The new iPhone 3G is a surefire winner for anyone who doesn’t have an iPhone yet. It’s not such a sure thing for people with existing iPhones. Most iPhone owners wouldn’t have jumped at this year’s model no matter how much improved it was, because most iPhone owners have the common sense not to buy [...]

Today’s message is pretty simple: Apple is going for iPhone market share in a big, big, way.
The iPhone 3G seemingly only has two major hardware additions: 3G networking and GPS. The battery, I suspect, might be stronger (and, given the shape of the back of the iPhone 3G, perhaps a stronger but bigger battery. No [...]

Here’s what I expect regarding “Snow Leopard”, the in-progress version of Mac OS X 10.6 which I expect Apple to talk about tomorrow at WWDC.
Dropping PowerPC Support
This is not going to be popular, and it does seem too soon, but my sources indicate that it is the case. Why would Apple do this, when it [...]

Cory Bohon at TUAW breaks the news:
TUAW has received some information that suggests Apple may be
working to seed developers with an early build of Mac OS X 10.6 at
this year’s WWDC. 10.6 will not include any new significant
features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on
“stability and security.”
We have also learned that OS X 10.6 [...]

240-page PDF book from Apple, filled with security configuration information for Leopard. (Via Ernest Prabhakar.)

John Nack on the dilemma faced by Adobe regarding shortcuts like Command-H in Photoshop: Photoshop has been using Command-H for “Hide Selection” since the early ’90s, but starting with Mac OS X 10.0, Apple established the same shortcut as the system-wide standard for hiding the current application. Stick with tradition and the app feels broken [...]

New top-level domain (ostensibly from Montenegro). Apple has filed for “apple.me”, “ipod.me”, “itunes.me”, and, I presume, others. These domains are open for anyone to register starting June 6, but the actual .me top-level domain doesn’t go live until July 17. I think it’s merely a coincidence that this TLD is going live right around the [...]

Brooks Barnes on Disney and Pixar:
“Cars” tells the story. The film was regarded by some critics as one of Pixar’s weaker storytelling efforts, and it generated soft foreign sales when compared with hits like “Finding Nemo.” But “Cars” has pumped billions in profit into Disney via a wide range of ancillary businesses.
The film racked up [...]