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Apple as a Content distributor
Apple is known to sold Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV. You may use them for whatever you want, even send email or work on a spreadsheet, but ultimately it’s not what interest Apple. The new Apple is no more a computer company, a new direction was taken by Steve Jobs when he renamed Apple Computer to Apple. It was not to mean that Apple will sell computers, smartphones, music players, tablets or whatever, the real meaning was Apple switched it’s focus from it hardware+software stack to the content itself. Mac might be used to access Content, display them, play them, create them, wether it’s iOS Apps, Mac Apps, music, video or even books. iOS devices are meant to access Content, through this new giant distributor, Apple and it’s online store. PC could be used to access content too, with iTunes for PC. We all see the emerging business-model where iOS devices are more and more present, the iPad being the brightest success of the industry, on a market that nobody seemed to understand until Apple unveiled it! But this market is not about selling tablet only, but an eco-system. With the huge success of iTunes Store being the first
Why we fight against SOPA and PIPA?
We are not a rogue web-site, we don’t host or link to copyrighted content, nor we endorse these activities. Mhackintosh.com is committed to Mac hacking, we don’t share file, we don’t link to file-sharing websites usually, we will even host ourselves our own developped Mac software. So we produce content, copyrighted content, and as such we like the idea of being protected against illegal copy or use of our work. Being a copyrighted content producer why fight SOPA and PIPA? There’s too many reasons to explain them all here, I suggest you follow the link ( http://americancensorship.org/ ). One reason is that any form of censorship is bad, that censorship in hands of private corporate hands is worse, and censorship in hands of abusers is the worst things of all. And they have already have done that, abuse censorship systems that some web site offers to majors. They abused the system, and they will have huge power to shutdown any site for any reason, without having to justify themselves! Another reason is that these law will offer the ability for any tradmarked brand or copyrighted content to shutdown any website, or even websites that links to these websites, at any
“Dirty” iMac screens
We use two 27inch iMac here, both bought in October 2010, same model, Quad-Core iMac, and one with dirty patches on screen that makes it unable to provide the expected service: edit pictures with Photoshop and LightRoom. I do fashion/beauty photography (HairShooter) and need a good workstation to edit photography. A franch team created a web-site dedicated to screen problems on Mac computers, dirty-screen.com, that Apple tried to shutdown months ago threatening to sue them. They are back and alive, legally backed, and fighting to have all of our Mac screens correctly fixed by Apple. It’s incredibly outrageous to buy a 2000$ desktop computer, targeted at power-user, and moreover graphists, photographers, web designers, that have screen problems only 1 year or 2 years after being sold, and being totally unable to display correctly a picture or photography! Please Apple, fix this problem!
2012 as a transition year?
I think 2012 will be a transition year, in management as well as in products, to continue transforming Apple from a computer company (the old Apple Computer Inc), to a mass-product company. Ivy Bridge A new generation of Mac will come with Ivy Bridge, that will mainly improve over Sandy Bridge, except for one point: HD4000 GPU! The Ivy Bridge is the last evolution from the core micro architecture that appeared on the Core™2 CPU in 2006 (yes 5 years!), and in mono-threaded application, there are few progress, the most obvious is the Turbo-boost that speed-up the core up to 4Ghz depending on the CPU. Sandy Bridge came with HD3000 & HD2000 GPU integrated to the CPU, that offered a performance-level similar to nVidia 320M with 2-monitor support. Ivy Bridge’s HD4000 will support easily 3 monitors with 4096×4096 resolution, and 2X performance increase: discrete GPU are less and less necessary! Thunderbolt on PC Thunderbolt on Mac as been a failure this year with only 2 peripherals available, 10 months after the launch! Intel will launch at least 1 high-end motherboard for PC computers in 2012, but except if an OEM or big player (Dell or HP) have a full range