[MyAppleMenu] May 11, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, May 11, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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iTunes Radio, A Good Idea? (Robert Accettura, MacVillage.net)
<http://www.macvillage.net/news/articles/105266753041763.shtml>

iPod, Now iTunes: Is Apple Becoming A Windows Developer By Stealth? (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=2108>
Should Apple develop more software for Windows?

Carving Up Apple (Joshua Jaffe, TheDeal.com)
<http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDStandardArticle&c=TDDArticle&cid=1052340194595>
With some hard-nosed business tactics and a new operating structure, a carved-up Apple could emerge in a few years time as a profitable and more significant pair of companies. Its operating system should have been licensed out 18 years ago --  when Apple seriously considered it and when Microsoft Windows wasn't yet a monopoly --  but that doesn't mean it's still not a good idea

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Will The Search For The Ultimate Word Processor Wind Up In Israel? (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/05/180.htm#word>
If you think that all word processors are just variations on a theme, take a close look at Mellel and maybe, just maybe, you'll change your mind.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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'New Media': Ready For The Dustbin Of History? (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/weekinreview/11LOHR.html>
The digital age held out the potential for a genuinely "new media."  But is the World Wide Web only good for shopping and searching?

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Interfaces Are Habit-Forming (Jon Udell, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/09/19OPstrategic_1.html>
But interface designers are often blinded by their own habits, which prevents innovation.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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When Will People Pay Attention? (Frank Wolf, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37210-2003May9.html>
Another international crisis is quietly escalating in the world today. It is hunger, and millions of people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of starvation.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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... The Cat Will Play (Liza Mundy, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27365-2003May7.html>
In classic children's literature, nothing interesting ever seems to happen until Mom's out of the picture. Are generations of great writers trying to tell us something?

How Does A Piano Get To Carnegie Hall? (James Barron, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/nyregion/11PIAN.html>
It will take 8 months from start to finish to produce Steinway piano No. K0862, but it will take longer than that to figure out if the piano is great, or merely good.

Work Without Worry (Kathleen Gerson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/opinion/11GERS.html>
Many working mothers, confronted by a stubbornly ambivalent society, continue to believe that they are shortchanging their children. They shouldn't.

The Great San Francisco Bubble (Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/05/09/notes050903.DTL>
Life in America's last great progressive cocoon, as conservatives snicker and pule.

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