As Dan Moren notes, neither of these acquisitions really make any sense for Apple. They make sense for jerktastic Internet pundits who love to write Apple porn. "Apple needs EA to make games for the iPhone!" Right, because there's such a paucity of games for the iPhone. And games for the Mac? That ship has sailed, girlfriend. And Twitter? "Apple needs Twitter because... uh... well... and, uh... Well, sometimes a girl just needs to buy some shoes, darn it!"

In the past, Apple has always bought companies that mesh with products it intends to sell--usually smaller software and hardware companies--and neither of the rumored companies fit that mold. That's not to say that the future couldn't hold other plans--it's not all about selling Macs anymore. If anything, the Macalope could see the company acquiring a news aggregator to funnel content to both the iPhone and that other thing that might be coming later this year.

Which brings us to our next topic.

Apple is apparently not the only hardware vendor (allegedly) selecting Image -> Resize and shipping the results off to development. looks pretty much like your average Photoshop job of what it was predicted to look like.