TheMacAdvocate

TMA once had a dream of ubiquitous media that required 2 things Apple lacked: a buttload of server capacity and a codec that would make HD streaming bandwidth-friendly. Last year, Apple started work on a monster server farm in North Carolina. I speculated of the high-definition Red codec under development at the time: If this [...]

When you’re spawning products and updates like Jerry Bruckheimer throws off bad forensic crime dramas (“From the 200x blow-up of this webcam footage, you can clearly make out the perp’s face…”), it must be tough keeping all this stuff straight. Oops! Steve just nuked employee #10,220. UPDATE: Ars reports that ATV 3.0  is in the [...]

Cult of Mac has an interview with Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge, a site devoted to the data center industry.  Rich speculates that Apple’s reportedly 500‚000 square-foot facility (which would make it one of the largest in the world) suggests a “cloud computing” scale. Silly rabbit.  Obviously SJ reads TMA and is looking to [...]

Every time Apple reports earnings‚ every analyst on the Cupertino beat weighs in with their idea for how Steve should spend his now $30 billion pile of cash.  Most suggest acquisitions of some kind.  The ideas range from the unimaginative to the straight-up retarded (unless someone could explain how you print money with Twitter).  Because [...]