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Word on the street is Apple is already hard at work on Snow Leopard, the successor to Leopard.
According to sources:
Snow Leopard is currently on track to come out during next January’s Macworld, and it will not contain major OS changes. Instead, the release is heavily focused on performance and nailing down speed and stability.
Snow Leopard will be an Intel only release.
Maybe scandal isn’t the right word, but it comes close.
TUAW is reporting not only that the supposed leaked iPhone picture shown to the left is real, but that the iPhone 2.0 firmware will not be shipping at WWDC. Okay…does this mean the firmware upgrade won’t be available right away from existing iPhone users, but that it will still be shipping on the new 3G iPhone?
If the leaked image turns out to be real, what are your thoughts?
Looks like the rumors were true! Apple announced today that they will be offering students a free iPod touch or iPod Nano with the purchase of a Mac computer (Mac Mini excluded of course).
My question is simple, why would you ever pick an iPod Nano over an iPod touch?
And the Mac community has already started speculating that this is part of Apple’s efforts to rebrand .Mac‚Ķ
I’m not a big fan of micro-blogging, I have a Twitter account that’s been logged into three times since I signed up for it.
Plurk (if you hadn’t guessed already) is the new Twitter contender, even though it’s just another micro-blogging service I classify it as a contender from the standpoint that it was developed with scalability in mind. Oh snap.
As Twitter experiences more and more downtime, expect Plurk to gain a following. It won’t be an overnight success, but it certainly stands a good chance at making an impact.
If you like, you can follow the hijinksinc channel on Plurk by signing up using this link.
Except it’s not.
It’s a nice thought that the revamp of .Mac will yield a brilliant and usable service to connect everything in your digital life, but the likelihood of that happening just isn’t very high.
Colin Pape of Seeking Alpha thinks that Mobile Me (or .Me as some are calling it) is going to be the magic bullet for Apple, and it will suddenly tie all their products together. I’m sure that’s what Apple is aiming for, but they’ve neglected .Mac for so long that I’m not sure an overhaul and a new name is going to be enough to breathe life into it.
On the other hand, some rumors suggest that Apple will be turning .Me over to Google for a portion of it’s revenue. Though with Steve’s ego, I find this hard to believe. It’s a nice idea though, imagine a Google run service that would allow for unlimited email/file storage and instant syncing of your contacts/calendar/photos/email/music from your phone (iPhone or Android) to the web, and your home or office computer.
While the promise of an easy solution all in one place is nice, why pay for it? Nothing .Mac currently offers is worth the yearly fee, you can easily find free or cheap alternatives to most everything it offers.
Only time will tell I suppose. I’d be more than happy to be wrong on this, the more innovative products and services Apple launches the better.
[ In the interest of full disclosure, I currently hold stock in Apple ]
E*Trade was kind enough to raise their interest rates mid-May, and I also had a CD account that matured, so my interest income is up significantly this month.
Yielding a healthy $169.40 for the month of May, easily surpassing my $100 goal for the month.
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