Apple published 47 patents last week.
I was in an Apple store yesterday to check out the MacBook Air. They had a window display with one Air floating in the middle and slowly turning. While my girlfriend and I were admiring the thing (they are much cooler in person than any image shows) a group of teenagers surrounded us and were practically drooling over the machine. All pronounced that they must have one.
We went in and picked one up. They are unbelievably light and delicate. I would not underestimate the power of this approach to laptop design for Apple. They will iron out the kinks and own the ultra-lightweight full size laptop market, which will evolve into the laptop market. No one is going to want to lug the bricks around once they’ve picked these things up.
Like the iPhone and iPod, they are redefining a genre here.
This from Techcrunch too: A new build of Apple’s Safari browser is 2-6x faster than Firefox. They say it radically changes the surfing experience. Still in the developer stage.