Mac News and Article Links

   Apple II Site Links

   Classic Macintosh Site Links

   Other Apple-Related Site Links


Mac News

05.24   Mac360   Where Are All Those Android Device Users And What Are They Doing With Their Devices?, Kate MacKenzie: You’ve heard the question, "Where’s Waldo?" Sometime this summer Android OS mobile devices are predicted to top one billion activations. Activations?

05.24   Mac360   How Apple Is Trying To Kill The Folder And Why We Should Be Upset About That, Bambi Brannan: Folders, Wherefore Art Thou?

05.23   AppleInsider   Apple: Samsung shirked FRAND obligations, filed suit before making a licensing offer, Kevin Bostic: Samsung abused its rights as a standard-essential patent holder, Apple said Wednesday, by filing a complaint with the International Trade Commission before even trying to come to an agreement with the Cupertino company over licensing terms.

05.23   AppleInsider   Rumor: Apple to vastly expand color options with this year’s iPhone 5S & low-cost iPhone, Staff: Both Apple’s next-generation flagship iPhone and the company’s anticipated low-cost iPhone will come in an array of colors well beyond the current black and white options, a new rumor claims.

05.23   The Unofficial Apple Weblog   Apple confirms June 10 for WWDC keynote, Steven Sande: Its official. June 10 is the date for the Apple WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote.

05.22   MacNN   Apple Germany now allowing online store payments via PayPal, Staff: Feature may be in testing for broader international launch.

05.22   MacDailyNews   Apple CEO Tim Cook pounds another nail into the Keynesian coffin, Staff: Congress, ever eager to spend money not its own, is bothered that Apple would have the temerity to not expose all of its earnings to U.S. taxation.

05.22   Macworld   Apple says Samsung’s Galaxy S4 infringes on five patents, Loek Essers: Apple wants to add the new Galaxy S4 to an ongoing case involving Apple and Samsung being heard in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose Division, according to a filing with that court on Tuesday.

05.22   AppleInsider   Apple’s iWatch to come in late 2014 with focus on biometrics, analyst says, Mikey Campbell: Noted KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple’s much-rumored iWatch will hit store shelves late next year, not in 2013 as many market watchers expect, with a 1.5- to 2- inch screen, focus on biometrics and deep integration with existing iOS devices.

05.22   AppleInsider   Apple’s iPad dominates online shopping traffic and revenue generation, Neil Hughes: Despite growing competition from other tablets, Apple’s iPad still accounts for a whopping 89.28 percent of e-commerce website traffic, and also rakes in more money on a per-user basis than any other platform.

05.21   Mac360   Apple By The Numbers: Do The Facts Back Up All The Predictions Of Gloom And Doom?, Kate MacKenzie: A recent Bloomberg poll highlights the obvious. Over 70-percent of respondents say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator.

05.21   Mac360   If You Read Consumer Reports, Read The People’s Product Reviews On Consumr Reviews, Wil Gomez: It seems like a generation ago, but back in the day product reviews were difficult to find, and that made Consumer Reports the magazine to have before you bought a product. Sadly, those days are gone, and Consumer Reports today is but a pale imitation of a past life.

05.21   AppleInsider   Google’s Chrome team developing app launcher for Mac, Staff: Google is looking to bring a version of its Chrome OS app launcher to the Mac, possibly as an add-on to the Chrome browser.

05.21   Ars Technica   Tim Cook tells Congress why Apple won’t move $100 billion back home, Joe Mullin: Senators ask why Apple moves profits into an Irish company that pays no taxes.

05.21   iMore   Is Flickr and Vimeo integration headed to iOS 7?, Richard Devine: iOS 6 came with some social integration built in, Twitter and Facebook, and if the latest rumors turn out to be correct we could be looking at social photo and video integration in iOS 7.

05.21   The Unofficial Apple Weblog   Apple still most valuable global brand, Steven Sande: Apple is at the top of the list with a 2013 brand value of just over $185 billion.

05.21   The Unofficial Apple Weblog   Ireland distances itself from Apple’s tax inquiry, John-Michael Bond: These are not issues that arise from the Irish taxation system. They are issues that arise from the taxation systems in other jurisdictions, and that is an issue that has to be addressed first of all in those jurisdictions.

05.20   AppleInsider   Yahoo announces 1TB Flickr accounts, new UI with high-resolution photos, Staff: As part of a special media event on Monday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled major changes to photo management and sharing service Flickr, with full resolution image support, 1 terabyte of storage for each user, and a revamped user interface.

05.20   AppleInsider   AT&T to bring FaceTime over cellular to all customers by end of year, Kevin Bostic: AT&T has announced that all mobile video chat applications, including Apple’s FaceTime, will work over its cellular network by the end of this year.

05.20   AppleInsider   Rumor: Apple testing 1.5" OLED displays for wearable iWatch, Sam Oliver: Development of Apple’s rumored smart watch is allegedly gaining momentum, as a pair of new reports claim the company is testing 1.5-inch OLED screens for a wrist-worn device, and that Foxconn has been contracted to build a trial batch.

05.20   Mac|Life   Apple Stores Broke Revenue-Per-Visitor Records in Early 2013, Leif Johnson: Today we learned from Asymco’s Horace Dediu that Apple’s bringing in more money than ever through its American retail stores (already ranked as the most profitable in the country), and at such a rate that it’s performing more than twice as well as Tiffany & Co., the famed second-most successful retail store.

05.20   Ars Technica   Senate report shows Apple avoided billions in taxes on foreign income, Nathan Mattise: Nothing illegal here, just more of the same standard tax practices big corps employ.

05.17   Ars Technica   MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU refresh, Andrew Cunningham: Waiting for next-generation Air? The stars may be aligning in your favor.

05.17   Ars Technica   Apple CEO: "We’re going very deep" with US manufacturing, Lee Hutchinson: Apple looking at Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Florida, and Kentucky.

05.17   Low End Mac   TenFourFox 17: The Last to Support Plugins?, Simon Royal: The future of PowerPC web browsing is looking even bleaker with the recent announcement of no plugin support in future releases of TenFourFox.

05.16   Apple Press Info   Apple’s App Store Marks Historic 50 Billionth Download, Staff: Apple today announced that customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps from the revolutionary App Store.