Quite frankly it doesn’t matter what you were doing – you’ve missed some Apple news, because this is the most we believe we have ever had. Research and Markets (that’s a research group, in case you were confused) believes that Apple’s revenue will exceed $100 billion in five years. Apple has laid off forty members of the Final Cut team. Apple has posted a work-around for some of the problems regarding Aperture 3. At least one person thinks IDG’s Macworld Expo won’t be happening again. Hardmac took a look at the Intel family tree in regards to the iMac, as well as Sandy Bridge (what is replacing Nehalem – that’s Intel’s chips for those that are lost) MacRumors reports that the 27? iMac is shipping faster. Gizmodo took down their story of Best Buy’s SKUs for the new Apple products, so Cult of Mac put them back up. Computerworld summed up the rumors regarding the future of the MacBook.
You want a whole section on patents and trademarks, here it comes: Patently Apple discovered Apple’s newest patent regarding the Magic Mouse and some crazy functions. PatentlyApple also believes that Apple is getting serious about Near Field Communications for the iPhone (this is way beyond us…) Apple also has panted the-based slideshows according to Macsimum News. AppleInsider commented on one of the other patents of the day which shows a device with a front-facing camera. Speaking of cameras, iLounge believes that Apple is working on something that would help users when using the built-in cameras on their devices.
Since we haven’t had any Adobe news yet, Adobe’s CEO Shantan Narayen decided to bash Apple’s business model. (We can’t we be friends…) iSuppli is reporting that the iPhone and iPad will create a shortage for flash memory. Electronista is reporting that the next iPhone might use Samsung’s Super AMOLED display. (We think that it should be the Super-Duper…) iLounge found that Apple secretly bumped the download limit on the iPhone up from 10MB to 20MB (or something like that…) Google has a new strategy regarding competitors: buy and kill. According to Electronista their other strategy involves buying up start-ups in response to Cupertino’s purchase of Lala. Speaking of which the first effects of Lala can be seen online. Dan Frakes gave his opinion regarding the future of Opera Mini on the iPhone. Hopefully it can get approved as fast as Rob Jonson’s most recent app.
In addition to beating up Reuters reporters in China, the secrecy of Apple continues to expand. CNN’s Apple 2.0 Blog is reporting that Apple has attempted to hide the iPad freight records – and apparently has done a good job doing it. Gawker did play-by-play of Steve’s meeting with the Wall Street Journal and the kind things he had to say about Adobe. Gizmodo thought that it would be good to clarify: an iPad is not a laptop. AppleInsider found some (more) interesting things hiding in the iPad SDK. Electronista believes that HP’s slate will be priced below the iPad. Gizmodo thinks that Apple will actually have significant control over the pricing of the iPad.
And in the not really related to Apple, but just bizarre section of the news (since we had a patent section and all): students at Lower Merion High School (yes, that’s the school Kobe Bryant graduated from before going straight to the NBA) are suing the district because they spied on them via the cameras on their school-given MacBooks. More here.
