There is a small audience that likes this. The latest version of the Mac OS X operating system could easily run on Intel chips but Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs said on Wednesday that the company has little interest in changing processors.
The last major version of Mac OS X - Tiger - appeared in April 2005, so the gap between Leopard represents the longest delay between versions in the operating system's history. The dropping of the word 'computer' from Apple's official name didn't...
Meanwhile, in a third, unrelated case, Apple sued three men who leaked developer copies of its new Tiger operating system onto file-sharing sites. Apple's DNA is innovation, and the protection of our trade secrets is crucial to our success," the...
The Macintosh audience may not be representative of the larger market, however, since Apple buyers tend to have higher incomes and greater technological sophistication than the PC audience as a whole, and have previously had less access to the...
An Apple representative declined to comment specifically on the new briefs but reiterated the company's overall position that Apple's "DNA is innovation" and that "the protection of trade secrets is critical for its success".
He also touched on Apple Computer's position in the marketplace. Apple is doing some good, innovative work," he said. In particular, Ballmer cited the work that Apple and Lucent Technologies did in 1999 to make wireless networking broadly available...