Written and directed by Josh Faure-Brac, the video starts with the usual fights between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The fights are meaningless and both should just concentrate on providing their respective users the best of Internet connected experiences. The Internet will make platform war obsolete forever.
When compared to Commodore 64, the best selling single personal computer model of all time, Windows Vista and OS X are both far more advance. Both platforms have added more and more features that are identical and often indistinguishable with the common intentions of facilitating better connected experiences. Why the fight?
The Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB) started off smoothly with the release of three bugs so far on day 3. They are all related to media player.
- Apple QuickTime
rtsp://URL Handler Stack-based Buffer Overflow - A vulnerability in the handling of thertsp://URL handler allows remote arbitrary code execution. - VLC Media Player
udp://Format String Vulnerability - A vulnerability in the handling of theudp://URL handler allows remote arbitrary code execution. - Apple QuickTime HREFTrack Cross-Zone Scripting vulnerability - A vulnerability in the handling of the HREFTrack field allows to perform cross-zone scripting, leading to potential remote arbitrary code execution.
What is interesting is not OS X has enough bugs for a whole month but the voluntary efforts by Mac guru, Landon Fuller. He has provided patches or fixes for all three bugs disclosed so far. He also offers to patch all other vulnerabilities, one a day, until the month is out.
I have been a Mac fan lately due to the disappointing Windows Vista. As we are approaching Macworld Expo 2007 due next Tuesday, speculations start to emerge as to what Apple will announce. Here is a list of possible products from Jason D. O’Grady’s blog order by most to least likely.
- iLife & iWork ‘07 - Apple usually updates these software at Mac Expo.
- iTV - A promise to bring TV to Mac. Just let me watch TiVo-like TV on my Mac ok?
- Mac mini - The Mac to host iTV or just boring regular updates.
- Mac OS 10.5 - It’s the perfect time to show the world that Apple does not “copy” ideas from Microsoft. More new features should be unveiled.
- Mac Pro - Upgrade to the top of the line horsepower, quad-core Intel Xeon Processor for desktop Mac.
- Displays - More displays with built-in iSight and HDCP/HDMI support but make sure you support PS3 HDMI 1.3!
- iPod - iPod with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi should be enough to kill Zune.
- Apple Phone - Not much room for Apple to innovate here. Turning iPod into a phone is the same as a Nokia phone with music player.
- Thin 12″ MBP - 12″ MBP is awesome! If Apple is going to reintroduce the model after dropping it during the transition to Intel in early 2006, it will sure catch lots of instant buy.
- Mac Tablet - Not another ultra portables!