MacOrama für den 23. November 2004

Es brodelte bereits seit kurzem, CNET liefert nun die offizielle Bestätigung: "Tim Bucher, who became head of Mac product engineering earlier this year, left the company on Nov. 15. An Apple representative confirmed the departure Monday but did not give a reason.[…] "While we search for a new leader, Tim Cook has appointed an engineering management team to lead the organization," the Apple representative said. The team will consist of Apple's design guru, Jonathan Ive, along with Bob Mansfield, Dan Riccio and someone recently hired to lead the electrical-engineering group, whose name Apple did not release."
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Australian IT: "Apple has grown the size of its global developer community by 2 1/2 times over the past two years, with much of the credit going to its switch to the Unix-based OSX operating system."
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Fake oder Realität? Mobile-gadgets.net behauptet, Nokia habe mit dem Neo ein Handy mit Musikfunktion in der Pipeline, dass sich in Aussehen und Funktionalität am iPod orientiert. Das Gerät sei weiß, habe ein Click Wheel und für die Musik 7 MB internen Speicher, erweiterbar durch SD/MMC-Karten. Eines zumindest machen die Bilder deutlich: So stellt man sich eine völlig mißlungene Adaption des iPod vor. (jpf)
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O'Grady's PowerPage mit Details zur angeblichen "FireWire breakout box for GarageBand that Apple plans to announce at Macworld Expo SF 2005 in January. Code-named "Asteroid"." Update: AI mischt mit: "The device, code-named 'Q97' or 'Asteroid,' has been under development at the company for the better part of the year. Typically referred to as a 'breakout box' in the music recording industry, the external audio device attaches to a computer and offers audio inputs and outputs for attaching instruments or other audio sources. Apple is reportedly building the device around GarageBand, its popular application for aspiring musicians."
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USATODAY.com über das Apple Store Konzept und die Genius Bar: "Johnson focused on customer service and thought of Ritz-Carlton hotels as a model for Apple stores. He and a team watched Ritz managers put together new hotels in New York and New Orleans, and out of those visits came the Genius Bar. At the Ritz, "The restaurant bar is a friendly gathering place," Johnson says. "The bartender makes you feel welcome. We thought: Wouldn't it be great if going to a computer store could be as welcoming?"
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CBS Marketwatch: "Broker PiperJaffray overnight upped its price target on Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) stock from $52 to $100 - close to double the stock's price on Friday - citing findings from its own survey of iPod users. "We believe that the remarkable satisfaction with the iPod creates a word-of-mouth wildfire that generates new customer interest in Apple products," the broker told clients." Apples Aktie stieg in Folge um 11% auf ein Vier-Jahreshoch. AP listet weitere Auszüge aus PiperJaffrays Research Note: "The bottom line from our survey is that 13 percent of iPod users in our sample users were formerly PC users that, following the purchase of their iPod, have already either purchased a Mac (6 percent) or are planning to buy a Mac within 12 months (7 percent)," Munster wrote. Taking a conservative stance and accounting for possible error, the analyst cut the estimate suggested by the survey in half, putting at 6.5 percent the expected increase in Mac sales by iPod users and reflecting the rate of carryover in his fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2006 estimates."
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Die Freeware Senuti liegt frisch in Version 0.21 vor (Danke, Mario!): "Senuti is a simple utility that makes transferring songs from an iPod to your computer quick and easy. It reads information from the iTunesDB file located on your iPod in order to quickly retrieve information on all of the songs on your iPod."
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