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23 November 2011
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Apple
Apple has teased a one-day shopping event on it's online store to coincide with the traditional Black Friday sales in the US. The teaser, accessible from the Apple online store, says that it will be a special shopping event — presumably we'll see better-than-average discounts on all Apple gear and accessories, even though Apple discounts directly from Apple are incredibly rare. But that's not even the best news: the sales will be worldwide, and not just limited to the US.
Just yesterday I was telling you about the new VMware feature that allowed you to run virtualised instances of the non-Server versions of Snow Leopard and Leopard. The new feature worked by simply popping up a license check window that let you make sure whether you're license-compliant or not. As it turns out, TUAW got in contact with VMware, who are now saying that that particular feature was a mistake, and will probably be removed in a subsequent update.
Greg Joswiak, worldwide VP of iOS product marketing, has the four keys to Apple's success: it's about focus. It's about simplicity. It's about courage, and it's about being the best.
There's a nice infographic over at visual.ly that shows just how large Apple is. It's called "what's smaller than Apple", and it's yet another eye-opener into just how large Apple has become.
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