Mac OS Ken

Mac OS Ken: 02.09.2010

ken@macosken.com — Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:11:00 GMT

French Site Nowhere Else Says New MacBook Pros Today / Rumor Says Best Buy Has Cleared Current MacBook Pros from Inventory / Mozilla Reportedly Dropping Tiger Support in Future Firefox Builds / Battery and Playlist Issues Reported by Some with Latest iPhone Firmware / iPhone Dev Team Jailbreaks Latest iPhone Firmware / iResQ Says Next iPhone Could Be a Little Bit Taller / Apple Reportedly Surveying App Store Developers on App Store / AT and T Launches Free NBC Winter Olympics App / Analyst Says Apple Could Get More Aggressive on iPad Pricing / AppFund Launches to Forster Apps for iPad / WSJ Exec in iPad/Twitter Flap with Jobs / Please download the game Demonless for iPhone and ipod touch from the App Store

Mac OS Ken: 02.08.2010

ken@macosken.com — Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:22:00 GMT

Apple Ships New Snow Leopard Build to Developers / Benchmarks and Scuttlebutt Point to New MacBook Pros Soon / Apple Nixes Location Based Ads in Apps / Wired Examines the Reasons for microSIM in iPad / Axiotron Founder Stresses iPad is NOT a Tablet / iPad Gets Charlie Rose Show Lovefest

Mac OS Ken: 02.05.2010

ken@macosken.com — Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:41:00 GMT

AT and T OKs SlingPlayer App for 3G / Credit Suisse Analyst Says AT and T Likely to Keep iPhone Exclusivity in 2010 / O2 Says It Has Sold 2 Million iPhones in the UK / New iPhone SDK Indicates Play and Record of HD Video for Future iPhone / 27 Inch iMac Firmware Update Seems to Solve Flickering Issue for Most / Microsoft Lowers Zune HD Prices to Better Compete with iPod / Sony Hints at Possible iPad Competitor at Some Point / Amazon Reportedly Buys Touchscreen Maker to Better Compete with iPad / Another Owner of the Name iPad Turns Up in Europe / Apple Brings iTunes Preview Feature to Apps / Apple Changes Podcast Pages in iTunes / Apple Adds Valentine’s Day Promo Section to App Store / Apple Reportedly Asks Developer to Nix Android Mention from App Description / Many Accounts Spot Steve Jobs in Manhattan

Mac OS Ken: 02.04.2010

ken@macosken.com — Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:15:00 GMT

ABI Research Sees 57M iPads Sold a Year by 2015 / Needham Analyst Guestimates iPad Sales / Analysts Worry Over iPad and AT and T 3G / Obama Administration Official Worries Over Wireless Networks in Face of iPad / Citrix Touts iPad as Windows 7 Thin Client / Ars Technica Says Late 2009 Mac Pros Hit Poor Performance While Processing Audio / Google Enables Multitouch for Nexus One / New iPhone SDK May Hold Codename for Next iPhone / Rumors Surface of Second Manufacturer for Fourth Gen iPhone / Skype Explains Delay on 3G/VoIP iPhone App / IDG Releases App for Macworld 2010 / Jobs Reportedly Says Apple TV is Still an Experimental Hobby / TUAW Sees Potential Wizbang Remote for Apple TV in Patent Filing

Mac OS Ken: 02.03.2010

ken@macosken.com — Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:25:00 GMT

US Senator Queries Apple and 29 Other Companies Over Dealings with China / Apple Updates Display Firmware for 27 Inch iMacs / Apple Spokesman Denies 27 Inch iMac Production Issues / Apple Tweaks Security and Reliability with Update for iPhone/iPod Touch / iPhone Firmware Update Stymies Jailbroken and Unlocked iPhones / Softbank Calls iPhone Biggest Contributor to Excellent Quarter / Gameloft Sees Big Sales Growth in App Store Titles in FY2009 / Munster Sees Higher Average Selling Price for iPad Apps / Adobe Says Flash Ball for iPad in Apple Court / OGrady Calls BS on the Apple Stance on Flash / OGrady Calls Horse Hockey on the Apple Stance on Flash / Talks Rumored to be Ongoing Between Apple and Verizon for iPhone and iPad / Wired Looks at Possibility of Camera for iPad / Ars Technica Outlines Handwriting and Video Conferencing Rumors for iPad / TechCrunch Hears Talks of Completely Different iPad / Gruber Calls BS on TechCrunch / French Site Stokes Speculation of New Mac Pros Soon

