zune fail!!!

According to a post on Gizmodo, many users of the 30GB Zune are experiencing some sort of a glitch… Apparently at around 2:00 AM the devices began freezing… Interesting… Seems like the Y2K bug finally caught on… 9 years later…

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Uh oh, more good apple news!

There seems to have been a spike in app sales over the Christmas / Hanukkah break due to in increased sales of iPod touches mainly and probably some iPhones. This is good news for hardware sales as well as more sales via the app store which Apple collects 30% on. So this should send the Apple stock down a few points tomorrow! Well I joke, but the way the stock market is I wouldn’t be surprised

[via Macrumors]

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Midwest at&t outage

Reading some user comments on The iPhone Blog Forums it seems like there is 3g. So far Chicago, Michigan, and Minnesota have reported issues. BadAsh has confirmed there is no service in the Chicago area at all.

What’s weird is it doesn’t seem to be affecting everyone in the same way. Some user have no server, some can make outbound calls, but not inbound…and some in the same affected areas are working without issue!

Anyone else having issues in these or any other areas?

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amazon has best year ever

CNN Money is reporting that Amazon has had its best year ever. Apple does very well on Amazon and currently has 5 of the top 25 best sellers in electronics

From the CNN report:

Amazon said Samsung Electronics Inc.’s (005930.SE) 52-inch LCD High-Definition television and Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) 8-gigabyte iPod Touch led the gains in its electronics category.

Nice to see them pointing out Apple’s role in Amazon’s sales, but I think they meant to say 16GB iPod Touch which is currently at the #11 spot on the top 25 list. Also, I’m sure the classic black (#8 at time of this post) and 4th gen nano black (#10 as time of post) have helped as well

Another funny tidbit from the report:

Online retailers, like Amazon, may have benefited from poor weather in the two weeks before Christmas, which likely shifted sales volume to the Web-based shops, MasterCard said.

Although there may be some truth to that, I think it has more to do with it being 2008. More and more people are online and those same people are choosing to shop online. So more good news for Apple even with all these dumb reporters and analyst predicting doom and gloom.

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Mac Giving Tree, unwrap some free mac software

Mac Giving Tree is currently offering free software for Christmas. You get 2 presents now (Enigmo 2 / iTunes extender Synergy). Then if you come back on Christmas there will be 4 yet to be realved presents to unwrap!

(via Daring Fireball)

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New, like new, iMacs to arrive in January?

9to5mac is reporting that the iMac refresh we assumed that we would be getting in January is a going to be more than just a speed bump in the CPU/Video chips.

…according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) via Digitimes:

.. sources inside the component supply chain as saying that Apple plans to launch a new iMac all-in-one PC in the first quarter of next year, and the company’s sole manufacturing partner, Quanta Computer, is gearing up to supply monthly shipments of around 800,000 units during the first quarter of 2009.  According to the paper, the new iMac will start shipping in January next year. Quanta declined to comment on client relationships, the paper added.  In addition to Apple, Quanta is also manufacturing all-in-one PCs for Sony and NEC.

So this validates the previous rumors of a iMac refresh in January and then adds some icing on top.

When Will Apple Poll: when will new iMac refresh be released?

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