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Quick Hit: Anatomy of an iTV Rumor

Philip Elmer Dewitt, writing for Fortune:
"...the tech press is...desperate to believe even the slimmest rumor that Apple is getting ready to (build) its own television set.

Take, for example, last week's report that Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou announced at a press conference in Shanghai that his Foxconn subsidiary was "making preparations for iTV."

Given how jealously Apple guards its own secrets, and how relentlessly it pursues those who spill them, what are the chances that Gou would say anything -- ever -- about an unannounced Apple product, real or imagined?

I'd say, nil."

I said on Twitter last week , ""Gou said Foxconn is making preparations for iTV, Apple's upcoming hi-def TV" Does anyone believe he really said that?"

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Apple to reject Mac App Store apps using hotkeys starting June 1

Apple may be end-of-life-ing all those great little hotkey shortcuts that used to let us bring an app to the forefront and do something.

Apps that use hotkeys to let you jump to what you want to do while you work on what you must do. Apps that set a system-wide hotkey to trigger an action or event, even when the app itself is not foremost (or is resident in the menu bar). They're on the way out of the Mac App Store as Apple paves the path to safer, more consumer-oriented computing.

TUAW has been told that Apple will be rejecting all MAS apps with hotkey functionality starting June 1, regardless of whether the new features are hotkey related or not. Basically, if you're developing one of those apps, an app that assumes you can still add hotkeys, don't bother submitting it to the Mac App Store.

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