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Andy Ihnatko is asking questions of Apple and posting the results via Twitter, and for anyone wondering about the MacBook Air battery, he notes this:
"MacBook Air battery -- will be an Apple Store replaceable item, same cost as a MacBook battery - $129 and no labor charge."
If you're one of the German owners of SIM-lock free iPhones purchased during the brief period when Apple was legally required to sell them, it might be worth holding off from the iPhone update. According to a thread on Apple's support forums users are finding that the 1.1.3 update relocks the phones - so watch out.
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If you're having problems downloading the iPhone update via iTunes (servers seem pretty overwhelmed) then iPhone Atlas has a direct download link.
MacRumors.com : Macworld San Francisco 2008 Keynote Live Coverage.
Great coverage, thanks to a very smartly designed interface - smooth updating, no issues.
In case anyone wants to follow the Stevenote, MacFormat's liveblogging appears to be working fine, while a lot of the bigger sites (including Twitter) are fallling over.
I missed out on last year's MacHeist, but the bundle with this year's looked so attractive that I decided to take the plunge - especially as I was going to buy one of the applications anyway.
If you want to buy it, you might want to get it through my invite link - that way, I get an extra application or two unlocked :)
Link: Daring Fireball Linked List: January 2008.
Jeff Leeds, reporting for The New York Times on Pepsi’s upcoming billion-song giveaway promotion with Amazon, on why iTunes only has DRM-free music from one major label:
"A senior executive at another record company, who requested anonymity out of concern about irritating Mr. Jobs, said he was prepared to keep copy restrictions on his label’s songs on iTunes for six months to a year while Amazon establishes itself. "
Mmm, smell that spite.
And that, unfortunately, is why in the long-term iTunes Store will not be the dominant player in music. Music industry executives are not like computer industry executives: unlike the computer industry, they have no long history of having to partner with people they don't like. Music companies will gladly give Amazon preferential treatment for years simply in order to stop Jobs.
OK, so it's very slight evidence, but given that it's the night before the keynote - and that I'm really hoping that the iPhone SDK gets released tomorrow - I'm going to post it anyway.
"Don't take my word for it. There's additional soft evidence from Twitter's co-founders here, here and here. Twitter is reportedly part of the iPhone SDK and part of the keynote, the Wikipedia leak says."
Yeah, it's thin. But hey, it's still interesting :)
blog.pmarca.com: Astonishing, flabbergasting, mindblowing fact of the day, EMI edition.
EMI, the big music company, spends 25 million pounds a year "to scrap unsold CDs".
That's about $50 million -- a year.
To destroy unsold physical inventory in a world of ubiquitous digital distribution.
Only one thing: for a lot of the world, digital deliver isn't ubiquitous. Even in the UK the majority of households are only just getting broadband - a prerequisite for digital distribution. Of course, in time they will - but Marc needs to remember that not everyone in the world lives like a dotcom millionaire :)
Jens Alfke recently left Apple, and has written a really good post about why. He notes about Apple's policy towards blogging:
"And then there are blogs. Apple doesn’t like them, not when they talk about it. (Big surprise.) I’ve heard it said that there are hardly any bloggers working at Apple; there are actually a lot more than you’d think, but they mostly keep it a secret. (I could out a few people, including at least one director…) I think Apple’s policy on blogging is one of the least enlightened of major tech companies; Microsoft in particular is surprisingly open."
