iChat is dead—long live Messages. With Thursday’s announcement of Mac OS X Mountain Lion comes the news that iChat is being upgraded and renamed to Messages, with support for the iMessage chat system introduced with iOS 5.
Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? Apple has announced that it will release a new version of OS X—Mountain Lion—this summer, just a year after the release of OS X Lion.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young says that he talked to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs about offering higher-quality digital music downloads, but that since Jobs’s death, discussion with Apple on the matter has ceased.
Never before has an announcement about textbooks been the subject of so much conversation. But that’s what happens when Apple holds a media event: People talk, even if the subject might otherwise seem obscure or uninteresting.
Amazon announced on Thursday that it’s selling a million Kindles a week, and has done so for the past three weeks. Given the company’s past refusal to say how many Kindles it’s selling, this is big news… but things are still not as clear as you might think.
iTunes Match is new (it arrived Monday) and exciting (all your music everywhere! your old CD rips upgraded to iTunes Plus quality!), but it's also confusing. What songs went where? Did iTunes Match find a track or did your copy of iTunes have to upload it to Apple's servers?
The initial reaction to the <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/162650/2011/10/apple_unveils_iphone_4s.html">announcement of the iPhone 4S</a> was muted.
Back in the day, downloading software over the Internet and installing it was only for the most techy among us. Paying for that software was even more outlandish. But since Apple launched the App Store in 2008, users of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad have discovered that shopping for, downloading, and even paying for software isn’t just easy, but fun.
It turns out that the iPad’s a <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/145982/2010/01/ipad_comics.html">pretty good device</a> for reading comic books. While graphic novels are now <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/162132/2011/09/idw_unleashes_comics_for_apples_ibooks.html">making their way to the iBookstore</a>, the most popular way to read books on the iPad is via Comixology’s <a href="http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=202899">Comics</a> app. Version 3.0 of Comics is a major update that boosts performance, improves the user interface, and embraces the huge volume of digital comics being released now.
On Tuesday, Microsoft offered many more details about its next-generation operating system, Windows 8, to an audience of developers and invited media at its Build conference in Anaheim, California. I was present at the initial Windows 8 unveiling a few months ago, and came away impressed but disappointed.
When Space Shuttle Atlantis launches from Kennedy Space Center, it won't just be the 135th and final mission of the Space Shuttle fleet- it'll be the first space mission for Apple's iPhone 4.
