The MacBook Air and the Mac Pro are polar opposites: one a marvel of engineering — the other a marvel of brute strength.
I don’t think the Mac Pro is going anywhere, but I also don’t think it is something that Jony Ive’s team has spent much time thinking about.
While I agree that the Air and Pro are opposites in many ways, I think that they are both marvels of engineering.
Chris Whitmore with Deutsche Bank issued a note to investors on Monday in which he revealed that a poll of about 30 retail stores revealed Apple is experiencing daily stock-outs of the iPhone 4S at most of them. He said that between 85 percent and 90 percent of stores polled continue to run out of inventory.
The makers of iA Writer are adding iCloud support to their iPad and Mac applications.
As far as I know, this is one of the first third-party Mac apps to add iCloud support. I hope many more are to come. While I currently use Dropbox for syncing my text documents around, this may offer a nicer solution.
Only Apple works so hard to make its stores art forms. The 5th Ave Store was already gorgeous, but this is just stunning.
Update: The Next Web has loads of photos from the re-opened store.
In short, I’m impressed with everything about the Cards app except for the app itself. But that’s a minor issue. With a kid on the way whose grandparents live in another state, the Cards app will be getting regular use from the Blanc household.
I sent one to a friend the other day, and agree with Shawn’s points 100 percent.
In a statement to The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple, an Apple spokesperson said:
A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery life on iOS 5 devices. We have found a few bugs that are affecting battery life and we will release a software update to address those in a few weeks
The Beard has connections.
Update: And just like that, iOS 5.0.1 is out in beta.
Analysts’ statements are either:
My iPhone 4 is less than a year old1, and since I can’t upgrade at the subsidized price for some time, I’ve been pondering purchasing AppleCare for it.
However, when I went to Apple’s online store, I could only locate AppleCare+ for the iPhone 4S.
After chatting with a nice guy named Sean on Apple’s online store support page, I learned that while normal, old-fashioned iPhone AppleCare isn’t available at online for “individual purchases” anymore. However, it can be purchased over at the phone, at 1–800–694–6466
I bet we’ll see a minor Mac Pro update to use the E5 CPUs whenever they’re available (probably within the next few months). But it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the last Mac Pro. It had a great run, but the tower is over.
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