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The White iPhone is now gone from the Apple Store, marking the final step in its long, troubled life. The White iPhone, slated to be launched this year, was Apple’s…
MacBook Air Benchmarks: Fast Enough For Everyday Use, But The Slow Processor Does Hurt Performance
You know, it’s one thing to use subjective and entirely unscientific terms like “feels” or “seems” when it comes to reviewing computers, but there’s something to be said about actually…
Apple Massively Ramped Up Ad Spending In 2010, But Sales Grew Even Faster
Earlier today, Apple’s 10-K form was released for their 2010 fiscal year. The long document is full of tidbits about the state of Apple’s business. One thing of note is…
With Their Carrier-Crippling SIM, Can Apple Do What Google Chickened Out Of?
At the beginning of this year, I was very excited. You see, at Google’s launch event for the Nexus One, they made one thing clear: they were going directly after…
In typical hyperbolic Apple style, the company has just announced the launch of Apple.com.cn, the Chinese hardware as well as the Chinese version of the “legendary” App Store (yes, they…
Is Apple’s vanilla Bluetooth keyboard too minimal for your taste? Maybe this blinged-out one is more your speed. It comes with a bunch of stickers for assigning app shortcuts to…
White iPhone Delayed Again. Now Due Next Spring, Will It Beat The iPhone 5 To Market?
It’s said that you’re not supposed to wear white after Labor Day. Apple, it seems, is sticking with that rule. Yes, the elusive white iPhone has been delayed again. As…
The Incredible, Amazing, Brilliant, Wonderful, Jaw-Dropping Back To The Mac Keynote Video
Perhaps you missed Apple’s Back to the Mac event at their headquarters in Cupertino, CA last week. You know, the one where they showed off iLife ’11, a sneak peek…
Apple raised the bar on ultra-portable computers with the latest MacBook Air. There’s no questioning that. Steve Jobs & Co. took the already-thin MacBook Air and shrunk down both its…
How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus New Apple Rumors
“Apple, Inc. (AAPL) in negotiations to acquire Spotify,” read the tip that came in yesterday via email from an anonymous source. Most tips are just outright false, but we dug…
iDOS brings your favorite DOS games to iOS [Update: Pulled!]
If it were December, I’d call this a Christmas miracle. As it’s October, we’re just going to have to pretend that “Halloween Miracles” are a thing. IT’S A HALLOWEEN MIRACLE!…
Apple Intros Free iPad Engraving Just In Time For Holiday Shopping
Want to declare your love and affection for all time on the back of an iPad? Fine by Apple. They’ll do it for free, but the process delays the shipping…
First, call me a negative Nancy but the rumors that Apple could buy Sony – Lord knows Sony needs some better management – but this sort of thing seems more…
Last Wednesday, I got my hands on one of the new MacBook Airs. I haven’t touched my MacBook Pro since. It’s six months old. RIP. I know that sounds outrageous.…
Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.
Last Wednesday, I got my hands on one of the new MacBook Airs. I haven’t touched my MacBook Pro since. It’s six months old. RIP. I know that sounds outrageous.…
Just Kidding, only 9% Of iPad Owners Haven't Downloaded Apps
Some mildly shocking news broke the other day as a result of some Nielsen numbers stating that 32% of iPad owners had never downloaded any apps. While I found that…
With OS X Lion, It's No Longer Point & Click, It's Flick & Swipe
It feels like we’re on the verge of something — “feel” being the keyword. Personal computing has more or less been the same for a few decades now. It’s the…
The Truth: Why iPhone Users Will Ditch AT&T and Run to Verizon
Last week we saw the carriers’ growth numbers for Q3 2010, and AT&T completely blew away Verizon with new subscribers. Despite mass availability of Android phones, Verizon only added 1…
Shunned By Apple, Adobe Embraces Android With AIR 2.5
Apple keeps giving Adobe the brush-off—what with the new MacBook Airs shipping without Flash and Apple’s prohibition (recently rescinded) on porting Flash apps to the iPhone. Without Apple, industry observers…
Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps?
This weekend, Ryan Block put up an interesting post on gdgt entitled: Will the Mac App Store have enough to sell? He raises a number of good points for why Apple…
Yes, you heard this before. The Death of Cable TV. Yet, it hasn’t happened. But now, so many disruptions are happening in the video space, cable tv is really stepping…
OMG/JK: Just Two Guys Drooling Over The New MacBook Air
We had a special guest for this week’s episode of OMG/JK, the show I host alongside fellow writer Jason Kincaid: the new MacBook Air. If you’ve been waiting to see…
In The Fight Against Apple's iAds, Google Plays The Cross-Platform Card
While there are many players in the mobile advertising market, there’s no doubt that there’s a little bit of a rivalry between Google’s ad network AdMob and Apple’s new foray…
I’ve been putting this post off for a while, since I decided at the launch of the new iPod touch that I would give Apple the benefit of the doubt…
The Future Of TV Is HTML
The title of this post is both a very old idea and a very new one. With the prevalence of fiber connectivity and pervasive broadband speeds, this year has been…
Apple Killed The CD When It Stopped Using It As The iTunes Logo
Last night, right around this time, my colleague MG Siegler argued that Apple basically killed off the CD with yesterday’s launch of another optical drive-less Mac Book Air and the…
New MacBook Air Teardown Reveals Relatively Few Apple Design Secrets
In classic iFixit fashion, the latest Apple laptop has been torn to pieces a mere day after its release event. How exciting! Now we get to find out how Apple…
Adobe's New HTML5 Video Player Widget, It's Kind Of A Big Deal
“I wouldn’t say we’re reacting to HTML5. We see whatever people are using to express themselves. … We’re going to make great tooling for HTML5. We’re going to make the…
The New MacBook Air Will Be The Death Of Either The MacBook Or 13-inch MacBook Pro
Apple’s consumer strategy has always been centered around clear, concise choices. The new, less expensive MacBook Air seems to change that. The line between consumer and pro, between entry level and…
Is there really any doubt the Mac App Store will be anything other than a huge hit when it debuts in 90 days? Seven billion downloads on the current App…