Posts Tagged ‘ iPhone ’

Once upon a time, “techies” may have haunted a subterranean American sub-culture, living in their mother’s basements and alternating between annihilating one another on “CounterStrike” and innovating apps, gadgets, and platforms. Their combined computing power might have taken-over the world, but they remained interested in dominating all things virtual. This week in Las Vegas,...
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Steve Jobs has a sense of humor; who knew? Especially after a week of ranting about his competitors’ short-comings and abuses, Jobs caught reporters off-guard when he commented on the provenance of the new MacBook Air: “We asked ourselves what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked-up?” Of course, the result would...
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Count this as a cautionary tale about awe-inspiring power of a genuinely viral guerrilla campaign for good customer service and a little measure of justice. When AT&T recently announced that it would end its unlimited data plans, switching instead to tiered pricing plans, Giorgio Galanti did the math and decided to abandon his iPhone...
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“Jobs proclaims end of PC era,” the headlines read after Steve Jobs spoke to participants in the D8, “All Things Digital” conference this week. The headline probably shed more light on Jobs’s enthusiasm for the iPad than it qualified as quote-worthy prophecy.  Still, when Jobs, clad in signature jeans and turtleneck and outfitted with...
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Once again calling attention to the sudden surge in sales of Google Android phones in the fiercely competitive American market, a CNN commentator asked over the weekend, “Has the Apple iPhone lost its cool?”  Recognizing the subtle subtext in the undeniably snarky and unquestionably urgent question, analysts at Patterson-Forbes Partners took long, critical looks...
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For the record, Blackberry remains unrivalled at number one in American smartphone sales. The fierce and frequently ugly battle rages for the second spot in the rankings for the fast-growing US mobile market.  Market analysts NPD Group confirmed early Tuesday that Google, makers of Android-operated phones, edged-out Apple Computer during the first quarter of...
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Add this to the “techies” category in your urban dictionary: “Appatalism,” a contraction of Apple and capitalism, usually used as part of the allegation that Apple Computers is using its application-development rules to squash competition—“approximately like big wing-tip shoes crunch little ladybugs,” one Apple detractor asserts.  David Balto, a former policy director with the...
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Jobs turns thumbs-down on Adobe Flash; Apple buys chipmaker. Leaving no doubt about where he stands, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs posted a long, detailed letter on the company’s website Thursday, explaining why Apple will not allow Adobe Flash and other Adobe software on its mobile devices, most notably iPad and iPhone.  Apple...
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Citing reliable sources, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Apple and Verizon had reached agreement on the launch of an iPhone compatible with Verizon’s CDMA wireless grid.  The agreement neither ends Apple’s special relationship with AT&T nor does it mark an Apple initiative toward open access for all wireless carriers.  Instead, analysts insist...
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