Friday Morning News

<a href="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/steve_jobs.jpg"><img class="imgright size-full wp-image-258" title="steve_jobs" src="http://www.mactalk.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/steve_jobs.jpg" alt="steve_jobs" width="250" height="211" /></a><a href="http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/iphone/#culturedcode">Apple has uploaded some videos about iPhone developers</a> and how they make their applications, to promote WWDC 2009. Well worth a view, to get an insight into how these guys operate, it's inspiring.

Apple has responded to Microsoft's "Laptop Hunters" ads via a*<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc20090415_602968.htm">BusinessWeek</a> article.*<em>"A PC is no bargain when it doesn't do what you want," Apple spokesman Bill Evans says. "The one thing that both Apple and Microsoft can agree on is that everyone thinks the Mac is cool. With its great designs and advanced software, nothing matches it at any price."</em>

The founder of EA, Trip Hawkins, has said this about the iPhone in a recent interview: <em>"The iPhone is by far our most effective platform. We make as much money with these games on one device as we do putting a game on 100 different cell phone platforms. Between the iPod touch and the iPhone, I think the platform is freaking out Sony and Nintendo."</em> <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2009/04/16/nintendo-and-sony-freaking-out-over-apple-iphone/">The Apple Blog has more.</a>



<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId= 9131558">PC user of 20+ years is given an assignment to use a Mac for 2 weeks as his primary computer.</a> Hilarity ensues. Switchers are so cute.

Not a good time to be in the computer making business lately, with growth negative for Q1 09. Apple's year-over-year sales for Q1 declined 1.1%, the first drop in many years. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/04/apple-growth-turns-negative-as-worldwide-pc-shipments-plunge.ars">Arstechnica explains the stats in detail.</a>

Working on that killer iPhone app but need some icons?*<a href="http://glyphish.com/">Glyphish</a> has some very well done free icons and*<a href="http://www.eddit.com/shop/iphone_ui_icon_set/">eddit</a> has a larger collection of icons, for US$69.

Our friend Marc, one half of <a href="http://bjango.com">Bjango</a> has been mentioned in an <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/digital-life/mobiles--handhelds/articles/iphone-apps-take-centre-stage/2009/04/14/1239474872817.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1">art icle for The Age about iPhone development</a>.

<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/apple-your-mighty-mouse-sucks-please-fix-it/">TechCrunch writes an essay on the suck that is the Mighty Mouse.</a> Sing it loud comrade.

<a href="http://macrevu.com/2009/04/review-pixelmator-is-it-a-59-photoshop/">MacRevu gives Pixelmator a going over.</a> I like Pixelmator.

Apple touted it's fancy unibody manufacturing method for laptops as making it's laptops structurally stronger. <a href="http://macenstein.com/default/archives/3810">Well a MacBook Air was on a plane that crashed and killed nine people. </a>The MacBook Air still works (but with a busted LCD).