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Jun 18, 20080

First Apple Store Opens tomorrow in Australia

Categories: Apple, Application, Corporate, Finance, Itunes, Mac Games, Mac Hardware, Mac OS X, Macbook, accesories, iphone, ipod

Apple’s first retail store in Australia will open on George Street in Sydney on Thursday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m. Located in the heart of the city’s shopping district, the Apple Store® Sydney features two floors dedicated to Macs and iPods and a third floor entirely dedicated to service, including the world’s largest Genius Bar for free advice and personal training through Apple’s popular One to One membership. “We are thrilled to bring the unique Apple retail experience to Australia,” said Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail. “This breathtaking new store will be the ultimate place for the people of Sydney to shop, learn and be inspired.” The Apple Store Sydney has more than 80 Macs and 60 iPods available for customers to experience hands-on, as well as an incredible range of third party products. The store’s knowledgeable staff includes more than 125 locally hired Specialists, Creatives and Geniuses who are ready to share their expertise and offer customers personalised instruction on everything from getting started with a Mac® to building their own web page, creating a podcast or making a digital movie. Every Apple® retail store offers customers great ways to get the most out of their Mac and iPod®, ...

Oct 20, 20070

Apple could benefits from EA single unified games platform dream

Categories: Apple, Games, Mac Games, Sotfware

Recently Electronic Arts has let the world knows its frustrations making games for 5 different platforms, so they are asking for a single unified games platform where they can develop one game and run it in different machines but on the same platform and the name for it is linux. Linux could runs without any problem in almost every working computer on earth, so they have the platform. Apple could help EA develop a game Dashboard where you can load a subsystem (based on linux) and play whenever you want, this dashboard will have all the drivers, settings, tweaks for performance and opengl as the main power. The dashboard will only load when you insert a CD, DVD or click it for any X game and will unload when you quit the game, freeing memory and resources. Read: A Dedicated Game Machine and OS This is the Apple time and should takes advantages of it, Apple should creates a gaming platform, not a console and a good start is to helps EA develop the unified games platform, where Apple will take full advantages, because Apple is the last place where games publishers look develop any decent game. - whataboutmac.com

Oct 6, 20070

A Dedicated Game Machine and OS

Categories: Mac Games, Mac Hardware, Sotfware

Apple has been tweaking and porting Mac OS X to different devices for an unique use, in AppleTV, the Iphone and the Ipod, showing that the potential of the Beast hasn't been reached, but what if Apple prepares a Game Subset, where with a click to an Icon your computer turns into a Dedicated Game Machine, loading just the resources needed for this purpose. Imagine this: a Game Subset (like Dashboard, but just for Games) where only system resources and features are loaded to make games run extremely fast turning your mac into a new Desktop Game Platform. The actual system will be unloaded and its place will be taken by the Game Subset (Game Dashboard) with Accelerated Graphic Engines, OpenGL drivers, GPU Engines and why not an emulator for DirectX. Connectix proved that it is possible to emulate games in mac and with today technology and Apple hardware expertise it is easier to achieve with better results and in a short time, what is missing is a real game decision from Apple to bring more games to the platform. If Apple really wants to cover all the bases in home entertaining, it must start thinking about TV or Computer Games. Games ...

Oct 3, 20070

Bungie departing from Microsoft…. or a new Profit Strategy

Categories: Application, Mac Games, Windows Related

I supposed that Microsoft bought Bungie, wasn't Bungie merged into Microsoft? There is 3 things to notice here: The first one is: The Xbox could suffers if it is true, then Microsoft won't have a good games on its own, Halo was the only game that really attracted fans to the Xbox. The second one, and this is what I believe is the true about this news, is that Microsoft isn't making enough money on the Xbox even with the Halo franchise, so somebody inside recommended to drop this news and make everybody believes it, I think they want to start making games for Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo, searching for a profit. It would be IMPOSSIBLE for a Microsoft unit to make games for Playstation or Nintendo, it will tell analysts in Wall Street that they are losing more money than reported and could look as a desperated move. Third one, if Bungie is running away from Microsoft, I suppose that we are going to see more mac games and maybe Apple decided to jump on the game. Please this news can't be taken seriously until Microsoft announces it officially. - whataboutmac

