Year: 2010

MacBook Air shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010 are expected to reach about 700,000 units, accounting for more than 17% share of the company’s 4.1 million Mac shipments, while the 11.6-inch model will account for 60% of the total MacBook Air sales due to its low price, according a Chinese-language Commercial Times report citing vice president of Concord Securities research department, Mingchi Kuo — as noted by “DigiTimes” (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20101022PB200.html).

President Barack Obama discussed job creation and American competitiveness during a meeting with Apple CEO Steve Jobs in California on Thursday, reports “Fox News” (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/22/obama-talks-jobs-apples-steve-jobs/).White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the pair met at the Westin hotel in San Francisco.

“They discussed American competitiveness and education, especially reforms such as the president’s Race to the Top initiative,” Gibbs said in a statement. “They then talked about energy independence and ways to increase job creation.”

Along with Apple’s FaceTime beta release came a new iTunes Store account security flaw. Now Apple has offered a fix.

According to “Cocoa Touch Apps” (http://cocoatouchapps.com/2010/10/apple-fixes-facetime-security-flaw-server-side/), while people were “poking around” in the FaceTime beta, they noticed that they could easily access their iTunes Store accounts right from the app.  In doing so, they’re able to update their account settings without re-entering the iTunes Store password.  To make matters worse, the application automatically saves your username and password even if you sign out

Apple’s announcement that they would be ceasing future development of their version of Java for the Mac understandably worried Java developers.

Apple has posted developer documentation (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html) that said:

“As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the Java runtime ported by Apple and that ships with Mac OS X is deprecated. Developers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in future versions of Mac OS X.