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Apple just announced that the software “is not quite finished” and it we be available in a week or two. Which probably means closer to two weeks. In the grand scheme of things its not a big deal, but nonetheless it’s still annoying.

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Wired.com
Jobs has said for years that renting movies makes sense whereas renting music doesn’t. So when it came time to launch a movie rental service, Apple had to start including secure digital clocks in the latest round of devices. Connected devices like the iPhone have other ways of checking content permissions, but in [...]

Well it’s been two weeks since the MacWorld keynote and I want my software upgrade for my Apple TV. I know when Steve says two weeks it’s sorta like when I tell my wife I’ll finish that certain project SOON. Of course SOON in guy talk could mean a few minutes or a year.

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Since everyone is blowing out there rear and making predictions on what is going to be announced tomorrow at Steve Jobs keynote, I figured why should I be any different. Like everyone else I have no inside information.
1. Slim laptop.
2. iTunes movie rentals. Some seem to think there will be a subscription plan along with [...]

Apple
Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful [...]

Business Week
Sources familiar with the company’s plans tell BusinessWeek.com that Apple will release a software-development kit for the iPhone in early 2008, enabling programmers to create games, business-productivity tools, and countless other applications for the device. Few details are known, but sources say an announcement will come in January, which suggests it may be slated [...]

So today not only I get a new version of textexpander we learn that indeed Apple’s Leopard operating system will be available on October 26th for $129. Over at the iTunes Store it seems they have added some indies to iTunes Plus (DRM free) and dropped the single track price from 1.29 to 99 [...]

TextExpander reaches 2.0 with groups support and new sharing features. A must have tool for your Mac.

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The Macalope
And that’s really the whole thing, isn’t it. The whole craziness that seems to have engulfed most of the Apple pundit class for that past few weeks in particular. There’s a disconnect between what you want, and what Apple’s target market for iTunes and the iPhone wants. Of course, the iPhone concern may all [...]

Finished listening to the latest MacBreak Weekly and still the best Mac podcast out there. Some weeks there is too much 3 Stooges, but what a great cast.

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Ars Technica
“Apple declined to pay more than double the wholesale price for each NBC TV episode, which would have resulted in the retail price to consumers increasing to $4.99 per episode from the current $1.99,” wrote the company in a statement. “We hope they will change their minds and offer their TV shows to the [...]

New York Times
NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes.
The media conglomerate — which is the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple’s online store, accounting for about 40 percent of downloads — notified [...]

New York Times
Universal, the world’s biggest music conglomerate, said it would offer albums and songs without the software, known as digital rights management, through existing digital music retail services like RealNetworks and Wal-Mart, nascent services from Amazon.com and Google, and some artists’ Web sites.
But the music will not be offered D.R.M.-free through Apple’s iTunes, the [...]

1. .mac overhaul. (push email?)
2. iWork with a spreadsheet module.
3. iLife ‘08
4. Movie rentals in iTunes.
Update: Well 3 out 4 is not bad.

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Yahoo! Finance
Apple® today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store featuring a catalog of over five million songs, 550 television shows and 500 movies. iTunes recently surpassed Amazon and Target to become the [...]

azcentral.com
Viacom Inc., owner of Paramount Pictures, is considering offering movie rentals through Apple Inc.’s iTunes online store, Chairman Sumner Redstone said.
Those things are being considered,” Redstone said today in an interview at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Viacom spokesman Carl Folta and Apple spokesman Steve Dowling didn’t return phone calls [...]

Robert Cringley is claiming that come Christmas through a firmware update the iPhone will be upgraded to the 3G network, which is 3 to 5 times faster than the Edge network it’s on now. Everything I’ve read says this isn’t possible through a firmware update.

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WSJ.com
Highlighting ongoing tension between the music industry and Apple Inc., Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group is set to notify the Cupertino, Calif. company that it is not renewing a long term contract to sell digital music downloads through the increasingly powerful iTunes Store, according to people familiar with the situation.
The move does not mean, however, [...]

Rate Plans for the iPhone

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Steve Jobs announced at WWDC today that the Safari web browser will be available for Windows users.
Which begs the question why?
I love Safari on my mac, but why bother developing it for Windows?
There must be some upcoming service that Apple is coming out with that will utilize Safari and they want to bring Windows [...]