Jim Dalrymple:
Apple on Tuesday admitted to being the victim of a hacker attack by the same people that went after Facebook last week. Apple said it is taking steps to help its customers, including releasing an updated Java malware removal tool.
The first comment on Jim’s post is awesome.
Also awesome? That Apple looks out for its customers, even though the issue is with Java, and not OS X itself.
Benj Edwards pours one out for a bunch of forgotten Macs.
Jordan Golson at MacRumors:
New iMac models on the Apple Online Store list a lead time of several weeks to get delivered, while the refurbished models claim to ship in 1–3 days, with $200 and $230 discounts on the low- and high-end 21" models respectively.
If you need an iMac now, this is the way to go.
Apple continues to grow more aggressive with its pricing this time around. The price of the Air has fallen, while the Retina machines have gotten faster.
Interestingly, the non-Retina MacBook Pro is still around after today’s updates. I would have guessed that wouldn’t have been the case, but I’m glad my machine isn’t a dinosaur quite yet.
I think this bit really sums up the whole thing nicely:
The only thing we’ll never do is make a crappy product. We’re going to make a great product. That’s the only religion that we have. We must do something great, something bold, something ambitious. We want the customer to be the center of it. We want to enrich people’s lives. And all of this other stuff, we sweat the details on those, in hopes that we’ve proven over the years that this is something we can do.
Well, I’ll be spending some money on Lego’s website tonight.
Linus Edwards:
While the internet of today is very open and one can access anything at anytime, the 90’s internet was a fairly closed off place. The vision for how people would use the internet was more akin to a planned community, where everything would be organized and you would interact with everyone in one consolidated location. Nothing exemplifies that concept more than Apple’s ‘dream’ for the internet in the 90’s, eWorld.
Apple:
By early last year, Apple’s cash balance had built to a point beyond what we needed to run our business and maintain flexibility to take advantage of strategic opportunities, so we announced a plan to return $45 billion to shareholders over three years. As of next week we will have executed $10 billion of that plan.
We find ourselves in the fortunate position of continuing to generate large amounts of cash, including $23 billion in cash flow from operations in the last quarter alone.
Holy cow.
Here’s what’s new, besides the security goodies:
“OS X Server” sits on top of OS X Mountain Lion, and runs just $20 in the Mac App Store.
Aaaaand I’m already bored with this news.
This is one of the best stuff-a-new-Mac-into-an-old-one projects I’ve seen.