Apple picker This year's twenty-fourth Apple Week has the attribute of evening, but it still brings traditional news and interesting things from the apple world, which in recent days was mainly interested in the news presented at WWDC...
Apple Updates Mac Pro in 2013 (12/6)
At WWDC, Apple did innovate and present its entire line of laptops New generation MacBook Pro with Retina display, however, did not please fans of desktop computers - iMac and Mac Pro. It only received a cosmetic update. However, in a reply to one of the fans, the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, confirmed that the company is preparing an overhaul for these machines as well.
Macworld claims that it has been confirmed by Apple that the email was indeed sent by Cook himself to a user named Franz.
Franz,
thank you for email. Mac Pro users are very important to us, although we didn't have room to talk about the new computer at the keynote. But don't worry, we have something really big coming up later next year. At the same time, we have now updated the current model.
(...)
Tim
Source: MacWorld.com
Ping is said to disappear from the next version of iTunes (12/6)
According to the server All Things D Apple has decided to end the life of its failed social network Ping and remove it from the next version of iTunes. Tim Cook already admitted during the D10 conference last month that customers don't use Ping much, and according to John Paczkowski, Apple would rather cancel it.
Paczkowski claims that in Cupertino they will focus more on cooperation with Twitter and Facebook, through which they will want to distribute their software and services to social networks. According to sources close to the company, Ping will no longer appear in the next major iTunes update (it still is in the current version 10.6.3). At that moment, Apple will then completely move to Twitter and now also Facebook.
Source: MacRumors.com
The new .APPLE domain could come next year (13/6)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the company that handles matters related to Internet domains and the like, has announced that it has received nearly 2 new generic top-level domain requests, and it's no surprise that Apple is also applying for one .
And what does the top level domain look like? Currently, for example, we access the page with an iPhone via apple.com/iPhone, but when the new domains work, it will be enough to enter iPhone.apple in the address bar and the result will be the same.
Anyone who meets ICANN's requirements can apply for a top-level domain, because managing such a domain requires completely different operations compared to the current ones, and certain conditions must be met for security reasons. In addition, you have to pay 25 dollars just for the one-year permission to use the top-level domain, which translates to roughly half a million crowns. In addition to Apple, such a domain is also requested by Amazon or Google, for example.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Shots from the shooting of the jOBS film (June 13)
Filming of the biographical film called jOBS is in full swing and the main protagonists such as Ashton Kutcher in the role of Steve Jobs, Matthew Modine as John Sculley and, for example, the characters of Bill Gates or Steve Wozniak, are already appearing on the scene. Photos from the shoot are now available thanks to reporters from Pacific Coast News view you too and judge how much the actors resemble their real-life counterparts from the 1970s.
Source: CultOfMac.com, 9to5Mac.com
A 14-year-old Foxconn employee committed suicide (June 6)
Foxconn has confirmed that its 23-year-old employee committed suicide by jumping from the window of his apartment in Chengdu, a city in southwestern China. The unnamed man started working at the factory only last month. The police are investigating the whole situation.
While suicides are nothing new at Foxconn, this is the first since the world's largest electronics maker pledged to improve working conditions at its Chinese factories. The tragic event once again drives water to the mill of activists who claim that factory workers work in inhumane conditions.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Apple's latest patent shows interchangeable lenses (14/6)
Apple has filed a patent application, from which it is evident that behind the doors of the Cupertino company there is talk of an interchangeable lens for the iPhone's camera. Apple obviously recognizes how powerful and popular the iPhone camera is, and the idea of interchangeable lenses on this phone is interesting, if impractical.
But the unfortunate reality is that an additional lens would mean an extra moving part in addition to the larger size of the device and would greatly detract from the clean and simple look of the iPhone. A smartphone from Apple can already take high-quality 8 megapixel pictures and record 1080p video. It is therefore very unlikely that Sir Jony Ive would allow such a brutal intervention in the design.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Functional Apple I auctioned for $375 (June 15)
A working Apple I computer, one of the first 374 machines sold together by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, was auctioned for $500 at Sotheby's in New York. The Apple I was originally sold for $200, but now the price of the historic piece has risen to 666,66 million crowns. According to the BBC, there are only about 7,5 such pieces left in the world, and only a few of them are still functional.
Source: MacRumors.com
WWDC Keynote available on YouTube (June 15)
If you want to watch the recording of Monday's keynote from WWDC, where Apple presented MacBook Pro next generation, iOS 6 a OS X Mountain Lion, and you don't plan to open iTunes for this, where the recording is available, you can visit Apple's official YouTube channel, where the almost two-hour recording is available in high definition.
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Apple will introduce its own application for podcasts in iOS 6 (June 15)
Apple is said to be planning to introduce a separate app for managing podcasts. He already did something similar in January when he released his own iTunes U app. According to the server All Things D, podcasts will get their own application in the final version of iOS 6, which will be released in the fall. It will be possible to search, download and play podcasts, while they will remain in the desktop version of iTunes. This is also indicated by the fact that the section with podcasts in iOS 6 has already disappeared from the iTunes application.
They probably have quite a lot of fun and action in the "New York action hall" ;), btw. I don't know exactly what it indicates about the camera, but the second picture seems interesting to me, where two cameras are positioned oppositely on the back, I have no idea what this means, but it seems more interesting to me than some snap-on camera ;)