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Porque é que andam todos doidos com o possível novo Tablet da Apple?

Apple has 98% market share—in Antartica in June: "Posted by Dennis Sellers

Mac OS X was the operating system of choice for 98% of the population of Antarctica in the middle of this year, according to StatCounter, which tracks global web analytics. That figure is now down to 40% for November, though the site doesn’t explain why."

Será que isto está relacionado com as 3 avarias de Macs que houve no mesmo período lá em baixo? Who cares?

Nine ways of looking at a Google phone: "

The long-rumored gPhone has surfaced, but no one can agree about what it means

The purported Google phone. Photo: Cory O'Brien

Honestamente já era tempo do Google entrar nesta corrida como gente grande! E principalmente agora que Apple está entretida legalmente com a Nokia, acusando-a de infringir as suas patentes... o Google pode ter uma oportunidade de ter bastante impacto no cenário dos telemóveis. Ou seja, entre Google, Apple e Nokia o mercado dos telemóveis cada vez mais relega os construtores japoneses, coreanos e afins para um segundo plano. Afinal estas companhias Europeias / Americanas estão a provar que o factor diferenciador é o software... algo que não pode produzido em massa...

Mac OS X 10.6.2 update breaks Hackintosh netbooks: "Netbooks offer a much more cost-effective hardware platform than the pricey Apple hardware
Users who want the Mac OS X experience on a netbook budget have figured out how to hack the Mac OS X operating system to force it to work on netbooks based on the Intel Atom processor. The latest update to Snow Leopard removes support for the Atom processor and puts an end to the “hackintosh” - at least for now."

Investor Carl Icahn quits Yahoo board:

Apple Discontinues ZFS Project: "Zaurus writes 'Apple has replaced its ZFS project page with a notice that 'The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly.' Apple originally touted ZFS as a feature that would be available in Snow Leopard Server. A few months before release, all mention of ZFS was removed from the Apple web site and literature, and ZFS was notably absent from Snow Leopard Server at launch. Despite repeated attempts to get clarification about their plans from ZFS, Apple has not made any official statement regarding the matter. A zfs-macos Google group has been set up for members of Apple's zfs-discuss mailing list to migrate to, as many people had started using the unfinished ZFS port already. The call is out for developers who can continue the forked project.' Daring Fireball suggests that Apple's decision could have been motivated by NetApp's patent lawsuit over ZFS."

Apple Unveils the Magic Mouse:

Today Apple revealed the Magic Mouse — the world’s first multi-touch mouse. Inspired by the multi touch technology in the iPhone and trackpad on modern MacBooks, Magic Mouse is the zero-button, gesture-sensing, wireless pointing-device of your dreams.

A Apple parece apostada em eliminar tudo o que mexa num computador... qualquer dia serão as teclas... mas para já é a vez do Magic Mouse? O MM também poderia ser de Mickey Mouse, atendendo à proximidade do Santo Steve com a Disney dos bonecos...

A verdade é que os lançamentos de hoje não se ficam só por aqui... houve uns iMacs, uma renovação do Mini que agora também é Xserver, e dos Macbooks, que voltam a parecer mais "ovalados"... Tudo na semana em que os lucros da Apple dispararam:

EyeTV app pulled from App Store for ability to stream over 3G: "EyeTV featured some test code that enabled users to stream live TV over the cellular network -- a no-no as far as Apple and AT&T are concerned. So the TV streaming app has been removed from the App Store. "

Dictionary Cleaner lets you edit your spell-check dictionaries: "Dictionary Cleaner is a System Preferences pane that lets you edit Mac OS X's custom spell-checking dictionaries. "

Mac Pro to get exclusive on six-core, 32nm Xeons?: "

Apple may have a temporary exclusive on Intel's fastest workstation Xeons early next year, a purported leak argues tonight. An unnamed source says Apple is readying a Mac Pro based on the Xeon version of Intel's Gulftown six-core architecture and that the Mac builder would have a short exclusive for the processors, launching its own workstations in the winter while everyone else would have to wait until the spring. What configurations would ship aren't known by the MacBidouille tipster.... "