Get it while it’s hot, folks.
Be sure to read this little nugget of information from that page:
Whenever someone tries to reach you, the call rings through on every Mac you own even if FaceTime isn’t running. So you never have to worry about making yourself available. If you don’t want to receive calls, just turn FaceTime off in Preferences.
Very cool, but I have one big question — why is this not just part of iChat? Or will these two apps combine in OS X 10.7?
During today’s “Back to the Mac” event, Steve Jobs asked:
What would happen if an iPad and a MacBook hooked up?
The new MacBook Air is the answer.
The biggest story here I think here is price. Yes, it’s neat1 that Apple is building their own flash-based storage. Yes, it’s awesome that they are finally shipping a sub–12" notebook again. But all of that pales in comparison to the price.
The 11.6″ MacBook Air starts out at just $999 for a 1.4GHz Core2Duo and 64GB of storage. Bumping up to 128GB of storage is an additional $200. The 13.3″ Air starts at $1299 with 128GB of storage and a 1.86Ghz Core2Duo. Bumping to 256GB is an additional $300.
Like last time, it requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X 10.6 or Safari on iOS 3 or later.
Things should get going in just under an hour.
Twitter’s Carolyn Penner to Macworld on the beloved Mac app:
We aren’t actively planning Tweetie for Mac 2, but we maintain the app for current users. For example, over the summer we updated the client to use OAuth and improved MagicMouse support. We also made the app available for free.
Tweetie is one of the best designed programs for the Mac, however it is already behind the times, lacking both native retweet support and lists. While there are some other great Mac Twitter apps out there, it’s sad to see this one begin what will surely be a long, painful death.
Mac Rumors has a great post up summarizing today’s call.
Also from today’s call:
This size isn’t sufficient to create great tablet apps, in our opinion. While one could increase the resolution of the display to make up for some of the difference, it is meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of their present size.
Steve Jobs, in today’s earnings call:
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world. Not to be the biggest—Nokia’s the biggest, and we admire them. But we don’t aspire to be like them. We want to be like us, and we want to make the best ones.
This sums up Apple so well, the company could print it on employees’ business cards.
Hilary Stout for The New York Times:
Along with fears about dropping and damage, however, many parents sharing iPhones with their young ones feel nagging guilt. They wonder whether it is indeed an educational tool, or a passive amusement like television. The American Academy of Pediatrics has long advised parents not to let their children watch any TV until they are past their second birthday.
Dr. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keeffe, a pediatrician who is a member of the academy’s council of communications and media, said the group is continually reassessing its guidelines to address new forms of “screen time.”
All indications are that Apple will preview the next version of Mac OS X on Wednesday. In keeping with the tradition of Apple-centric blogs, I’ve got some predictions about what the company has up its sleeve.
If the new MobileMe web apps are any indication, Mail, iCal and other OS X applications are going to get a serious visual overhaul to bring them more inline with the iPad’s apps, which isn’t a bad thing. iCal is stale, and Address Book in 10.6 looks like Address Book in 10.2.
You can download the Flash video right here.
Apple next Wednesday will unveil its latest bid to cater to consumers in the market for a true sub-notebook with the introduction of a smaller, 11.6-inch MacBook Air redesigned from the ground up, AppleInsider has been able to confirm from several independent sources.
The first models, which are certain take the form of an 11.6-inch notebook, have been in rolling off Apple’s Taiwanese manufacturing lines for at least a week now, placing their availability on or shortly after their introduction next Wednesday at the company’s “Back to the Mac” special event, according to person with a proven track record of pinpoint accuracy.