Sep 17, 20070

Is it time for Apple to fight Microsoft face to face? (part 1)

Categories: Application, Itunes, Mac Games, Mobile Phone, Sotfware, Windows Related, internet, online

Based on the huge success that Apple is having nowadays the most natural question would be: Is it time for Apple to fight Microsoft face to face?, it will be a good fight, but let divide the areas where Apple can have a nice round and those where Microsoft will demolishes it (Apple). 1) Business Apple has decided to go for the personal experience, the computer's user, letting in a retard place its business stratety while providing decent tools, but not enough to have a fight with Microsoft, in this area Microsoft has a vast experience and it is not ready to let others take its space. So Apple should refocus, spend more time with businesses and let them know that Apple is here to support them with innovative tools and service. Microsoft 3 rounds, Apple knocked out. 2) OS X vs Vista I put my bet on Apple if Steve goes to war. Don't get me wrong, Microsoft has a enormous user base, but with Vista they don't provide any better experience than with Windows XP, users are angry about Vista performance and the amount of money to spend updating pc to make Vist runs. Apple has the advantage here, with ...

Sep 5, 20070

Iphone suffers a price cut, competition calls 911

Categories: Application, Itunes, Mac Games, online

Now that the iphone 4gb is gone and the 8 gb has a new price, what is the competition thinking? Apple placed its iphone in a more accesible space, still exists the 2 years contract with at&t, but the $600 price tag that was keeping buyers away is history and in the pipeline should be a new 16 gb iphone. Apple destroyed two things with this announcement: 1. Buying song wirelessy, it is done with the Itunes Wifi Store, in the past this was a verizon advantage, now it is an apple one. 2. Apple competition suggests that nobody will buy a $600 phone, with the new price apple responds, but at the same time double the capacity. The strategy followed with the ipod was obligatory and easier to achieve, drop the phone from the iphone and gives zune a run for its money, because one of the real advantages of zune was a wifi mp3 player.

Sep 3, 20072

Games on mac: the ugly duckling, but ugly

Categories: Application, Itunes, Mac Games

Macintosh computers has always been the ugly duck of the game industry, because the hardcore games are not ported or take too much to port them or maybe because Apple has not seen any business in games or Steve does not want bloody games on mac, anyway there are enough reasons than games available. In the past Apple has let slipped good oportunity because of the lack of game plan or interest in home entertaining, Bungie with a good mac game called Marathon and Oni, this little company turn out to be the maker of the ultra famous Halo Franchise, was acquired by Microsoft and became a hardcore game maker. Remember Myst, wow, what a damn game, I used to spent the whole night playing it, the Tomb Raider serie was a good mac game, but now Mac gamers are abandoned in the dark. I am playing Tomb Raider Anniversary, Dark Messiah and Far Cry all of them work perfectly in my Imac 20" running Bootcamp. Maybe Apple does not need a bloody game, but something has to be done in this area, Nintendo has proved that you can sell family games in tons, without a super duper console or ...

Aug 31, 20073

Microsoft, watch out! Here comes Apple

Categories: Application, Mac Games, Mobile Appz, Sotfware, Windows Related

Since day one, secrecy has been Apple golden egg or rotten romatoe because is known in the technology field how difficult is to decode the next step to be taken by Apple. Industry watchers can't stand how Apple manages its future products information or strategy. Rotten tomatoe because the IT managers need to know in advance the roadmap of their suppliers to make buying decisions. Apple will never tell IT departments how its Xserve is going to compete in the industry, the suspense factor has been a characteristic maneuver of Apple. But if you really want to know more about Apple future, just watch the opposite side of some of Microsoft attempts to control the world... Microsoft and Apple has battled for decades, with Winodws Microsoft won the money and the perception (of being a good company) of millions of users worldwide, by creating systems and features attached to Windows (Watches, Cell phones, PDAs, Remote Controls, Entertaining Systems for home and cars), See the approach? Control everything at the same time, adding features but not pleasure. Apple is doing the same thing, in reverse, adding pleasure to each product and everything it touches, from the ipod to the iphone, ...

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