MacCraic

Intro – Justin, Dave and a man called (the) Don

News

• iPhone on Vodafone Ireland
• The Unofficial Apple Store – Dublin
• iPad Releases in US First
• Mac Gives Critic New Voice
• Where Force Quit Came From

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Guest - Don McAllister

Dave’s Slot - The Patent Wars & also Specific Patents that Apple are suing over

Dave’s Crap Accessory/Weapon of the Week - Stainless Steel iPhone

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Tag – That’s all the craic from this week’s Mac

This week, our heroes go back to the script but then decide to throw caution to the wind & go for a no holds barred episode that will end up with an explicit tag or could possibly get us in trouble with the Asian community judging by this weeks title.

News

• iPad not to ship with iBooks App WTF?
• Apple Patent 3D Apple Store (Even Better Than the Real Thing ? more patent madness indeed)
• More Podcasts from Apple ( and we discovered something about this while recording the podcast)

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Feature –  Justin’s adventures with Aperture 3.. or lack thereof ( and a rare Mildly Miffed Mac Maniac Moment from your host)

Dave’s App Pick- iPhone Explorer Turns Your iPhone Into a Disk Drive (and it’s free)

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This week, our heroes decide to freestyle it again; bringing you our usual mix of news & humour (which couldn’t get any lower than the “Bodyform” musical interludes from last week)

Freestylin’ list :

• iTunes 9.0.3 is out, go get it!
• iTunes web integration improved again – now in-browser Apps previews (and as for last week musical interlude…)
• iPad has camera holes?
• Apple Patents Touch Sensitive Bezel for Hot Corners Action [Apple] & Apple experts cooking-up Funky Cool Sense Controller schema (patently mad!)
• Comic Books Will Look Incredible on the iPad [Ipad] – Panelfly

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• The premium Mac brand: Nine out of every ten $1000+ computers sold in  the US…
• Why the iPad will be a flop in Ireland (and this is a leading Irish technology blog (a bit blinkered methinks))- related in this little chat (Pan Euro iTunes licencing)

Dave’s app picks of the week:

• DARPA-based Siri virtual assistant hits the App Store, smartphone  sentience …
• Logitech Touch Mouse App Turns iPhones Into a Trackpad and Keyboard,  for Free

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Hi folks, just wanted to make an addition or two post wise which I left out of the latest podcast.

The Town Hall meeting incident: As regards what Stevie J actually said or didn’t say, Daring Fireball has his take (now updated with same information on this Wired article) on what happened at the Town Hall meeting. Whatever the words used, the sentiments are the same as Google & Apple are in a lot of ways now enemies.

Also, neglected to mention that out of this meeting Stevie also stated following as reported by macrumors.com:

• that agressive updates are to be delivered to iPhone that Android will not be able to match (an A+ upgrade to iPhone apparently, so guess we can expect a baby brother chip (A2 running on Cortex A9 SP chip perhaps) without a doubt in next 4 months)
• Lala was a talent purchase, whose team have been integrated into the iTunes team (wonder how Eddie Cue is going to keep ‘em in hand )
• New Macs for 2010 that will take Apple to the next level (can’t believe that a 22-inch touchscreen Mac is it- gorilla arms anyone ? )
• Blu-Ray is effectively still a “bag of hurt”, so a wait & see approach is been taken sales wise (considering there are now Blu-Ray players under €150, there should be a considerable jump unit sales wise especially after Xmas period)

Sorry for not including these in show. Promise to behave going forward.

Why the $130 price gap between non-3G & 3G version ? : This, I neglected to mention in the latest podcast as it went in the Bermuda Triangle called the “back of my mind” & also in my previous article. I’m trying to work out how a $10-$20 cost 3G chip can somehow lead to a approx 550%+ margin based on extra $130 on retail price. Are the Wi-Fi only iPads being cross-subsidised to a degree by the Wi-Fi+3G models in order to maintain overall projected gross profit margins for this product ?

Would like to know indeed.