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Power Mac G5 office furniture⇢
Want.
An Italian Stephen⇢
This week on Connected, we discuss the ever-expanding iPad line and I yell about Yosemite.
This week, the show is sponsored by these fine folks:
iMac with Retina 5K display vs. the original Apple Macintosh⇢
BBC celebrates 10 years of podcasting⇢
The BBC:
In total, there have been more than 1.1 billion UK downloads of BBC podcasts since 2004.
Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio, said: “I am delighted to see that, 10 years after the BBC began offering podcasts, our programmes are being downloaded in record numbers. These figures show audiences’ enduring appetite for a wide range of distinctive content and how digital media can bring brilliant programmes to an even wider audience. I hope podcast technologies continue to provide a boost to the whole radio industry.”
Tim Cook, on the iPad⇢
Speaking of this year’s iPads, Dan Frommer has rounded up Tim Cook’s comments on the iPad from today’s quarterly results call. This jumped out at me:
What you do see is that people hold onto their iPads longer than they do a phone. And because we’ve only been in this business four years, we don’t really know what the upgrade cycle will be for people. So that’s a difficult thing to call.
On the 2014 iPad lineup
Apple’s selling a lot of iPads currently:
That’s a crapton of iPads. I think the lineup is potentially confusing to customers, and I think there are a lot of factors as to why Apple’s done this.
I think it’s become clear that the iPad is not an upgrade-every-year class of device, but without going to a 5/5S-style naming and upgrade scheme, Apple’s sending mixed messages about what it thinks customers want.
iFixit tears down 2014 Mac mini⇢
Sigh:
We’re starting to feel like the locks on our apartment changed and we weren’t given the new keys…
Apple reports fourth quarter results⇢
Apple:
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2014. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $42.1 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.5 billion, or $1.42 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $37.5 billion and net profit of $7.5 billion, or $1.18 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 38 percent compared to 37 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 60 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
What’s new with iOS 8.1⇢
Federico Viticci:
iOS 8.1 brings bug fixes, speed improvements, and interface changes, but it also enables Continuity features such as Text Message Forwarding and Instant Hotspot, allowing iOS devices to better integrate with each other and Macs running OS X Yosemite. With iOS 8.1, Apple is opening access to its iCloud Photo Library beta – an iCloud service that stores all your photos from all your devices, in a single library that relays changes to every device. And last, iOS 8.1 marks the debut of Apple Pay, the company’s new payment service that rolls out in the US today.
Yosemite’s off-center close button⇢
Yeah, Apple isn’t moving too fast. No way.
On that new Mac mini⇢
Thomas Brand:
The new Mac mini (Late 2014) has no upgradable Memory. Its 4, 8, or 16 GBs of 1600MHz LPDDR3 are soldered to the logic board. A suction cup is required to remove the Bottom Cover. Six T6 security screws are required to remove the Antenna Plate. Each security screw must be replaced before the Mac mini can be reassembled.
This is disappointing, especially as the form factor didn’t change. I would have expected this from a radically different design, but that’s not what we got. The insides may be updated (like that PCIe SSD), but the shell of the Mac mini only changed to make it more difficult to work on.