appleinsider.com - 10/27/2008
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According to developer build notes leaked on the web, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard's new Finder and "almost all" other graphical apps will be delivered using Cocoa. Here's why, and what benefit this additional use of Cocoa will provide to users.
appleinsider.com - 10/24/2008
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With Apple's recent 'State of the Mac' omitting
any mention of the Mac mini and reports surfacing...
over the current line's discontinuation, there's been some speculation that the diminutive desktop's days may (again) be numbered. That's unlikely the ...
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Informed players say Apple's Mac mini still kickin'
appleinsider.com - 10/21/2008
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Kasper Jade Published: 11:10 AM EST Even while
at the top of its game, Apple Inc. can...
seemingly find faults with just about anything, including a bit of itself. The Mac maker is constantly evaluating the market segments in which it wishes to ...
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Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini
bullcross.blogspot.com - 10/28/2008
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard’s new Finder and much more ‘Cocoafied’
MacDailyNews —
... has effectively increased the installed base of its Cocoa systems from the roughly 20 million Macs running Mac OS X to more than 30 million devices in total. Apple expects this installed base to grow rapidly," McLean reports. "By decisively pushing developers to implement their user interface using Cocoa, Apple will end up with less code maintenance, more focused development efforts, and a broad, flexible platform that's easier to pilot into the future." More in the full article here .
The latest rumors in the Apple world: Oct. 27
Macsimum News —
... 4:01pm image Macsimum News doesn’t have its own rumors thing going on, but, for your edification and entertainment, here’s a round-up of today’s rumors regarding the Apple world…. “Apple devs get new iPhone, Snow Leopard pre-releases”— AppleInsider “Apple Seeds Snow Leopard 10A190 (Mac OX 10.6) to Developers”— Mac Rumors “GPU Will Make Apple’s Snow Leopard Purr”— Forbes “Dev Team nearing iPhone 3G unlock?” MacNN “Apple to Sweeten Snow Leopard with more Cocoa”— AppleInsider “Snow Leopard to see HFS+ compression, default gamma switch”— AppleInsider ...
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