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By Wilson Rothman This isn't about photos and music. Apple TV is better at both of those than any of this stuff. It's also not about renting movies or buying movies, or even streaming movies from Netflix. Roku has a nice cheap box for that, and Apple TV is suitable if you just want to live inside Steve Jobs' media st...

By Charles Jade As an iPhone user held hostage in AT&T’s network by the exclusivity agreement with Apple, the arrival of the AT&T 3G MicroCell felt like being rescued. Four weeks later, I now realize only Verizon can do that, but my updated assessment of the 3G MicroCell is still positive, mostly.

By Charles Jade As an iPhone user held hostage in AT&T’s network by the exclusivity agreement with Apple, the arrival of the AT&T 3G MicroCell felt like being rescued. Four weeks later, I now realize only Verizon can do that, but my updated assessment of the 3G MicroCell is still positive, mostly.

By Wilson Rothman 6. No DivX "This file was not transferred because it is unable to be played on Apple TV." Steve Jobs once said that only 4% of music on iPods came from iTunes. A lot of movies that would be nice to play on Apple TV simply don't, while H.264 is an option on Handbrake and other personal-use DVD-encodin...

By Wilson Rothman 5. Photos Still Require a Sync I don't quite understand this quirk of Apple TV: While music and movies I don't sync to the local drive still appear as long as they're in iTunes on my Mac, the photos that live on that same Mac are off limits unless I physically sync them. The alternative is to share...

By Ross Miller Throw this thing on Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile, and you've got a whole new wave of Palm customers; as it stands, who's really buying this with the Pre just $50 away?Verizon chief says offering the iPhone is Apple's call HTC You ad campaign unveiled (update: video!)Apple Tablet rumor r...

By jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) Magic Mouse, iMacs, Mac minis lead Tuesday Apple update bomb: 27-inch iMacs! Mac minis as servers! New cheap MacBooks! A magical new mouse! Apple opened the floodgates this morning with a bushel of new hardware updates—which should set the company up for a blingin' holiday season.

By Brian Lam The larger case allows the iMac to use four sticks of user-serviceable RAM, accessible from the bottom. (That's useful futureproofing now that OS X Snow Leopard is shipping, and programs and the OS in 64-bit can address more than 4GB at a time.)

By Liam Cassidy The ZuneHD has it. The latest iPod Nano has it. Even a chunky digital watch I owned when I was seven years old had it. I’m talking FM Radio, and the latest rumors tell us Apple is working on its very own native Radio.app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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By Liam Cassidy The ZuneHD has it. The latest iPod Nano has it. Even a chunky digital watch I owned when I was seven years old had it. I’m talking FM Radio, and the latest rumors tell us Apple is working on its very own native Radio.app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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By Liam Cassidy She adds, “I’ve been thinking that there might be a number of Apple iPod/iPhone users who might prefer a music subscription service over a pay-per-song one. (And one that’s better than Rhapsody.)” Others might have been first to the Subscription Model party, but it’s easy to imagine the Ap...

By editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Publishing) Buffer Underflow -- With the nano, Apple added iTunes Tagging directly within an iPod, something that previously required a dock and a digital HD Radio receiver. It's possible that Apple might choose to put an HD Radio receiver in the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPod classic. Since Microsoft pu...

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By jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) Our review of the new iPod nano and a hands-on with iTunes 9 topped the charts this week, as did speculation on how the Apple TV could be improved and revelations about the updated iPod touch hardware. If you're in for the top Apple news of the week, we have it for you in one tidy package:

By Rosa Golijan Verdict? Choco-Tablet Beats iPhone Across the Board in Taste Test It would be a travesty to not truly live up to our theme and conduct a proper comparison test. So I made sure to try out the edibility of another Apple product, my iPhone. Let's just assume that it doesn't taste all that great bec...

By John Herrman AT&T and Apple agreed that Apple would not take affirmative steps to enable an iPhone to use AT&T's wireless service (including 2G, 3G and Wi-Fi) to make VoIP calls without first obtaining AT&T's consent. AT&T and Apple also agreed, however, that if a third party enable...

By John Herrman The Verdict: At just $20 more than Apple's In-Ear headset, the Klipsch Image S4i is a no-brainer, assuming Voice Control and VoiceOver are priorities to you. If they don't matter, or if you've got an older iPhone or non-Apple handset, the choice is less clear.

