Type of Article: MacTech Blog

By Greg Mills

I woke up crabby with a nagging neck ache this morning. I felt like taking it out on someone deserving and, thus, I sat down and wrote this article. 

The big disappointment of this week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference was the lack of love for Mac desktops. Which has led some folks to predict that Apple will abandon its desktop line in favor of nothing but laptops — which Apple denies.

Neither the Mac Pro nor the iMac was mentioned during the WWDC keynote. The former did receive a very minor update (http://macte.ch/jwtmP) that’s been roundly criticized (the phrase “half-assed upgrade” has been seen more than once).

An Apple patent (number 20120148225) for a light isolating protective cover for a small form factor electronic device has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

A portable device has a rear facing camera assembly and a front facing display assembly that includes at least a protective cover layer, a display stack that includes a plurality of display components arranged in a plurality of interconnected layers, the display stack providing an imaging service, and a flat support chassis arranged to provide support for the display stack.

It’s no surprise, but in a note to clients — as reported by “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com) — Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian J. White says latest batch of Windows-based Ultrabooks won’t undercut Apple’s ultraportable MacBook Air enough on price to win away most consumers.