A year ago I made my predictions for what Apple would do in 2010. So let’s see how effective I was.
First prediction: By spring we’ll see new versions of iLife and iWork, which will probably be dubbed iLife X and iWork X instead of iLife ’10 and iWork ’10.
The truth: iLife wasn’t introduced until October — and it was dubbed iLife ’11, not iLife X. iWork ’11/X never showed up.
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By Greg Mills
Apple TV numbers vs NetFlix: Gleacher & Co. analyst Brian Marshall estimated Apple is streaming magnitude of 500,000 TV shows and movies combined each day. He estimates NetFlix streams 5.1 million programs a day.
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By Rick Sutcliffe
Spam is used either as a noun to refer to unsolicited bulk email, or as a verb to refer to the act of sending same. There are two categories of spam — the difference depending on whether or not the mail has a commercial or monetary aspect;that is, the sender is attempting to obtain money from the recipients for a service, product, or cause.
Read MoreI’m looking forward to the Mac App Store when it debuts next week. But I’m also hoping it doesn’t become the only — or even the main — source of software for the Mac.
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An Apple patent (number 7,859,521) for an integrated touch screen has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. And it shows that Apple is at least considering “touchless” touch screen interfaces for some devices — including Macs.
The patent relates generally to displays including display pixel stackups, and more particularly to touch sensing circuitry integrated into the display pixel stackup of a display. Per the patent, displays with touch sensing circuitry integrated into the display pixel stackup are provided.
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