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FWIW $50M/year is ~0.2% of Disney's revenue (they made ~$30B/year for the past few years). Definitely not chicken feed, but not earth shattering either.

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That's revenue not profit, their profit was $5 billion in 2005 so $50M is about 1% of that, remember that the money from iTunes is practically all profit as their are no real costs for Disney (other than giving Apple a few video files which probably costs $100 000 a year maximum.)

What I don't get is why can't Apple enable any iOS device (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) as an Airplay target device? Obviously iOS supports it as Apple TV can be a target for Airplay from iTunes.

There are apps for AirPlay.

Perhaps you have not heard of this thing call the App Store. :rolleyes:

minimum post requirements suck, if you've been lurking for years, but never post you still can't post in the marketplace. sorry this is OT

As someone looking forward to buying my very first Mac desktop; I must say this is a pretty lame rumour. 'Sandy Bridge'? 'Thunderbolt'? Nothing surprising; everyone here was expecting these two items. I want more specific rumours!:p

The wait continues...:(

I hear the Magic Mouse it comes packaged with will have double the retinas as previous models.

Backlit keyboard is a must... That alone would keep me away from teh MBA

wait, now conroe is "widely expected" in the powermacs? I thought woodcrest was... I still think it will be:

mac pro - woodcrest
xserve - woodcrest
imac - conroe
macbook pro - merom
macbook - merom (but months later)
mini - merom (but months later)

We shall know soon! :)

sorry about that. story updated.

arn

Looks like 2012 is the year to get the Ivy Bridge Macbook Pro :D

I'm hoping for iMacs because I could care less about downloading Movies. Hell the only TV I download are the free eps. Unless you can get me 5.1 surround, DVD quality for a monthly fee that is less than Netflix... well, Netflix is still king to me. :)

I'm a Green Peace supporter, but with Bush in the Whitehouse, don't they have bigger fish to fry?

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Psyched! Late April, Early Nay would be perfect timing for me to pick up a brand new iMac. :)

if samsung stops providing displays to apple, it would be the best thing ever..NO MORE YELLOW TINT ISSUES!!!

yellow tinted displays are from LG i believe. in fact i don't think samsung supplies displays for iphone/ipad/

I'm pretty sure there will countless companies willing to take on Apple as a new customer.

Willing but are they able?

Desire and Ability don't always come together.

In Korea, they even run the government through many arms.



And you think US is run by our govt? Nope, people on wall street. try again, samsung hater.

Isn't there an aftermarket for this?

Not a real solution. Most people who want matte want the MBP type of option, no glass and real matte screen.

still no blu-ray drive? iMacs should have blu-ray burners by now!
oh well, maybe with the next update...

I was there yesterday, and all Greenpeace did was hand out leaflets at the entrance to people entering the Expo at the Olympia. Hardly the actions of a "militant eco-group". I honestly didn't see them do anything else out of the ordinary, especially compared to other stand-holders who also roamed freely around the exhibition giving out leaflets etc.

I saw them in the pub across the road in the afternoon, and they looked they were having a hasty meeting about what had transpired. One would assume that "chucking them out" is only going to have an adverse effect on the publicity Apple receives about its attitude to "green issues" (although in this instance it wasn't Apple themselves that had Greenpeace removed, instead it was the MacExpo organisers).

Its a real shame, as they weren't doing any real harm, I think they have probably been harshly treated in this instance!

back here in the UK Hoover were able to trade mark Hoover as their name despite the fact that hoover is the generic term for a vacuum cleaner!

Well, we ask for a "Kleenex", not a tissue.

We drink a "Coke", not a soda.

We use a "Band-Aid", not an adhesive bandage.

We like to "Roller Blade", not inline skate.

Although we don't "Hoover" here in the United States, I think "Hoover" falls into the "Coke, Kleenex, Band-aid, etc." catagory in England.

Apple Green Ipod,

The funny part is, no matter what Apple does to make this work, whether its really usable, or totally locked-in-worthless, it doesn't matter.

Streaming will never be as good as audio stored on your device. Not. Ever.

Not on 3G, not on 4G, and not even over WiFi. The software and streaming protocols are way too slow to offer even comparable performance.

I'll stick with syncing/file storage.

you're probably the guy that's mad that apple tv is not 1080p even though content isn't available. lol

have you used airplay? it works awesome.

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Don't these senators have actual work to do. Hands off douchebags. Bad enough you want to regulate the interwebz.

So get this while you can...

Creative's stock up 30% in after-hours trading. The $100 million is a drop in the bucket for Apple, but it will certainly help Creative...

Yeah, but at least Apple doesn't have to worry about any more lawsuits

Not really. Creative was going broke. This was the best possible outcome for them.

To Apple it could have made all the sense of a business deal.

Imagine the lawyers:

"Ride it out and you may win or you may lose and it'll cost you $200-250 million.

Pay up now, get Creative on board, don't appear to be the bad guy and close any issues with patents - now and in the future - for $100 million."
Actually there are two other reasons why Apple settled.

What if Creative was bought by Microsoft, then without a settlement they could have continued the suit.

Now that Creative has money they can sue others (Microsoft) who also planning on infridging on their patents.

Wonder how long this item will remain here...the one on Engadget managed about 7 minutes. ;)

I stopped at the Apple store this morning and tried out the 24 inch iMac and the Mac Pro. These are sweet machines. No did not buy anything.

The systems both had 1 gig on them and I compared them to a MacBook Pro. One weird thing.... the 24 incher had some stuttering on the iMoviedemo they all had. However the second time I tried it it was smoth as silk. I think it was not cached in memory and since the second time it was it ran smothly. I was also plesantly surpriced that the 24 incher screen was very readable at it highest setting even with my bad eyes. Nice screen realstate and resolution with nice easy to read fonts.

Im still waiting for Leopard to release these powerful anymals of their chains. By them the systems will be even better, maybe even incluse Santa Rosa.

The Greenpeace Apple micro site
http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/
is surely a good thing for Apple.
It is organisations like Greenpeace who are driving the agenda, because goverments and manufacturing companies are too complacent.
They should be welcomed with open arms at Mac Expo:rolleyes:

OK. hang on. back the f&6king truck up.


maybe we're backwards here. but i have NEVER, EVER heard of ANY kind of phone service where INCOMING calls are anything BUT free (excluding reverse-charge, obviously).

Im sorry, but if you all accept crappy CDMA phones specific to a carrier, and paying for incoming calls, you are kidding yourself if you think you are anything but backwards. (i wont go into the whole metric thing :P )

Sprint has free unlimited incoming calls. Also some providers have unlimited incoming and outgoing calls if you don't travel beyond your city.

Also CDMA isn't crappy it offers higherspeed than HSDPA while using less spectrum.

CDMA Rev A offers 3.8 down and 1.8 up in only 1.25 mhz of spectrum versus HSDPA of up too 14mbps down and 2 up in 5 mhz of spectrum. But with Rev B which is a software upgrade CDMA will have around 16mps down and 10mbps up in 5mhz of spectrum.