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Apple to release iWater

August 10th, 2011 · No Comments · humor

The apple fanboys at Scoopertino have turned up this new piece of Apple news. They have the product page for the new Apple Water. Move along Dasani. Step aside, fiji. Sayonara, Eva. Apple are here to replace you all.

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Apple stores to open early with iPads in stock

March 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Apple, hardware news

Unwired View and others are reporting that Apple stores will be opening an hour early today. Some stores have confirmed this, and some have even admitted to having gotten more iPad 2 in stock last night. This could be good news, considering that the iPad 2 sold out within minutes of its launch last Friday. [...]

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Apple will cripple the Kindle web app

March 15th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion

If you’ve been following the Apple in-app purchase fracas of late, then you might know that a log of people are hoping that web apps will be able to get around the need to pay Apple’s vig. If not, then let me explain. The way a web app works is that it uses HTLM5 to [...]

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The real secret of Apple’s success (video)

March 7th, 2011 · 2 Comments · humor, video

This video, more than any, should help you understand why it’s so much fun to make fun of Apple.

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Red Foundry first to cave on Apple’s Vig

March 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment · app store news, Apple

Don’t get mad at them just yet; wait until you hear why and how they caved. As you probably remember, Apple started requiring apps to have an in-app purchase option for individual sales and for subscriptions. Red Foundry have an app that managed to get caught up by the new rule because of how their [...]

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How gadget bloggers report on Apple (humor)

March 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · humor

I found this info graphic yesterday, and I think it’s both true and hilarious. There’s a larger version after the break, and you can also click on the image at right to see it full sized.

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Apple’s next step after digital content

February 23rd, 2011 · 9 Comments · opinion

Everyone’s talking right now about Apple extorting a 30% cut from developers who want to sell digital content on iOS. Sony’s app was bounced, as was Readability’s app. We’ve even heard that the ebook apps are going to go away at the end of June. But have you considered what Apple’s next step will be? [...]

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Apple’s Vig: the story so far

February 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · app store news, Apple

I’ve heard from a couple people that my post yesterday was confusing. Sorry about that; I though everyone had been following this as obsessively as I have. Let me correct my mistake by giving you a summary of what’s happened so far. For the sake of being thorough I’m going to have to start in [...]

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Readability to drop iOS app over Apple subscr. rules

February 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · software news

And so it begins. Today the first developer abandoned iOS rather than pay Apple’s vig. Richard Ziade, creator of Readability, just announced that Readability had dropped plans for an iOS app. The app had been rejected by Apple on Friday, and after thinking about it over the weekend the Readability team decided they could get [...]

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Apple try to justify the in-app price gouging

February 15th, 2011 · 9 Comments · opinion, press release

Apple issued a press release today about the in-app subscription. There’s nothing truly new here, but this press release does give us a look inside the greedy mind of Steve Jobs. Here’s what Apple said about the in-app option: “Our philosophy is simple—when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 [...]

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