March 2010 Mac News Around the Web

03.13	Macworld	Steve Jobs finally wins approval to tear down house...possibly, Lex Friedman: Steve Jobs is accustomed to bringing the house down-unveiling remarkable devices like the iPad, the iPhone, and the original iPod make that a pretty common occurrence. Now, though, after an extended battle, the Apple CEO can finally bring down the other house he’s been trying to raze for so long. Maybe.
03.13	Macworld	Pre-ordering the iPad is a fool’s game, Galen Gruman: InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman wonders why anyone would spend $500 or more on a product that hasn’t even shipped.
03.13	Macworld	Review: Motorola Devour smartphone, Ginny Mies: There’s a lot to like about the Devour smartphone, especially its social networking features, intuitive user interface, and sturdy design, but it also has some shortcomings.
03.13	Macworld	The Macalope Weekly: A sad state of affairs, Staff: It’s a large helping of the Macalope this week, as he takes on non-sensical iPad analysis, Apple doomsaying, and other crimes of punditry.
03.12	Apple Matters	March 12, 1985: The First Mac Switcher, Chris Seibold: When the first Mac was being developed the designers saw no need to address the issue of running multiple programs. The oversight was understandable; the programmers were working hard enough just to develop the system and a single program to run in 64K, which the Mac was originally intended to ship with.
03.12	Apple Matters	How iPad Will Kill the eBook, Chris Seibold: If you have some spare time this weekend you might want to build a tiny coffin for the eBooks the iPad is about to kill.
03.12	Macworld	Apple COO Tim Cook awarded $22 million bonus, Jonathan Seff: The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, received a bonus worth $22 million for his work filling in for Steve Jobs’ during the CEO’s 2009 medical leave.
03.12	Macworld	Latest details make iPad a more promising e-reader, Lex Friedman: Can the iPad compete as an e-book reader? Apple’s latest details about iBooks make that more probable than ever.
03.12	Macworld	Smartphones spread slowly in China, despite 3G and iPhone, Owen Fletcher: China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but high prices mean few Chinese buyers overall are choosing smartphones.
03.12	Macworld	Barnes and Noble to provide e-reader app for iPad, Matt Hamblen: Bookseller Barnes and Noble announced it will have an iPad version of its eReader app ready on April 3.
03.12	The Mac Observer	iPad: iPad Pre-Order Guesses Range from 15K to 25K Per Hour, Brad Cook: Apple’s per-hour total for iPad pre-orders could be somewhere in the range of 15,000 to 25,000, according to bloggers who have been tracking order numbers.
03.12	The Mac Observer	Apple Stock Watch: Apple Briefly Becomes Third Most Valuable Co. in the US, Brad Cook: The beginning of iPad pre-orders Friday morning led to a trading surge in Apple’s stock that briefly pushed its market capitalization ahead of Wal-Mart’s.
03.12	The Mac Observer	News: Richard Belzer: Apple Store Employee ’Was Trying to Shake Me Down’, Brad Cook: Actor and comedian Richard Belzer on Thursday discussed an incident at a Manhattan Apple store the previous day that resulted in an employee calling the police.
03.11	Low End Mac	OS X 10.4 Tiger Still Very Usable on a 500 MHz G3 Mac, Simon Royal: For writing and basic Internet access, a 500 MHz G3 provides sufficient power and Tiger provides fairly up-to-date software.
03.11	Low End Mac	iPad Gaming Potential, Dan Bashur: Two years of developing games for the less powerful iPhone and iPod touch has prepared developers to unleash the iPad’s potential.
03.11	Mac Night Owl	So is the Mac at Death’s Door?, Gene Steinberg: When I suggested recently that we had returned to the silly season, perhaps a little earlier than I might have expected, I didn’t know how right I was.
03.10	Low End Mac	Apple Now Sees Microsoft as Less Evil than Google, Frank Fox: With Android threatening the iPhone’s dominance, Apple views Microsoft and Windows 7 Mobile as the lesser threat.
03.10	Apple Matters	The iPad Follows Rule No. 1 of Technology, Chris Seibold : If you ask a tech type where the future of computing lies he will start spouting off about the cloud and seamless integration with all the devices you use.
03.10	Mac Night Owl	The Snow Leopard Report: Is it Ready Yet for Prime Time?, Gene Steinberg: Now we all know that Snow Leopard appeared last August, but for some of you it still has serious problems, so you’re sticking with Leopard. Some of you are even Tiger holdouts, because Leopard didn’t light your fire.
03.09	Apple Matters	Apple vs. Google: Who needs each other more?, Albert Wan: You’d have to be living in a cave to not know that Apple and Google’s recent relationship has been, for lack of a better word, rocky.
03.09	Mac Night Owl	Reviewing Products They’ve Never Used, Gene Steinberg: It’s nothing new. When the iPod first came out, bloggers and so-called tech pundits were busy complaining about the features it didn’t have, such as a built-in radio, or perhaps a working kitchen sink. None of that hurt actual sales of the product, of course.
03.08	Mac Night Owl	Chasing Fact and Fiction About Apple’s Future, Gene Steinberg: Some people want you to believe that Apple is a dictatorship, with Steve Jobs micromanaging everything and relying on his temperamental personality to make critical corporate decisions. Good or bad, it means that, were Jobs to bow out, the company would be on the skids in an extremely short time.
03.04	Mac Night Owl	The App Store Report: What About an Exit Button?, Gene Steinberg: On the whole, I think Apple’s tight integration among its mobile devices and the way software is sold is a good thing. There is a rich selection, somewhere in the range 140,000 and 150,000 as I write this, with billions of downloads.
03.03	Mac Night Owl	Now It’s Inevitable: Flash is Dying!, Gene Steinberg: Apple introduces the iPhone without support for Flash. People complain, but iPhones sell at ever-increasing rates. Today, with some 40 million of them around the world, and the iPad on the immediate horizon, Steve Jobs has made it quite clear that Flash is the floppy drive of the 21st century. It’s time for it to go.
03.01	Apple Matters	An Apple-Championed Revolution of the Publishing Industry?, Josh Rubenoff: It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year.