MacBreak Weekly 69

Congratulations to Alex Lindsay on his little (and incredibly laid back) boy. Malakhi! (Born in THREE hours, cries for a maximum of minute at a time), see Malahki here This episode everyone gets lost in skype dead-space at some point, so bear with us!: And now the news......

• New LED screens ordered by Apple: Is the sub-notebook coming. EVERYONE wants the sub-notebook
• Scott: New Iphone: HSDPA 3G, 16GB of FlashRam, an SDK, and hopefully no GPS (It kills your battery life, FAST)
• Scott: Do you really need GPS? I mean, you have google maps, all you have to do is know where you are by-street-name
• Leo: With the new google maps for mobile you don't even need to know the street name, the new "my location" feature uses cell-tower triangulation to create a customised location aware map for you, no battery life destroying GPS necessary!)
• Was Cingulars (AT&T) 3G iPhone "blurt" to push on apple to get the 3G iPhone ready faster
• Conclusion: The Sub-Notebook is inevitable at Macworld
• Steve Jobs could do his typicall "state-of-the-union" speech, although according to Alex, its not enough for a macworld, so there has to be something more.
• How would the Macalope appear at Macworld, without revealing his identity?.....
• Germany overturns iPhone injunction, Germany is now sans-unlocked iPhone
• Apple may start raising the prices on iTunes according to an Analyst (What makes a person an an Analyst? Can someone give me a define:Analyst please?)
• Prices might go up to $15 for Movies: You could buy a DVD for that!
• All NBC show's are removed from the iTunes Sidebar
• However, according to Scott, you can still get some of the shows if you go to the shows directly (through December)
• Hulu is bad, its a mish-mash of content, you can never get the latest content, but that might be the Writers Strike
• To Compete with Piracy (and iTunes, but to a lesser extent) there has to be a high quality, inexpensive, one-stop-shop solution
• Alex: The Mac Mini IS the best mac media centre solution, and of course, in high def. With the Mini, all the content is just a click away with a slick Apple TV "back row" interface but with the power of the mac.
• Big Media Giants DO NOT GET IT (IT being the new age of media)
• The True Price of movies should be $4.99
• Rental's may be the next big iTunes new product
• Netflix is awesome, but apparently they have an algorithm to detect the "handbrake+netflix=rental movies to keep" combo
• The Digital lifestyle (.tv) has launched a 24 hour mac content, it uses mogulus, but to the panel the whole thing is "meh"
• Patent Nonsense! Lawsuits Galore-250 pending lawsuits against the iPhone
• More light talk on mac-y stuff, hard to describe, but then again these are showNOTES, not the SHOW

The Picks!

• Scott: The TAD iPhone Pouch for 16.95 (The least expensive Scott Bourne pick ever!)
• Alex: Stattooo- A Heads-Up-Display for mac, but on your desktop, for those who wish their was a little checkbox on dashboard preferences "start working the way i actually want" for $12.95
• Leo: Quay, bringing the heirachical dock icons back to Leopard! One free icon, or register for $7 and get the real deal

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