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App Store Numbers Misleading?
Apple’s Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, recently pointed out that Apple receives more than 10,000 new app submissions each week. Yes, every seven days Apple receives a volume of new apps equivalent to the Android Market. Schiller cited this statistic to explain how Apple is somewhat a victim of its own success and that with so many submissions sometimes apps fall through the cracks.
According to Mobclix.com, more than 100 million apps are downloaded from the Apple app store each month. Doing the math based on the number of iPhones users, that means that iPhone users download an average of 11 apps per month.
Chrome-Ready Hardware
The Eee PC 1008HA Seashell is the best netbook on the market if you want to run Chrome OS today.
Ted Landau Claims ‘Apple’s Mac Pro is Dead.’ I’m Gonna Go Ahead and Disagree
Ted Landau of the Mac Observer wrote a piece yesterday titled Mac Pro: R.I.P. in which he said:
Given these numbers [the benchmarks for the new i7 iMacs], why bother with a Mac Pro? Personally, I can only think of one and half reasons — neither of which will drive a large number of sales. The one reason is internal expandability. If you want three internal hard drives and two internal optical drives and an upgraded graphics card, you need a Mac Pro. The half reason is the display. The iMac has a great display. But if you want more flexibility, including the option to replace your initial display without having to get a new computer, you may prefer a Mac Pro.
What’s New in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
On the Kindle Firmware Update
You can now read for up to 1 week on a single charge with wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for up to 2 weeks.
That’s an 85 percent increase in battery life. I’d say someone screwed up on the earlier versions of the firmware.
Hackintosh Builder Uses an Xbox Case
WordPerfect Lives to See Another Day
In a desperate bid for survival, long-time office software maker Corel has agreed to a takeover by its majority investor, Vector Capital, a move that could help keep classic software packages such as WordPerfect and CorelDraw around as Microsoft Office alternatives, at least for a while.
It continues to surprise me how many people still use WordPerfect.
‘The First Apple Mouse That Doesn’t Suck’
Wired’s Brian Chen nails it. I totally agree — I enjoy using my Magic Mouse, which is something I never thought I would say about a pointing device.
iPhoto 8.1.1 Released
If you imported photos of people while using iPhoto 8.1, there’s an extra step you should take after installing the 8.1.1 update. Select all those photos, Control-click to open the contextual menu, and then choose Detect Missing Faces. This will redetect the faces in those photos and correct any face recognition issues introduced in iPhoto 8.1. You should not quit iPhoto during the Detect Missing Faces process.
Core i7 iMacs Cracking in Shipment?
Apple’s new Core i7-based iMac might be a performance monster, but it looks like the whole family’s having some problems getting out of the gate: in addition to the previously-noted performance issues with the Core 2 Duo models, a quick glance across Apple’s support forums and on other Mac boards around the web reveals that some machines are showing up DOA and / or with cracked screens. We’re a little more familiar with the DOA issue, since the new i7 we just bought doesn’t boot at all, but the cracked screen issue seems to be equally common and mostly affecting the bottom left corner, from what we can tell. Now, our review Core 2 Duo 27-inch iMac is perfectly fine, and Chris Ziegler’s new Core i7 machine doesn’t have any problems either, so these obviously aren’t universal issues, but if you’re about to stick one of these under the tree for someone it might be wise to do some surreptitious testing first.
Web Apps Just Aren’t the Same
The argument that you can make iPhone web apps that are “good enough” misses the entire point of iPhone apps — the entire point of the iPhone itself, even — all of the things that drive Twitter users to pay $3, $4, or $5 for apps that do the same things that can be done for free by loading Twitter’s web site in MobileSafari. “Good enough” is not good enough on the iPhone.