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Wired interview with BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen:
"You get so tired of having your work die," he says. "I just wanted to make something that people would actually use."With over 40 million downloads of his program, I think he has done it. I know I've posted a lot of links about BT, so maybe it has gotten a bit boring, but this program is *really* important.
Think Secret, a mac rumors website with a very good track record, is reporting that Apple will release a "bare bones, G4-based iMac without a display at Macworld Expo on January 11 that will retail for $499".
The fabled "headless iMac" is one of the longest running debates in the Mac community. Apple has always said they are not interested in pursuing this low margin (sub $800) category. But supposedly iPod sales (and extensive data from their retail stores,) have convinced them they can lure away a lot of windows users with a cheaper entry level machine, and that the economics of "growing the base" make sense in exchange for smaller per unit profits. Could be. I have to admit it doesn't sound like an Apple strategy to me. But I can think of several people to whom I would recommend this machine.
It will be fun to see how this turns out. So far Wall Street is not noticing (Wall St. has wanted Apple to "grow the base" for some time now,) but maybe they don't read the rumor sites. At least there is now some excitement around Macworld 2005. Things had been a little too quiet.