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Why does Steve Jobs play fast and loose with iPod touch sales numbers?

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:29:12 +0000

Take, for example, his claim that it is the No. 1 portable game player in the world Apple (AAPL) may in fact be selling more hand-held game devices than Sony and Nintendo combined, as Steve Jobs claimed on Wednesday, but journalists trying to fact-check that statement can be forgiven their skepticism. Part of the problem [...]

Can Ping be saved?

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:54:51 +0000

10 things Apple can do to rescue its experiment in social networking Apple (AAPL) announced Friday that less than 48 hours after its launch more than 1 million people had signed up for Ping, its new social network for music. That's not necessarily a good thing, given how many of those people are complaining -- [...]

Week in Apple: Apple TV, iTunes 10, Delicious Library, oh my!

Jacqui Cheng — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:00:00 +0000

An Apple event means lots of new announcements. Almost the entire iPod line got updated, Apple TV got a serious makeover, and iTunes 10 got... something. But we also covered a patent suit, some lessons learned from Delicious Libr...

Hello I’m a Mac (but I use a PC)

Adam Rosen — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:27:07 +0000

Well it didn’t take long after his Apple gig ended for Justin Long to switch to the Dark Side. Known for his portrayal of “Mac” along with John Hodgman as “PC” in Apple’s very popular “Get a Mac” ad camp...

Fixing iTunes 10 Minimize, Maximize, Close Buttons [How To]

Buster Heine — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:54:20 +0000

Ever feel like Steve Jobs is messing with you just for fun? That’s what I thought when I opened up iTunes 10 and saw the minimize, maximize, & close buttons on the left hand side of the window, instead of aligned at the top. Moving the button...

Ping: A Social Network Inside a Walled Garden

Paul Sweeting — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:00:07 +0000

Whether by design or accident, Ping's lack of integration with other social networks, or even with the web itself, is now its most compelling feature — at least from a strategic perspective. It's essentially an e-commerce platform for music disguised...

How to Succeed Like Apple

Mike Elgan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:47:58 +0000

Why does Apple dominate all aspects of the digital music market — hardware, software and content deals? For example, more than two-thirds of every media player sold in the world is an Apple product. That’s amazing when you consider the comp...

Apple's Ping is a spam magnet

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:05:57 +0000

Steve Jobs' new social network for music is already filled with cheesy come-ons The iTunes account holder who calls himself Claude Damm had a busy morning Friday. In the space of an hour, he visited more than four dozen celebrity profiles on Ping -- the newest feature on Apple's (AAPL) 10-year-old iTunes store -- and [...]

iTunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices

Chris Foresman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:05:00 +0000

By now, most iTunes users have already downloaded and installed iTunes 10. We've already given you the low-down on the biggest addition to the new version of iTunes—the Ping social network—but we also wanted to give our...

iPod touch Is Close, But Still No Contract-Free iPhone

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:04:06 +0000

Apple found a way to cram a large number of iPhone 4 features in the new iPod touch: retina display, two cameras with FaceTime support, and the A4 chip. So it's just like a contract-free iPhone 4 without voice right? Wrong on at least three counts. ...

iTunes 101: Using the Album Art widget

Mike Schramm — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Here's a cool new feature in iTunes 10 that we haven't mentioned yet: when listening to any song in your library, you can double click on the album art window in the lower left hand corner to detach it from the main window and see it full size. That's ...

Ping: The Woz Approves

Federico Viticci — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:59:25 +0000

I don’t like Ping, but who am I to go against what the Woz says? After Wednesday’s Apple Music Event (where Steve Jobs surprisingly mentioned Wozniak by calling him his “partner in crime”) some journalists met the Woz and asked him a few questions about the stuff Jobs announced on stage. Namely, Apple TV and [...]

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Tough slogging for iPad knockoffs

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:32:11 +0000

Many will try, few will survive, says an Asian manufacturer working on several of them Two new tablet computers based on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system -- one from Samsung, the other by Toshiba -- were introduced at a trade show in Berlin this week, part of a wave of knockoff designs inspired by Apple's [...]

Geek Trend: The iPhone Coffee Table, Evolution of a Species

Adam Rosen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:00:34 +0000

It’s official: the iPhone has joined the ranks of iFurniture. Yesterday brought news of another iPhone coffee table, which joins a proud history of Apple-inspired furniture throughout the years. In another Geek Trend, some members of the Cu...

With T-Mobile Losing German iPhone 4 Exclusivity, Will AT&T Be The Next To Topple?

John Brownlee — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:47:40 +0000

All across Europe, iPhone exclusivity deals have already toppled, but here in Germany, T-Mobile still remains standing as the sole carrier of the iPhone 4. The foundations are wobbly, though, as numerous other carriers in the country have begun selling...