Thursday, January 12, 2006

Intel and More Inside. Saving the best for last is the old saw Steve Jobs lives by when it comes to addressing his Macworld audeinces. As Daniel Steinberg reports from Macworld SF 2006, Jobs spent the first 90 minutes of his keynote on Apple's sales revenues, additions to two of the iApps and the introduction of a new one, and more, before casually mentioning the PowerBook is being replaced by the Intel-powered MacBook Pro. As Daniel puts it, for Jobs, this is "pure theatre." Read Daniel's extensive report on all of Jobs' announcements. By webmaster@oreillynet.com (Daniel H. Steinberg). [Mac DevCenter] comment []9:48:29 PM

Study: Firefox restricted by incompatible Web sites. Survey of 100 leading U.K. consumer Web sites found that 3% turned away users of browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer, while another 7% used code that could be rendered only in IE. [Computerworld News] comment []9:22:39 PM

Sun and Apple almost merged three times - Bill Joy. Your iPod is an answering machine - McNealy Sun Microsystems tried to acquire Apple once and then almost merged with Apple on two other occasions, according to Sun co-founder Bill Joy. Beyond these deals, the two companies almost teamed on three other projects including sharing a user interface and the SPARC architecture. The moves were cheered by Apple fan Joy, while Sun's CEO Scott McNealy appeared less impressed with some of the proposals.âo[oe] [The Register] comment []2:36:38 PM

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