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Midweek rumor roundup: 10.5.7, 3G laptops, parental controls & more
Get your scorecard here, can't tell the speculations without a scorecard... it's the midweek rumor roundup! While the rest of the tech blogosphere is mobbing Amazon's black & white imitation of a Stevenote (yes, the Kindle DX is already on sale), we'll catch up on the open threads of the past couple of days.
Kara Swisher at AllThingsD has the most complete take on the Apple/Twitter rumor from yesterday. While it's not beyond imagining that Apple and Twitter are talking, she says, it's only part of a dance with scores of other possible suitors and an inevitable rugby scrum at the finish line.
Mac|Life is citing a source within Apple on a release date for 10.5.7, and they pin it for this coming Friday. 9to5Mac points out that Friday is an unlikely day for an OS release, but there has been a spike in support staffing at the company's Austin offices in anticipation of customer questions.
Speaking of rumors from 9to5 and Computerworld, there was a brief spotting of an QA engineering job posting from Apple (since taken down on Apple's job site) that indicated a need within the Mac group for a 3G WLAN hire. While 3G talent is naturally present on the iPhone team, this laptop-centric gig might lend more credence to the idea of a portable machine with onboard wireless broadband capability. [H/T to the Monitor]
Lastly, the rejection of Makayama's Newspaper app for iPhone on the grounds that it allowed access to the UK Sun tabloid's notorious Page 3 girls -- reminiscent of the Craigslist app commotion -- cites the upcoming parental controls in iPhone 3.0 as a possible mitigator for R-rated apps in the future. Got something sexy or skanky in the pipeline? You may not have to wait much longer.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tyrannous said 11:23AM on 5-06-2009
Lock and load!
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Tom said 11:38AM on 5-06-2009
This is the most convincing rumor I've seen so far... no way is this a render or a photoshop job. http://twitpic.com/4njvi
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Johnny said 11:56AM on 5-06-2009
There are too many things wrong with that pic to even begin. Wait... You're kidding, right?
Tom said 12:03PM on 5-06-2009
I found it in Jonathan Ives's bin the other day. I reckon it's legit.
I have heard that he always uses Comic Sans Italic on internal memos...
LD said 12:17PM on 5-06-2009
Wow, that Amazon keynote was a direct Stevenote rip-off, right down to "one more thing".
Amazon still doesn't have the release schedule down like Apple though. This came too soon after Kindle 2 and I think will disappoint a lot of their early adopters who shelled out for Kindle, then Kindle 2 and just months later there is Kindle DX.
But it does look nice and now I would actually consider this. I travel for work and am in school full time. Most of our reading is available as PDF, which didn't work so well on Kindle 2. But with DX I am considering it.
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Max said 1:46PM on 5-06-2009
This app rejecting is starting to get out of hand. You can get mature content if you have web surfing abilities, that's just how it is. They shouldn't be policing apps this hard. For more info about the app rejecting, http://www.newsy.com/videos/a_slice_of_the_apple_pie/
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Yanone said 4:58PM on 5-06-2009
best introductory paragraph of a blog post in 2009!
thank you.
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Blake said 10:18PM on 5-07-2009
did anyone else notice one of the system requirements for the sims 3 is mac os x 10.5.7? go check it out! http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV928?mco=NzI2NDc0
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