Apple and Mac news

Apple had 57% more visitors last November when compared to the other year. From 19, 615,000 on November 2004, it's up 57% to 30,845,000.

LowEndMac has very interesting stories about Apple. The most recent is about an Apple CEO who stayed for only 500 days at the helm. This happened in the mid-90s when Apple was sinking. More stories like the return of Steve Jobs to Apple and how a man changed the Mac's direction.

USA Today must be losing readership since they are willing to print out garbage.

People from Cincinnati are also craving for attention. After calling the iPod as a "smut device," another Cincinntian takes another stab at the iPod, calling it a waste of money. What's with people from Cincinnati?

BusinessWeek has a rebuttal to USA Today's inane article, saying that even though Jobs will get hosed on 2006, just like what's happened in the past, he will get back up that pedestal USA Today mentioned.

Interestingly enough, The Mac Observer has an "Apple Death Knell" counter. The piece from USA Today is #48, and for the most part, this particularly Death Knell is weak and offers no real reason on why the wreiter thinks Apple, or more specifically, Jobs, will perish, that is except to just gain readership and visitor counts. Man, pathetic.

Texas adds another item to its lawsuit against Sony. On November, Texas Attorney General filed a lwasuit against Sony for their deceptive trade practices and installing spyware in Texans' computers.

Apple Matters's James Stoup has his own "Top (number here) stories of/for 200x." His "Soon To Be Most Hyped Up Non-Stories of 2006" lists four stories Stoup thinks will be all over the news on 2006. He calls it as the "over optimistic tech analysis" reports from various sources. (He adds six more in the comments section to fulfill the need of the usual "Top Ten" lists of things a reader was craving for.) My favorite is the "The iPod Killer," prodcuts that will set to replace the iPod as the world's number one DMP. Reader more for a laugh or a slap in the face that will wake you up and make you face reality.