Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

The Mac community of gamers is getting excited as Valve, the famous game editor on Windows (for Half-life and counter-strike for examples) started a “teasing” campaign as the company will release games on Mac OS X in a near future. It seems quite clear now that Valve will be porting “Portal” on Mac OS X. [...]

Apple on Friday distributed yet another beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to its developer community with no known issues, as the update to Snow Leopard moves closer to a public release.

Apple today seeded yet another version of Mac OS X 10.6.3, termed Build 10D567, to developers. iPhone in Canada offers some details on the new version, which has seen only minor refinements as development appears to be wrapping up. Develope…

As you might know, we have an insider source following the discussion between Apple and the AA CS LA regarding royalties for adding support for Blu-ray playback in Mac OS X. While discussion started in 2007, this source just let us know that there is currently not even the beginning of an agreement between both [...]

Last week, Valve Software generated some excitement among gaming fans who noticed Mac OS X menu components and other items in the most recent release of the company’s Steam distribution platform for the PC. Combined with reports of Valve recruiting …

New statistics released this week show that the market share of Mac OS X in Web use has grown by 29.4 percent in the last year, while Windows has decreased 3.8 percent.

Apple’s new iPad is facing criticism for using the streamlined iPhone OS rather than the full Mac OS X, but Apple has a number of reasons for aligning the iPad with the iPhone rather than its desktop Mac platform.

Users have discovered Mac OS X specific files hidden in the latest version of Valve Software’s Steam distribution engine and multiplayer platform for gaming, indicating a Mac port may be around the corner.

In a NYTimes’ blog post, Nick Bilton describes how PCs aren’t as easy to use as the iPhone, and explores why the iPhone OS simply can’t be used in a future iteration of Mac OS X. Bilton quotes a former senior Apple engineer who explain…

There isn’t much more to say about these Mac OS X seeds, except that Apple is still at it. Tonight, Apple delivered Mac OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D561 for developers. iPhone Canada details the changes listed, which haven’t changed much since the previous…

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