Applecouldbuy out all but one of its mobile phone competitors , the companymightnot acquittance any new Macs until Lion add up out , and maybe — just maybe — Quicken 2007 could still work on Lion . It ’s potential that Dan Moren is driving off into the wilderness of upstate New York right on now , but the remainder for Friday , June 17 , 2011 , are most unquestionably sound nowhere tight .
Apple could buy the mobile headphone industry(Asymco )
Asymco ’s Horace Dediu describe that he look Apple to have over $ 70 billion in cash at the end of its second quartern ; with it , the company could conceivably acquire every unmarried one of its nomadic phone competitors except Samsung ( which is valued at a more or less more modest $ 53 billion ) . While I ’m sure Apple would love to buy up these company and get its hands onthose Nokia patents , perhaps we ’re guilty of not think big enough . Apple ’s waited this long ; why not await a few more quarters and store up the full $ 120 billion it would take to buyeverysmart phone competitor on the planet ? They ’ll never see it coming .
Apple better charge against Samsung , assert more intellectual property right wing against more products(FOSS Patents )
Speaking of rival , Apple ’s courting against Samsung look at another step fore on Friday , as the party rephrased its complaint to insert more self-assertive lyric , accusing Samsung of “ slavishly copy ” Cupertino ’s iPhone and iPad line . Several new gadget have been added to the list of infringing products as well , including the Droid Charge , showing 4 thousand , Galaxy Ace , Galaxy Prevail , Galaxy S , Gravity , Infuse 4 gram , Nexus S 4 M , Replenish , Sidekick , Galaxy Tab 10.1 , and Galaxy S II . When we call Samsung for remark , we find cling on hold for hour , listen to a bootleg recording of Apple ’s voice mail system .
Apple may freeze new Mac introductions until tone ending of Mac OS X Lion(AppleInsider )
Why is n’t Apple releasing any fresh hardware correctly now ? fit in to a source who talk to AppleInsider on Thursday , it ’s all Lion ’s fault . Apple executive have reportedly made the conclusion to give customers the “ latest and greatest Apple experience”—namely Macs running Lion — rather than having to explain why glistening novel mannikin are n’t shipping with the very latest Mac experience preinstalled . Having worked at an Apple Store after an upgrade cycle and contend with more than my fair share of complaining customers , you recognize what I call that?Common good sense .
Quicken 2007 might work on Lion , not right away(The Mac Observer )
Quicken 2007 , dead in Lion ? Maybe not . Mac Observer CEO Dave Hamilton took the metre on Thursday to chitchat with Intuit VP Aaron Patzer about the senesce PowerPC program . As - write , Quicken would not be able to run on the next version of Mac OS X thanks to the elimination of the Rosetta imitator ; however , harmonise to Patzer , Intuit is working with Apple to license the Rosetta libraries and imbed them into Quicken 2007 , so that users could still theoretically still use the programme after an acclivity to Lion . While I do n’t in person see the appeal in patch together an old software , I suppose old habits exit hard . On the hopeful side , at least no one ’s litigate Apple over the death of Rosetta . ( Yet . )
Product News :
MainStage 2.1.3 – This update to Apple ’s Logic Studio program program ameliorate constancy and posit an issue where Audio Unit plugin presets were incorrectly displayed , where incoming MIDI sounds were force to conduct 1 , and piece a problem that could cause the programme to resign when using Undo after deleting a temporary hookup . Free for all MainStage drug user running OS X 10.5.8 or later .
