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Mercury News: Apple should think differently about suit

An article in today’s Mercury News by Mike Langberg is worth a read. An open letter to Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer: Dear Steve, I urge you to Think Different in your attitude toward Web sites that publish leaked information on Apple’s upcoming products. I’m not going to repeat at […]

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Gillmor: The Gathering Storms Over Speech

Former San Jose Mercury News technology columnist Dan Gillmor has posted an opinion piece (“The Gathering Storms Over Speech“) on Apple’s attack of the independent online media: Apple Computer’s disgusting attack on three online journalism sites, in a witch hunt to find out who (if anyone) inside the company leaked information about allegedly upcoming products, […]

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Midnight Missive: What Makes You an Apple User in 2005?

If Apple is right – many of you are reading this staring at a beautiful flat screen (over 40% of them portable) and probably running a version of OS X with most of your room now doused in the ubiquitous silver and white. We all cheer when Apple gets it right, we love when they […]

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Apple Ditches FireWire in Favor of USB, Worlds Collide

In probably the most surprising move in the announcement of the new iPods yesterday Apple has unbundled the FireWire cable in favor of (Gasp!) USB. Has Steve Jobs lost his mind? Read More…

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iPod Opinion

Is the Monochrome iPod on the way out?

It looks to me like the US$349 30GB iPod Photo is a much better deal than the remaining 20GB monochrome iPod at US$299. You have to love U2 or the color black to get the US$349 20GB U2 edition. It looks like Apple will simplify the iPod line shortly to just three players: the Shuffle […]