Apple User Podcast

Appleinsider reports here on Intels new flash tchnology to be used in a variety of devices. Rumors circulated last week about a new Apple line of Notebooks that would utilise this type of technology so the timing is incredible.

These Intel drivew have a MTBF (Mean time between Failure) of 5 Million Hours, thats 570 Years! This compares to Existing ATA Hard drives MTBF’s of about 600,000 hours (almost a tenth of the lifetime of the flash drives).
The Flash drives are also ultra low power consuming and very very quick to read and write to, meaning our notebook computers may soon only need quick charging to run for hours!

The Apple Comment by Denny Grabowski
Rumours are actually defined as a thing that is true or maybe untrue with a piece of truth. However, it means an unknown fact that we try to push into the truth. In this case I read a lot of the real release date for Apple’s new operating system named Leopard. Speculations flying around with every day that gets closer to the spring time, once called as the release day for Leopard. Those speculations are: it is difficult to believe that Leopard will be released this month because it needs time to manufacturing and delivery the new system to customers. Other speculations who support the rumours can find for example on www.itwire.com*.

So, what we have seen of the coming operating system makes me very keen to get it! The highlights are Time Machine, Spaces, Safari with the ability to get live information from any website to turn it into a desktop widget, iChat, Mail, Boot Camp, Core Animation, Dashboard and few screenshots namely from Automator, Spotlight and Screensaver. That is quite a lot but not the ending! But what comes else? That is the big question.

Windows Vista got a big attention on his release day. Everything was focused on it. It seems that this was a good start for Microsoft in 2007. It might be that Apple could loose the opportunity to win dozens of new customers. Unfortunately for Microsoft, fortunately for Apple needs Vista an unbelievable system upgrade in comparison with Leopard. Unfortunately for Apple, Vista comes with every new computer system now. That means, people who desire a new computer have the opportunity to get the newest Windows operating system combined with a brand new computer, unfortunately for Apple, which misses the chance to get a big crowd of switchers. Anyway, it’s good for Apple to have Boot Camp.

But what shall I do? Waiting until the final day or shall I get all the little and smart applications which can be added to Tiger to get a “fake” Leopard now? Yeah maybe, it might be a good compromise and my suggestion is, it must something bigger coming with Leopard than the known applications. We have seen the magnificent iPhone and it was amazing. I want the same big WOW for Leopard and I guess I will not be disappointed. So let us wait until the final day!
* (I am not responsible for the www.itwire.com contents.)

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One thing we do value over here in Japan, is honor. Another thing is

loyalty. Let’s get back to this honor thing, because it just reminded me

of an old dirty joke very popular in Kansai; “She offered her honor. He

honored her offer. And all night long, honor, offer, honor, offer.”
Now, let’s go back to loyalty. As I was saying, it is a complete

humiliation in Japan to not work at a single company your entire career.

It is the same deal with consumers as well. To be caught even

*contemplating* switching ISPs, cell phone providers, or even a sleazy

Web Host is to throw yourself to a lifetime of ridicule, celibacy and of

course, KANCHO!
Which is why in Japan, no web host needs to worry about rewarding their

loyal customers as they do in America. That’d be like rewarding a fish

for swimming, a politician for lying, or a DreamHost CEO for being good-

looking.
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That’ll mean there will be 90 million of us iPod toting folks around. Welcome all 10 million of you new folks!

“Apple could sell as many 10.8 million iPods in the March quarter, beating Merrill Lynch estimates of by 6 percent if the company’s iPod line continues its January sales trends.”

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Well, I DID ask you to get out and Buy, Buy, Buy, and sure enough, two days after a HUGE drop in Apple’s stock its back to its $88 dollar level. Lehman brothers DID upgrade the stock and reiterate a $105 target price, so there are many reasons why the stock has rebounded so well in comparison the rest of the Dow and Nasdaq which haven’t recoved in the same way. These reasons include:
Lehman Brothers Upgrade
Apple Maccs now have 6.8% Market share
Timothy Cook, Apples second in command, declared tuesday that the reason many cell phones come free with a contract is because they are “wothless”, and reiterated the iPhones $499 price and also commented rightly that when the iPod came out at $399 there were NO mp3 players at that price either.

Its nice to see and hear that Timothy Cook is as proud and confident as the messiah Steve Jobs, and shows that Steve isn’t the only guy with the skills to preach the gospel of Apple.

Apple’s (AAPL) market share has grown to 6.38% according to a new survey by Net Applications (details here).
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