Apple bears more fruit

Well, well, well. It looks like good things have been happening for the Fruit lately:

1. They finally ship the iMac G5
2. 4th quarter results absolutely decimate expectations
3. The iPod now accounts for a mind-boggling 92.1% of the market share for hard-drive based MP3 players.
4. Steve Jobs comes back to work after recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer, and introduces the “Kubrick” Apple Store.
5. Another revision of the iBook is released, with minor speed-bumps, AirPort Express across the board, and cheaper prices. There is now an iBook under the magical $1000 US mark.

Of course, like good little Apple fanboys, we had to break the ice on our credit card (encased in a lump of ice in the freezer) for some good ol’-fashioned spur-of-the-nerd-moment consumering, and a 20” iMac and 12” ibook are now winging their way to our greedy little mitts. We’ll try really hard to not let our drool tarnish the Apple cartons when the goods arrive, and perhaps post some unpacking photos and the like for those who like this kind of thing.

Ain’t being an Apple user great these days? I, for one (being up here in Canada, where our currency regularly gets the stuffing kicked out of it by the almighty U.S. dollar) am eagerly awaiting the launch of iTunes Canada, which is rumoured to be coming this Tuesday, the 26th. I remember reading somewhere that Australia might be one of the other countries that finally gets iTunes store access, too. Just another way of sending our hard-earned monies to the mothership, I suppose…

On a more site-related note, this post marks the first of hopefully many that I will be posting to the site. I’ll take a moment to introduce myself later, but for now you can expect more Apple gossip and chit-chat, various musings, and (of course) Path Finder and other Cocoatech marketeering (ahem) as we dust off this woefully under-utilized section of our site.

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