Spotify, the music streaming service I’m in love with, has launched two new subscription plans today: Unlimited and Open.
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Spotify Introduces Spotify “Unlimited” and “Open”
If Apple Released the iPhone 4G Today…
The good folks over at AppAdvice have put together an image of what the promo page of the iPhone 4G might look like. If you’ve missed all the leaked specs in the past weeks, look no further than the image after the break.
Apple Quietly Updates the Macbook with a Faster Processor and Longer Battery Life
As we expected last week, Apple has updated the white Macbook and, just like many insiders were claiming, it’s a rather minor update focused on bumping the processor from 2.26 to 2.4 GHz and giving it longer battery life.
Apple to be America’s Largest Company by Stock Market Value
Apple has had an incredibly successful run in the stock market, and currently they’re positioned to take on the likes of Microsoft and Exxon. Economically Apple isn’t that strong, finishing at an underwhelming 42nd. But in stock market value, Apple’s raised some eyebrows.
Mac Sales Up 39% in April
Mac sales have gone under a 39% increase in April 2010, Gene Munster reports basing on the NPD data.
“April NPD data gives us the first sign of the degree to which the iPad cannibalizes iPod or Mac sales,” he writes. “From the early NPD data, it appears that the iPad has a minimal cannibalization impact on Mac sales, and could be slightly cannibalizing iPod sales. Given the [average selling price] (4x) and margin profile of the iPad, we see this as a net positive for Apple’s business.”
As All Things Digital reports though, the iPad won’t really cannibalize the sales of Macs:
“We believe in the long run Mac cannibalization will exist, but will be minimal. Apple has successfully limited the iPad functionality to primarily content consumption, vs. content creation on a Mac. And relative to the iPod, the physical size of an iPad provides a meaningfully different value proposition (portability vs. screen size).”
See the NPD data image below:
[via Fortune]
Tom’s Hardware Investigates Steam Performance on Mac
Spoiler: Windows wins. The Mac isn’t built to play games, and the response is that people who play games casually will pick something up on the computer, while serious gamers will float towards consoles. While I’d strongly argue that this is a big “negative” and that console gaming is simply more accessible, the problem here is with OpenGL and how OS X accesses hardware via “half-baked” driver bottlenecks. Also, Mac player’s consistently have trouble AWP’ing n00bs with their Magic Mouses.
Apple Patents Social Workflows
What’s a social workflow you ask? Heck if I know! These confounded devices transmit everything these days. But I will tell ya, the future is looking bleak if Apple gets in bed with Facebook.
Mémoires Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the Memoired giveaway.We also want to thank the Coding Robots developers for the licenses they offered to MacStories readers.
Here are the winners:
Jash Sayani
Christohper Misiano
Clemens Bauer
You’ll receive the promo licenses in your inbox in a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week. You can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet or Federico as @viticci
Foxconn Will Ship 24 Million iPhone 4G Units in 2010
Foxconn is set to ship 24 million units of Apple’s next iPhone in 2010, Digitimes reports.
“According to Digitimes senior analysts Ming-Chi Kuo citing sources from Taiwan-based component makers:
Foxconn will ship 4.5 million units in the first half and 19.5 million units for the rest of 2010. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 4G on June 7, 2010 during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
The new device will adopt IPS (in-plane switching) panels with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology and a 960×640 resolution, Kuo said, noting that LG Display and Prime View International are the panel suppliers.
The iPhone 4G will run on the Arm Cortex A8 processor and a 512MB memory module from Samsung Electronics, doubling the memory capacity seen in the iPhone 3GS to take advantage of the multi-tasking capability of the iPhone 4.0 platform, Kuo revealed.”
The question is, will 24 million units be enough or too much for 2010?
