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Apple has pulled another application from the App Store without any explanation. Although I wonder how it ever made it on to the App Store when other applications are still waiting for approval by Apple. Apple gave the green light to an application that was being sold for $999.99, it displayed the screen below.
The description of the "I am Rich" application from the App Store is below.
"The red icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were able to afford this. It's a work of art with no hidden function at all."
If you purchased "I am Rich", there's also a bridge for sale you might want to buy;)
Labels: app store, apple, culture, iphone, iphone 3G, touch
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/07/2008 03:42:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Via TUAW .
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/16/2008 12:07:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"A Las Vegas area resident has agreed to pay $1,200 to hire a stand-in for the lineup to purchase Apple's new 3G iPhone, which is expected to be available Friday.
eBayer 'Sumrstrm' on Thursday hired fellow eBayer 'Hamidih' to stand in line at the Apple Store at Las Vegas Town Square for Hamidih's "Buy It Now" price of $1,200, according toeBay (NSDQ: EBAY) transaction records.
Given the iPhone 3G's $199 price tag, Sumrstrm will end up paying a total of $1,399 for the new Apple device.
Hamidih had advertised the stand-in service with the words, "You don't have to wait, I will do it for you, so you can buy it at your preference." Via InformationWeek .
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/10/2008 03:24:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
We love our Commander in Chief to be smart and up on the latest tech. Republican Presidential Nominee, John McCain joked to a small crowd of fundraisers in Virginia that he is using Google to research his list of potential Vice Presidents.
"You know, basically it's a Google," Mr McCain said, to laughter, when asked how the selection process was going during a 10,000 dollar-a-head luncheon in Richmond. "What you can find out now on the internet - it's remarkable." Via The Telegraph .
Who can forget this classic clip of Dubya telling us how he uses "the Google"?
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/10/2008 04:26:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
From Wikipedia:
The Apple I, also known as the Apple-1, was an early personal computer. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak.Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple's first product, demonstrated in April 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
It went on sale in July 1976 at a price of $666.66, because Wozniak liked repeating digits and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $500 and added a one-third markup. About 200 units were produced. Unlike other hobbyist computers of its day, which were sold as kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 30 chips. However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply, keyboard, and display. An optional board providing a cassette interface for storage was later released at a cost of $75.
The Apple I is sometimes credited as the first personal computer to be sold in fully assembled form; however, some argue that the honor rightfully belongs to other machines, such as the MOS Technology KIM-1, Datapoint 2200, or more commonly the Altair 8800 (which could be bought in kit or assembled form for extra cost). One major difference sets the Apple I apart — it was the first personal computer to use a keyboard.
¶ posted by Rocco Mandaglio, Staff Writer @ 4/01/2008 09:04:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Police were called to Britney Spears' mansion last night after she got into a heated argument with her "manager".Pictures were taken of an iPhone text conversation between Britney Spears' manager and her paparazzo boyfriend. I wonder if Apple thinks this is good product placement or bad? ;)
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/29/2008 08:22:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Lego turns 50!
Everyone's favorite little brick company turns 50 today. Here are some sites I highly recommend: Even Google has a tribute:
Here's to another 50 years!
Labels: culture
¶ posted by Rocco Mandaglio, Staff Writer @ 1/28/2008 11:56:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"Look y'all, I got me an iPhone. I can watch my latest video, watch my older videos, listen to my latest CD, listen to my old music, surf the interweb, text the paparazzi, and flick through photos of my kids, I can even pinch them to make them grow y'all! The company that makes this thing even put a phone in it, it's crazy y'all!!!"
Welcome to the iPhone world Britney Spears...
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/23/2008 12:47:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"Macheads" - the movie.
I came across this article written by Corrine Schulze from CNET about an upcoming movie called "Macheads".
"This afternoon, I heard about the forthcoming film, MacHeads, for the first time.
My first thought was, huh, someone has made a movie based on Leander Kahney's book, The Cult of Mac.
I watched the trailer, and sure enough, Kahney--a former editor of mine when I wrote for Wired News--was in it. But it didn't look at all like it was his film.
Rather, it appears to be a similar look at the cultlike community and emotions that surround Apple, the Mac, and all things non-Windows.
