New iMacs with Blu-ray players could be announced this month, Apple's first set of products supporting the hi-def disc format.

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Nintendo Brings Mario to the iPhone! No, wait...

As if there could possibly be any lingering doubt that Apple's approval bots over at the iTunes App Store have been consistently asleep at the wheel, the sudden appearance of a simple "visit these map locations and earn a coin" GPS-based game called Mariolife [iTunes Store Link]  …

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John Gruber is a smart guy. He consistently provides some of the best Mac, iPhone, web and general geekery analysis. Whenever he publishes an article, I read it, and 9 links he publishes out of 10, I read, too.

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Regarding the Media Frenzy Surrounding Steve Jobs' Health

Here's what we know, regarding the health of Steve Jobs:

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A decade ago, Wired was my favorite magazine. Today, they print mind-numbing tripe like Leander Kahney's 3,500-word cover story, "How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong".

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So the big question regarding the email Apple sent last week to developers who applied for entry to Apple's iPhone SDK beta program is whether anyone at all has been admitted already.

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But more importantly, since when was it the responsibility of the maker of an operating system to prevent poorly-written applications? What's wrong with "since now"? A new platform can't be innovative if it isn't different.

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Back in June, I didn't think this would happen. I was wrong. There was never any question that this is a big market, the question is whether Apple wanted a part of it. The answer, clearly, is yes. The enterprise features announced today are serious and difficult.

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The games that were demoed today look pretty cool. Reports from people in attendance are gushing.

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But what if Microsoft does the unexpected and keeps Yahoo separate and distinct? On a vastly smaller scale, that's what Microsoft has done with its Mac Business Unit.

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I think these will prove to be dead-on accurate.

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The Curious Iniquities of Daring Fireball Sponsorship

Being a mac user, I'm a huge fan of John Gruber's blog, Daring Fireball. I follow his work pretty closely, and probably seed more content to Newsvine after discovering it through DF than he should be comfortable with. (I'm not stalking, I'm appreciating.)

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I agree with pretty much everything Gruber has to say, except the footnote: A Nintendo mobile phone might kick some iPhone ass. ↩ Anyone who has ever tried to navigate through the "Virtual Console Store" on the Wii would beg to differ.

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I think I finally understand a certain misguided mindset that I've been baffled by for a decade. This mindset is exemplified by the sort of person who thinks that Apple "screwed them over" with the release of the iPhone 1.1.1 update.

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Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: It's Just Not the Same

Not long after the real author of the openly fake Secret Diary of Steve Jobs was revealed to be Daniel Lyons, Daring Fireball's John Gruber posted some thoughts on the matter:

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John Gruber has written an article about the iPhone's lack of a cut/copy/paste feature and, although he expects Apple to provide clipboard and text selection in the future, he explains why it wasn't present in the first place.

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Rob Enderle is apparently under the impression that iPhones will cause accidents because of their lack of keyboards and that will lead to class action lawsuits. Rob Enderle is a tool.

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So much for the mainstream media's love affair for all things Apple. As has been said elsewhere, ABC loses points for soliciting the views of Rob Enderle -- known anti-apple FUD spreader. "This is a pretty slick phone," he said. "I think dropping it is likely."

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The good news is that the shirts are now in production, and they'll start shipping worldwide by the end of next week. Great! Now what about the old shirt that I never received when I signed up last year? Disclaimer:

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Some of these pundits and analysts are morons. Ballmer, however, is a very smart man, but what he's saying about the iPhone is going to make him look stupid if it's successful.

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There's been a lot of bad mouthing from various Macintosh users and developers out there surrounding MacHeist the past week or so.

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But if you look at Amazon's current MP3 player sales rankings, the top-selling Zune (black) is all the way down in 18th place, behind a slew of iPod models, and a couple of players from SanDisk and Creative. The second-best selling Zune is all the way down in 36th place.

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John Gruber discusses the difference between "beta" and "buggy" applications. A good, humourous analysis which is well worth reading. Without ruining the punchline: My advice to fellow critics is that there's no need for disclaimers such as these.

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Brian Ford, Newsvine Correspondent.... it has a nice ring :)

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7 Questions: Daring Fireball's John Gruber

Ask anyone with more than a passing interest in Apple Computer's products to list the websites they follow on a daily basis and there is bound to be a bit of response crossover: While several sites would be commonly represented (Macnn, Appleinsider, etc) the common element on al …

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