Nice touch, Apple.
Category: Apple
‘iPhone 5 preorders to begin on September 12th’⇢
Another dumb headline that should have the word “rumor” in it somewhere.
What We Know About The Next iPhone⇢
Matthew Panzarino puts all the cards on the table.
Why iOS 6 Drops YouTube App⇢
MG Siegler:
There is a good argument to be made that it’s actually more beneficial to Google that Apple is no longer including the YouTube app (which Apple, not Google, built, by the way) as a standard part of iOS. For one thing, the app hasn’t really been touched in years, even as Google significantly upgraded the YouTube experience on other platforms (and the mobile web). More importantly, Google was not able to monetize those YouTube app views with ads. With its own app, it will be able to.
200 Mhz⇢
Leslie Horn at Gizmodo:
Last night NASA landed on Mars. An amazing feat! But guess what? The Curiosity rover’s on-board computer is a pretty low-power system. In fact, the iPhone 4S is four times more powerful. Check out the specs below.
Specs aren’t everything, it seems.
‘I Hope and Pray’⇢
I think there are bigger, more important things in the world to hope and pray about that a smaller Dock Connector or updated iPad, but maybe I’m just old and cranky.
Apple — Not Hacker — Pwnd Mat Honan⇢
Damn, son.
Behind the Scenes
I’ve spent my evenings and weekends over the last three weeks working with a friend who is an IT manager at a local charter school preparing over 900 MacBooks for the school year. We’ve repaired, imaged, tagged, re-arranged and inventoried more laptops than most people will see their entire lives.
Work like this is back-breaking. Cables are run, carts are moved, laptops are stacked and passwords have to be entered hundreds and hundreds of times. No matter how good imaging tools like DeployStudio or Casper get, there’s still a lot of things that still require a manual touch.
Apple Announces September 2012 Vintage List
The following products are going to be marked vintage in the US and obsolete in other countries next month:
- AirPort Extreme 802.11n (1st Gen)
- iMac (17-inch Late 2006)
- iMac (20-inch Late 2006)
- iMac (24-inch)
- Mac mini (Late 2006)
This marks the first Intel desktop machines to be marked as vintage, which makes me feel old.
Thanks, Mr. Source!
Server, Simplified⇢
Andrew Cunningham, at Ars, on Mountain Lion Server:
My fear in this brave new world is that OS X Server will suffer the same fate as Apple Remote Desktop, another enormously useful tool if you’re trying to manage a large number of Macs. Remote Desktop’s last major update, version 3.0, was introduced all the way back in 2006. Though it is still technically being maintained and sold in the Mac App Store—its current version is 3.6—most of those point updates have served only to add compatibility with new OS X versions and add incremental feature improvements like IPv6 support.
The Value of a Question Mark
Check out the following headlines:
- Apple iPhone 5 and iPad mini event planned for September 12, iPhone 5 release date for September 21
- Apple To Hold New iPhone Event On September 12
- Apple to hold iPhone event on September 12th, mark your calendars
Now, read these:
- Apple expected to unveil next iPhone at September 12 event
- Apple Media Event All But Confirmed for September 12th, iPhone Launch Likely
- Sources: next iPhone likely to be unveiled on Wednesday, September 12th
See the difference?
‘Yep’⇢
Jim Dalrymple agrees with the aforelinked iMore report.
Remember kids, until Apple sends the invites, nothing’s official, no matter how certain things appear to be.