Apple Gives iLife, Gets Papermaster
News Brief. New movies and music come out on Tuesdays. Today is Apple's new product/update and new executive Tuesday. |
There's iLife '09, which should be in stores now. I'll haul down to the local Apple Store sometime later today for a Family Pack. The FP is $99, versus $79 for a single license. I'll put it on an original issue Intel-based MacBook purchased on the day of release in May 2006. I swapped the 80GB for a 250GB in 2008.
If you've tried the new iLife, please do tell in comments or e-mail. Are those Sting music lessons worth 79 bucks?
Apple has something for old iLifers, too: iDVD 7.03. The company also updated the iLife Media Browser. These are date-stamped Jan. 26, but I (and pretty much everybody else) saw them today, Jan. 27.
Apple also released the 2.2.1 update for the iPhone, which I will install and test later today. I'm using a Nokia N96 as my day-to-day mobile phone, but I've got an iPhone 3G for testing, particularly of the App Store.
They say people who give, receive back. As widely reported today, Apple received a patent for multitouch screens.
Apple received a little something else, today, too: a victory over IBM. Perhaps it's symbolic since the Mac didn't end monolithic computing as envisioned by the famous "1984" commercial. Come April 24, Mark Papermaster becomes Apple's senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering. IBM unsuccessfully defended a noncompete agreement against Apple. All Things Digital's John Paczkowski quipped: "IBM Discovers Noncompetes Really Are Unenforceable in California."
I'm behind in reporting this news because I wasted several hours troubleshooting AIM earlier today. My AIM account is the same as my .Mac account. I could connect on a Mac using iChat, but nothing else. No AIM client on Windows or Mac or by any Web browser. Strange, huh? The problem started last night and resolved itself unexpectedly an hour or so ago.
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Comments (3)
Victory over IBM? The case settled, which means that the parties agreed on a compromise. Perhaps you have inside information about the settlement between Papermaster and IBM that shows that it is one sided enough for IBM to be declared the loser, in which case you should be sharing that info. From what I understand of the settlement, all parties involved got what they wanted: Papermaster gets his new job, Apple gets its employee, and IBM gets reassurance (with a mechanism to support it) that Papermaster won't be turning IBM strategies or IP over to Apple.
Posted by Marcos El Malo | January 27, 2009 5:15 PM
Seriously Joe, how laptops Windows based and Apple based do you own?
Posted by Andre Da Costa | January 27, 2009 8:07 PM
Andre:
Your obsession with Joe's personal life is getting a bit weird.
First, you want to know all about his health, and now you want to know what computer equipment he owns.
Creepy.
Posted by Chip | January 28, 2009 9:39 AM