A re-hash of Apple rumors.
March 17, 2005 @ 01:36 AMI’m going to get all random on you. Hold on tight.
Firstly, I decided to list the first few websites that pops up with I type "www." into my location bar. Why? I don’t know:
- www.google.com
- www.news.com
- www.macrumors.com
- www.slashdot.org
- www.brastensager.com
- www.wilwheaton.net
- www.seattlemariners.com
... Speaking of Apple …
There’s a method to my madness after all. A couple interesting points about Apple that I’ve been following. Firstly, it has been so funny to watch all the reaction over Apple coming out with a 2-button mouse. (they haven’t yet, but are expected to shortly). Mac users don’t really care… I’ll probably buy one but I haven’t been dying for one. The Mac users that DO prefer 2 buttons (or more) have been using third party mice with no complaints.
The real fuss has been from PC users. "It’s about time!".... "Welcome to the real world."... funny stuff! I – for one – feel bad for them that their operating system requires such extensive use of the context menu. But whatever. :) For what it’s worth, the short period of time I DID use a third party mouse on my Mac, I linked the second button to Expose, NOT the context menu.
Admittedly Apple DOES need to come up with some kind of scroll mechanism. That’s one feature that’s universal across OSes. But I personally think they’ll have scrolling capabilities on this new mouse. This thing’s supposedly been in some state of development since 2000.
... also …
Rumor sites are saying now that Apple employees, specifically those working on Mac OS X Tiger, have begun taking vacations and throwing wrap up parties. Which means, of course, that they’re almost done. Which also means that the April 15th release date rumored might ACTUALLY be CORRECT!
SO. EXCITED.
If you don’t use Mac OS X already, you probably wouldn’t understand. Conversely, if you DO, and you’ve been paying attention to the Tiger demos, you probably will agree with me that Tiger is going to completely change the way you use your computer (largely, at least). The 1-2 punch of Spotlight and Dashboard will be significant.
... finally …
New sales figure estimates are coming in… I’ve now heard a revision from 500,000 iPod shuffles to 1.8 million iPod shuffles, in addition to 4 million iPods… that’s nearly 6 million new iPods this quarter being sold. Worth noting that Apple only sold 8 million iPods in the entire 2004 calendar year. Also, Mac mini’s are flying off the shelf, but apparently Apple’s OTHER machines are still up 15%. Meaning that the Mac mini is not cutting into the iMac’s sales.