Greg Joswiak has what you might call a busy job — he’s charged with marketing two of Apple’s biggest hit products, the iPod and the iPhone. That might sound easy considering the buzz Apple’s product announcements generate, but there’s more to the task than promotion; he works with the company’s engineering teams to decide what the next iPods and iPhones will look like, what features they’ll have, and what they’ll cost. In this interview he discusses the iPod and iPhone’s holiday prospects, and the company’s plans for expansion.

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At this week's Apple event Engadget got a rare chance to speak with one of the most well regarded and tight-lipped veeps in the biz, Apple's Phil Schiller. They did get Phil to tell them a little about what he thinks of the iPhone unlock market, 3rd party iPhone apps, the future of hard drive based iPods in an increasingly flash based world, and how he expects iTunes to fare after the departure of NBC.

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VirtueDesktops, a virtual desktop manager for OS X, has been around for quite some time. However, with the introduction of Spaces in Leopard, Tony Arnold, creator of VirtueDesktops, decided to stop developing the popular application. MacApper interviewed Tony on creating, developing, and ending VirtueDesktops, as well as what’s coming next.

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Parallels won Macworld's Best of Show award for 2007. Much to many of your delight, hardware graphics acceleration is expected to come in the next major beta, which will be available within the next couple of months. Other things we can expect are multi-core virtual machines/virtual SMP, some SCSI support, and "a more Mac-like feel.

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Jacqui Cheng writes: "When Potion Factory announced on their company blog that they were releasing into Beta a new software called Tangerine, the eyes of OCD exercisers lit up. We asked the guys at Potion Factory, Andy Kim and Jin Kim, to do an interview with us about this piece of software that I've already fallen in love with. Their answers to my questions give a lot more insight into Tangerine and what they see for its future."

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Christopher Forsythe, the developer behind the Growl notification system and project manager of Adium, the multi-protocol chat application for Mac OS X answers a few questions for OSNews.

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Charles Jade writes: "Most of the interview was about the new store and the retail initiative, which Jobs described as being a "success beyond our wildest dreams." When queried over the expense of flagship stores, such as the SOHO store in New York, Jobs responded that Apple has "never believed in the philosophy that flagship stores don't make money," and they do."

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By now, you've probably heard that Adobe's new Lightroom application simplifies your photography workflow, especially if you shoot Raw. In this seven-minute podcast, O'Reilly editor and photographer Derrick Story interviews Julieanne Kost, and they discuss how Lightroom could change photography as we know it.

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In this interview Woz gives us some insight his life and his relationship today with Steve Jobs. His autobiography - "I, Woz" - is coming out this fall. Here's an excerpt where he discusses his "celebrity" status: "I was in Boston once. I needed two AC adapters. I ran into this new Apple store. I went up to the counter, "I'd like two 65-watt AC adapters." I didn't say anything about who I was. And they bring them out. I say, "How much?" They say, "We are expensing it." I said, "Yeah, but how do I pay for it?" They said, "No, no, no — we are allowed to give gifts to special people."

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Here's a brief excerpt: "What’s your pet hate about Mail.app? I’m going to assume pet hate means something I just get annoyed at versus something that’s just fundamentally wonky, like its IMAP support drunkenly feeling around the alley looking for an excuse to wee on itself." Read more in the interview at Hawk Wings. If you don't know who drunkenbatman is, and I doubt it, check out his blog.

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Joe Kissell is a frequent contributor to Macworld magazine and the author of numerous books and ebooks about Mac OS X software, including Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger and Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail. Read more about him in this interview by Tim Gaden.

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iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X and in this interview with its creator, Alf Watt, you can read about the project in general, various wireless security issues as well as recent developments that will make iStumbler a paid tool in its Pro version.

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