T he Baltimore Sun has published an outstanding, and exclusive, interview with Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple. The interview was conducted by David Zeiler as part of his weekly Mac column for the Sun called The Mac Experience. The interview took place in Baltimore after Mr. Wozniak attended the 25th anniversary of the Maryland Apple…
Bryan Chaffin
Bryan Chaffin is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and co-authored the last two updates of iPad and iPad Pro for Dummies with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus and Ed Baig. You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, or find his Twitter link below.
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Guardian (UK) Profile Apple's Jonathan Ive
Yesterday we reported that Jonathan Ive had been named Designer of the Year by the UK’s Design Museum. Relating to that development, and the £25,000 prize that went with it, The Guardian, a prominent UK newspaper, has published a story about him that is part news article, part profile, and part interview. Mr. Ive is…
QuickTime 6.3 Released With Several Improvements
A pple has released QuickTime 6.3 today. The new version includes several improvements, including… The release notes are so brief, weill just let Apple say it directly: QuickTime 6.3 delivers a number of important updates, including: Automatic detection of streaming transport Improvements to DV audio and video synchronization Enhanced support for Keynote, iMovie, and iDVD…
Apple Drops PowerBook Prices As Much As US$300
A pple has dropped the price on the 12″ and 15″ PowerBooks by as much as US$300.Price drops are for all four 12″ and 15″ models, making the 12″ product line start at just US$1,599, a US$200 drop. The 15″ line now starts at US$1,999, some US$300 less than yesterdayis price. The 15″ SuperDrive model…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For Inside Mac Games
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for our friends at Inside Mac Games at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can…
iTunes Updated: Internet Sharing Access Disabled [Updated]
[ Update: We received e-mail from some astute Observers who questioned the wording of the release notes for iTunes 4.0.1. Our original report said that the update included better AAC report, but that appears to not be the case. While the notes (see below) list better sound as a feature of version 4, the only…
Microsoft Pursues Business-As-Usual Competition To iTunes Music Store
Microsoft is quietly preparing a music service of it’s own that will compete with the iTunes Music Store (iMS), according to a C|Net report from Evan Hansen. The service, originally supposed to be revealed back in January of this year, will most likely be a subscription-based model, similar to other label-sponsored services like PressPlay and…
A Few Of Her Favorite Things: Oprah Gives iPods To Everyone In Audience
CKQUOTE> Raindrops and roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and 15 GB iPods… That may not be how the original song goes, but when youire Oprah, you can sing it any way you want. According to Observer Randy Souther, Oprah likes iPods so much, she recently gave each and every single person in…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For ClubMac: Mac Bundles, Software, Storage, More
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for ClubMac at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at least in…
Pixar-Apple Connection: Apple Promotes Finding Nemo Game
M any people have wondered when Apple and Pixar would begin working together a bit closer. When Pixar chose an Intel-powered Linux rendering solution to replace its Sun render farm, some of those wondering thought never. Then again, Mac OS X is being used in the work flow at Pixar, so perhaps not all is…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For J&R
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for J&R Computing at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at least…
2 Million Songs Bought From iMS, 4,300 New Songs Added
I t took a couple of more days than the first million tunes, but Apple has announced that some 2 million songs have been downloaded and paid for at Appleis iTunes Music Store. The 2nd million milestone took just 16 days, with the company having sold one million songs during the first seven of those…
Apple Updates Hot Deals: Photo, DV Cameras, More
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for B&H Photo-Video at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at least…
Forbes (Sort Of) Throws Fuel On PowerPC 970 Speculation
An interesting blurb hit Forbes early Friday evening concerning Apple. The mainstream financial and business magazine mentioned Apple and IBM’s upcoming PowerPC 970 in its "People To Watch" piece for this week. Forbes says that "rumors are starting to build that Apple Computer is closer than previously thought to releasing a computer with a new…
Apple Updates Hot Deals: Pro DV Equipment, New Specialists Offers
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for ProMAX and Appleis networks of Apple Specialists retailers at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that…
iTunes Music Store Sells One Million Songs In First Week, To Add 3,200 More Songs Tuesday
Apple has made it official. The company has announced that more than one million songs have been purchased online in the new iTunes Music Store. The company also says that half of the 200,000 titles that are available were purchased at least once. Backing up the announcement is statements of support from Roger Ames, chairman…
Microsoft's MSN's Business In The Toilet
M icrosoftis business, at least in the UK division of MSN, is apparently in the toilet. Literally. Keep in mind that there are roughly 1,726 other jokes we could have made, but that one seemed the safest. In any event, WebUser UK is reporting that MSN is preparing to release the iLoo. Now, a "loo"…
Apple Updates Hot Deals: Macromedia Offer, Mac Bundle Deals, Software, More
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for its own Apple Store, MacMall, and CompUSA at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one…
Apple Shareholders Vote Against Management On Expensing Options
A quiet revolution took place at yesterday’s Apple shareholder meeting. AAPL shareholders voted for a shareholder initiative that would have Apple counting employee stock options as an expense. Currently, companies are legally allowed to not expense options, something that helped contribute to the boom of the 1990s. Corporations large and small offered their employees compensation…
Interested In QuickTime? "Hang Loose" With Frank Casanova In New WWDC Movie
A pple has posted another QuickTime sales pitch for the upcoming World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). The WWDC is Appleis annual gathering for Mac developers, and this yearis event effectively has what used to be QuickTime Live! rolled into it. That means that QuickTime gets a much bigger light to shine at the WWDC than…
Air Traffic Controller: Windows Crashes Turn Flight Plan Delivery Into Manual Affair
I n a column today, I took JetBlue to task for “standardizing” on Windows and Microsoft software. A good many Observers then took me to task, largely telling me to get over myself. Having been doing this as long as I have, such criticism is not in the least unexpected, but when I got a…
Apple Updates Hot Deals: Cameras, DV Cams, Projectors, & Software
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for MacWarehouse at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product Guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that one can only get, at least in…
The USPTO Issues Three New Patents To Apple
A pple was granted three new patents yesterday by the US Patent and Trademark Office. These patents were all applied between 1999 and 2001, and all are programming patents. The first was for a "System, apparatus and method for spatially sorting image data in a three-dimensional graphics pipeline." Filed: August 20, 1999 Granted: April 22,…
Apple Updates Hot Deals For Business, Sound, & O'Reilly Books
A pple has updated the Hot Deals page for the Apple Store for Business, AudioMIDI, and OiReillyis at the Macintosh Product Guide. The Mac Product Guide is a list of Mac compatible hardware and software products on the market. The Hot Deals section of the Product guide feature several Mac retailers and special offers that…