For me, the trailer itself was gratifying enough, as from the very first frame, I recognized someone I know and it only went on from there. All told, five of the people they used in the trailer were friends or acquaintances of mine.
But more to the point, I think it's an interesting idea, making a movie like this. Obviously, I don't know anything about the film beyond what I saw in the trailer. But it seemed like they captured the sense of charged emotions that Mac users have about their computers and the company that makes them: devotion, excitement, reverence, frustration, betrayal, and so forth."
Watch the trailer here . Steve Jobs is really the Walt Disney of technology ;)
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/22/2008 09:14:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
TMZ is reporting that Hillary Clinton was overheard telling her daughter that "she can't get her TiVo to work properly, her box overwrites the shows she inputs manually with shows she's not interested in at all." When Tivo got wind of this they offered to help out the former First Lady, and Presidential candidate.
"We'd like to send the 'TiVo man' himself straight to the campaign trail to teach Hillary everything there is to know about our product in just five minutes (yes, 5 minutes!). We know it will take no time at all to show Mrs. Clinton the right buttons to push so she can rest assured that while she's on the road, America's favorite DVR is not skipping a beat."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/09/2008 03:10:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
William's girlfriend Kate Middleton bought him the £200 gift for Christmas - but he now has to share it with his grandma.
A Palace source told The People: "When she saw William playing a game after lunch at Sandringham she thought the Nintendo looked tremendous fun and begged to join in.
"She played a simple ten-pin bowling game and by all accounts was a natural.
"It was hilarious. William was in fits of laughter. He was enormously impressed at having such a cool gran.
"And although she is 81 the Queen's hand-eye co-ordination was as good as somebody half her age.
It's not the first time the Queen has joined the hi-tech revolution.
In 2001 she got her first mobile phone and has regularly upgraded to one with the latest features.
Her Majesty set up her own email account years ago.
In 2005 she took delivery of an iPod that stores more than 100,000 tunes.
And last June she added a trendy BlackBerry to her technological armoury - and made sure her senior staff were equipped with them too."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/07/2008 04:39:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Queen Elizabeth will be broadcasting her 50th Holiday message via YouTube. The 81-year-old Queen of the Brits' annual Xmas speech is the only time during the year she writes her own lines.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/24/2007 10:04:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Demand melted the music firm’s servers shortly after When You Believe went on sale at midnight on Saturday.
The problem was only resolved some 15 hours later leading to thousands of punters being unable to get their hands on the ballad.
Last year LEONA LEWIS’ winning single shifted an astonishing 50,000 downloads on its first hour of sale.
The Scottish teen logged just 36,669 sales in three days and record label bosses are furious.
An insider at SonyBMG said: “Everybody here is up in arms.
“There’s been a monumental cock up. Simon is hugely disappointed about the situation and is considering launching legal proceedings.
“Everybody is really upset for Leon and don’t want technical malfunctions to mar his big week.”
A spokesperson for iTunes declined to comment."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/24/2007 08:18:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"Sounds funny right. But I am dead serious. He signed my iphone and we had friendly conversation about it. He told me that Steve Jobs got him one too. I wanted to tell that Al Gore is on apple's board of directors, he should be able to get prerelease version with 3g or smth, but he was already taken away by his escort...." Via Livejournal .
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/21/2007 12:40:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"Apple’s debut at second place across the entire North American smartphone market region for the third quarter ending in September is particularly noteworthy because the iPhone was only being sold in the US, and is only available through AT&T; all of the other mobile platforms are available to Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile as well as AT&T," Dilger reports. "The iPhone wasn’t available in the significant markets of Canada and Mexico, along with parts of the US that AT&T does not service, including much of Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Alaska."
Labels: culture, iphone, palm os, symbian, windows mobile
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/14/2007 03:35:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
From the Hollywood Reporter via DrudgeReport:
The "Jackass" gang is about to attempt its most audacious stunt yet: online-first movie distribution.
In a radical departure from the traditional movie business model, Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment and MTV New Media are co-producing "Jackass 2.5," a sequel to its two-time boxoffice hit that will skip multiplexes entirely.
