MittwochsMacOrama

MacRumors weist darauf hin, dass sich weitere Pepsi/iTunes Gewinnbehältnisse in Umlauf befinden:
"7-11 convenience stores are carrying specially marked (Apple Logo'd) Pepsi cups. Some photos of the cup are shown here."

Erneut wird auch wieder eine Quelle zitiert, die das alte McDonald's-iTunes Promo Gerücht auffrischt:
"Meanwhile, according to one source... the previously rumored McDonald's-iTunes giveaway is reportedly a "go"... with iTunes songs to be given away on specially marked French Fries/Sodas at the popular fast-food chain."
In exakt gleicher Weise dementiert McDonald's:
"McDonalds PR Lisa Howard told Macworld: "As it relates to recent news reports, there are no agreements to announce, so anything else is pure speculation."
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Wired über die Auswirkungen des letztwöchigen G5 Ausschlacht-Hoaxes:

"Andy said his e-mail inbox quickly filled to capacity, with more than 1,300 messages, and an unknown number bounced. The mail he did receive was full of nice, kind thoughts like death threats, insults and all kinds of colorful invective.
"I hope your PC blows up and leaves your miserable face disfigured forever," read one. "You will surely burn in hell for an eternity for this one."
Another said Andy should be hung by his testicles and set on fire."
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Der Independent fragt sich, wer den Digitalmusik-Krieg gewinnen wird, gibt allerdings keine Antwort:

"First, Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs doesn't want to give an inch to Microsoft over WMA. He is greatly enjoying being in pole position while his great rival squirms. Second, the HP deal - putting iTunes, and thus a conduit to the iPod (and encoding in AAC format) on to 20 per cent of new PCs - will give AAC an even bigger boost, reinforcing the first point. Third, anyone with a non-iPod digital player who has iTunes, and buys music from it, won't be able to play it on that player. Will they blame Apple? The player maker? Microsoft? The future success of these formats will depend on the reaction of people who don't care about music formats - but just want their music to play."

Der MacObserver nimmt sich ebenso dem Krieg der Formate an:

"Except that it isn't. Support for WMA on all these other players means next to nothing. Yes, there's potential for Napster 2, BuyMusic, ad infinitum to sell music to people with these other players, but they aren't doing so now, and that isn't likely to change any time soon. Without music downloads, WMA is hardly a distribution method as the vast majority of people are encoding music as MP3s. Indeed, even if all of the other services combined could equal the amount of business Apple is getting through the iTMS, it wouldn't equal the number of CDs ripped to MP3, and songs traded on the piracy networks in any given day.
In other words, if there is a race between WMA and AAC/FairPlay, it's a race for second place, and Microsoft is likely to show.
Format war, schmormat war."
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O'Reilly wirft einen Blick auf die OmniWeb 5 Beta (mehr davon gab es gestern):

"OmniWeb went from rising star to sinking moon because some grumbled that it was too slow and its features were out-of-date. The Omni Group had already committed to a rewrite of the rendering engine for the next version of OmniWeb when Safari was first announced. The Omni Group weighed their options and finally decided to release OmniWeb 4.5 with the WebCore and JavaScriptCore framework--byproducts of Safari--to satiate their users. Then they could bring out OmniWeb 5, leveraging Apple's frameworks along with big user-interface enhancements. It's been a long time coming, but OmniWeb 5 is now available as public beta."
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crutchfieldadvisor.com widmet sich mehrseitig der Frage, wie man seinen iPod ins Auto bekommt.
(via ipodlounge)
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Das ewige Gerücht eines neuen Heimanwendungsproduktes von Apple beginnt erneut zu kursieren:

"Of course, details are absent. Ever since Apple's release of the iPod, there has been speculation on more "digital lifestyle devices". Apple has admitted to working on other projects (Special Projects Group?), but the details are left to speculation at this point."
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Fool.com ist sich zwar nicht klar über Apples langfristige Entwicklung, hält die nächste Zeit allerdings für sehr ertragreich:

"Apple's long-term prospects may be unclear, but the company could do well over the next year. If computer sales remain flat -- iMac and PowerMac sales are sliding while PowerBook and iBook sales are rising -- then the additional moolah from iPods and iTunes could grow full-year revenues by 22% over 2003 to $7.6 billion.
Foolish investors should also take a close look at Apple's balance sheet: Net cash (cash + short-term investments - debt) is $4.48 billion. That means Apple has more than $12 per share in cash on hand. Investors buying in now would get a slice of all of Apple's other operations for a little more than 10 bucks a stub."
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Hoffentlich in den künftigen PowerBooks zu finden: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700. Mehr dazu bei xlr8yourmac.com.
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Safari 1.2 scheint unter Umständen durchaus für schnellere Downloads sorgen zu können, berichtet xlr8yourmac.com:
" Safari 1.2 appears to be about 1MBps faster than the earlier v1.1, which was downloading 64MB test files at 7.6MBps versus the 8.6MBps I observed this morning with Safari 1.2."
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LaCie schiebt das Update Tool 1.1.1 für FW 400/800 Festplatten hinterher, nachdem einige Problemchen mit 1.1 aufgetreten waren.
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Außerdem Wissenswertes aus dem Terminal - heute:
02/04 Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
(Anleitung).