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According to web metric firm Net Applications, iOS has passed Linux for third place in worldwide OS market share as measured by web browsing. Today, iOS trumps Linux. Tomorrow, it will be Android over iOS, with Adobe Flash along for the ride. Read More »

Bloomberg is now reporting the next generation Apple TV, rumored to be renamed the iTV, will be unveiled at the annually anticipated Apple event next month. Apple is said to be in talks with networks to bring $0.99 rentals of television shows to the iTunes Store. Read More »

 
 

My iPhone 4 Survival Kit

While I wouldn’t want to return to the days of clamshells, external antennas and dumphones, using the iPhone 4 sometimes feels like making calls with a fragile butterfly. To that end, I’ve built an accessory ecosystem to keep my iPhone 4 both beautiful and useful. Read More »

The new Mac Office 2011 that’s currently in development easily bests iWork ’09, and with every feature update demonstrates just how far behind iWork has fallen. The latest video preview only increases the value gap between the two office suites. Read More »

Just in time for a China launch, strained supplies of iPads are easing, even as rumors of a 7″ iPad ramp up for early 2011. iPad inventory at Best Buy has shown “strong improvement” in the last two weeks, according to Barclay analyst Ben Reitzes. Read More »

According to an announcement at Apple Discussions, “very soon” we can expect more easily accessible and friendly “Apple Support Communities” for all our free troubleshooting needs. Expect to get what you pay for; The Introductory FAQ doesn’t give the impression that will change much. Read More »

An idiosyncratic survey of German consumers may not be indicative of what the rest of the world wants in the next iPad, but it does make you wonder what, exactly, Apple will do with the iPad 2. Here are the top six desired features. Read More »

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A new report suggests the iPad is behind Apple’s unprecedented growth in portable computers. Apple took third place in worldwide market share for the second quarter of 2010, and is on a trajectory to become number one as soon as the end of the year. Read More »

A sleek representation in aluminum, plastic, and glass, plus 80 percent more multitouch by area than a MacBook trackpad, what’s not to like about the Magic Trackpad? Everything that really matters. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend it. Read More »

Apple’s excruciatingly boring conference call for the third fiscal quarter has come and gone, but if you didn’t listen, or couldn’t stay awake, here are the top 10 items of interest (to me). Record Mac sales, antennagate and record revenue were some of the highlights. Read More »

Anyone who thought the Mac is dead needs to think different(ly). Apple sold 3.472 million Macs last quarter, along with 3.270 million iPads to sync them with. Out of sync, were iPod and iPhone sales, but for Apple it was another quarter for the record books. Read More »

Apple has announced that on July 23 the iPad will be available in nine more countries. On Friday, it will be on available in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore. If you can find one, that is. Read More »

With hours to go until the iPhone 4 press conference, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are reporting what we can expect (or rather, not): a recall. Instead, yet another software update may be coming to address the hardware problem of the antenna. Read More »

Net Applications and AdMob have released their latest reports, and both suggest the protracted struggle for the future of mobile computing is far from over. As far as one can see into the future, there will be an abundance of apps and we can expect many… Read More »

Across the globe, iPhone 4 eyewitnesses are all seeing the same thing: lines around the block and few, if any, devices for those without reservations. Supplies of the iPhone 4 are dwindling, many stores expect to be sold out by the end of the day. Read More »

On the day of the next generation iPhone launch, AT&T, out of the goodness of its corporate heart (or possibly from fear of a mass exodus to Verizon should Big Red get the iPhone), has moved up the eligibility date for some customers. Read More »

With nary a yellow sticky saying the Apple Store will be back soon, today Apple quietly updated the white MacBook. The company’s value laptop got a slightly faster CPU, better graphics, and longer battery life, but not a better price. Read More »

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