‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Oct. 7
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 7, 2008 at 4:26pm
“Myth 9: iPhone Unable to Penetrate Europe Due to Symbian Dominance: Continuing upon the previous eight iPhone myths, this one insists that Apple will be wholly unable to find a market for the iPhone platform in Europe because of the strength of Nokia’s Symbian platform, which currently leads smartphones in worldwide market share. That’s wrong, here’s why.”—Roughly Drafted
“Will Apple be forced to make more money? Antitrust rules go against Apple and AT&T: I still have not bought an iPhone. I expect I will do so soon though now that there is at least one good SSH client available through the Apple App Store. But I will say that I’ve been put off by reports about the poor quality of AT&T’s wireless network and, to some degree, by the apparent capriciousness of Apple’s decision-making process regarding what applications can be made available through the App Store.”—Network World
“Proof Again That It’s the Artist, Not the Tools: according to Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing software than I am that he uses Photoshop instead of Illustrator.”—Daring Fireball
“Before iPod’s big day, Microsoft steals Apple’s thunder: The day before Apple was expected to announce a host of new iPod and iTunes features, Microsoft jumped in to offer some nifty enhancements to its rival Zune music player, including the ability to use a built-in FM radio tuner to wirelessly and instantly buy most any song the listener stumbles across on the air.”—Detroit Free Press
“Apple Jumps to 17% of Smartphone Market: The newcomer to the scene has grabbed a lot of territory fast, but don’t think RIM will just roll over.”—Internet News
“European Rule Could Force Apple to Unintegrate its iPod Batteries: A new European Union rule could spell the end to the iPod’s pesky integrated batteries. The EU’s proposed ‘New Batteries Directive,’ which mandates that batteries in electronic appliances need to be “readily removed” would force Apple to change the iPod’s design for the European market.”—Gizmodo
“iPhone 3G does not capture 17 percent of the US market for cell phones”—Paul’s SuperSite
“Apple no longer Thinks Secret?: There have been some indications lately that Apple is taking a less rigorous approach to secrecy. Once the company went to great lengths to conceal its future plans; in recent months there has been a marked increase in the number of leaks that have since proved genuine – take the MacBook Air, Snow Leopard and the newest iPod nanos for instance.”—MacUser (UK)
“At ACU, students navigate college life via iPhone: An in-depth look at one of the US colleges to integrate an iPhone into their infrastructure”—SIO
“Apple courts businesses with iPhone: Company hopes 3G model will win over BlackBerry users: Kevin Willis, the retired basketball center turned entrepreneur, gave up on the BlackBerry and depends on Apple Inc.’s iPhone to stay in touch with buyers, suppliers and the high-profile clients who wear his custom jeans.”—Bloomberg News
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
