Apple Inc. - Graham Perrin on Diigo

06 Dec 09

01 Dec 09

Gedanken über die Welt: Opinion: Why Solaris and MacOS X should unite

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2007 2007-05 2007-05-20 darwin open source floss zfs unread Apple Inc. Mac OS X free and open source software Solaris (operating system) Sun Microsystems

January 11, 2007
Why Solaris and MacOS X should unite
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- the weak side of the MacOS X is its kernel
- So what kind of advantages will the user have, if both systems will be merged?

29 Nov 09

Mozilla: We'll keep pushing for Ogg Theora in HTML 5 | Web Apps News - Betanews

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-29 HTML 5 H.264_MPEG-4_AVC video Apple Inc. Theora Mozilla

Mozilla: We'll keep pushing for Ogg Theora in HTML 5
July 24, 2009
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- Scott M. Fulton, III
- stalemate
- proprietors of online videos
- manufacturers of Web browsers
- rights holders to the various technologies that still underlie modern video codecs
- hopes that online video services may come to adopt the codec as a de facto standard
- "While the video element and affiliated API are very useful in their own right without the formal specification including a codec requirement, Mozilla will continue to lobby for the inclusion of Ogg Theora as part of the normative part of the HTML5 specification,"
- "Theora is free and of high enough quality-per-bit for use within Web applications. It has been adopted by large-scale websites including DailyMotion.com, Wikipedia.com, and The Internet Archive (archive.org). The emergence of a common video format on the Web will allow developers to really use the power of the Video API, and it is absolutely part of Mozilla's standards advocacy to ensure a free and reliable video format becomes a part of the Web platform."
- if YouTube were to switch over to Ogg Theora, its servers would not be able to manage the bandwidth
- includes MPEG-4
- H.264, the family of ITU-supported standards
- includes many standards that require license fees

AppleInsider | Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble

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2009 2009-07 2009-07-09 HTML 5 H.264_MPEG-4_AVC video Apple Inc. Theora Mozilla

July 6, 2009
Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble
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- Prince McLean
- roasting Apple
- scuffle raised by Mozilla and Opera
- HTML isn't supposed to define content codecs
- Ogg Theora, commercially abandoned nearly a decade ago, doesn't have what it takes to deliver video on the increasingly mobile web
- interoperability
- locked up in the Flash format, it couldn't be played back using alternative players
- state of the art MPEG H.264
- supporting only MPEG-4/H.264 formats at the expense of WMV, Real Video, and other proprietary formats
- toward publishing standard video formats
- push web developers back
  - forward (not back) - on 2009-11-29
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- HTML 5 defines simple ways to embed video files
- YouTube videos as H.264 in addition to Flash binaries
- two browser companies that depend upon free distribution of their software are opposed to licensing the H.264 codec
- wanted the W3C to designate Ogg Theora as the official video codec
- Ogg Theora is based upon VP3 video technology
- originally proprietary to On2, and subsequently abandoned after it became obsolete
- Skype's proprietary video conferencing uses VP7
- Flash video is based on On2's VP6
- open source community has embraced the obsolete VP3
- avoid paying royalties
- Ogg Theora vs. H.264
- companies like Apple, Google and Nokia are already invested in H.264
- old obsolete codec
- less efficient
- lacks the hardware acceleration
- Opera and Mozilla don't make mobile hardware
- they don't care
  - debatable - on 2009-11-29
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- All of the advanced new mobile devices use a WebKit-based browser
- Ogg Theora may be encumbered by unknown patents
- A problem that lacks any need for a solution
- the standard doesn't need to specify an official codec
- no real reason web developers need to only serve one codec
- easy in HTML 5 to offer up video as H.264, Ogg Theora, and even as a Flash binary
- non-issue
- imagined war
- deliver the best HTML 5 support

HTML5's Flash and Silverlight 'killer' potential chopped • The Register

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2009 2009-07 2009-07-09 HTML 5 H.264_MPEG-4_AVC video Apple Inc. Theora Mozilla

