‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Aug. 7

Posted by Dennis Sellers Aug 7, 2008 at 12:13pm

“Debunking Mac Myths Is Not the Way to Get Apple in the Enterprise: In a recent article at InformIT, author Ryan Faas took the time to go about debunking his top ten myths about Macs and why they’re not suitable for the enterprise, by which he means large-scale business. I commend him for his work and generally agree – Macs are as ready as any other Unix workstation for the enterprise, be it in the server room, the engineer’s workstation, or the secretary’s desk.”—Low End Mac

“Why Paris Hilton Could Take on Microsoft Better than IBM-Linux or Apple: This morning I was trying to figure out how to nicely say that neither the latest IBM-Linux latest IBM-Linux initiative nor the Apple Snow Leopard enterprise desktop moves would be very successful – despite the fact that Microsoft is the most vulnerable it’s been since the 1980s. Lo and behold, Paris Hilton’s response to the John McCain ad that used her as an attack vehicle against Obama showed me the way. Yes, I had to work that into a column.”—IT Management

“More On Music Stores, And Thoughts About Lossless Formats: Apple and Amazon and the rest of those in the top five of NPD’s latest list are all terrific. But I have to say I’ve been enjoying my membership on eMusic of late, which was early to the DRM-free MP3 game, and whose music catalog is overall, pretty good.”—BusinessWeek

“A Cupcake On Your iPhone: With hundreds of applications ranging from games to password-keepers to calorie counters, what’s next for the iPhone?”—Forbes

“Apple management shake-up over MobileMe launch: Apple CEO Steve Jobs has given MobileMe to the executive who heads iTunes, part of a shake-up over the sync service’s public problems since its launch last month, according to a memo sent to company employees earlier this week.”—Macworld UK

“The Opaque Side of Apple: If your computer annoys or amazes you, and you yell at it or congratulate it, you’ll be met with silence. But if you direct your feedback to the company that made it, will you have any more of a dialogue?”—Washington Post

“What Does Apple Have Up Its Sleeve? Talk of a ‘future product transition’ from Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer weeks ago has sent Apple watchers into a frenzy of guesses as to what the company’s next product will be. Some predict a new, tiny laptop or price cuts. Others aren’t expecting anything that will make much of a change to the company’s margins, which are generally held quite dearly.”—MacNewsWorld

“Apple keeps fans, analysts guessing: Higher development costs suggest new products that will thrill users but initially lessen earnings: When Apple announced last month that it anticipated higher development costs in coming months, analysts cringed and the stock dropped. But tech heads rejoiced. Such a message often means new products are coming from the company.”—San Jose Mercury News

“Nehalem: Intel’s near future gets real: Intel has scores of futuristic, potentially game-changing research projects but Nehalem is bet-the-farm reality. The first Nehalem chips—and the first drops of what should become a giant revenue stream—will arrive later this year. So, it is not surprising that real silicon and real systems are starting to appear.”—CNET

“Apple Inc. newly added by Peconic Partners Inc.: Peconic Partners Llc added the Apple Inc (AAPL) company to their portfolio, by buying 26,200 shares as shown by filings made public on 2008-08-06.”—MFFAIS

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