Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

iTunes is now the third largest retailer of music in the United States according to a recent survery by NPD Group.
Apple’s online music super store surpassed Amazon with nearly 10% market share for the 1st Quarter, USA Today reports
iTune was launched 4 years ago in 2003, and became an overnight top player in the US [...]

We have been trying to come up with a solution to expand the capabilities of the iPhone so developers can write great apps for it, but keep the iPhone secure. And we’ve come up with a very. Sweet. Solution. Let me tell you about it. An innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices… [...]

There is one other thing we wanted to tell you about that we think you might like. Safari… it’s been a wonderful success, there are now over 18m Safari users. It’s climbed from 0 to 5% across the entire internet. If you look at the world of browsers, IE is about 78%, Ffx 15%, Safari [...]

New movies widgets, that looks up shows times at cinemas (US only I presume). Also allows you to view trailers inside the widget, which is pretty cool.

Boot Camp. It’s pretty amazing, since we put it out a year ago we’ve had over 2.5m downloads of the beta. With Leopard Boot Camp is built-in. The latest and greatest version is built in… no more CD-burning to install drivers. This is a really great complement to Parallels and VMware. There are three great [...]

“Very high production values, very low effort to add it — it automatically brings in GPU acceleration. For the demo, if you’ve seen the Apple TV, we took the opening movie and made it live and interactive.” This is insane, he’s zooming over a grid of hundreds of live-playing videos. “I can search for this [...]

Leopard is 64-bit top to bottom. Not only does it have 64-bit underpinnings in Unix, but we’ve taken it all the way up through Cocoa. This is the first time 64-bit will be mainstream in the PC world. One version of Leopard will run 32-bit and 64-bit apps side-by-side. We do NOT have two versions [...]