Two particularly interesting topics caught the attention of the Apple-focused blogosphere this week. iSuppli released a projected tear-down cost list for the 3G iPhone, sparking interest in the new $199 price point that contract signing buyers will pay come July 11. Also, the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft, which is one of the world’s largest Apple software development organizations, is apparently on a hiring frenzy for Apple experts. When iSuppli tore down the original 8 GB iPhone last year, it estimated that materials and manufacturing cost $226 per unit.
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In its latest survey of practices among makers of electronic gadgets, Greenpeace has raised the bar of what the environmental group believes is required for “green” corporate citizenship. The analysis of the products and procedures of 18 major electronics manufacturers, released today, ranked two Silicon Valley giants — Hewlett-Packard and Apple — in the middle of the pack. Handset maker Sony Ericsson topped the list, while video game company Nintendo finished last.
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A Trojan targeting Mac computers in the wild used to be a rarity, but this type of malware is now turning up with alarming frequency. The latest Trojan is rudimentary, at best, although when coupled with a Mac platform vulnerability that came to light earlier this week, it could deliver an extra wallop. The Trojan is masquerading as a program for Mac OS X called “PokerGame.” All in all, it’s pretty straightforward — both in the way it installs itself and in how it’s executed. It is a social engineering-designed hack attack at its most basic.
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Apple’s Leopard operating system isn’t even a year old, but its offspring, Snow Leopard, is already preparing to prowl. Earlier this month, Steve Jobs gave a hint — and only a hint — about Apple’s next-generation operating system. A “preview” that was shown to software writers attending Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco indicated the new OS might run only on 2-year-old or newer Macintosh computers powered by Intel processors. That would leave behind millions of owners of Macs equipped with PowerPC chips.
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Apple packed a lot of features into the latest version of the iPhone but managed to keep a tight lid on the cost of components that go into it. Manufacturing and components for the 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G set Apple back about $173 per unit, according to an estimate by Silicon Valley-based research firm iSuppli, due to be released June 24. Comparable expenses for the earlier iteration of the iPhone were about $226, iSuppli says. Analysts scour component-price estimates to gauge profit margins on Apple’s best-selling products.
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