Posts Tagged ‘ Steve Jobs ’

The iPhone 3G’s Real Cost

Jul 1st, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone

Despite Steve Jobs’ best efforts to spin the new iPhone 3G‘s cost, the real user costs are starting to emerge, and it’s not pretty. The iPhone 3G isn’t just more expensive to buy with an AT&T contract, but it’s more expensive to buy if you plan on using it “unlocked”: Subscribers can buy the iPhone […]



Apple WWDC Update

Jun 11th, 2008 | By | Category: General, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

While the Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC was underwhelming to many, there’s been a lot of interesting related news that’s come out in the last two days: Most iPhone apps are going to be free – Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, took some time Monday following Steve Jobs’s opening keynote to chat with 20 Apple […]



News Flash: Twitter Doesn’t Die During Keynote!

Jun 10th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Microblogging

Yesterday’s Steve Jobs keynote was a bust: he announced what people already knew he was going to announce, but little more. And the only real surprise was that Apple’s iPhone “price cut” was really a price hike, buried in your monthly AT&T bill. The biggest surprise of the day turned out to be that Twitter […]



Get Steve Jobs Keynote Videos With Apple Keynotes Podcast

Jun 9th, 2008 | By | Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcast Quickies

The Apple Keynotes podcast offers video of the company’s most important announcements, including CEO Steve Jobs keynotes. It hasn’t been updated with today’s keynote yet, but it has the last two Macworld keynotes & the March 6 iPhone Software Roadmap event.



Can Twitter Handle Apple’s WWDC Traffic?

Jun 8th, 2008 | By | Category: General

There’s a lot of rampant speculation going on about Apple‘s WWDC announcements tomorrow. The biggest question, though, may be whether or not Twitter will go down because of the traffic during Steve Jobs’ keynote. Over the last year, Twitter has become a love/hate relationship for most users. The site has the worst uptime of all […]



Steve Jobs Is Killing Off The DVD

Jan 19th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players, Video

CNBC has an interesting interview with Steve Jobs, in which he confirms our take away from his MacWorld announcements: Apple is killing off the DVD: Don’t underestimate the power of the new iTunes movie rental service either. I asked Jobs whether this meant the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD was over, with Apple the […]



Apple Intros Ultra-Thin MacBook Air Notebook

Jan 15th, 2008 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, General

Apple today unveiled MacBook Air at Macworld, which they describe as the world‚Äôs thinnest notebook. MacBook Air measures 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. MacBook Air has a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video […]



Steve Jobs MacWorld Keynote Leaked?

Jan 14th, 2008 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange

The outline of Steve Job’s 2008 MacWorld Keynote, one of the most hotly anticipated speeches of the year, has reportedly been leaked to the Internet via Wikipedia. We can’t vouch for the accuracy of this, and it’s most likely completely bogus – but it’s fun to speculate. If the leak proves to be real, it […]