Having killed radio, Apple may be trying to bring it back. Elsewhere iFixit hacks up an unsuspecting Mac mini, and a hot new game murders Apple’s Game Center to death. The remainders for Friday, October 26, 2012 have a killer instinct.
Apple’s Online Radio Service to Challenge Pandora in 2013 (Bloomberg)
Rumors say Apple may once again be planning a streaming audio service, à la Pandora. Reports say it would focus on music streaming to apps on iOS devices and would probably be supported by ads. Because that’s the part of radio that I have been missing most of all.
Apple’s Phil Schiller on the State of the Mac (Time)
Time’s Harry McCracken chatted with Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller about this week’s Mac announcements, including the controversial decision to adopt hard-to-repair unibody enclosures: “That’s how we seal the demons inside,” Schiller joked, to laughter.
Mac Mini Late 2012 Teardown (iFixit)
The iFixit crew took apart the newest Mac mini, finding that it’s pretty similar to the 2011 model except OH MY GOD IT’S FULL OF DEMONS.
Apple’s Game Center Seems to be Malfunctioning Today. Blame Letterpress? (Kotaku)
Apple’s Game Center seems to be up and down today, which many have blamed on Loren Brichter’s popular new Letterpress game. This bodes well for Brichter’s next app, a distributed denial of service client.
Product News
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Author: Dan Moren, Contributor
Dan has been writing about all things Apple since 2006, when he first started contributing to the MacUser blog. He's a prolific podcaster and the author of the Galactic Cold War series, including his latest, The Nova Incident.