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- AppleTV's True Name Revealed!
With all the hackery going on inside AppleTVs across the country, it's become immediately apparent that Apple has released a device capable of much more than playing digital media in the living room -- they've put out a full-fledged computer...
With all the hackery going on inside AppleTVs across the country, it's become immediately apparent that Apple has released a device capable of much more than playing digital media in the living room -- they've put out a full-fledged computer for dirt cheap. David Scharf of No Substance, All Eloquence took it upon himself to re-christen the delightful box. Awesome.
It does occur to me now -- isn't the AppleTV exactly what the old Columbus rumor was supposed to be, way back in 1997 during the Golden Convergence era of Apple rumor-mongering? Columbus the magic set-top box turned out to be the iMac. But AppleTV really has delivered on the promise of the world's best rumor pipeline -- and only 10 years late.
Via Digg.
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Pete Mortensen - Anonymous Cingular Rep: iPhone Due June 11
Steve Jobs has a funny sense of time, at least as it relates to the release dates of Apple products. "Available today" actually means "You can get one tomorrow." "Shipping in October" means "Shipping on Halloween -- or maybe early...Steve Jobs has a funny sense of time, at least as it relates to the release dates of Apple products. "Available today" actually means "You can get one tomorrow." "Shipping in October" means "Shipping on Halloween -- or maybe early November." Summer has included September before.
So it's quite interesting to see the reports online today that the iPhone will ship on June 11. Jobs announced the product would arrive in June, but I didn't know how much to believe it -- especially given what we know about how unfinished certain of the applications were at the time of the January MacWorld keynote. This isn't a hugely reliable report, of course. We're just relying on the word of an unnamed Cingular rep who might not know the answer -- or who might have just changed the answer by acknowledging it before Steve's ready to put it out in the world.
The date does make a lot of sense -- Apple Worldwide Developer Conference runs June 11-15 this year, so Apple might as well begin by putting their greatest new device into the present and then look to the future of the Mac with the rest of the week.
Apple's iPhone will be released on June 11 | News.blog | CNET News.com
Pete Mortensen - Hackers Keep Opening AppleTV Further
A couple of days ago, the hacking community had done a lot of things with the Apple TV that seemed improbable: Extracting the AppleTV OS to run on Macs, playing unsupported video formats temporarily and booting from USB drives. It's...A couple of days ago, the hacking community had done a lot of things with the Apple TV that seemed improbable: Extracting the AppleTV OS to run on Macs, playing unsupported video formats temporarily and booting from USB drives. It's gone a lot further in just two days, and now keyboards and mice work, and there are even plug-ins to the on-board software that allow the use of the AppleTV interface to work with lots of other video formats, including AVIs. The plug-in is really something, so check the video out.
I bet it's going to be under a month until one of the Insanely Mac guys hanging over at AwkwardTV get Mac OS X to install on AppleTV, officially creating the cheapest Mac ever. How cool will that be?
Pete Mortensen - Apple Launches iTunes "Complete My Album"
One of the enduring knocks on the iTunes Music Store -- other than my set of downloads still not properly authorizing -- is that the a la carte single download model doesn't offer any additional incentives to buy full albums...
One of the enduring knocks on the iTunes Music Store -- other than my set of downloads still not properly authorizing -- is that the a la carte single download model doesn't offer any additional incentives to buy full albums once you discover an artist and want to hear more. If I buy, say three songs off a record, love them and want the rest of the album later on, I pay a penalty. With a 10-track album, no money is lost. On an 18-track album, however, your options are to re-purchase songs you already own to get the $9.99 price or to buy the rest of the record track-by-track and spend more.
But no more. Apple just introduced "Complete My Album," a new service (and launched on a not-Tuesday!) that allows anyone who buys a song from iTunes to then use that song as a credit toward the purchase of the album it came from within the first 180 days. And it's not limited -- you can buy four albums and get $3.96 back from the rest of the album. People have been asking for this forever. Well done, Apple. I can think of at least five times when my fiancee would have used this over the last two years.
iTunes Introduces Complete My Album [Apple Hot News]
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