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• FileMaker is not a consumer brand, and I think Bento should be part of iWork. FileMaker's separate identity from Apple makes sense for selling a cross-platform product but a Mac-only consumer app seems much more Apple, particularly when it's picking…

  in First Look: FileMaker's Bento personal database for Leopard Comment by magic_al_ November 2007
• Apple has said iPod (and presumably iPhone) batteries are not user-accessible to discourage them from ending up in landfills. Are people who find it too inconvenient to use Apple's or a competing battery-replacement service going to deal with recycl…

  in iPhone: class-action battery lawsuit, mass AC adapter failures Comment by magic_al_ July 2007
• Watermarking photos that came from another site is lame, AppleInsider.

  in Purported photos of new iMac keyboard stir debate Comment by magic_al_ July 2007
• I agree with the party poopers. Number portability exists so your carrier can't hold your number hostage when you want to switch carriers, not so you can keep the same number for life. The idea of local exchanges isn't as dead as people think. Th…

  in How to port 'ineligible' mobile numbers to AT&T and iPhone Comment by magic_al_ July 2007
• This doesn't sound like a "class action".

  in Apple and music labels accused of shortchanging artists Comment by magic_al_ May 2007