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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I much prefer the Mail interface of iPad Mail application. Which is why it’s great to see Apple release a new beta version of MobileMe’s web mail app that borrows heavily from its cousin on the iPad. Read More »
Everything changes as it grows, some things for the better, but others for the worse. Anyone who’s been a part of the Apple community for the past 10 years can testify how Apple has changed over that time. Jonathan Rentzsch has cancelled his incredible C4 conference. Read More »
One would think that keeping a tighter grip on iPhone 4 pre-launch hardware would be somewhat of a priority at Apple right now. Nonetheless, another iPhone 4 prototype has fallen into the hands of someone outside of Cupertino. Read More »
Today is a great day for the Mac gaming crowd, as Valve has officially released the Steam client for Mac. For those of you unfamiliar with Steam, it’s a software marketplace that deals in the digital distribution of games. Read More »
The real world experiences of children using the iPad has not stopped the Nielsen Norman Group from releasing a preliminary 93-page report detailing the usability problems of the iPad, citing problems in learning gestures, hidden controls, small buttons, and many other usability errors. Read More »
The big news early this week about Apple isn’t the commencement of pre-order sales in nine international markets that happened Monday, it’s a report by the NPD group that sees Android smartphones outselling Apple’s iPhone. The question is, why? Read More »
Looks like Mac Developers will be in the running for an ADA after all…ADA as in “Ars Design Award,” that is. Ars Technica is stepping up to fill the empty space left by Apple this year by hosting their own ADAs. Read More »
If you live outside the U.S. and you’ve managed to avoid the urge to pay too much for a resold unit bought in the States, you won’t have to wait too much longer before you can get your hands on some sweet, sweet iPad action. Read More »
According to survey respondents to a ChangeWave Research survey of over 4,000 customers, more than 40 percent of Sprint/Nextel and T-Mobile customers would seriously considering buying an iPhone were it available to them, as would just over a majority of Verizon customers. Read More »
The iPad may be partially responsible for the slow demise of netbook sales, according to a Morgan Stanley market analyst. In a report for Morgan Stanley clients, the impact of the iPad is causally linked to the rapid decline of the netbook sales growth curve. Read More »
This week saw the release of a new beta for the upcoming iPhone OS major release, version 4.0. Beta 3 brought a lot of bug fixes and stability improvements, but it also brings some more noticeable changes the user experience of everyone’s favorite smartphone device. Read More »
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