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Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer’s decision to warn financial analysts Monday that Apple’s fourth-quarter gross margins will be negatively impacted by a “product transition” should be enough to get the rumor wheels turning: of course, it doesn’t take all that much. The remark came within yet another Apple’s earnings report that produced stellar numbers for the previous quarter but an outlook below what Wall Street had been expecting.

Oppenheimer deftly avoided several questions from analysts who tried to get a little more information on just what that “product transition” might involve. He used the exact same phrase last year in July during an earnings call to warn analysts of pretty much the exact same situation: that the transition would cause lower profits for the upcoming quarter. The result? New iMacs in August, and the iPod Touch in September.

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The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday–an entire week before the device goes on sale.

Frankly, one shouldn’t encourage such behavior by actually covering it. But if I were in Manhattan–instead of Austin, Texas–I, too, would have interviewed them in person by now.

The queue outside of Apple’s Fifth Avenue store, covered first by GearDiary and then Engadget, apparently hasn’t been formed by iPhone co-dependents, though.

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Apple is without any doubt among the privileged crowd that gets to take the first shots at Microsoft’s jugular, delivering jabs without hesitation. The Get a Mac video ads are an illustrative example in this context, but at the same time, while its marketing campaigns point end users in one direction, Apple has its own, often contradictory agenda. It is the case of BootCamp and the way the Cupertino-based hardware company is embracing the Windows operating system with open arms and even more open Mac computers. In this regard, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is finding Macs powered by Intel processors increasingly crowded as Apple is welcoming Windows XP and Windows Vista
into the mix.
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Apple’s Boot Camp has just been updated to version 2.1. It is available in three forms, for Windows XP, Vista 32 bit, and Vista 64 bit. Update 2.1 addresses certain issues with the utility and improves compatibility with XP and Vista. Click HERE to update your version of Boot Camp. XP users should note that Boot Camp 2.1 should be installed before you apply
Windows XP Service Pack 3.

“This update addresses issues and improves compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Vista running on a Mac computer using Boot Camp. It is highly recommended for all Boot Camp users. Important: Installation of Boot Camp 2.1 is required before installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3),” Apple says.
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First of all, let’s clarify a matter: because you may ask “what’s with the quotes in the title?” I must explain you one thing. This article is not about one of those popular
MP3 players manufactured by the Cupertino-based company, it’s actually about a crappy device probably made by some Chinese firm which attempted to lure more consumers by using Apple’s logo and product name (some of you may consider that the “d” at the end of iPod looks like an “a” but, what the heck, it’s obvious the manufacturers wanted to take advantage of Apple’s success on the market).

Although it’s obviously a trademark infringing case, we’re not here to talk about legal disputes but about some security issues recently discovered.
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