Why isn't Apple releasing any new hardware right now? According to a source who spoke to AppleInsider on Thursday, it's all Lion's fault. Apple executives have reportedly made the decision to give customers the "latest and greatest Apple experience"--namely Macs running Lion--rather than having to explain why shiny new models aren't shipping with the very latest Mac experience preinstalled. Having worked at an Apple Store after an upgrade cycle and dealt with more than my fair share of complaining customers, you know what I call that?

(The Mac Observer)

Quicken 2007, dead in Lion? Maybe not. Mac Observer CEO Dave Hamilton took the time on Thursday to chat with Intuit VP Aaron Patzer about the aging PowerPC application. As-written, Quicken would not be able to run on the next version of Mac OS X thanks to the elimination of the Rosetta emulator; however, according to Patzer, Intuit is working with Apple to license the Rosetta libraries and embed them into Quicken 2007, so that users could still theoretically still use the program after an upgrade to Lion. While I don't personally see the appeal in patching together an old application, I suppose old habits die hard. On the bright side, at least no one's . (Yet.)

- This update to Apple's Logic Studio application improves stability and fixes an issue where Audio Unit plugin presets were incorrectly displayed, where incoming MIDI sounds were forced to channel 1, and patches a problem that could cause the program to quit when using Undo after deleting a patch. Free for all MainStage users running OS X 10.5.8 or later.