What's New - Oct 17, 2007

Introduction

• General issues, workarounds and fixes
• New Software and hardware
• Software and hardware updates/patches
• Apple Inc. related news

Contents

1. New Hardware iMac & iPods
   
2. Leopard
   
3. iTunes Plus
   
4. iPhone News
5. Apple Retail News
6. Apple Financials
7. Humor

New Hardware iMac & iPods

• Aluminum enclosure
• 20-inch or 24-inch display
• 2.0 - 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
• ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT or ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
• 1 GB - 4 GB RAM
• 250 GB - 1 TB Hard Drive

• Touch, Nano, Classic, Shuffle
• Highlights
• Classic up to 160 GB
• Nano now plays video
• Touch has full Wi-Fi

Leopard

• Pre-Order available currently
• Education pricing requirements have changed slightly
• If you buy through your institution: $69
• If you buy through Apple Education Store: $116
• Leopard server to be released Oct. 26th as well
• Anyone who purchases a Mac on or after Oct. 1st can upgrade for $9.95

iTunes Plus

• Apple has lowered iTunes Plus Pricing
• $1.29 to $0.99
• Upgrades for previously purchased music still $0.30
• Adding more content
• Currently the iTunes store is the largest DRM-free catalog in the industry!

iPhone News

• Maybe no more hacking or iBricks?
• The french will be getting unlocked iPhones ...

Apple Retail News

• Apple preparing 200th retail store opening
• Averaging one new store every 11.7 days
• Next up:
• Australia
• India
• Chicago
• And two more in New York

Apple Financials

• Q4 Conference Call October 22nd
• Could this be the >2 million Mac quarter?
• AT&T iPhone revenue sharing?
• Predicted at $3/customer per month
• $11/new customer per month
• Apple's corporate net-worth up 130% in the past year!

Humor ~ Courtesy of JoyOfTech.com