Samstags-MacOrama für den 21. Mai 2005

"Lesbian Files Sexual Orientation Discrimination Lawsuit Against Apple Computer" - Ohne Zweifel die Headline des Tages, direkt aus der Pressemeldung des Anwaltsbüros: "The amended complaint, filed on May 16, 2005, alleges that Shaune Patterson was suspended for one month and then subsequently wrongfully terminated from her position, after she complained that her white counterparts, who were junior to her, were making higher salaries than she was. Patterson alleges that the suspension came one day after she complained of racial discrimination." (via macdailynews)
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Warum der iPod Marktführer ist und vorerst bleiben wird:

Nichts könnte es besser verdeutlichen als das Pressebild des Creative Zen Neeon (via Engadget).
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iBook Widescreen Gemurmel, mal wieder aus dem taiwanischen Untergrund: "Apple has recently added Quanta Computer as an OEM supplier of its iBook (formerly only Asustek supplied iBook), with orders for 14.1-inch widescreen models to ship 4Q05. Quanta also makes some Apple PowerBooks. Asustek will ship the iBook 15.4-inch in 2006, as well as the 12.1-inch iBook and 12.1-inch PowerBook (a large majority of Asustek's OEM notebook shipments are for Apple)."
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Macwelt und iPodfun.de liefern zur Mac Expo in Köln ein eigenes Messe-Blog.
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Ein eigenes Kontrollfeld für Disk Image Einstellungen verbirgt sich im Ordner /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskImages.framework/Versions/A/Resources . Dort zu finden ist das DiskImages.prefPane, welches sich per Doppelklick in die Systemeinstellungen verpflanzen lässt. Die Einstellungen selbst sind eigentlich nichts Neues (endlich keine checksums Verifizierung mehr): zu finden sind sie für gewöhnlich in den Prefs des Disk Utility, aber in den Systemeinstellungen scheinen sie einfach greifbarer. Gefunden bei macosxhints.
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Peter Burrows schreibt in der Business Week über den durch Yahoo durcheinandergewirbelten Markt der Musikabos: "Then there's the iPod: The most popular player doesn't work with existing subscription services. Compatible players will have to get a whole lot cooler before people start buying them. Says Jupiter Research analyst David Card: "There's only one device that matters, and you can't use it with Yahoo's music service."
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Cringely über Gates Zukunftsvorhersagen: "Even the most powerful industrialists with the biggest bets on a particular version of the future can at most influence where things are going. We saw Bill Gates do that recently when he predicted the ultimate demise of the iPod at the hands of mobile phones. Because we'll eventually all carry phones, Bill argued, and because smarter and smarter phones will do more than just make phone calls, we'll have no need for an iPod. That's the impeccable logic of a man who makes mobile phone software and has no horse in the portable music player race. He's trying to influence the future, not predict it. That's a subtle difference, I'll grant you, but it is a difference. And if you'll look at Bill's record for predicting the future, it is mainly about influencing, and therefore, hasn't been very accurate. Mine is better." Der Rest ist ebenfalls lesenswert, es wird weiterhin beständig über einen iTunes Movie Store und Apples Einstieg ins Unterhaltungsgeschäft spekuliert.
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Peter Kinne packt PowerBooks (und iPods) in Holz. (via Boing Boing)
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Charles Arthur hat sich für The Reg durch iCon gequält geschmökert und liefert den praktischen Schnelldurchlauf: "So OK, here's the skinny on Steve Jobs, to save you reading this book. Started Apple by dint of knowing Steve Wozniak who was brilliant engineer, and having instinctive negotiating skills; screwed up; got pushed out, started hopeless computer company which his wild ideas almost ran into the ground. Meanwhile got intrigued by little film graphics company which would have gone down the pan too but for the brilliance of one person, John Lasseter, whose imagination and drive meant everything Pixar had produced had been touched by magic. Wozniak gave Jobs his first push skywards; as he plummeted back to earth, Lasseter gave him a gravitational slingshot up again. Rocketed heavenwards by Toy Story, floated Pixar, became billionaire, rejoined Apple, took credit for predecessor's work, basked in glow, screwed up a bit, realised error of ways, saw potential of music, bought iTunes, produced iPod, survived cancer (so far), basked some more in new glow. Now sitting pretty on intriguing nexus of computers, animated films and digital music. Has ambitions to do something that will be the terror of all mankind, though none shall know what." (via mac.delta-c)
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Die ebay-iCal-Brücke Baywatch (mehr dazu hier im fscklog) liegt neu in Version 1.0beta3 vor und bringt, neben Unterstützung für weitere Browser, Tigertauglichkeit mit.
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MPlayer 2.0b8r5: Rekompiliert für 10.4.