Love this Scobleizer post...

Quoted: ...people started talking about my Apple problems. Everyone at the table is a Macintosh user. What was fun is that at one point people started telling me about the problems they have had with their Macs. Many with far more serious problems than I have had.

Quoted: ...they all blamed themselves for the problems of their Macs and I think they also bought into the “Apple cult” which says that if you use a Mac you must be cool.

Quoted: We believe Apple’s marketing so deeply that we aren’t willing to question it.... it’s MY FAULT that my Apple machine is having trouble.

Quoted: See, on my Windows machine I’m willing to accept this. After all, I know that Microsoft can’t really test every combination of hardware out there. My Windows machines can take dozens, if not hundreds, of different video cards, sound cards, hard drives, memory configurations, etc. The thing is on my Mac I didn’t load any third-party RAM — Apple’s brand promise is that you never will need to open your box to customize it. Heck, the iPhone goes further. You CAN’T customize it and if you try you have to “break” into it.

Nice to see the tables turn sometimes...

Quoted: Updated: Leopard's firewall is a mess, say researchers, shutting off by default and allowing connections even under "block all."

Quoted: Security has slipped backwards on the evolutionary ladder in Apple's latest Mac OS X release, security researchers say, with Leopard's firewall having more holes than its namesake cat has spots.

Quoted: "The short answer is the Leopard firewall is ... ugly and a step backwards from 10.4," said Rich Mogull, an independent security consultant and founder of Securosis.

This is a new one. Why would anyone want to run OSX on nasty old PC hardware?

Quoted: Well its been only a day since the Mac OSX Leopard was released officially by Apple and the hackers have managed to create a patched DVD that everyone like you and me can use to install Leopard on PC’s without having to buy a Mac.

Surely the iPod + iTunes craze contributed to a halo effect and subsequent Mac sales.

Quoted: The iPod often gets the credit for increased Mac shipments, described as the "halo effect" over past years. The thinking is that iPod customers, having enjoyed their iPod experience and having seen Apple in a new light, might be more inclined to pick up a Mac while shopping for a new iPod case and realizing their old PC is woefully out of date.

This was another genuis move by Apple... switching to Intel and making 'the switch' simple.

Quoted: I think more people are buying Macs because there is no longer a penalty for switching to a Mac. After all, you can run Windows on a Mac, open and edit Word documents in Mac OS, and you probably spend most of your time on one Web page or another that doesn't care what operating system is in control.

You have to credit Apple's marketing too. Wow. They are good.

The tide is turning. The comfortable developer base and dominance of software for Microsoft is waning...

Quoted: Apple's online store is now taking orders for the four games from Electronic Arts that were promised for July, and they'll soon be available in retail as well.

Quoted: The four titles--Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Need for Speed Carbon, Battlefield 2142 and Command and Conquer 3--are the first EA games that the company has published for Mac OS X, EA said in a press release. In the past, EA has only released Windows versions of its popular games that other companies had to port over to the Mac.

Ahhhh.... shame.

Quoted: A team of computer security consultants say they have found a flaw in the Apple iPhone that allows them to take control of the device.

Quoted: ...they could take control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.

Duh...

Quoted: The decision to make a Windows version of Safari probably has less to do with Windows users and a whole lot to do with Windows developers.