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Of course, if you can couch the Apple argument on your own terms by a subtle shift in context, you’ve already won the argument. That’s why the two sides of this argument seem irreconcilable: each side has its philosophical basis from which the ensuing logic flows. It’s hard to beat the logic if you accept…

Even Apple made a rare public comment about the report, telling The Wall Street Journal: “This is a very limited report on 150,000 U.S. consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers world-wide. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing…

Foxconn does manufacturing for many, many companies, including iPhones, iPods, iPads, and the Mac mini for Apple (from the most recent information – Apple does not specifically disclose outsourcing information). The firm also makes Kindles for Amazon, PCs for HP, mobile phones for Motorola, devices for Cisco, Xbox 360s for Microsoft, PCs for Dell, and…

The exchange took place Friday night and early Saturday morning, with all of Mr. Jobs’s replies coming after midnight. It began with Mr. Tate firing off a note asking Mr. Jobs, “If [Bob] Dylan was 20 today, how would he feel about your company? Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do…

Today, NUM itself is long gone. The primary remaining third-party survivors are TechTool Pro, DiskWarrior and Drive Genius. I am not privy to the sales figures for these utilities, but my gut feeling is that they are in a decline. A decline that I expect will continue. In fact, I would not be surprised if…

We Rule, one of the latest games from ngmoco, allows you to rule your own kingdom on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. You farm the land, plant trees, and build cottages and businesses in an easy-to-use interface. As part of the Plus+ gaming network, the developers have encouraged network play by allowing your friends to…

In particular, Mr. Rentzsch took issue to Section 3.3.1 of Apple’s iPhone OS developer agreement, which limit developers to using developer tools that meet strict requirements set by Apple. In an open letter posted to his site, Mr. Rentzsch said that he was drawn to developing for the Mac, and by extension, in part because…

The Product As I reviewed this product the song “Old MacDonald Had A Farm” kept running through my head.  Instead of chicks and cows I was humming “here a nano, there an iPod, here a camera, there a GPS, eieio.” Must have something to do with spending the weekend with a 3 year old. Be…

Mr. Jobs’s health has been the subject of much observation, commentary, speculation, and concern, especially following a six month medical leave-of-absence he had to take one year ago, and during which he had liver replacement surgery. “While he remains thin and talks with acquaintances about his struggle to put on weight,” the magazine reported, “[Mr.]…

What Is It  Motormouse – The computer mouse for anyone who wishes they were out on the road in a sports car instead of sitting in front of a computer screen.  By now I bet you have seen at least one mouse in a store somewhere that was shaped like something other than a traditional…

According to CrunchGear, Landor Associates is working on a marketing campaign for Verizon to promote the iPhone on the company’s cell service network.If true, then the notion that AT&T’s exclusive deal with Apple runs through 2012 is off base. The cell service provider struck a five year exclusivity deal with Apple when the iPhone was…

The Chronicle’s points out that its numbers are rough and contain a lot of assumptions, but the base assumption based on numbers from other developers is that Apple is selling roughly 7,500 copies of each app on both weekend days, and 2,500 copies of each app per weekday. At $10 per app – an amount…

A Simple Home Network To better understand what’s going on with the AT&T 3G MicroCell and how it works, let’s first take a look at some basic home network configurations. Figure 1 is a very simple home network. Many home users have something like this, and the only thing simpler would be to direct connect…

Some AT&T customers have the misfortune of living or working in an area where the 3G wireless signal is weak, and it’s difficult or impossible to make a mobile call. To solve that problem, AT&T has introduced the 3G MicroCell, a device that plugs into a broadband connection, connects on the Internet via VOIP and…

iSkin has released a couple of new case designs for the often overlooked iPod touch. Each offers some unique features that should appeal to the touch aficionados.touch Duo The primary feature of the first one, called the touch Duo, is a polycarbonate ViSOR™ that snaps over the face of the unit when not in use…

INTRODUCTION Apple introduced AirPort wireless technology, aka WiFi, to the masses at the 1999 Macworld Expo in New York City. Since then, there have been many advances in the WiFi technology, which started with a modest throughput of 11 Mbps using 802.11b, then 54 Mbps using 802.11g, and 240 Mbps and beyond with 802.11n. One…

Lala says goodbye Apple purchased Lala at the end of 2009, and at the time analysts speculated that the deal was part of a bigger plan to host iTunes music through a cloud-based service instead of only on user’s hard drives. The Lala Web site isn’t offering any hints about what’s in store. The Web…

Apple has been holding meetings with advertisers to push the iAd network, which was unveiled at the company’s iPhone OS 4 media event, and is expected to launch as early as June. According to The Journal, ad execs have been crowding those meetings to learn more about Apple’s offering. Despite the seemingly high price tag,…

Mr. Jobs’s comments echo many of the ideas that have been floating around the Internet and tech circles for several months. He starts off by weighing in on Adobe’s claims that Flash is an open system.“Adobe’s Flash products are 100 percent proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to…

Palm is known for helping kick start the PDA industry with its Palm Pilot electronic organizer, its Treo smartphones, and most recently for its webOS and Pre smartphone. The Pre and the followup phone, the Pixi, however, haven’t been selling as well as the company had hoped.Palm has been suffering from poor sales of its…

In most years, the WWDC is announced months ahead of time. This year, Apple is giving us little more than a one month heads up. What took Apple so long? Why the delay? I have no idea. Apparently, neither does any one else (outside of Apple). Perhaps there was some internal debate has to exactly…

The email link directs users to a Web site that looks just like Apple’s iTunes download page where victims can download what appears to be an updated version of the iTunes application for Windows, but instead is an installer for the malware BitDefender is calling Backdoor.Bitfrose.AADY. Once installed, attackers can potentially gain access to the…

The event, which was founded by WSJ tech writers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, offers attendees a unique insight into the featured guests because they are interviewed in unscripted and unrehearsed sessions in front of live audiences.Other guests scheduled to appear at the event include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, movie director James Cameron, HTC CEO…