Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Open letter to Steve Jobs: Retire now!

Dear Steve, It’s been many years since you and I had a serious chat. We were both young men, almost kids, and we both looked at the world through much younger eyes. But now, buddy, we gotta talk, man-to-man. Friday’s event was deeply disturbing. There you were, up there on stage, mocking genuinely valid concerns [...]

Steve Jobs: “We’re Not Perfect.”

After starting out with a light-hearted YouTube video about “Antennagate” at the Apple press conference to address the issue, CEO Steve Jobs came onstage with a mea culpa: “You know . . . we’re not perfect.” In fact, Apple knew about the issue shortly after the first phones were shipped, and the company has been [...]

Apple plans press conference about iPhone 4

Apple Inc., facing complaints over the antenna reception of its new iPhone 4, will hold a press conference on July 16 to discuss the device. The meeting will be held at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, said Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman. He declined to elaborate on what will be discussed. Since Apple released [...]

Strategies of Apple’s Domination (Slideshow)

What makes Apple tick? How is it that it came back from the dead to surpass both Google and Microsoft in market cap? French consulting firm faberNovel takes a stab at explaining Apple’s success and its strategy against its two main rivals in the SlideShare below. (In the past, faberNovel has created similar slideshows about [...]

Is the iPhone 4 becoming the Windows Vista of Apple?

Between antenna problems and app store hacks, the iPhone 4 is starting to feel like an outcast in the iPhone portfolio – kind of like Windows Vista was for Microsoft. The latest word out of Apple HQ is that the iPhone 4 software update that’s on the way won’t do anything to solve that little [...]

How-to: Install Flash on your jailbroken iPad

It’s called Frash, and while the plugin is still pretty early and doesn’t do video playback yet, you can definitely play games and other animations right now, and we’re told video support is forthcoming. Okay, so let’s try this out, shall we? It’s not point-and-click simple, but it’s not that hard, either. Full instructions after [...]

Apple admits exaggerating signal strength

Apple has admitted for the first time the iPhone 4 has a problem and that it has exaggerated the signal strength on its phones. Its admission, in a letter to customers, comes after a growing row over whether its latest best-selling gadget, is faulty. More than 1.7 million of the phones, which can cost up [...]