If you can trust the Apple job postings the first retail Apple Store won’t be located in the German capital Berlin - but in the beautiful city of Munich Wonderful: finally a Genious-Bar nearby!
There is just one open question - will the rumors prove right, that the flagship store will be situated directly in the center of Munich at the Marienplatz?

[Update] Today, Georg Albrecht, head of PR Apple Germany, confirmed, that the first German Apple Flagship Store will be located in Munich.

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Apple just put the Quicktime-Stream of the 2008 keynote online. So enjoy the show!

The hot news from the Macworld Keynote 2008 of Steve Jobs in brief:

• Intro: new Get-a-Mac commercial.
• Leopard Mac OS X 10.5: Steve presents the Leopard success story: until now over 5 Million Macs run on Mac os X 10.5, alias Leopard. No other OS version reached that fast market penetration rate before.
• TimeCapsule: Airport Extreme base station is extended with a server-scale hard drive to a new wireless NAS (Network Attached Storage) system. It’s now called TimeCapsule. It’s the missing piece for TimeMachine, the integrated Backupsolution of Mac OS Leopard. 500 GB USD 299.00. 1 TB USD 499.00.
• iPhone: Until today more than 4 Millionen iPhones have been sold worldwide. Smartphone market shares in the US: 1. RIM (39.0%), 2. Apple (19.5%), 3. Palm (9.8%) … Apple surpasses Palm from the beginning and is second biggest player in that market. The iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) will be released in February. Softwareupdate for the iPhone with lots of new features … most of them have been posted on rumor sites in the last days. Available today for all existing iPhone users.
• iPod touch: iPod touch Update for USD 20.00 including 5 new apps: Maps, Mail, Stocks, Notes, and Weather
• iTunes Movie Rental: the rumored movie rental is introduced to iTunes. All major film studios joined. Basic rule: 30 days to start watching, 24 hours to finish. US Rental will start today, international rental will start later this year. 2.99$ / 3.99$ for new releases. Movies should be available 30 days after DVD release.
• Apple TV Version 2: The new generation works as a stand alone solution without a computer. The improved Apple TV solution can play DVD and HD quality (with Dolby 5.1 Sourround Sound) movies. In addition it’s possible to consume audio- and video-podcasts as well as Flickr & .Mac photos.
• MacBook Air: The Thinnovation of the day is the MacBook Air, Steve Jobs revealed at the end of the keynote. The thinnest notebook in the world with a 13.3 inch widescreen display, a backlit keyboard and a multitouch trackpad. But Apple cuts off some "od technologies": No optical drive anymore, no Firewire, no Ethernet. It’s a real wireless device - every CEO will get jelious. The 80 GB version with a state of the art hard drive costs USD 1,799.00 - the 64 GB SolidState harddrive is priced at exclusive USD 3,098.00 and is the dream of every CTO … and the nightmare of every CFO.

This morning, at 9 PST the time has come again: Steve Jobs starts the new Mac-Year with his traditional keynote at the beginning of the Apple centric fair and conference MacWorld in San Francisco. Even back in 1986, when introducing the legendary Mac, Steve celebrated his performance like a rock star - and we’ll get a real show act today, too.
Today it’s remarkable that this time even the Apple homepage is pointing it’s attention straight to the San Francisco event. The Apple marketing strategists sent out a cryptic but promising slogan “2008. There’s something in the air …”. The upgrade of the MacPros probably wasn’t spectacular enough for Steve - so this info was released last week.
So we only can wait and read what all the busy bloggers in the auditorium of the keynote will report - like the colleagues from macrumorslive.com - thanks to built in Airport. Hopefully we can hear the legendary sentence of Steve: “… there is one more thing!”

In the afternoon (PST) Apple.com will provide a streamed version of the keynote speech.

We had to wait for some more days after the quad-core Adobe CS3 promotion. But now, the new MacPros are here - and the flagship model is equipped with two - long awaited - quad-core Intel Xeon processors. It looks like Apple is starting to focus on the number of cores and not the number of processors anymore. When the number of cores is increasing only communicating the total number of cores is less confusing for everybody. Sure, there are several technological differences between one quad-core and two dual-core processors - and there is also quite a difference in performance. But Apple already decided to change their communication
Now, we can be anxious to the benchmarks of the new quad-core Macs. And we probably don’t have to wait too long: The U.K. Apple Store says - ready to ship in 2 days. Quite interesting, that you can get a Mac OS X Server 10-client licence without additional costs. In the US it you still have to pay 499$. A bug or a feature?

Source: store.apple.com/ukstore