(4/30) I heard about the 3G for upcoming iPhones, but Techland reports both a big price subsidy for new subscribers (so the phone part of the contract would come to just $200) and, more importantly, a GPS chip.

64-bit-based Intel Macs running Leopard have an update for Java SE 6 today.

So this Psystar thing is real after all. Ref: Engadget, CNET, OSNews.

(4/24) If anyone has thoughts on the topic, I'm collecting ideas about good things for Time Machine to ignore.

(4/23) Apple Q2 earnings had a $7.51B revenue with $1.05B in profits. Mac sales were 2.289M, up 51% over Q2 '07 — 50% to new-to-Mac customers. iPod sales at 10.644M, 1% over Q2 '07. iPhone sales at 1.703M.

In other news: Apple has bought the chip maker P.A. Semi

More good news: New version of the iPhone OS and SDK are now avalaible!

Update: IF you get bricked when installing the latest iPhone OS, you can get back on your feet (with the latest OS release) doing an option-restore in iTunes (so reports have it).

Also, a note to Mac / iPhone developers (and potential developers): Early registration for the WWDC ends on the 25th (read: in two days).

(4/21) AAPL earning report on Wednesday. Shares back up to $161. (Wish you went all in when it dipped to $119?) — Fortune has a good roundup of Q2 issues.

(4/16) Yet another comparison, this time by Popular Mechanics, showing Macs clobbering PCs for both price and performance. For some reason the "Macs are more expensive" meme won't die, however. Sigh. On the high-end machines, Macs fare even better.

Gartner puts Apple's domestic market share at 6.6%, and IDC put it at 6%. Keep in mind that these numbers include bulk sales to businesses and kiosks, so the odds of someone having a Mac at home is quite a bit higher than 6%. Maybe it's the demographic I hang with, but most people I know have at least one Mac these days.

The WWDC 08 sessions now list a robust 150 sessions (though, of course, they will certainly change a bit immediately after the keynote, so don't get married to the schedule).

(4/15) Psystar is going for its own Mac clone with its Open Computer, seeming to be willing to give Apple a fight on this one. I miss clones and wish them luck, though I'm guessing they will be smited. — update: Looks like it may be a hoax after all. — another update: The strange saga continues.

(4/2) A preliminary list of WWDC08 Sessions have been posted. This looks to be a subset of the full list of sesssions for this year. (There are only 54 unique sessions listed, which is about 2 days worth of stuff.) Heavy emphasis on iPhone and on introductory sessions are evident, but hopefully the full list will contain things for those wishing to dive deep on other topics like scientific computing.

(3/27) Bert Altenberg, Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin have released a new edition of the free PDF book, Become an Xcoder: Start Programming the Mac Using Objective-C. (PDF link)

The nightly build of WebKit / Safari is now the first publicly available* browser to achieve a 100/100 score on the Acid3 browser test. Download here if interested. (*—Opera also hit 100 today, but not available to the public.)

(3/20) Jonathan Zdziarski published the first iPhone development book, iPhone Open Application Development (there's even a sample chapter). NOTE — this is not a book based on the recently-released iPhone SDK, so be aware of that, though the book's description says that "its concepts and code examples have shown to be remarkably similar to Apple's official SDK, making this book a valuable resource for both camps."

(3/13) Dates for this year's WWDC have been announced: June 9th thru the 13th. Three main tracks this year: iPhone, Mac and IT. Early registration priced at $1300 or $1700 w/ select membership or $3500 w/ premier.