It appears that all the reports of Apple distributing movies from their online iTunes Music Store are a tad early in their predictions. According to DVGuru the negotiations don’t seem to be working out so smoothly. Of course with Steve Jobs at the helm, the selling price might be one of the biggest catching points. With music, everyone knows of the $.99 price-tag for all single songs. TV/videos are roughly $2 a pop, and I have no idea what the movie distribution prices will be ##- my guess is hollywood wants it $15 or over, and Jobs ain’t budging.

As many of you know by now, this is a very Macintosh friendly blog. News has come out that Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates will be leaving ship in 2008. He won’t be getting done completely, as he’ll remain the Chairman of the company. Apparantly he will be spending more time with the wife, Melinda, and working on charitable activities.

Microsoft???s Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie will immediately assume Gate???s title as chief software architect and begin working side by side with Gates on overseeing all software technical design.

Source: MSNBC.com

It’s out of the box now, officially. AOL is renovating Netscape with Jason Calacanis at the helm.

Unfortunately, I’ve never used Digg, which is the model that Calacanis are attempting to reformat Netscape.com like. The difference with the AOL model vs. the Digg setup is that AOL/Netscape are using bloggers to comment on the incoming links and tips.

Check it out if you like at beta.netscape.com

Not sure how many Mac users out there play video games, but there are many rumors going around that Apple may buy Nintendo to leap into the gaming console market. I doubt this will happen for many reasons.

First, Apple likes manufacturing the hardware. As history shows, especially of the last 7-10 years, Apple is very good in this field. For Apple to just acquire a 3rd party to leap into a market, the party would have to be willing to compromise quite a bit, which Nintendo (with much of the same character as Apple) probably would not allow.

Second, Microsoft took huge losses with the Xbox in its attempt to penetrate significantly. One thing that Apple and Nintendo share that perhaps Microsoft and Sony might not, is that lack of desire to be the number one for market-share. Apple and Nintendo seem to be two companies quite alright carving out a niche of quality over quantity.

Finally, it just wouldn’t seem like Apple Computer…