Instead, "2.5" will be offered online for free over a two-week span beginning Dec. 19 courtesy of Blockbuster and its new online property Movielink, which will exclusively host the 64-minute film during that period. The movie will be made available at blockbuster.jackassworld.com.
I'm not sure this will become the standard but it's a pretty neat way to release a movie. The best part: it will be offered for free.
Labels: culture
¶ posted by Rocco Mandaglio, Staff Writer @ 12/13/2007 11:52:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"In an inteview this week, Kawasaki recalled signing up 44,000 hardcore Mac users in 1995 on a listserv named, quite appropriately, "EvangeList." "All I would do is disseminate good news," Kawasaki said. He wanted his listserv to be a counterpoint to the torrents of bad news about the Mac, exemplified by a 1996 BusinessWeek cover story about Apple titled, "The Fall of an American Icon." For its cover art, the magazine placed an Apple icon in front of a black, funereal background.
Kawasaki's idea was to give Mac users hope, that they were not alone, and that they were on the right side of history. Hope is a powerful thing to someone at the end of their rope, and while that's perhaps overstating it a bit, that's how many Mac users felt in those years.
"It's almost like a religious experience in that you feel like you have to tell everyone you know in an effort to 'save them.' It's crazy, and I never understood those people but now I am one," said Doug Otto, a News.com reader, vice president of systems engineering for Govstar and a Sacramento, Calif., resident."
Check out the full article here .
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/12/2007 08:24:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006," said Marissa Mayer of Google, an Internet search engine. "It didn't exist."
Apple rolled out the iPhone, which is a mobile phone, music and video player and Internet browser device, in the United States last summer.
Four social networking sites made the top 10, including Webkinz, which grabbed the No. 2 slot. Webkinz is a stuffed animal that customers can register and play with online.
Celebrity news Web site TMZ ranked third, while transformer toys took the No. 4 slot.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/05/2007 03:34:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy, a Portuguese translation of 'tired of being sexy,' taken from a Beyoncé Knowles quote) released its debut album in July 2006. American fans and critics touted the group for its high-energy act and playful innocence. But CSS soon learned that buzz, rave reviews and a small indie following do not necessarily translate into lofty record sales. The album sold just 340 copies per week through October, according to Nielsen SoundScan," Cadelago reports.
"Then the iPod Touch commercial premiered on Oct. 28. In the next two weeks, CSS sold 2,000 records and climbed to No. 15 in song downloads and No. 5 in ring tone sales at Apple's iTunes Store," Cadelago reports. "'This is one of the rare instances where we can point to a single event and say, 'This is for sure what's driving all of our record sales,'' said Tony Kiewel, CSS's agent at Sub Pop records. 'The band is completely absent from this country and has been for ages. And the record is over a year old.' CSS's year-old record now stands at No. 19 on Billboard's Top Electronic Album chart, and 'Music is My Hot, Hot Sex' has since broke onto the all-important Pop 100 chart."
"The Canadian band Feist was quick to realize the benefits of its Apple partnership. Headed by singer-songwriter Leslie Feist, it released 'The Reminder' on May 1, a well-reviewed collection of alternative and folk songs. The record sold decently - 31,000 its first week and 21,000 the next, according to SoundScan. On Sept. 9, when its song '1234' was paired with Apple's new iPod video Nano, the band was averaging 6,000 record sales weekly for a grand total of 216,000," Cadelago reports.
"Feist's single placed seven times on Billboard charts, climbing as high as No. 4 on Hot Digital Songs and No. 10 on the Pop 100 chart. At the iTunes Store, the record is No. 25 in album sales and No. 44 in song downloads," Cadelago reports. "On Nov. 3, Feist secured the highly coveted musical guest spot on Saturday Night Live. And as of last Saturday, 'The Reminder' had sold 346,000 total records, 130,000 additional sales since the iPod commercial premiered."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/26/2007 08:19:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
A passenger on a delayed flight tried this out. He checked the weather on his iPhone, noticed the weather was clearing up, told the flight attendant about his findings, the flight attendant relays the message to the captain. The iPhone owner probably had a brief feeling of "this gadget saved the day", just like the commercial Apple advertises on TV.
His "iPhone moment" would soon end very different than the commercial he saw on TV.
The pilot says over the PA system, “If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with IPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave.”
