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Category: Apple
Boom
Horace Dediu, discussing the smartphone market:
Apple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share.
Apple Donates $50 Million to Stanford Hospitals
OS X Release Dates
10.7.3 Released
On iPhoneography
My pal Paul Skidmore’s post over at Macgasm is a must-read if you are serious about taking photographs with your iPhone.
Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3
Brett Kelly, on iBooks Author
Let me restate that I’m not just generally crapping on iBooks, the iBooks Author application or anything else. I’m an eBook author that’s sold a few copies and is pretty happy with how things have gone. If Apple’s wares seem like just the thing for your next eBook project, then I’d suggest you seriously consider employing them.
Just make sure you think through all of the possible ramifications of such a decision. That’s all I’m saying.
Looking at Airport Utility 6.0
This weekend, Apple released Airport Utility 6.0 for Mac OS X Lion.
Oh, and it looks just like the utility for iOS.
After playing with it for a bit this morning, I really don’t know why Apple updated Airport Utility. The new UI isn’t consistent, and doesn’t really add that much, except for the “map” view at launch. Parts of the more standard UI have been slimmed down, but there’s not much new to use, as far as I can tell.
Siri Joins The Flaming Lips
Fun
To be fair right here at the top, I stole this idea from a talk over dinner with Shawn Blanc, Pat Dryburgh, Ben Brooks and other cool Internet guys.
To be honest right here near the top, I know I’ve written a lot about the Apple community over the last few weeks. Since the company’s earning call, many have.
With the record quarter and Macworld, it’s been a good few weeks for the nerds.
Reflections on Macworld
This year was my first Macworld, and to be honest, I really thought I knew what to expect. I figured there would be a big expo floor, lined with booths hawking iPhone cases that I have no interest in. I assumed I’d get to meet fellow writers, some developers and Internet heroes.
What I didn’t plan on was having an absolute blast while doing it.
The Expo
I’ve went to several sessions. I saw Merlin Mann speak with David Sparks and Brett Terpstra. I met Fletcher Penney, Mike Vardy and more. I got to hang out with developers of some of my favorite apps, and talk about what they have in the pipeline for this year.