Kyle Baxter:
…naturally I’ve also been thinking through how syncing should work. This seems like an easy question to answer: iCloud. If only. I wish it were that easy, but it’s not.
As a user, I want iCloud implemented in everything I use. However, for developers, there are reasons why iCloud doesn’t make sense yet.
Rene Ritchie:
One of the worst things a company can ever do is mistake their products for their business. Products come and go. If you mistake your product for your business, when — inevitably — that product goes, your business goes with it.
Apple evolves its products as technology allows, giving users a new way to do things. Other companies try desperately to hold on to a successful product and milk it for all its worth. Consumers are becoming more educated and see stunts like that for what they are.
Ted Landau has a nice overview on how things are going, good and bad.
Very interesting chart.
Alex Brooks has a nice look at what he expects for future Retina Macs.
It doesn’t just happen to Retina displays, but I’d be pissed if this happened to me.
Sounds to me like this is a no-brainer purchase.
Rags Srinivasan:
If Apple sees no change in total number of units sold from the current quarter, this ASP bump will still result in a minimum additional profit of $200 million. If you include net new purchases and higher percentage up-sells, this number could easily become $1 billion in additional profit.
Matthew Panzarino:
By a huge margin, the number one request by these developers was for Apple to allow them to respond directly to reviews on the App Store.
I agree.
I haven’t used Drobo since the first version, but this looks really nice.
OSXDaily’s benchmarks show that the new MacBook Air dramatically outperforms its predecessor in the area of SSD operations.
Gruber got this right calling the Netflix API changes a “huge shit sandwich.”
Ars Technica:
Though the new 15″ Retina MacBook Pro has probably garnered the most attention this week, Apple did refresh its existing MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines. If you’re in the market for a 13″ model, it can be tough to decide between the Air or Pro, especially since prices for both start at $1199.In what follows, we explore the general ramifications of the difference between the two, for those of you who can’t wait for a more in-depth examination. This is only going to be part of the story, but our two lead characters reveal most other hand by their specs alone.
If we gave you the money (we’re not going to so don’t ask), which one would you choose?
Macworld Lab Test:
The MacBook Air models rolled out as part of this week’s complete overhaul to Apple’s laptop line include next-generation Intel processors, faster integrated graphics, and USB 3.0 connectivity. And the latest models show a marked increase in performance, according to Macworld Lab’s tests.
Small, sexy, powerful – what more could you want?
Interested in what the new MacBook Air and the Retina Display MacBook Pro look like when they’re taken apart? IFixit has the deets.
Apple on Tuesday confirmed for The Loop that an email posted to the Mac Rumors forums was in fact from company CEO Tim Cook. Cook responded to a customer’s concerns about the Mac Pro and emailed him directly. The email … Continued
Apple PR has further clarified statements from executives about the Mac Pro and iMac’s future.
David Pogue says an Apple executive told him that redesigns to the Mac Pro and iMac are coming in 2013.
I met with Apple after its WWDC keynote today to get one of the new Retina display MacBook Pro notebooks. I thought I’d give a quick rundown on some of the features and my thoughts before posting a more in-depth review. […]
Apple just announced the winners of this year’s ADAs at Moscone West. The winners are as follows: […]
The Retina Display MacBook Pro has made the 17-inch MacBook Pro an anachronism, which is probably why Apple quietly put the latter model to rest this week.
The Mac Pro got a very minor refresh on Monday, with a 12-core system replacing the 8-core standard configuration clocked at the same speed.
Apple unveiled refreshed MacBook and MacBook Air models, with a 15.4-inch “Retina Display” version also available.
Shawn King and Macworld’s Lex Friedman talk about Mac App Store sandboxing.
The folks at Macworld have a great story summarizing Tim Cook’s conversation at D10 last night. Cook talked about Steve Jobs, the Apple TV, Macs, iPad, and a number of other topics.
John Moltz:
But how far does my respect for Windows 8 go? Well, would it surprise you to know that I wrote this entire article on Windows 8? It should. Because I didn’t. I wrote most of it on my MacBook Pro and my iPad.
John is a funny guy.
Dell posted first quarter sales, earnings, second quarter revenue guidance — you name it — well short of expectations Tuesday, sending shares of the Round Rock, Texas technology company were down more than 12% in after-hours trading.
Maybe they could bring back the Streak.
Ben Brooks:
A widely adopted, seamless, fast, robust iCloud is the greatest threat to Apple’s competitors — and this time around I think Apple knows it.
iCloud is becoming the center of everything Apple wants to do with it’s devices, whether it’s a Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.
John Gruber:
So the reason Apple TV doesn’t show up in Freewheel’s data is because it doesn’t show any ad-backed video. Freewheel’s data isn’t about online video watching — it’s specifically about ad-backed online video watching.
I don’t understand how people can draw conclusions from data like this. Gruber gets it right.
Eric Slivka:
The new features, expected to be announced at Apple’s world-wide developer conference beginning June 11, will allow iCloud users to share sets of photos with other iCloud users and to comment on them, these people said. Currently, users can only store one set of photos in iCloud through a feature called Photo Stream, which is designed to sync those photos to other Apple devices, not share them.
The original story is at WSJ, but that story is for subscribers only, so enjoy it at Mac Rumors.