Archive | October 7th, 2011
Hands-on impressions of the iPhone 4S
Our invitation to Apple’s iPhone event this past week must have gotten lost in the mail. But it’s all good, I’m sure Apple will hit us up next time. In the meantime, some of the lucky outlets that did get an invite to Apple’s town hall meeting began publishing some of their initial impressions of [...]
Continue reading...The San Francisco Examiner nails it
7. October 2011
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When two words speak volumes.
Continue reading...Slideshow of visual tributes to Steve Jobs
7. October 2011
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Check out Gizmodo for a full gallery of creative and touching visual tributes to Steve Jobs. An example:
Continue reading...Samsung and Google delay Galaxy Nexus announcement out of respect for Steve Jobs
7. October 2011
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Samsung and Google were all set to unveil the new Galaxy Nexus and Android Ice Cream Sandwich update at CTIA San Diego next Tuesday. Yesterday, however, those plans were axed. When one developer asked why, they received a message back from Samsung stating: “Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product announcement at CTIA [...]
Continue reading...Steve – Thanks for putting Cupertino on the map
7. October 2011
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Below is a photo of an Apple Store in San Francisco taken on Wednesday night. Note the many notes users posted on the outside window in addition to the vigil set up below. The next day, Traci Dauphi from Cult of Mac went down to the same Apple Store and took a number of great photos [...]
Continue reading...Robert Scoble apologizes
7. October 2011
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Before Apple’s big iPhone media event this past Tuesday, Robert Scoble made a number of big predictions. First, he said Facebook would finally release its long-awaited iPad app. What’s more, Scoble said the level of Facebook’s cooperation with Apple was expansive and would literally shock people. Second, and much more tantalizing, Scoble claimed to have [...]
Continue reading...iOS 5 to drop on October 12
7. October 2011
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Scott Forstall took the iOS 5 reigns yesterday and took some time going over some of the top new features in Apple’s upcoming mobile OS update. Of course, every Apple speaker has to begin by doing a little bit of bragging, and Forstall was no different. Forstall started off by stating that Apple’s iOS platform [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs narrates iconic “Crazy Ones” Think Different ad [Video]
7. October 2011
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Network World directs us to this great and never before aired clip of Steve Jobs narrating Apple’s iconic Think Different ad featuring the famous “Crazy Ones” dialogue – you know, the one that heaped praise upon “the rebels, the troublemakers, the ones who see things differently.” Though the final advertisement featured narration from Richard Dreyfus, [...]
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7. October 2011
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