OS X Upgrade, IPhone May Boost Mac Sales
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| After years of relatively flat sales, the number of Macs sold started
| to grow significantly in 2005. Mac shipments jumped 38 percent from
| 3.3 million units in Apple's fiscal 2004 to 4.5 million in 2005.
| Then they climbed 17 percent to 5.3 million in 2006.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070610/mac_attack.html?.v=5
As long as Windows is not assumed, use of standards will be encouraged.
Apple's latest trick to enforce digital rights
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| With this version of iTunes, users were finding that music
| subjected to the old download-burn-rip would no longer
| load onto their iPods.
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http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/06/09/10131156.html
Related:
The slow death of DRM
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| * A disaster of historical proportions
| * Consumer litigation against DRM
| * Digital growth is flagging
| * Pressure to dump DRM
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/09/steve_gordon_drm/
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