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/20/2007 05:21:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"The move replicates the US experience, where the first queues began to form outside Apple and AT&T shops the day before the product launched. Hundreds had joined these queues by the time the iPhone went on sale," Evans reports." Via MacDailyNews .
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/08/2007 03:34:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Fortune has written a great article about everyone's favorite gadget blogs. Ryan Block (Engadget) and Brian Lam (Gizmodo) are extremely dedicated to their craft. This article highlights some of the great lengths they've gone to bring us the latest gadget news.
Labels: culture
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/02/2007 03:15:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Apple Inc.'s latest darling topped dozens of other creations that made leaps in environmentally friendly technology, molecular science, robotics or military uses. The photogenic personality of the sleek, hybrid cell phone-iPod media player didn't hurt either.
"Intel's 45-nanometer (parts for chips) - that's a serious deal, but it's a lot less glamorous than the iPhone even though it's important," said Lev Grossman, a Time staff writer who covers technology and helped select the magazine's annual honorees.
The iPhone's design and beauty contribute to its appeal, but its functionality and features are what gets people talking. The features themselves may not be groundbreaking, but the way in which Apple presents them is.
Take the iPhone's touch screen. Apple neither invented nor reinvented the technology, Grossman contends, but "Apple knew what to do with it."
The wide-ranging impact of the iPhone - on the cell phone industry and how it will evolve into an ever more useful handheld computer - is only beginning, he concludes."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/01/2007 09:02:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Jennifer Chappell, Editor of TreoCentral starts out the Round Robin with "A Treo User's take on the iPhone" .
It'll be great to read about their experiences, and if the grass really is greener on the "other side".
Labels: culture, smartphone
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/30/2007 09:38:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"A television commercial for the new iPod Touch from Apple, scheduled to begin running on Sunday, 10-28 is being created by the longtime Apple agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day. It is based on a commercial that an 18-year-old English student and Apple devotee named Nick Haley, who says he got his first Macintosh when he was 3 created on his own one day last month," Elliott reports.
"His spot offers a fast-paced tour of the abilities of the iPod Touch, set to a song titled 'Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex' by a Brazilian band, CSS," Elliott reports. "Mr. Haley said he was inspired to make the commercial by a lyric in the song, 'My music is where I'd like you to touch.'" Watch the video here .
Labels: apple, culture, touch, youtube
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/26/2007 09:47:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: cell phones, culture, nokia
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/27/2007 10:47:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
D-Lister Kathy Griffin and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak are engaged. The pair went public at this year's Emmys.
"Comedienne Kathy Griffin has landed one of the world’s richest bachelors, Apple co-founder Steve Wosniak. She brought the huggable guy to the Emmys with her, and looked like she was wearing an engagement ring, although she wouldn’t comment when asked about it, saying 'I don’t kiss and tell,'" Celebitchy reports.
"On an appearance on Larry King about her censored Emmy speech she said 'What do you make, Lar? You make a few million a year? He craps that out for lunch. I mean this guy has so much money — but I love him for his personality,'"
"Just one year after a bitter a divorce from husband Matt Moline, it looks like Kathy Griffin may be ready to walk down the aisle again. We spotted Griffin with boyfriend and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak at the Emmys, and the fiery comic was sporting what appeared to be an engagement ring. “I don’t kiss and tell,” the usually forthcoming Griffin told Usmagazine.com.
The couple did reveal that they met in Saratoga where Wozniak came to see Griffin perform. “I was a fan of hers before we met,” he tells Us. “I love her personality and her quick thinking. I think we have so much in common.” Quips Griffin, who later shared chocolate covered strawberries with Wozniak at the Entertainment Tonight party at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, “The thing is he doesn’t realize that I am the brains of the operation and he is like some dumb bimbo that I picked up!”
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/20/2007 12:06:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect.
Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.
"I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)," wrote Fahlman. "Read it sideways."
The suggestion gave computer users a way to convey humor or positive feelings with a smile — or the opposite sentiments by reversing the parenthesis to form a frown." Via Yahoo News .
