August 2008

08.11	Low End Mac	Calculating the Usefulness Equation, Phil Herlihy: On the low end of computing, there is always a battle to get the best value and longevity of use out of our systems. Value is sometimes a tricky calculation, as there is always the price- to-power ratio.
08.11	Low End Mac	Mac Booty Rescued from Davy Jones’ Locker, John Hatchett: I laid my hands on two old NeXT Cubes that might make excellent end tables for a geeky apartment on the Lower East Side. Right now both are claimed by people who should know better.
08.11	Low End Mac	Apple After Steve Jobs: What About the Vision Thing?, Charles Moore: What effect would his departure have on Apple’s future and stock valuation?
08.11	Low End Mac	Why Paris Hilton Could Take on IBM-Linux or Apple Better than Bob Enderle, Frank Fox: I guess we can also say that Paris Hilton could probably present a better argument than you can about IBM and Apple - and as a bonus, Paris looks much better in a swimsuit than you ever will.
08.11	Apple Matters	MobileMe Pushes Back Everything, James R. Stoup: I haven’t written anything about the ongoing MobileMe mess because when it started I just assumed that Apple would have everything fixed long before it became a huge, festering, embarrassing problem. Well, it has officially become a huge, festering, embarrassing problem.
08.11	Macworld	A September surprise from Apple?, Peter Cohen: Is Apple planning a special event for September? Analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray seems to think so.
08.11	Wired	Apple Sells 60 Million iPhone Apps, Jobs Confirms Kill Switch, Charlie Sorrel: In a rare gesture of openness, Apple has revealed data about iPhone application sales and confirmed the existence of a "kill switch" to disable malicious applications.
08.11	MacDailyNews	NBC online Olympic coverage excludes millions of Apple Mac users, Staff: Obama Central’s (Vectronic’s name for NBC) Internet Olympics coverage uses Microsoft technology.
08.08	Apple Matters	Should Apple Have a Social Network Site?, Bakari Chavanu: I can’t base my assumptions on facts, but I wager that a good third or more of Mac users are also participants on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Flickr.
08.07	Apple Matters	What is Cooking in the Apple Kitchens isn’t what Folks Suspect, Chris Seibold: The internet is, once again, awash in rumors about forthcoming Apple products.
08.07	Mac Night Owl	Another Look At Apple Support Problems, Gene Steinberg: The line of demarcation between good and excellent may be so wide that Apple can’t easily bridge it.
08.06	Mac Night Owl	Memo to Steve Jobs: Don’t Stop with MobileMe!, Gene Steinberg: All right, we all know that Apple’s internal memo to employees admitting the MobileMe launch failure has been quoted extensively.
08.05	Mac Night Owl	Apple’s Unfortunate Economy of Words, Gene Steinberg: Well, on Monday evening, Apple released the highly-anticipated 2.0.1 update. Exemplifying their propensity towards pithy comments, the only information provided was that it contained "bug fixes."
08.04	MacNN	Apple to open second Sydney store, Staff: he grand opening for Apple’s second retail store in Australia is set for Saturday morning in Sydney, according to an announcement.
08.04	MacNN	Apple supplier building 800,000 iPhones per week?, Staff: The Taiwanese company that handles iPhone assembly, Foxconn, has dramatically increased its production levels, a new report claims.
08.04	Ars technica	AT&T gets iPhone extension through 2010, CEO talks plans, Justin Berka: Randall Stephenson has been at the helm of AT&T for just over a year now, and has managed to help kick off the launch of the iPhone and iPhone 3G with great success. Stephenson doesn’t participate in too many interviews, but recently sat down with USA Today to talk about the iPhone 3G and his plans for AT&T.
08.04	Low End Mac	Dell Studio Hybrid Just Another Mini PC Lacking Any Real Innovation, Frank Fox: What is it a hybrid of? Is it a cross between a fruit-colored iMac and a Mac mini?
08.04	Computerworld	Mac clone maker’s lawyer hints at antitrust defense, Gregg Keizer: One of the attorneys hired by Psystar Corp. to defend it in a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Apple Inc. hinted that the clone maker will bring up antitrust issues if the case goes to trial.
08.04	Computerworld	Why the iPhone is Apple’s Trojan horse, Michael Gartenberg: The iPhone is good for Apple; everyone wants to be a platform. It’s a powerful way to generate revenue. But it’s good for you, too, because it means the iPhone is positioned to be a more enterprise-friendly device.
08.02	MacDailyNews	Strategy Analytics: Apple iPhone worldwide market share 0.2% in Q2 08; forecast to hit 1.1% in Q3 08, Staff: According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile handset shipments grew a healthy 15 percent year-over-year, to reach 297 million units in Q2 2008. Motorola surprised and held off LG to maintain the third spot in our global vendor rankings.
08.01	Mac Night Owl	Apple Walks the Tightrope, Gene Steinberg: A now-deceased comedy performer once used the catch phrase, "If it isn’t one thing, it’s another" as part of a classic TV routine. And clearly that applies to Apple Inc. these days.
08.01	Mac Night Owl	Is Something Wrong with Apple?, Gene Steinberg: All right, I hear the excuses raging through my mind. Apple was overwhelmed with the unprecedented response to the introduction of the iPhone 3G in over 20 countries, release of the iPhone 2.0 software and the debut of the Apps Store. Add to that came the major transition of .Mac to MobileMe, and they were asking for trouble.
08.01	Apple Matters	Why the MobileMe Disaster isn’t as Bad as you Think, Chris Seibold: MobileMe, so far, has been a train wreck. People can’t get email, can’t sync properly and couldn’t activate their 3G iPhones. Worst of all, there is no sign that Apple is going to do something about the name. On the bright side (every cloud has a silver lining), Apple has been responsive in admitting the error and compensating users. The company has even tasked some poor soul with writing a blog about the ongoing process.
08.01	Low End Mac	Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment, Frank Fox: Microsoft tries to show how great Vista is by getting a bunch of people who don’t know anything about Vista to give it a try. They told them that it was a new Windows operating system called "Mojave". I guess it was easy finding these people, because almost no one uses Vista today, even after one and a half years on the market.