Browsing YouTube, I stumbled over a video called “The Simpsons – Think Differently”. The last part made me think of Apple, since that was the advertising slogan created for Apple in 1997. And true enough, the video was actually about Apple. Another The Simpsons & Apple video I found was the “Mapple Store” video. But … Read more →
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past, oh I don’t know, few months, you would already know that there’s quite a battle going on between Apple and Adobe over the use of Flash on iPhone and iPad. Few weeks ago, Apple posted a letter on their site called “Thoughts on Flash” by … Read more →
Just yesterday, Apple sent out a press release saying that they have just sold its one millionth iPad on Friday – it took them 28 days to sell a million iPads, less than half of the 74 days it took to sell one million iPhones. The sales are expected to increase as the iPad is … Read more →
Apple just posted an open letter called “Thoughts on Flash” and signed by Steve Jobs himself. The letter answers the “why not?” questions and covers six topics: Openness, the full web, security and performance, battery life, touch and drawbacks of relying on third-party development tools. You can read the full letter from the link above … Read more →
Hey, did you hear about the new iPhone yet? The one found at a bar? Then suddenly in the hands of Gizmodo? And next it was all over the news and the Internet? Yeah, that’s the one. iPhone 4G or iPhone HD, whatever it will be named. Well, Apple sent a letter to Gizmodo, few … Read more →
Yesterday Apple came out with their latest financial results for their 2nd quarter, which ended March 27th. Once again, a new record. Besides Christmas periods, this last quarter was the best ever, in Apple’s history. Compared to the same quarter last year, this year the profits were almost doubled, coming in at 3.06 billion dollars … Read more →
Tom’s Hardware is writing in an article today that Adobe might be gearing up to a lawsuit against Apple because of the whole Flash deal, more or less. While nothing is official yet, sources are citing that it could all happen within a few weeks. Earlier in the “iPhone vs Flash”-war, Adobe announced how their … Read more →
In an event today, Apple has at its headquarters in Cupertino announced features of the new iPhone OS 4, to be released during Summer 2010 (comes to the iPad during Fall). Steve Jobs took the stage to tell how Apple has won the J.D. Power award three times in a row, for highest customer satisfaction. … Read more →
Steve Jobs has been answering e-mails from (potential?) customers these past days, according to TUAW and 9to5mac. One customer sent an e-mail to Steve Jobs, asking if Apple was losing focus on Macs by putting so much effort into the iPad, to which Steve Jobs replied “Not to worry”. Same day, another customer asked Steve … Read more →
Each year, Fortune (the magazine), elects the world’s most admired companies. For the third year in a row, Apple is the winner. This year, Apple even increased it’s distance down to 2nd place, Google, and 3rd place, Berkshire Hathaway (investment firm). A total of 4,200 executives and analysts voted in Fortune’s study. As BMW CEO … Read more →
Apple fanbois, you better buckle up, cause when the anti-Apple crew gets a hold of this little titbit from Charlie Miller, they might mock your choice of being a Mac user just a little bit. Italian IT Security site, oneITsecurity, published an interview with Charlie Miller, two-year contest champion at Pwn2Own where the deal is … Read more →
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, turned 55 yesterday. Happy Birthday, Steve! I hope you didn’t get a Magic Mouse though 🙂 Because of Steve’s birthday this week, I want to dedicate this Friday Flick Find to him. Well, to his “jokes”, that is. I doubt we will see much of this in the future, unless Microsoft … Read more →
Google just finished taking over On2 Technologies and their video format, VP8, so Free Software Foundation (FSF) sent an open-letter to Google where they encourage Google to release VP8 as an open-source format and also use it themselves on YouTube. By doing that, Google will “free” the world from patented and proprietary formats such as … Read more →
Yada yada yada, the iPhone doesn’t support Flash. Everybody knows that by now. If you follow Apple, or just tech news in general, you will also know that their new soon-to-be-released iPad doesn’t support Flash either, as Steve Jobs (by accident, I guess) demonstrated during the iPad keynote presentation. Personally I don’t care about Flash. … Read more →
Bill Gates was impressed by the iPhone when Apple first announced it but he’s not quite as impressed by the iPad. When asked, he said it’s not like he thought “Oh my God, Microsoft didn’t aim high enough”. He thinks the iPad is a nice reader, but nothing he looks at and wished Microsoft would … Read more →
I’m 95% sure that by now, you’ve heard about the new Apple iPad. If you haven’t (how could you not?), you can check it out at Apple’s iPad section. What I think about it? Well, it certainly looks interesting and I would love to try it out. But I don’t plan on getting one. First … Read more →