By TJ Luoma This in loco parentis attitude from Apple hurts iPhone users and developers alike. Developers like Fraser Speirs have stopped developing new applications for the iPhone and he's not the only one. (Fraser's post on Twitter was how I heard how I heard about GV Mobile being pulled from the App...

By Fred Vogelstein It enabled Apple to negotiate deals with record labels eight years ago when every other company had tried and failed. Why were those deals important? They were the engine behind Apple’s iPod and iTunes store, which changed the way the world buys and listens to music.

By Nicholas Deleon In the CNBC-aired version of the interview, embedded here, Mr. Roberts is portrayed as someone who’s gushing over the iPhone 3G S—“BlackBerry is yesterday, the iPhone is now!” Now, if you’re just a regular CNBC viewer, you’d be under the impression that Mr. Roberts is nothing but a wooly-h...

By Michael Jones With only two more days to go until the launch of the iPhone 3G S, we have been getting a lot of questions from readers about things like cases, new features, and of course, upgrading from another iPhone. Can I upgrade from my iPhone or iPhone 3G?

By Steven Sande If you have Mac servers in your business, you weren't left out of the Snow Leopard fun during the keynote earlier today. Apple also announced that Mac OS X Server 10.6, A.K.A. Snow Leopard Server, will be shipping in September. Like Snow Leopard, the server version of the OS provides 64-bit suppo...

By Chris Ziegler Let's just be totally honest with each other here: Walt Mossberg probably has a new iPhone that none of us have ever seen. In fact, he could very well have two or more, depending on exactly what Apple intends to unveil at WWDC next week. We doubt the guy's actively trying to blow Apple's cover, b...

By John Biggs Hot on the heels of the Great iPhone Baby-Shaking App Debacle of 2009 we have another example of the crack Apple iPhone App Review Team in action. Alkali Media, a little programming shop run by three college grads, decided to make a crude soundboard and entitled it, fittingly, CrudeBox. The...

By Darrell Etherington Apple didn’t point out exactly what had caused the rejection in the case of Pocket God, but it did refer to the use of copyrighted images. Bolt eventually decided that it must’ve been an image resembling an iPhone that they’d introduced in an options screen, but Apple didn’t just identify t...

At some point in the next two to six months, Apple will unleash their latest big cat: Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It's no secret - Apple has been talking about Snow Leopard for ages, with particular emphasis on how Snow Leopard will focus on performance, efficiency, and "core innovation" rather t...

By Brian Lam Time Capsule is $500 for a 1TB and $300 for 500GB of storage. That's not a ton of storage for high-end machines these days, and multiple machines will almost certainly require the 1TB setup if you want to keep a moderately detailed history of your computers' data changes. As you'd expect from...

By Peter Ha And there are no foam covers. Maybe Apple ditched those long ago, but I haven’t purchased an iPod in, well, ever actually. My first iPod, which was the iPod Photo, was a gift. And other than my iPhone, I haven’t purchased one since. I’ll be returning the Shuffle and eating the 10 percent restocki...

By Jason Chen This new iPod shuffle is about half the volume of the previous iPod shuffle. HALF. By moving all the controls from the face onto the headphone cable, Apple was able to reduce the width and thickness to almost 50%, even if the length grew slightly. This wasn't totally sensible: Although the hea...

By Michael The hype behind the Kindle 2 has been astounding in recent weeks, and there have been more than a few comparisons with the iPhone. So, it seemed logical to take a look at the Kindle and see what the fuss is about. Is it even comparable to the iPhone? Will Apple be releasing something to [...]

By Wilson Rothman Xbench test results Geekbench test results In real world testing, I made further discoveries of the iMac's pre-eminence among its Mac peers. Ripping a 26-track CD in iTunes took just 3 minutes and 50 seconds on the iMac, while it took nearly 10 minutes (OK, 9:45) on the Mini with 2GB of RAM.

By Charles Moore If you’re the sort of user who found the old 12″ PowerBook an ideal compromise between size, weight, features, and price and have been waiting for Apple to replace the 12″ PowerBook G4 with a corresponding MacIntel model, wait no longer — it’s here for all intents and purposes. Apple may be q...

By Jesus Diaz Right before the Macworld keynote, Jobs confirmed the problems in an open letter to the Apple community. He said that his doctors thought they got to the bottom of his health problems—a hormonal imbalance—and he recently had begun treatment to resolve the situation. He also said he would r...

By Steven Mallas IBM (NYSE: IBM), whose tech colleagues include Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), is set to report earnings for Q4 on Tuesday, January 20. One of the more exciting attributes that IBM can claim this earnings season is that it isn't a financial company. You don't want to be in...

