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U.S. Now Paints Apple as ‘Ringmaster’ in Its Lawsuit on E-Book Price-Fixing According to the Justice Department, that e-mail is part of the evidence that Apple was the “ringmaster” in a price-fixing conspiracy in the market for e-books, a more direct leadership role than originally portrayed in the department’s April 2012 antitrust lawsuit against Apple […]

Peter Belanger is the primary product photographer for Apple. Did you know that? Now you do.

Apple cracks the Fortune 10 It turns out Fortune ranks companies by revenue. If they ranked by profit, Apple would have been in the top ten for several years now.

Photoshop CC? They're still making Photoshop? I had (still have) a whole BUNCH of Adobe software. I couldn't tell you the version numbers, though… and I don't use them very often at all. Twitter / Adobe: Today we announce the rebrand…

Pixelmator 2 or Acorn 4? I own Pixelmator, but it makes some really stupid decisions ((Like "where do I set the background and foreground colors again?)), but I'm used to it. The release of Acorn 4 is making me reconsider it, though.

Bartender | Mac Menu Bar Item Control I currently have in my menu bar: Twitter Dropbox Drive Genius TypeIt4Me Fantastical Crashplan FastScripts UPS Battery Level Bluetooth Time Machine WiFi Date/Time User Account Spotlight Notification Center Not enough to warrant a $15 purchase. Maybe $5.

Apple - Press Info - Apple Reports Second Quarter Results The Company sold 37.4 million iPhones in the quarter, compared to 35.1 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 19.5 million iPads during the quarter, compared to 11.8 million in the year-ago quarter. The Company sold just under 4 million Macs, compared to 4 […]

Taking Apple private: Makes sense but nobody has the money. Also worth reading: Braeburn Capital. I don't know about the legal or business reasons for or against a company buying itself back from publicly traded stock, but if Apple was able to do so, I think it would be a benefit to the company. But […]

Apple: Unfortunately, no longer the underdog Remember when Mac users were the fringe? The holdouts, the misfits, the ADB plugs in the USB holes? Don’t look now, but everyone’s found our party. That’s awesome—but I’m still not totally comfortable with it. On the bright side, they're no longer "beleaguered" either.

Dave's old iPhone 4 had this problem. He pointed out that it was pretty stupid of Apple not to have a way to shut down or restart the phone via software (the touch interface). I concurred ((And the "Assistive Touch" thing is not a real option.)).

Answer: no. Does Apple really assign engineers to "fake" projects as a loyalty test? and Regarding fake projects and loyalty tests.

Links to some good Easter Egg resources: Mac 101: Easter eggs | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Gosh I used to waste so much time playing with these things in the pre-OS X days…

Hotline revisited Were you on Hotline? I was. A LOT. Mostly to chat…

Daring Fireball Linked List: The Latest Apple Scuttlebutt And regarding that system-wide UI overhaul, I hear the same thing as Rene Ritchie: "Ive's work is apparently making many people really happy, but will also apparently make rich-texture-loving designers sad."