The new iPod Nano is both fat and thin, the iPod Touch is just an iPhone without the phone, and the iPhone with the phone is cheaper now. That’s what Apple announced yesterday, packed into one sentence.
Archive for the 'Apple' Category
Apple is announcing a big event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on September 5, 2007. Damon Darlin from the New York Times’ Bits blog has a list of rumors as to what Apple might be announcing:
1. iPods
2. Beatles music
3. New wide-screen iPods
4. Logic 8, iPod tablet or ultra-light laptops
5. WiFi iPods
Personally, I think Apple TV could use some promotion.
This is Apple’s famous Ridley Scott-directed 1984 commercial which introduced the company’s Macintosh computer to the world:
There is an extensive video tour online on Apple.com that introduces the company’s new iPhone to you. It takes about 20 minutes. Enjoy. The iPhone will be in stores on June 29.
There is a lenghty but very interesting article, written by John Heilemann, in the New York magazine that quotes an anonymous person saying that Google might acquire Apple.
“I think that Google is going to buy Apple,” this person says. “It would be a victory for Apple; they’d get major-league partners, money, and engineers. And it would be a victory for Steve—a huge win that lets him leave the stage.”
This doesn’t sound very far-fetched. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on the Apple board, engineers from both companies are developing Google Maps for the iPhone and Apple has a deal for their Apple TV service with Google-owned website YouTube.com.
Link: Steve Jobs in a Box
According to Apple, their Safari web browser was downloaded more than 1 million times in the first 48 hours after it was made available online. A beta version of Safari is now available as a version running on Microsoft Windows. Here’s the press release:
Safari for Windows Public Beta Downloads Top 1 Million in First 48 Hours
CUPERTINO, California—June 14, 2007—Apple® today announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari™ for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday. Safari 3 is the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use browser, and is available as a free download at www.apple.com/safari.
Safari 3 is the fastest browser running on Windows, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2, based on the industry standard iBench tests.* Safari 3 supports all modern Internet standards including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and Java. Safari updates are delivered seamlessly through Apple’s Software Update, and the first update for Safari for Windows Public Beta which fixes some early reported bugs was released last night.
Safari 3 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256 MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.
*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. Testing conducted on an iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Windows XP, with 1GB of RAM.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and will enter the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.
On Monday Steve Jobs will be speaking at Apple’s developer conference in San Francisco. He will probably tell us more about Leopard, new iPods and the iPhone, which will be shipped to AT&T in the USA on June 29. But Fred Vogelstein from Wired.com says he believes Steve Jobs will also announce a partnership between Apple and Google. Both companies have been hinting about this for months. Apple TV even has a channel for the Google-owned website YouTube. A partnership would make perfect sense, because Apple is far behind on his online services, although the company produces very popular hardware products. Google, on the other hand, has both a very good hardware and great popular Internet offerings. If Apple and Google partnered they would also form an alliance against Microsoft, which tries badly to get into the profitable market of Internet search and targeted ad links.
- Wired Blogs: A big Google-Apple partnership next week? Bet on it.
- GigaOM: Apple+Google: Now That’s Hot