Gavin Clarke
8th July 2009
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- Apple, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, and - yes - Google could not agree on a common set of audio or video codecs
- removed the two subsections in the HTML5 spec in which codecs would have been required
- inordinate amount of discussions
- undefined
- reluctantly
- no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship
- Two hopes
- for Ogg Theora to improve
- for the patents held in connection with H.264 - and that the various owners refused to surrender - to expire
- for H.264 to become available without a license
- Apple refused to implement Ogg Theora in QuickTime
- Google has implemented Ogg Theora
- lack of hardware support and an uncertain patent landscape
- with H.264
- Ogg Theora's quality-per-bit is not yet suitable for the volume

23 Nov 09

Rumours Suggest Apple Tablet Delay | World of Apple

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-22 Apple Inc.

Rumours Suggest Apple Tablet Delay
19th November, 2009
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- Alex Brooks
- second half of 2010
- Previous rumours had suggested that the multi-touch device would see a release in Q1
- a rocky track record for Apple rumours
- unlikely that Apple plans to launch two tablet models with such similar display sizes

Apple fourth best among build quality study for portables

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-21 Apple Inc.

Apple fourth best among build quality study for portables
November 19, 2009
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- Jeff Smykil
- a study on laptop longevity
- 10 percent failure rate over a two-year period
- estimated 17.4 percent rate over three years
- Asus taking the top spot at just under 10 percent over two years and an estimated 15.6 percent over three
  - Not dramatically different from Apple. - on 2009-11-23
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- not machines that were accidentally damaged
- nine different manufactures, all of which had a sample size of at least 1,000
- Hewlett Packard had an estimated failure rate over of over 25 percent

18 Nov 09

Apple MobileMe using fleegix.date.Date for timezones — Fleegix.org

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-18 MobileMe Apple Inc. Chandler (PIM)

Apple MobileMe using fleegix.date.Date for timezones
MobileMe calendar is quite pretty
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- written with SproutCore
- the UI we built for for Cosmo (AKA Chandler Server)

14 Nov 09

AppleInsider | Apple investigating 'Grab & Go' simplified cross-platform sync

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-14 Apple Inc.

November 5, 2009
Apple investigating 'Grab & Go' simplified cross-platform sync
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- Neil Hughes
- transferring of files between devices like Macs, iPhones and the Apple TV simpler
- cross-platform, cloud-integrated sync service
- flexibility in deciding which files to share between devices
- software syncing
- simplify
- current sync methods are needlessly complex
- allowing it to be pushed
- could also integrate the Web in its storage
- revisit Web sites they recently accessed on another device
- bookmarks and recent searches could be shared between a Mac and an iPhone
- only want to bring their work-related content
- allow the user to "grab" only files and data related to work
- dynamically adapt to the fastest available connection
- security
- encryption
- proximity to the hardware
- "trusted" devices
- Sept. 30, 2008

Apple patents improved digital ink recognition techniques for pen-aware tablet » Unwired View

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-14 Apple Inc.

improved digital ink recognition techniques
for pen-aware tablet
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- little to do with a tablet computer

Apple Prepares to Rock the Market with Hardware Subsidizing Program - Patently Apple

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-14 Apple Inc.

Not exactly market-rocking. - grahamperrin on 2009-11-14

October 22, 2009
patent application from Apple
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- An advertisement is defined as being one of the following: a commercial, some form of marketing information or a product/service announcement
- portable and desktop computers, a network computer (NC), servers, electronics, iPods, game devices, mobile phones, wireless devices, email devices, personal digital assistants (Think iPod touch), embedded devices
- a user may have filled out a questionnaire
- April 2008

Apple's Tablet Patent Uses A Pen For Input | Geeky Gadgets

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-14 Apple Inc.

