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Yesterday we reported on a story about Apple UK possibly using a VAT loophole that would allow the iTunes Music Store to sell VAT free songs.
Apple has today denied this report by saying;
“This report is not true”
The Australian iTunes Music Store has now begun selling artists from Sony BMG at the same price as other singles and albums. It looks like Apple got their own way on this one then…
AppleInsider is reporting that from March Apple will no longer sell its Final Cut products, such as Soundtrack, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and others as stand alone products but will instead only be selling the Final Cut Studio which encompasses them all.
Naturally all these applications will be Universal and as Steve said himself users with the current versions who wish to grab hold of the Universal versions can pay $49 for the cross grade.
Although this doesn’t seem true for Aperture as Apple have posted the following on their website;
“A Universal version of Aperture, which will run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Mac computers, will be available before the end of March 2006. New and existing owners of Aperture will be able to crossgrade to the Universal version at no additional charge via Software Update.”
What appears to be an exploit in the tax loophole could allow Apple to sell songs through the iTunes Music Store without VAT tagged on. This could bring the price of songs down to 67p.
All Apple has to do is move some operations to Guernsey where a law allows retailers outside of the EU to sell goods worth less than £17 to UK customers free of VAT.
Last Friday Steve Jobs sent a friendly email to his employees saying “Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve.”
This all relates back to 1997 when SJ rejoined Apple and Michael Dell made an interesting yet foolish comment towards Apple “What would I do?” Mikey said to an audience of several thousand information technology managers. “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
Just a reminder to all whom are interested, Apples first conference call of 2006 will take place this Wednesday at 14:00PT which is 22:00GMT.
The call should bring some more details into the figures that Jobs presented last week in his Keynote.
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AppleInsider has pulled up a Patent filing from September 2002 which seems to represent a failed attempt or a future product from Apple.
The patent is a mouse design with a rotary dial; “The rotary dial is configured to provide a control function (or functions) for performing an action (or actions) on a display screen. […] The control function may be widely varied. For example, the control function may be used to control various applications associated with the computer system to which the mouse is connected.”
Could be very effective for use in Final Cut Pro, acting like a freewheel to control the timeline.
I know we like ripping computers apart but we simply don’t have the heart to hurt a 4 day old Mac.
But it appears somebody else did, check it out
It appears that either an accidentally released update to iTunes that was pulled or an update to the Airport Express Base Station which is not widely known has brought in a new feature.
Some readers on World of Apple have notified us to a new feature which seems to enable the selection of multiple speakers within iTunes.
Also ratifying this the Airport Express page has been recently updated to say:
AirTunes: Your Music Unwired
AirPort Express with AirTunes extends your wireless world even beyond access to the Internet and your home network. It brings your iTunes music to virtually any room in your house, or several rooms at once, if you like.