Labels: culture
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/18/2007 02:14:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Grey's Anatomy star Katharine Heigl has 2 good habits and one bad. She uses her iPhone while drinking Diet Coke and lighting up a cigarette. Hopefully developers will create a smoke quitting app for the iPhone and help her, and many others kick the bad habit:)
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/20/2007 07:42:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"Griffin, who split from former husband Matt Moline last year, met millionaire Wozniak after he watched her stand-up show last month."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/17/2007 03:48:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"At the time, we noted that, in addition to there being no synchronization process, nor conspicuous software update to enable the new function, some users received the function early in the day, some later in the day, and some not at all.
Apple has now addressed this issue in Knowledge Base article #306272. The article outlines several requirements for invoking the “Send to Web Gallery” function, including:
“iPhone Software Version 1.0.1 or later"
“An active .Mac account (full membership account—not just email)"
“iPhone configured with a .Mac mail account (the same account to which you published the Web Gallery) etc.”
What’s interesting, however, is the following paragraph:
“If the Send to Web Gallery option does not appear on iPhone, and you have installed iPhone Software 1.0.1 or later, press the Home button to exit Photos, wait an hour before you tap Photos, and then try again. During that hour, it’s OK to use other features of iPhone.”
This essentially confirms that some sort of network-based trigger — not a time-based mechanism — invokes the “Send to Web Gallery” option. Once the appropriate software is in place and a valid .Mac account is detected on the iPhone, it appears that some sort of fetching process is performed that delivers the new functionality."
Labels: apple, culture, iphone
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/15/2007 04:57:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Back in April of 2007 Amy wrote an open letter to Steve Jobs asking him to create a medical device that would have a huger impact on people's lives than iPods, iPhones, etc. Amy asked Steve Jobs to use his and Apple's design expertise to create a device for Diabetics that would test blood sugar levels, and also create an insulin pump that would give Diabetics the Insulin we need to survive. Amy's open letter was to try and get Apple to make a device that was easy to use, wasn't embarrassing to carry, and therefore make people more inclined to use. I can tell you after having Diabetes for 15 years our blood sugar meters basically look the same (bulky looking, outdated looking devices) because they're designed by medical companies. Amy was on to something by asking Apple to design a life device for Diabetics.
Apple might not have responded to Amy's request, but a company took Amy up on her challenge. A company called Adaptive Path has made a prototype of a sleeker, more functional blood glucose monitor, called the Charmr watch a video demonstration here , and an insulin pump that users can apply directly to their bodies as an adhesive. They researched extensively, interviewing diabetics and consulting with Amy Tenderich, a valuable source of information and a link to the diabetes community. While the Charmr vaguely resembles an iPod Nano, it has an appeal of its own. The device allows users to monitor the trends of their blood sugar levels, as well as administer insulin via a sweat-proof patch. Not to mention, the device allows for wear on the wrists, or as a keychain or necklace--all of which let the device simply appear to be another mysterious gadget, as opposed to a complex medical apparatus. Furthermore, the Charmr will triple as a USB drive that allows users to view daily trends and patterns of their condition, and other special features.
Big things come from people with big ideas, and as my birthday approaches I can't thank Amy Tenderich enough for thinking so big!!!
Labels: culture
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/14/2007 09:35:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: culture, gaming, iphone, software
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/08/2007 04:20:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Martha Stewart is on the cover of the August edition of Wired. In the magazine Martha shows you how to make a cake in the shape of a Wii. Martha Stewart's love of technology doesn't stop at making edible confections that resemble gadgets, she's actually a gadget freak. How do I know this you ask? Her daughter told me (kinda).
Alexis Stewart (Martha's hot daughter) has a very un-Martha like radio show called "Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer" with the equally hot Jennifer Hutt, on Sirius Satellite Radio Monday thru Friday, 5pm-7pm E.S.T. with rebroadcasts daily from 11pm-1am E.S.T . They talk about "whatever", it's a hilarious and addicting show. They also have a blog over @http://www.whateverradio.com .
Alexis told listeners last week that Martha was spending her 66th birthday attending Google Camp. Alexis also revealed that Martha Stewart has an iPhone, and uses both a Mac and PC. How's that for some geek cred?
Labels: culture, iphone, sightings
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/06/2007 11:10:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Nissan is testing alcohol-detection sensors that check odor, sweat and driver awareness, issue a voice alert from the navigation system and lock up the ignition if necessary.
