News for Thursday, 18 September 2008

Hello every, live from the Apple Expo.
Hereafter are photos taken during the day, enjoy and do not hesitate to contact me if you want to get special information:

[update]
We have spent a lot of time to discuss and help our visitors to fix some software and hardware problems. However, we had some times to discuss with WMware and Realmac Software representatives, about current and news projects. News to come soon.

As expected, Sandisk reacted forcefully against the hostile tender offer by Samsung. The suggested price is much too low and does not reflect the actual value of the company, but Samsung does not seem worried and reiterated its offer without any changes.
But its competitors fear this acquisition and will try to complicate it. Thus, Toshiba announced that it does not wish to repurchase Sandisk, but to move closer in order to create a strategic partnership. The goal of this advertisement is to reassure the markets on the future of an independent Sandisk and to increase the price of the company stock making it larger to swallow for Samsung.
Seagate has not reacted yet to this offer. It would be surprising if they also do not try to attack, Sandisk remaining their best entry ticket to the world of the SSD.

According to a recent study conducted by Displaysearch, Apple market share for notebook in USA now reached 10.8 % for the 2008 Q2. Apple captured the fourth position behind Dell, HP and Acer, but in front of Toshiba.
This is a quite impressive increase for Apple as its market share a year ago was 6.6 %. However, such good results do not apply worldwide , and Apple is not ranked in the first 5 top position for EMEA zone. Apple might maybe think of changing its rather ridiculous currency rate between US$ and Euro in order to avoid having the rest of the word to pay for having Apple hardware to be priced so aggressively in USA.

Yesterday was the first day of the Apple Expo Remix and we had the chance to discuss with many of our readers and visitors. According to organizers, the number of visitors was good and let's expect it will stay like that for the rest of the day.
We already performed on of the technical demo, the second one is planned for this afternoon; Video will be posted in the site later. We plan to fix a PowerBook 12" with parts coming from 2 other dead PowerBooks. Tomorrow and on Saturday we will demo how to change the HD to increase its storage space.
Hereafter are our goodies, exclusively available from out booth. See you there at the Apple Expo.
Remember to register on line for benefiting of a free entrance: Apple Expo

The software Air Sharing available via the AppStore makes it possible to transform a iPhone/iPod Touch into a network disk.
Once the application is installed and launched (and only while it is launched), it is possible to mount the iPhone as a network disk or directly in Safari and to be able to deposit files or to recover them in all simplicity.
The software is free for the moment. However It will, at a unspecified future date, cost $6,99.