Mac OS Ken: 02.02.2010

ken@macosken.com — Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Analyst Sees Apple Owning 7 Percent of Low End Computer Space By End of 2011 Thanks to iPad / Sony Exec Says iPad Will Drive Buyers to PSP / NPD Says Apple Owns Almost All of Premium Computer Market in US / Rumor of Temporary Production Halt on 27 Inch iMacs / Magical iPhone Both Gains and Loses Market Share in States / Apple Releases iTunes Update with Bug Fixes / Colbert Sports iPad at Grammys

Mac OS Ken: 02.01.2010

ken@macosken.com — Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:58:00 GMT

Broadpoint AmTech Guestimates Huge Profit Margins for iPad / Orange and O2 Reportedly Order Large Numbers of micro SIM Cards / Nintendo CEO Talks Down iPad Announcement / Microsoft Exec Downplays iPad and App Store in General / Netflix CEO Says No Plans for App for iPad / Joe Hewitt Sings the Praises of the iPad (for Which He Will Apparently Code) / DigiTimes Says Netbook Makers Shaken by iPad Intro / Chinese Company Says Apple Copied iPad Design from It / Apple Sued Over Patents Supposedly Violated in iPhone / Morgan Stanley Analyst Sees 5M iPhones Sold in China a Year (with Some Pretty Big Ifs) / Jobs Cupertino Town Hall Meeting

Mac OS Ken: 01.29.2010

ken@macosken.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:08:00 GMT

Analysts Respond to 1QFY2010 for Apple / BroadpointAmTech Analyst Praises Apple for iPad / Morgan and Canaccord Analysts High on iPad Potential / Other Analysts Examine Apple in Wake of iPad Introduction / 3G or Not 3G / Defective by Design Protested at iPad Event Before Knowing What it Was / NYT Pogue Says Do not Knock or Praise the iPad Until You Try It / Apple Lifts VoIP Over 3G Restriction from iPhone SDK / Adobe Bashes Apple for Lack of Flash Support on iPad / Wired Says a Lack of Flash for iPad Does Not Matter / Prices Out for Apple iPad Accessories / NYT Weighs Cringe Factor Against Name iPad / Fujitsu Says It Still Wants iPad Name / Fine Print Says iPad Not Yet Approved by FCC / The iPhone and AT&T and the Holiday Quarter / IDC Says Symbian and Android to Top Mobile OS Space in 2013 / Apple Updates Aluminum Keyboard Firmware / US ITC Investigating Nokia Claims Against Apple / Flight Control for iPhone and iPod touch Passes 2 Million Sales / Game Maker Firemint Working on iPad-Specific Version of Flight Control

Mac OS Ken: 01.28.2010

ken@macosken.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:44:00 GMT

A look today at the introduction of the iPad and word from inside the event with Clayton Morris

Mac OS Ken: 01.27.2010 (fixed)

ken@macosken.com — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:40:00 GMT

Countdown to MacTabletNetbookThingy with Vernon Reid of Living Colour with the audio corrected - sorry and thanks

Mac OS Ken: 01.27.2010

ken@macosken.com — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:05:00 GMT

Countdown to MacTabletNetbookThingy with Vernon Reid of Living Colour

Mac OS Ken: 01.26.2010

ken@macosken.com — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:06:00 GMT

Today we take an close look at 1QFY2010 for Apple

Mac OS Ken: 01.25.2010

ken@macosken.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:31:00 GMT

RBC Analyst Talks Tablet Expectations / Fortune Outlines What the Street Expects from 1QFY2010 Call from Apple / Bernstein Analyst Says iPhone Sales Expectations May Be Too High / Report Says Third Beta of Snow Leopard Update Out to Developers / Web Logs Show Online Testing Increase for Next Version of Mac OS X / Munster on 3G and Year One for the MacTabletNetbookThingy / Apple Said to Be in Talks with Publishers McGrawHill and Hachette and Wiley and Pearson for Tablet Content / Daring Fireballer Gruber Plays Name That MacTabletNetbookThingy / Jobs Reportedly Calls Tablet Most Important Thing He Has Ever Done / Vodafone UK Sells 100k iPhones in Eight Days / Apple Opens Third German Store in Frankfurt

Mac OS Ken: 01.22.2010

ken@macosken.com — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:17:00 GMT

