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“There used to be all of this low-hanging fruit. You could see where all the design problems were. The bar is much higher now.”

Electronic products with cool designs are everywhere these days. Once largely the domain of Apple Computer, industrial design has filtered into every part of our lives. via SiliconValley.com

“I don't know why I bother [with the beta releases]”

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Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone will go on sale in Germany and Britain on Friday, making its European debut four months after its launch in the United States. via PR-inside.com

“We'll never turn our store into a music store”

That tall mocha Frappuccino never sounded so good. Apple Inc. and Starbucks on Wednesday introduced the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at about 360 Starbucks coffee shops in the Bay Area. via San Francisco Chronicle

We're sure his shares aren't backdated, but Ron Johnson, the man who runs Apple's retail operations, has exercised his stock options, selling off 700,000 AAPL shares for a net gain of $112 million, a blog at ... via Insanely Great Mac

“It's ingeniously simple and simply ingenious”

Hundreds of Apple fans braved rain and wind in the German city of Cologne early Friday morning to be among the first in Europe to get their hands on the coveted iPhone. via Digital Producer

“Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, adding that Linux has "almost all of the required technology”

An interesting aspect of the project is the fact that an Apple technology is being looked on with admiration from at least some quarters of the open source community. via TechNewsWorld

A patent infringement suit by a three-person company against Apple Inc. will go forward, a U.S. District Judge has ruled. via East Bay Business Times

As I have mentioned previously in this space, I left the world of medicine and became a full-time writer about 15 years ago. via Cochrane Times

In a ruling by the U.S. District Court in Northern California on Thursday, 14 of the claims of infringement between Apple and Burst were thrown out, according to a statement by Burst. via The Mac Observer

“The relatively expensive contracts on offer with the iPhone will represent an attractive revenue stream over 24 months, but the high upfront and monthly cost and long lock-in could put off some users in a market where free handsets are the norm”

Germans lined up to buy Apple Inc.'s iPhone as it made its European debut Friday, with the company hoping to replicate the success the combination phone, music player and mobile Web browser has seen in the United States.

Apple hopes to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, helped by the launch of the iPhone in Europe, then in Asia next year. It goes on sale in Britain later Friday. The company has already sold more than 1.39 million since it debuted in the United States on June 29.

In Germany, the phone went on sale at more than 700 T-Mobile shops. One store in Cologne opened just after midnight to some 350 would-be buyers already lined up. Read more

Hackers have pledged 'open up' Apple's much-anticipated iPhone to other networks when it goes on sale in the UK today. via Sky News

I've been using Leopard -- also known as version 10.5 of Apple's OS X operating system -- on two computers, my own three-year-old iBook G4 and on a sparkling MacBook Pro laptop on loan from Apple. via MacNewsWorld

Updated at 12:00pm to clarify the French law on unlocked cell phones, and at 1:43pm with comment from Apple. via CNET News.com

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“As I was walking past the sidewalk permits, something caught my eye and I stopped to shoot a photo of one of the permits with my blackberry curve”

Apple on Wednesday evening release a hard drive firmware updated for owners of its iMac and Mac Pro desktops. via AppleInsider

“People will be tethering the device to the computer anyway.”

On Friday, O2, the wireless carrier that has partnered with Apple to sell and service the iPhone in the UK, will make the popular smartphone available to British customers. via CRM Buyer

“If this is a new Mac, make sure the computer name uses the same as what was used on your previous Mac;”

However, they don't mention any of the features that you'll actually lose when you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5. Internet Connect application gone Drives & Folders in the Dock gone Address Book Call & SMS Features ... via Applelinks

“I don't want to be critical of (studio) people because I would have been in the middle of making mistakes. Digital will eventually be the dominant medium for distribution but not yet”

Strike Zone: Latest news and updates NEW YORK -- Former Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner dismissed the Hollywood writers strike as "insanity" and "too stupid," warning writers that they were sacrificing ... via Hollywood Reporter

“Top 10 Gifts for the Entrepreneur”

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the industry's most influential IT personalities of the past 25 years, according to a poll by the Computing Technology Industry Association . via Macsimum News