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by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
"That's why," David Pogue wrote about iMovie '08, "with what I imagine is a certain degree of sheepishness, the company is offering a free download of the previous iMovie version to anyone who has iMovie '08."
"I can't remember any software company pulling a stunt like this before: throwing away a fully developed, mature, popular program and substituting a bare-bones, differently focused progam under the same name."
Anybody remembers Word 6? Microsoft threw away a perfectly fine working user interface and replaced it with, well, yuck. I wasn't there, but from what I understand, a lot of people downgraded back to Word 5.1.
iMovie '08 is looking like Apple's Word 6.
by David Pogue, New York Times
It's not iMovie at all. It's designed for an utterly different task, and a lot of people are screaming bloody murder.
by Charlie Sorrel, Wired
by Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet
Have you seen Apple's packaging lately? It keeps getting smaller and smaller.
by Philip Michaels, Macworld
As intriguing as an iWork-versus-Office storyline mayb e in some quarter, the realities of the marketplace seem to nip any would-be feud in the bud.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Everytime I use my bluetooth mouse to turn off Bluetooth on my MacBook, I always feel like commiting assisted suicide. :-)
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
iWeb 2.0.1 'addresses issues with upgrading and publishing iWeb 1.x websites.'
by Reuters
by MacNN
by Mike Elgan, Computerworld
They haven't officially arrived there yet, but that hasn't stopped people from renting them, cloning them or selling unlocked models.
by Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek
Businesspeople and others who use their phones regularly for text messaging are likely to experience lots of frustration in using the Apple iPhone, at least in the short term, a research firm said Thursday.
by Aidan Malley, AppleInsider
A Bay Area resident is the next to join the ranks of those filing lawsuits against Apple and AT&T, arguing that both companies have tricked customers into paying for frequent battery replacements.
by Gina Sunseri, ABC News
Every astronaut on the space shuttle Endeavour has an iPod. NASA certified the MP3 players for flight about a year ago. Astronauts used to carry CD players, but iPods are better because they are smaller and weigh less.
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld
If you work with large data models, rely on Excel's macros, or some of its more advanced functions and features, you probably won't be migrating all your work to Numbers just yet—at least not with this first version. You may still find Numbers useful for smaller projects, though, as its ability to quickly create stunning reports could help you win some clients or promotions.
by Ryan Block, Engadget
Sources at retailers are telling us that Apple is slowing down iPod shipments, strongly suggesting the company is running out its current stock to make room on shelves for new product.
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No iPod At Apple?, by Chosunilbo. Apple Korea has recently been telling customers looking for the hot selling gadget that they have no more iPod available. Officials don't even know when they'll get new supplies.
by MacFixIt
by Daniel Drew Turner, eWeek
by Scott Gilbertson, Wired
In suggesting that developers use the web to build iPhone applications, what Apple has done (perhaps inadvertently, perhaps not) is force the creation of a subset of the mobile web that only works with the iPhone's unique features — namely the touch-screen interface.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Edward C. Baig, USA Today
by Dan Frakes, Macworld
by Joe Kissell, TidBITS
by Wlater S. Mossberg, AllThingsD
iWork simply isn't as powerful or versatile as Microsoft Office, especially when it comes to word processing and spreadsheets. And it suffers from a design that places far more emphasis on making documents look beautiful than on the nuts and bolts of the actual process of writing and number-crunching.
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