Asymco's Horace Dediu has put together a combination of published numbers and confident assumptions about hardware replacement cycles -- not app or third-party accessory sales -- to work out that Mac users are worth about $250 per year on average to Apple, while iOS users -- who outnumber Mac users roughly four to one and pay Apple far less for their equipment -- are worth around $150 per year, every year....

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There are many hints that involve the use of the defaults command to change system settings. When trying to keep my Macs in sync (as well as setting up new ones), I have difficulty remembering which changes I've made. So after some work I was able to build a script that nicely tracks the changes I make to the system.

My requirements were to log any writes or deletes, showing both the old value and the new value to a log file in ~/Library/Logs/ where it is accessible to Console. (I use logger too but those messages get lost in the noise and are aged off). I wanted to leave any other defaults command (read, find, etc.) alone.

My first try was to write a function in my .bash_profile, which is loaded at every login and overrode the executable. That seemed fine until I realized that when using sudo defaults, it wasn't working. This is because sudo simply executes a command as different user without logging in and g ...

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Batteries are decidedly evil. My desk is littered with gear that requires them, and I'd be at a loss to watch movies, control my computer and television, and use many of my Mac peripherals without them. Create a plan that will ensure you never lose power.

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Nortel on Friday unveiled the winners of its patent auction. A consortium made up of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM, and Sony has spent a total of $4.5 billion. Ericsson and RIM have revealed that they spent $340 million and $770 million respectively, while the others have remained secretive....

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AppleInsider notes that MacBook supplies have become "severely constrained" at a number of third-party retailers, suggesting that Apple may be drawing down stocks ahead of a refresh.

Specifically, Amazon, MacConnection, On Sale and J&R are all out of stock. In addition, inventory of the entry-level portable is low at DataVision.

In addition, one of Europe's largest distributors is completely out of stock of the white MacBook, and lists no estimated time of arrival for new shipments. Sources indicated that this is unusual, but not necessarily a sign that the current model will be discontinued.

Shipping estimates for orders made through Apple's online stores around the world remain at "within 24 hours", suggesting that the shortages have not yet extended to Apple's own distribution channels. But shortages at third-party retailers are frequently the first indications of Apple preparing to release updated models.

As noted in our Buyer's Guide, Apple is well overdue for a MacBook refresh as judged by its usual update cycle, having last updated the MacBook in May 2010.

Rumors of updated MacBooks have been essentially nonexistent, although the Machine will presumably make the shift to Intel's Sandy Bridge platform and include Thunderbolt support. And while no specific timeframe for an update has been offered, the line is clearly one of many including the MacBook Air, Mac Pro and Mac mini that are due for an update. Apple has been said to be holding new hardware launches until OS X Lion is ready, and so we may see a flood of new releases once the operating system debuts next month.

Update: AppleBitch reports that Best Buy's online store and Amazon UK are also currently out of stock of the Mac mini. While the shortages are not as widespread as seen with the MacBook, they could be early signs of a drawdown for that line as well, which was last updated in June 2010 with a new design.

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Canadian telecommunications equipment maker Nortel announced late Thursday that a consortium of companies, including Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research in Motion and Sony, placed the winning bid in a high-profile auction for a collection of more than 6,000 patents.

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Japan's Ricoh plans to acquire Pentax as part of a push to get into the digital single-lens reflex camera market, it said Friday.

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