Apple Store Online Shows 3 Week Delay in 27 Inch iMac Shipment / Apple Reportedly Talks to Microsoft About Replacing Google on iPhone with Bing / Oppenheimer Analyst Says Swapping Bing for Google Would Be Huge Mistake / Google CEO Speaks Well of Apple Despite Rivalry Talk / Motorola Plans 20 to 30 Android Phones for 2010 / CNET Sources Says Apple Proposing Online Lockers for iTunes Music / iLounge Says 2X Dock Connectors and 1st Gen iPhone Look for Tablet / Clayton Morris Says Apple Talking with Both AT and T and Verizon About Tablet Support / AppleInsider Says the Tablet Looks Just Like a First Gen iPhone / ChangeWave Survey Shows 18 Percent of People Pretty Much on Board for the Tablet / Amazon Announces Development Kit for Kindle / White House Releases Official App for iPhone and iPod Touch / Man Uses iPhone and First Aid App to Survive Haiti Earthquake / App Claims to Decipher Cries of a Baby

Mac OS Ken: 01.21.2010

ken@macosken.com — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:20:00 GMT

Wu Says No 3G and 1K Dollars for MacTabletNetbookThingy / Northeast Securities Analyst Says Verizon to Be 3G Partner for Tablet / The Guardian Says Apple Talking with UK Wireless Carriers About Carrying Tablet / WSJ Says Much of What You Have Heard is True / Six Largest Publishers Meeting to Talk MacTNT / Amazon Announces 70/30 Revenue Plan for Publishers Ahead of MacTNT / Jesus Tablet Says the MacTabletNetbookThingy Is Likely the iPad / MacNN Explains Fujitsu and the iPad Name / Barclays Says the Real Deal for 2010 is a New iPhone

Mac OS Ken: 01.20.2010

ken@macosken.com — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:18:00 GMT

Deloitte Says Tens of Millions of TabletThingies to Be Sold in 2010 / TheStreet Dubs Amazon and Apple the Two to Watch in eReaders / All Things Digital Wonders Who Besides Apple Will Be on Stage Next Week / MacRumors Finds Recent Trademark Activity Worldwide Around iPad / Gruber Says MacTabletNetbookThingy Not Going to be Called iPad / Shaw Wu Says Tablet Shipment Could Be Delayed Until June / Apple Shares Up Over 9 Bucks Tuesday on 27 January Event News / BGR Has Four Rumors About iPhone OS 4 / iLounge Has Words of Warning About BGR / A Look at 1Q FY2010 Mac Sales Estimates / Munster Sees Higher Number of iPhones Sold in 1Q Than Does Wall Street / Apple Releases Security Updates for Leopard and Snow Leopard / Apple Updates Boot Camp for Windows 7 Along with Other Windows Updates / Vodafone UK Has 20 Partners to Sell iPhone and is Adding 20 More / AdWeek Collects All 66 Get a Mac Ads on One Webpage

Mac OS Ken: 01.19.2010

ken@macosken.com — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:12:00 GMT

Apple Event Confirmed for Wednesday 27 January / Clayton Morris Source Says Three Possible Areas of Focus for 27 January Event / HarperCollins Rumored to Be in Talks with Apple for eBooks on Tablet / OLED Association Manager Says Probably No OLED nor AMOLED Panles for Tablet / Commercial Times Says 22 Inch Touch Computer Coming from Apple in 2010 / AT and T Reworks iPhone Plans After 100 Dollar Unlimited Voice and Data / Skype Updates iPhone App and Says It Is Ready with 3G App as Well / One Thousand Dollar BarMax CA App Hits App Store / Numbers Indicate Apple Sold Over 99 Percent of Mobile Apps Last Year

Mac OS Ken: 01.18.2010

ken@macosken.com — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:32:00 GMT

Credit Suisse Ups Q1FY2010 Expectations / AVI Securities Says MacTabletNetbookThingy Production in Full Swing / Psystar Appeals Permanent Injunction Ruling / Apple Files with ITC to Bar Import of Nokia Phones / Top Corporate Lawyer at Apple Bids Adieu / AT and T Drops Unlimited Voice and Data for iPhone to 100 Dollars / Electronista Gets Art That May or May Not Show Testing of Verizon iPhone / iTunes Takes Donations for Haiti Relief

