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How not to design your packaging

This video has been around for a while, but I’ve just run across it. Besided showing the difference between how Apple and Microsoft approach their customers, it’s just bad design.

Apple’s approach is to make a product that people love to use because it is well designed, easy to use and looks great. [...]

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The Case for SSDs in New MacBook Pros

The Case for SSDs in New MacBook Pros: “
Killer Quote:
The author is betting that with twice the storage at half the price, in the span of just 9 months, Apple will take the plunge, follow Dell’s lead and offer this decent sized SSD across the entire MBP product line.

Since when has Apple ever followed Dell’s [...]

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Rogers makes new BlackBerry plans official

According to The Boy Genius… Rogers makes new BlackBerry plans official:

This, to me anyway, is a pretty good indicator that Apple is dictating data plan terms. If not just to Rogers, then to most telcos. We all know that if it were up to Rogers (or any provider) there would be no [...]

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Rogers reevaluating plan pricing ahead of iPhone 3G

From a piece over at Infinite Loop, Rogers reevaluating plan pricing ahead of iPhone 3G

Rogers COO Nadir Mohamed told the National Post. “We’ll be changing our prices to reflect that.” He added that Rogers is looking to make its pricing more flexible and easy to understand, and hopes to “drive the adoption of mobile [...]

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iPod Touch Suffering Supply Shortages

In the past product shortages are one of the first signs that an Apple product is readying for an update. They have to do something to make the iPod Touch more appealing with the upcoming release of the iPhone 3g. This is probably the first sign.

iPod Touch Suffering Supply Shortages

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iPhone 3G: What is A-GPS?

I was watching the keynote the other day and noticed that when Steve was talking about the GPS capabilities of the new iPhone he was mentioning cell towers and wifi. I went to the Apple site and noticed this:

The Podophile blog and Gizmodo seem to have cleared things up a little. iPhone 3G: [...]

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.Mac Down

Seems the .Mac services are down.  Can’t get into my Web Mail or address book.  Jives with one rumor.  Just waiting for the redirects to me.com or mobileme.com.
Update:  It appears to be back up and the same as before.  Maybe just a hickup?

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XP sp3 trashing computers

Ars technica is reporting that the xp sp3 endless reboot problems are due to driver and hardware issues.
and people complain that Apple owning the end to end experience from hardware to OS to software is a bad thing.

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.Mac “2.0″ in the works?

The Unoffical Apple Weblog as a report of the total redesign for .Mac to coincide with the roll out of the iPhone 2.0.
The two hight points they mention are:

Full over-the-air syncing including calendars, contacts, and email (similar to Exchange)
.Mac syncing on Windows

If either of these items is true, it is a huge win [...]

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The future of VMWare and OS X

So I was at a VMWare seminar recently and the System Engineer presenting made an interesting comment while talking about VMWare Update Manager.  He listed off the companies who’s products it will patch and at the end of his list was Apple.  Now I know Apple EULA for 10.5 allows for running the OS virtualized [...]

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