It’s here. This review was exhausting to write, and I hope you enjoy it.
Category: Apple
Apple Announces Q3 Earnings
Upgrading to Lion
I recommend before installing Lion that even if you’re using Time Machine you also create a working clone of your Mac. This is because while you can restore data from Time Machine, it’s faster and simpler to do so from a clone.
Amen, brother.
Thurrott Accuses NYT of Being Anti-Microsoft, Pro-Apple
I’ve subscribed to The New York Times for over a decade now and … I just give up. This paper is so pro-Apple and so anti-Microsoft that it’s hard to excuse anymore. It’s blatant, it’s constant, and it’s too much.
When my kids ask me what “the pot calling the kettle black” means, I’m going to send them to this post.
Rolling Shutter and Guitar Strings
This video is cool, but how it works might be just as cool.
New Hardware and OS X Lion
I laid down the law about product release rumors over on Macgasm.
Mac Community Crushed By Lion’s Non-Release, Cries out for Mercy
With the entire Internet thinking that OS X Lion would be out today, July 14, a lack of such a release has left many Macintosh users, fans and journalists1 lost without hope.
I’ve spoken to several people in the Mac community today, and the story repeats itself all over the place.2
It is unbelievable this day in age a company like Apple could be so cavalier with a release date of such a major product, leaving customers across the world high and dry, making many think the company shouldn’t be trusted anymore, with things like this. Is anyone at Apple care about the Mac anymore? I thought waiting for Textmate 2 was hard, I’m done.
Apple Insider Theorizes on iPad 3 Based on Photos of an Internal Cable
Paul Thurrott Reviews OS X Lion
I can see no reason why anyone with a Snow Leopard-based Mac wouldn’t upgrade to Lion. This upgrade features a ton of new features and is priced to sell. It’s a no brainer.
For Microsoft and, to a lesser degree, Windows users, Lion represents Apple throwing down the gauntlet. The company already dominates the mobile space with its iPhones, iPods, and iPads, and by taking the best and most appropriate ideas from iOS and applying them to the Mac, the company is announcing its intention to continue this success in Microsoft’s core market of PCs.
Apple Launches App Store Volume Purchase Program for Business Clients
It looks like a pretty good program, but there are still no such options for Mac App Store customers.
Preparing for John Siracusa’s Review of OS X Lion
Another Look Back at the Cube
In practical terms, the closest analog Apple makes to the Cube today is the Mac mini, which it’s made in various iterations since 2005, and which has has been a lot more successful than the Cube was - for good reason. It’s much more versatile, genuinely minuscule, and development of wireless peripherals and data connectivity technology has helped, as has the mainstream shift to reasonably-priced flat screen monitors, which were just beginning to gain traction in the desktop world a decade ago - and, as we’ve noted, they were still prohibitively expensive during the Cube’s short time on the market.