By Weldon Dodd The big news here is that Apple and the record labels have finally come to an agreement to make all music in the iTunes store DRM-free. Apple is already the #1 channel for music sales in North America, but this is a consumer-friendly strategy that I’m sure will only help the sales of music onli...

By Tom I foresee Apple bashers having a field day with the non-replaceable battery. Heck, most of them still want a replaceable battery in the iPod! I do not have an extra battery, and prefer to avoid the expense and extra weight and clumsiness in carrying one around anyway.

By Pete Mortensen Take, for example, The Economist, which has placed Apple on the cover of its most recent issue for a story titled "Apple and the art of innovation." It's a pretty good story, nothing careful watchers of Apple don't already know. It does, however, get one aspect quite wrong, based on a simple m...

By Andy J. S. I think it's the end of Macworld Expo," Michael Gartenberg, vice president of market research firm JupiterMedia and editor of the MobileDevicesToday blog, told Macworld. "It's the end of an era." Unlike other companies, Apple are able to draw press and analysts to an event anytime they wa...

By chuqui Can we (and should we) expect all the apps Apple approves to be safe and secure? If Apple screws up, who is negligent for the damage caused? This time, Apple's mistake may have only involved naughty wallpaper, but next time, it could be something worse. Oh, the horrors. Apple isn't perfect.

By Adrian Covert As far as remote capabilities go, I tested the Apple In-ear headphones with an iPhone 3G and a first gen iPod touch (neither of which are officially supported. As Apple claims, the audio works fine with both devices. Neither the remote or the mic work with the iPod touch 1G at all, merely reduc...

By Didier Laurent There are a lot of Palm Addicts who migrated to the iPhone or the iPod Touch and a lot of those remember the good old days when every Palm came with a decent cradle. If you have an iPhone and you want a cradle the options are pretty limited. Many will consider the Apple dock, but even with the includ...

By chuqui So this is a quiet suggestion that some folks need a bit of perspective on life (or maybe get one); no, this isn't an advertisment to Apple to hire me, and no, I'm not wishing Apple ill or trying to destroy them. Those of you who think either of those opinions, please spend less time at your compu...

By Jason Dunn Here's a special request to everyone reading this: if you use a Mac, an iPhone, or any product made by Apple, please make a commitment to this new community. Starting a community is tough work - it's a classic chicken-and-egg scenario where, when someone comes to a Web site with sparse comme...

By Geoff Fox Artists like me kept Apple afloat for many years because Apple catered to our needs, and now that Apple is turning to the general populace, a lot of us are angry. Like, am I going to buy a PC now because my only Apple option is glossy? That's crappy."

By matt buchanan The Apple Tax is a popular term for people who believe Macs are overpriced. It's usually screamed at the top of lungs (or the blog-commenter equivalent), but it's rarely been dissected. The truth about the Apple Tax is straightforward on one level—you will pay more for the same specs on a Mac...

By matt buchanan In the case of Macs vs PCs, you could argue that customer support, the Leopard OS and design elements such as the new unibody construction and glass trackpads are what make up the Apple Tax. The only problem with this logic is that, when you compare Apple computers alone with no PCs in sight, t...

By John Gruber NBC withdrew its TV programming from the iTunes Store last year. As of yesterday, it’s back. It’s hard to see that NBC gained much of anything in the form of concessions from Apple. NBC executives stated publicly that they wanted Apple “to take concrete steps to protect content from piracy, s...

By Ryan Block Thankfully, as far as media playback goes, all the best stuff from the iPhone made the cut in the touch. It shares the same audio, video, and photo apps as the iPhone, which is a good thing since we still love the new Apple mobile media interface every bit as much as we did when we first reviewed t...

By Mark Wilson Today, as our two most expensive units battle, marks the close of our first round of iPod Dock Battlemodo. First, we have the $349 Apple Hi-Fi. It's the Chosen System, blessed by the hands of Steve Jobs himself. And while it's late on the scene, that allowed Apple a chance to learn from the mista...

By Jay Savage Individual admins, of course, are thrilled. Being able do dual boot, say, a MacBook Pro means only needing one machine to administer everything. But supporting it for users? That's a different story.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

By David Chartier The review probably isn't anything the typical Apple fan hasn't heard about already, but it's still awesome that a site like CNET has given Apple a good mark for a great product. via Digg] ReadPermalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by Google