Latest Apple Related Rumors

Expect Apple to announce new MacBooks and MacBook Pros on October 14. Long due for an update/upgrade, word is the machines may see a radical change taking a totally new case design in the lightest aluminum with a rounder skinnier look. Several non-Apple manufacturers are now offering laptops with 3G built-in and that fact has been embraced by Apple. We could see the whole line of MacBooks offering 3G access as a way to compliment those customers with a 3G iPhone. You can expect the MacBook Air will get a speed increase and a drop in price.

Blu-Ray external optical drive? That's the rumor. Taking a feature from the MacBook air and applying it to the MacBook and MacBook Pro, Apple may do away with the internal SuperDrive and instead, offer an easily bootable external Blu-Ray SuperDrive announcing one drive fits all Apple laptops. That would bring the competition to its knees.

Because of the 64-bit functionality there is also a big rumor that Apple will beef the RAM capabilities of their laptop top-of-the line offerings to 8G. Another slap to their competition and if anyone could pull off 8G, it would be Apple.

Pricing will change. MacBooks are expected to drop to $1099 while MacBook Pros will begin at $1999. October 19th is the anticipated announcement date. Mark it on your calendars.

Latest iPhone rumor says Apple will release a 32Gig iPhone in January and start taking orders prior to Christmas. An updated 3.2 mega-pixel camera and "video capture" application for download is also expected.

Things are changing at the iPhone App Store. Apple has now altered the way apps are added and the new procedures came after they rejected Podcaster, an app that duplicated iTunes functionality. The developer didn't like it and screamed publicly and that resulted in the new clampdown making it even harder for new developers to get their apps in the store for sale. Thank you Mr. Whiner! Did I mention that sales are huge? One game developer has pulled down $250,000 and has quit his day job to work full-time on other new iPhone apps. And to ensure other developers don't go screaming into the public night when their apps are rejected, Apple now requires each developer to sign and agree to a non-disclosure clause.

Poor Google. With the release of the T-Mobile Android at $179 yesterday, the phone is already considered a failure. A failure because it is based on Linux and will be sold through a variety of cell-phone servicers. The result will be never-ending virus, trojan and worm problems as the Linux hackers have a field-day disrupting and closing down these phones. People fail to take into account that OSX, which is what the iPhone runs on, is impervious to virus, trojans and worms and their iPhones will remain the most secure SmartPhone available. Wait ... did I mention the Android is just plain ugly, big, chubby, heavy to hold, expensive, low-specced, uses a proprietary audio jack, has almost no built-in features, has only 1GB, can only synchronize the phone’s calendar and address book with Google online services, cannot sync with Microsoft Exchange and it can’t physically be synced with a PC-based calendar or contacts program. It has a very basic music player and you cannot play videos whatsoever (no TVShows, no movies, no music videos...). It has no YouTube. The browser is silly and quite limited. It is also tied to a tiny 3G network known for dropping calls and leaving customers hanging for hours at a time. Oh yeah, no other email service is available other then Gmail. You HAVE to have a Gmail account if you want email.

Why You Want To Boycott Comcast

This Thursday, October 1, Comcast will enact a 250GB download capacity on all Comcast customers with high-speed Comcast Internet service. They are doing this to drive their own customers away from Netflix, iTunes and other online download services and force their customers to buy movies, TVshows and music directly from Comcast. Comcast claims they are doing this to combat peer-to-peer downloads but the reality is, Comcast's cable monopoly will be able to destroy other competitive download services. They'll be able to do it because customers will be using cable lines that Comcast installed in customer's homes. Several weeks ago the FCC reprimanded Comcast for manipulating bandwidth and service availabity choosing not to invoke the $195,000 incident fee the law grants to affected customers. Had the FCC imposed those fees per incident of throttling, Comcast would be out of business today.

So what will your 250GB get you? If you stay online 24/7 for 30 days you'll use up your 250Gigabytes within 15 to 20 days. If you have a Netflix or iTunes account and you regularly download movies and music then you'll meet your 250GB capacity within one week. What do you do after that? Well, Comcast will then charge you $15 per gigabyte beyond the 250GB capacity. That little figure is going to fill the coffers of Comcast to overflowing and will allow Comcast to buy just about any politician they need to keep their monopoly.

What can you do? You can boycott Comcast. Close your Comcast account today and look to alternative Internet providers who are not going to limit your access or throttle your service. There are many providers and you are not limited to Comcast. Start searching Google today for an internet provider in your area.

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