Apple ended up at $57.0015, down .9485 cents. Today saw the successor to the eMac rolled out, but some others things are swirling around the company. iPodNN has a look at a new report on the global market for portable media, and it calls for people to begin integrating cellphones and music players.

As a result the headline for this story is going to be 'will cellphones eliminate iPods?' My guess is that Apple is already anticipating this, which is why the ill fated Rockr came out not so long ago. This Macsimumnews story looks at some Apple iPod patents, including a very phone-like looking device. Consumer preference for phone/player combination does not sound a death knell for Apple just yet.

Meanwhile, the BBC is running a story passing on advice from security experts encouraging people to switch to Apple products to the lower security risks involved with the platform. Increasing awareness of the software's robustness can't hurt as people deal more and more frequently with malicious code on their personal computers.

[Disclosure: I own Apple stock at the date of this post]