Mac OS Ken: 01.15.2010

ken@macosken.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:19:00 GMT

Yet Another Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple and AT and T Over MMS / AT and T Plans to Add Second Layers to 3G Service / Vodafone UK Ships 50k Preordered iPhones on Day 1 / Goldman Hardware Analyst Says Next iPhone Casing Could Include Magic Mouse Touchiness / Motorola CEO Says Most Future MotoPhones to Support Multitouch Soon / Apple Launches MobileMe Gallery App for iPhone and iPod Touch / Eastman Kodak Sues Apple and RIM Over Certain Camerphone Features / BusinessWeek Examines the New Apple Focus on Acquisitions / Apple Patent Points to Stylus for Touchscreen Devices / Valleywag Gets Cease and Desist Over MacTabletNetbookThingy Scavenger Hunt / Intel Apologizes for Core i5 MacBook Pro Slip Up / Woz and the Other Phone / 17 Year Old Arraigned for Fake Bomb Threat at Staten Island Apple Store

Mac OS Ken: 01.14.2010

ken@macosken.com — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:20:00 GMT

Intel Promo Email Indicates Core i5 MacBook Pros Coming Soon / Apple Insider Says Retail Experts to Hit Apple Stores Within Weeks / BGR Tosses More Slate Rumors on the Pile / Adobe Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader / LG Reduces Windows Mobile Plans for 2010 in Favor of Android / Apple Yanks Games Not Approved by Korean Govt from Korean App Store / Stanford Brings iPhone App Development Course Back to iTunes U / Forrester Deems iTunes Better Than Most Things and Not As Good As Others

Mac OS Ken: 01.13.2010

ken@macosken.com — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:44:00 GMT

Apple Posts 2010 Proxy Statement Online / TG Daily Source Says Apple Consuming All 10 Inch Screens for MacTabletNetbookThingy / Apple Pulls Fingerworks.com Content Down / Gruber Says He Hears No Camera of Any Kind on the MacTabletNetbookThingy / French Site Says Fourth Gen iPhone Set for Release in May / Korea Times Runs Down Rumored Specs of Fourth Gen iPhone / Former Apple Exec Avie Tevanian Joins Elevation Partners / Tevanian Says He Will Spend Almost No Time with Existing Elevation Clients Like Palm / Rumors Have Wal Mart Eyeing Vudu Buy as Online Video Play / eMusic Lands Older Warner Music Albums

Mac OS Ken: 01.12.2010

ken@macosken.com — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:42:00 GMT

Apple 1QFY2010 Conference Call Set for January 25 / Apple Insider Says Apple Seeking LED Flash Components for Fourth Gen iPhone / Imagination Shows Off SGX545 at CES / Apple Patent Points to Thinner and Less Expensive Touchscreen Technology / France Telecom Says Orange France Sold 200k iPhones in December / France Telecom Exec Seems to Confirm MacTabletNetbookThingy Then Seems to Not / Hitwise Says Searches for Apple Tablet Spike in December / Microsoft to Patch Office for Mac to Comply with Custom XML Injunction / Apple Updates Remote Desktop / IDG Says Macworld 2010 Registration Equal as of Now to 2009 Attendees / T Mobile and Google Investigate 3G Issues with Nexus One / Google Sued Over Nexus One Branding

Mac OS Ken: 01.11.2010

ken@macosken.com — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:40:00 GMT

Barclays Capital Ups Apple Price Target / Broadpoint AmTech Analyst Says MacTabletNetbookThingy to get 3G from Verizon and Possibly Others / Unnamed Reuters Sources Says Aluminum Tablet Shells to Ship Next Month / Ashok Kumar Says No Intel Inside Mac Tablet Netbook Thingy / TheStreet Says PA Semi to Power MacTabletNetbookThingy / Silicon Alley Insider Beats Up on Ballmer and His CES Tablet Demo / Palm CEO and Former Apple Exec Jon Rubinstein Says He Has Never Used an iPhone / iTunes Preview Site Gets Song Samples / Apple Posts Minor Bonjour Update / Apple Insider Says New Snow Leopard Build in Widespread Testing / IFO Apple Store Says New Sydney Store in the Works for Mid 2010 / Apple Said Working on New Prototype Store for Palo Alto / Facebook App Update Adds Push Notifications and Contact Syncing / LA Area Cops Suspect Crime Ring in Mac Thefts / Apple Moves Up in Greenpeace Ranking / Greenpeace Gives Large Gold Stars to Apple and Small Gold Stars to Others

Mac OS Ken: 10.30.2009

ken@macosken.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:27:00 GMT

Apple Updates Apple TV and iTunes and Remote and Retail and everything