Some months ago, the Internet was abuzz with the news that Apple had killed the Mac mini. Except that Apple hadn’t — the littlest Mac was still on sale, even if it’s tech was starting to look a bit long in the tooth. The site that started the rumor, AppleInsider, posted a comment stating full confidence that the Mac mini was going to kick any second.
Except it hasn’t — Apple quietly updated the product to current Core2 Duo processors. You can even get a Mac mini with a 2Ghz chip, which seems pretty far from a DOA product. Despite abundant evidence that the Mac mini has been a consistent seller for Apple, and that the line won’t get killed any more than today’s new iMacs “killed” the product line they replaced, AppleInsider still claims that the Mac mini will die real soon now.
While AppleInsider remains confident that Apple ultimately intends to phase out the diminutive Mac, the Cupertino-based firm quietly updated existing models with faster processors on Tuesday.
Well, of course Apple will ultimately phase out the Mac mini. But it won’t be a sudden pulling of the plug on a laggard product line. It will be the gentle retirement of a successful run of years. They’re flailing for hype. Nothing to see here.
Apple’s media event today, August 7th, was supposed to be exclusively for the announcement of the new iMacs. So it was, as Steve Jobs demonstrated a sleeker, more feature packed, sexier version of the iMac ever seen. He also announced a slew of software updates such as iLife, iWork and .Mac online service. However, one of the updates that would interest iPhone users is that Apple has fully integrated .Mac Web Gallery with iPhone, so you can view all your photos and movies from wherever you are, and even post photos right from your iPhone….
Apple's architecture does not allow non-Apple people to write and run programs on the iPhone. However, hackers are hacking on that architecture by attempting to run non-iPhone programs on the iPhone. Apple only allows to run code from the Safari browser. But as you can see in this stream, hackers are already able to run Nintendo games on the iPhone. However the performance is not pretty but it's a start. informationweek.
And while Erica deserves mad props for the iPhone Voice Recorder, we do wonder why Apple couldn?t do what an iPhone end user can do in a few hours, while by-passing iPhone?s restrictions for 3rd party programmers (that were created by Apple to keep them out of there) at the same time? Download link below.
