Archive | August, 2009
Best Buy leak points to Zune HD selling for $220+
According to leaked screenshots of Best Buy’s internal inventory system, the upcoming 16GB Zune HD will retail for $220 while the 32GB model will sell for $290. According to the same source, the Zune HD will most likely hit store shelves on September 8th. The newly revealed Zune HD pricing would make the Zune noticeably […]
Continue reading...USB ups Apple target to $170
10. August 2009
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Citing impressive MacBook sales and the expansion of the iPhone 3GS beyond 8 countries, USB analyst Maynard Um upped his target price for Apple stock to $170, up from a previous target of $160. Calling Apple a “short term buy”, Maynard also factors in the rumored Apple tablet, but cautions investors that Apple’s margins might […]
Continue reading...Composite of Steve Jobs done entirely with Apple products [Photo]
10. August 2009
Check out this composite image of Steve Jobs created entirely with Apple products. Pretty impressive. via Tsevis at Flickr
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t use focus groups
10. August 2009
Steve Jobs layin’ down some knowledge: “It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people […]
Continue reading...Deconstructing Jason Calacanis’ “Case against Apple” article piece by piece
9. August 2009
Jason Calacanis, of Mahalo, Weblogs, and TWIT fame, recently penned an article titled “The Case against Apple in 5 parts” where he details why his long love affair with Apple is coming to an end. From what I’ve seen and heard of Calacanis, he seems like an alright guy, but much of the reasoning in […]
Continue reading...A little bit of NeXt history fused into OS X
9. August 2009
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Check out this little bit of NeXt history fused into OS X. To take a snapshot of your entire computer screen, Mac users can press command-shift-3. And if users want to select a specific part of the screen to take a picture of, they can press command-shift-4. But, if you happen to be a fan […]
Continue reading...Comparing the iPhone and Android Keyboards
9. August 2009
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Ignore the code has an interesting comparison of the virtual keyboard as implemented on the iPhone and on the HTC Magic running Android. His conclusion? A virtual keyboard lives and dies by the details. It’s not that there’s a single feature which makes the iPhone’s virtual keyboard better than Android’s; it’s death by a thousand […]
Continue reading...Apple and Google had un-official agreement not to recruit each other’s employees
8. August 2009
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In Silicon Valley, talented employees often have a bulls-eye on their backs to the extent that rival tech companies are always looking to hire and lure away the best and brightest in the business. Employees moving on to other companies is often a point of contention, as evidenced by the lawsuit that ensued after Apple […]
Continue reading...iTunes 9 rumored to include Blu-Ray support and iPhone app re-organization
8. August 2009
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Hot on the heels of a report that the next iMac refresh will include 2 compelling new features, comes news that iTunes 9 will at long last include support for Blu-Ray video. Citing a reliable source, Boy Genius Report writes that in addition to Blu-Ray support, iTunes 9 will also enable users to “visually organize […]
Continue reading...Creating a Macworld magazine cover – Time Lapse Video
8. August 2009
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Way back before people started getting their daily, if not hourly, dose of Mac news on the web, people had to actually go out and purchase a copy of Macworld in order to get their Macintosh news fix. The following time-lapse video details how the magazine cover creation process works, and takes you from the […]
Continue reading...Ice T destroys a MacBook Pro with a hammer [Video]
8. August 2009
Check out this video of Ice T pulling a 187 on this 5-6 year old MacBook Pro. He straight guts it with a hammer while his wife CoCo films it and laughs along awkwardly.
Continue reading...The Apple Design Process
8. August 2009
Pragmatic Marketing has a great read on Apple’s innovation process and why other companies simply aren’t able, or perhaps willing, to match its design prowess. Like a basketball player who shoots 500 jumpers a day in practice to get his form and accuracy down pat, Apple just keeps on drilling and drilling until it has […]
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10. August 2009
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