Odor sensors on the driver and passenger seats read alcohol levels, while a detector in the gear-shift knob measures the perspiration of the driver's palm when starting the car." Via CNET .
Labels: culture
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/03/2007 12:18:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
In comments made before his performance at Macworld earlier this year, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, sapless singer/songwriter Mayer told attendees that Jobs' penchant for making consumer-friendly products was "like the opposite of terrorism." Should we therefore assume, then, that Mayer's current gig as a high-profile sponsor of iPhone competitor BlackBerry Curve means he's gone over to the dark side?
John Mayer has taken up with iPhone rival BlackBerry, probably ending his run of Macworld appearances.
Research In Motion (RIM) is the official sponsor of Mayer's summer tour, coming soon to a high-school cafeteria near you. The Unofficial Apple Weblog spotted a Web page on RIM's site that contains "exclusive" video and photos of Mayer fondling a BlackBerry Curve. The Curve is "an extension of thought," Mayer says in the video. "The BlackBerry kind of betrays geography."
As an Apple fan I much prefer seeing John Mayer using something I'm not. Just because he sings and occasionally blogs doesn't give him the street cred of telling people what the best tech gadget to own is, especially now that BlackBerry is sponsoring his tour. John do us a favor, stick to music, and trying to date B-List celebrities. We don't want/need your gadget advice, you're not that influential.
Labels: apple, blackberry, culture
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/12/2007 12:25:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
People are going insane over the iPhone. Now people are getting even more insane. Someone has posted the iPhone shopping bag (iPhone not included) on eBay, and sold it for $305. Via Gizmodo
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/05/2007 09:18:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"Steve opened up with how he believes that the iPhone will change the mobile space forever. He said that when the Mac first came out, people talked about how some day, every computer would work that way, and the same would be true of the iPhone," Cheng reports.
Jobs said Apple has "the 'best Macs' in the new product pipeline ever right now, and that the stuff coming out in the next year is 'off the charts,'" Cheng reports. Jobs also said, "There is one OS group that does Mac OS X for the Mac and the iPhone, as well as 'some iPods we're working on,'" Cheng reports.
Underscoring the importance Apple's CEO places on the iPhone, Cheng reports Jobs said that "Apple employees will be able to tell their grandkids that they were at Apple when they launched the iPhone." Via MacDailyNews .
We'll be able to tell our grandkids we waited on line for the iPhone;)
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/28/2007 06:06:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Before the first ATM was installed by Barclay's Bank near London in 1967, there was a lot of standing in line and writing of checks, though there were probably a lot fewer $20 bills in the United States back then.
More than $25 billion will be withdrawn from bank accounts around the world today from 1.5 million of the ubiquitous dispensers. In keeping with our status as the most indebted nation in history, we Americans have more than a quarter the world's ATMs.
Despite some security threats and occasional hacks, there seems to be no worry that ATMs will continue to do be the teller of choice for most consumers. And for the record, when you're visiting its birthplace, the United Kingdom, don't ask for the nearest ATM. They're called "cash machines." Via CNET .
I still call the ATM a MAC Machine;)
Labels: culture
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/28/2007 12:54:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"The combination mobile phone and music player has generated more pre-sale media coverage than any other product, says Al Ries, chairman of Ries & Ries, an Atlanta marketing strategy firm," Heiskanen reports.
"Apple released details little by little, teasing consumers to keep interest high, and followed with its first television spot with the simple tagline 'hello' during the Academy Awards. That meant much of the hype came from word of mouth, which Apple has mastered since its 1984 introduction of the Macintosh computer. And it made the campaign less expensive," Heiskanen reports.
"The appeal may propel sales to 200,000 in the first two days and 3 million in the second half of 2007, according to the highest analyst estimates," Heiskanen reports. "'If you're not on the market for an iPhone, you don't really want to find yourself anywhere near an Apple or AT&T store at 6 p.m. on Friday,' Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at JupiterResearch said." Via MacDailyNews .
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/28/2007 12:46:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
"The new Apple iPhone goes on sale this Friday and people are already lined up at the Mac store in NYC to get theirs, PerzHilton.com has learned.
Bananas! "