Apple patent
a pen as an input device
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- tablet like
- writing recognition
- July 2009
- no idea if Apple’s still rumored tablet will feature this

Mac OS X 10.6 Server Review | Servers | Macworld

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2009 2009-10 2009-10-16 Apple Inc. Mac OS X Server

how I ditched iTunes and started living with Foobar 2000 — Blog in isolation

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-14 iTunes Apple Inc. Microsoft Windows

referred from http://identi.ca/notice/14469120 - grahamperrin on 2009-11-14

how I ditched iTunes and started living with Foobar 2000
Foobar 2000 which is a small, compact, lighweight audio player
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- for Windows
- useful extensions
- I am now blissfully almost iTunes free
- October 10, 2009

09 Nov 09

How Jobs transformed Apple — Nov. 5, 2009

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-08 Apple Inc.

version of http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/04/technology/steve_jobs_ceo_decade.fortune/index.htm - grahamperrin on 2009-11-09

The decade of Steve
How Apple's imperious, brilliant CEO transformed American business
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- Adam Lashinsky
- November 5, 2009
- Has he fashioned an organization that can succeed him?
- rare pairing of micromanagement with big-picture vision
- speak only when he has products to promote
- one Apple executive by name: Tim Cook
- he thanked Cook and the rest of the management team for "ably" running Apple
- Jobs has inculcated the troops enough to last awhile without him

07 Nov 09

Phil Schiller: No More Apple Products This Year [Update: Apple Called] - Phil Schiller - Gizmodo

People are mumbling about incoming this and that "coming soon" from Apple. Normally, we don't have a clue about what really goes one at Cupertino. Sometimes, however, we hit gold, lurking in the dark. Others, we get The Word. Updated.

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2009 2009-10 2009-10-27 2009-11 2009-11-07 Apple Inc.

referred from http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fnews.worldofapple.com%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F27%2Fapple-the-official-lineup-is-set?tab=comment&uname=grahamperrin - grahamperrin on 2009-11-07
"… holiday lineup is set …"
+ AppleCare Service Parts Kits for Xserve not available in some stores
= revised server hardware before Christmas? - grahamperrin on 2009-11-07

Oct 27, 2009
official word in the last one-on-one media briefing from Apple
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- There are not going to be any new Apple products this year
- after reading this,
  Apple called
- The holiday lineup is set
- what does this exactly mean?
  - I can't guess what it means, but it's weird (to me) that Apple Store for Education lists — but no longer sells — AppleCare Service Parts Kits for Xserve … - on 2009-11-07
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- mysterious

Apple: “The official lineup is set” | World of Apple

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-07 Apple Inc.

27th October, 2009
no new products will be released by the company before the holiday season

louisgray.com: Could A Real Apple Fan Completely "Go Google"?

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2009 2009-11 2009-11-07 Apple Inc. Google

October 29, 2009
Could A Real Apple Fan Completely "Go Google"?
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- Google has been changing its spots
- head to head with almost every single Apple product
- Safari browser, the built-in Web browser for Mac and for iPhones, is equally matched by the Chrome browser
  - Chrome is no match for Safari. - on 2009-11-07
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- iCal? See Google Calendar.
  - iCal + iCal Server 2 = much more than Google Calendar. - on 2009-11-07
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- Maybe I'm less of a Mac guy than I once was, but I still trust Cupertino.
- Louis Gray

23 Oct 09

MailActOn

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mail Apple Inc. Mac OS X 2009

referred from http://www.tow.com/2009/08/28/msgfiler-2-0-4-compatible-with-snow-leopard/ - grahamperrin on 2009-10-23

27 Sep 09

Exclusive: Apple dictated Light Peak creation to Intel, could begin migration from other standards as early as 2010

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Apple Inc. Light Peak Intel Corporation Universal Serial Bus IEEE 1394 interface unread 2009

I wonder whether release of an Apple tablet will be deferred until everything related to Light Peak matches their requirements… - grahamperrin on 2009-09-29

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