Richard Esguerra from the EFF:
Apple's announcement comes nearly a year after Amazon.com's DRM-free MP3 deals went live, demonstrating that the record labels were holding the DRM card until they could wring business concessions from Apple (in the form of variable pricing). This just underscores that DRM is not really about stopping piracy, but rather about leverage over authorized distributors.
DRM-free music is certainly phenomenal news, but Apple has a long way to go before they can brag about being DRM-free entirely.
I made the switch to this about a month ago, when BBEdit switched their font to Consolas Regular. It's a very nice typeface at small sizes; I've been running it at 11pt, which is both compact and surprisingly readable.
I don't know how true or untrue this rumor is; personally, I'm leaning against it. However, it's prudent to mention some recent events around SproutCore, the JavaScript framework Apple uses to write the MobileMe web apps and the MobileMe Web Gallery.
Apple has recently made a large commit to the SproutCore project on GitHub, which was stuck getting clearance from Apple's higher-ups for awhile. Here's a post from Charles Jolley briefly talking about their 1.0 march, dated 12/5/2008.
I haven't personally taken a look at what the changes in Bitburger (the name of Apple's branch) entail, so I'm not sure they're more geared towards developing an application like anything in iWork. Just food for thought.
Google's iPhone app has some hidden features. The coolest of all is the live waveform while speaking into the microphone, although the most useful is the ability to open links from within the app itself.
The UI they use to enable the more advanced features is pretty intuitive, too. Just keep scrolling up, and the "Bells and Whistles" row will eventually appear.