Macintosh & Apple

The holidays are once again upon us. And every year I'm asked by various friends and family what kind of computer they should buy. Being an Apple fan, I always direct them to the Apple product line. Yes, they are a bit more expensive than their PC brethren but to me they are worth the extra cost. Before anybody jumps on reliability issues, I've seen hardware problems on both sides of the PC/Mac war. But hardware aside, at the core of every Apple lies OS X which was designed by Apple to work flawlessly and seamlessly with its hardware.

Self service, drag and drop application provisioning store, combined with desktop personalization features, give end users more control of their virtualized desktops.

A judge ruled today agreed with Apple's  in its copyright-infringement case against Psystar, the unauthorized seller of Mac clones running Mac OS X.

There had been some questions as to whether or not Apple would kill support for Intel's Atom chips in today's 10.6.2 release. Last week it was reported that the latest 10.6.2 builds had new kernels that wouldn't work on Atom chips.

Today we find out that Apple indeed has cut support for Atom Chips.

An Australian, Rickrolling iPhone worm is now spreading internationally. The Antipodean prankster goes by the names Ash, ikee, ikex, ike_x, or @ikeeex. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers admire their new Rick Astley wallpaper, complete with "ikee is never gonna give you up" macro. Not to mention etsy.com fail...
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AT&T is already suing Verizon because they believe that Verizon is misrepresenting their service in their latest ads. Wait until they get a load of the newest round of ads, headlined by the 'Misfit Toys' ad (below).

Ten pros and ten cons for choosing the Droid over other phones like the iPhone, the Pre, the G1 or a Blackberry.

Apple's iPhone App Store, as long expected, passed the 100,000 app mark today.  Apple has been counting down the milestones since the store opened, last mentioning 85,000 in a conference call last month.  There are some interesting trends developing, however, that put that number into perspective.

Has Apple decided that among its top potential customers for switching to a Mac are Windows 7 pirates? Based on ads that Apple is buying on Google that might be the case --- search for "download Windows 7" and you'll see an Apple ad urging PC users to switch to the Mac. But search for "buy Windows 7" and you'll see no such ad.

Now you can jailbreak and unlock your iPhone -- even a 3G or 3GS with OS 3.1.2 or baseband 05.11.07. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers bow down and worship George "Geohot" Hotz. Not to mention really strange black & white photos...
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AT&T is suing Verizon for their recent "There's a map for that" ad campaign.  They complain that the maps that Verizon publishes could confuse people (even though they are clearly stating "3G Access") into thinking the white spaces on the map represent areas where AT&T doesn't have coverage.

Has Apple tweaked the new build of Snow Leopard to prevent you running Mac OS X on a netbook? Reports say that it won't run on Intel Atom hackintoshes any longer. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it's a deliberate block or just a side-effect of something else. Not to mention movie timelines...
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MediaMemo today reported that Apple has been shopping a $30/month, all you can watch TV service to the networks that would compete with Hulu and to a lesser extent cable.  The service would be built into iTunes and run across all of Apple's products.  To me this has tablet written all over it.