We all thought this was over after Apple took hits from just about every other big mobile brand then hit back with a demo page that shows that every one else has an antenna problem. Since Apple can’t change the way the iPhone 4 was designed, they then came out with the free bumper case program that hands out a free case to iPhone 4 owners as a solution. Apparently, “the solution” can still be tweaked to Motorola’s favor: they came out with a new ad (full image after the break) that shows the Droid X following a casual “no jacket required” dress code. Clever.
Apple finishes off its update day with a couple of new accessories: the 27-inch LED Cinema Display and a new input peripheral called the Magic Trackpad. Despite the mystical name, it’s simply an oversized touchpad that connects via Bluetooth. It acts and feels the same as a MacBook’s pad, but it’s 80% larger, giving your Mac desktop multitouch support. As an accessory for a MacBook, well, you get a larger area to do all your swiping with.
After refreshing the top-end Mac Pro for the pros, Apple also updated the consumer iMac line for everyone else. They still look the same as the existing Core 2 Duo iMacs, but this new batch come with newer innards, replacing the Core 2 Duo processors with Intel’s newer Core i3 and i5 processors on the mainstream configurations and a quad-core, 2.93GHz Intel Core i7 CPU on the top-end.
Apple just updated the Mac Pro, giving the system options for running up to 12 processor cores to work via a pair of six-core 2.96GHz Xeon 5600 processors. For those who need the absolute extreme performance from their desktops, and everyone else who can afford to part with $5,000 for a kick-ass system.
While a recent ruling by a judge regarding the DMCA might seem like big news to the mobile modding community, Apple’s reaction is pretty tame. They recently released a statement that maintains the status quo: basically, they’re aware that we jailbreak our iPhones, they didn’t react to it back then, and they aren’t going to start now.
