Tag Archives: Apple

Folks stood in the hot summer NYC sun for a long as six hours to get their iPhone 4 today, its second day of release. It kills me how almost everybody in the line is staring into the perfectly good iPhones they already own. Children of the corrrrrrrrn.

If you want to download a graphic novelization of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest to your iPad, you get the above blacked out images of men kissing. And that’s only after you tell Apple that you are over the age of 17. Gizmodo has the story, as well as some screenshots of non-censored straight graphic novels. (Tipped by …

Here’s the video of the iPhone launch snafu that I mentioned yesterday. Jobs blames the issue on too many bloggers hogging the room’s wi-fi signal.

HuffPo reports from the launch of the iPhone 4…. 1:45PM ET: Oops! Jobs is struggling with connectivity problems during his iPhone 4 demo. He tries to load a New York Times website–without success. He gets the error message “cannot activate cellular networks.” What happened, via CNET: [Jobs:] “I’m sorry guys, I don’t know what’s going on.” “Got any suggestions?” he …

Beginning Monday, new customers of AT&T will no longer be able to purchased unlimited data plans for their iPhone and iPad. AT&T hopes to ease congestion on its network, which has drawn complaints, particularly in big cities. But the approach could confuse customers unfamiliar with how much data it takes to watch a YouTube video or fire up a favorite …

The Family Research Council would like you to know that they are VERY appreciative of Steve Jobs’ attempts to keep Apple devices free of nasty porn. The new Apple iPad offers consumers plenty of things–including “freedom from porn,” according to chief executive Steve Jobs. In an exchange with blogger Ryan Tate, who disagreed with the suggestion that the iPad is …

Workers at a massive Apple factory in China are killing themselves at an alarming rate. Eight employees have offed themselves since the beginning of the year. With 400,000 workers, Foxconn makes the iPhone and iPod, as well as devices for other electronics companies. For those who believe the spate of suicides is statistically in line, given how many people work …

My loyal companion and tech guru Aaron has created an iPhone icon for JMG. Just bring up JMG on your iPhone, press the “+” sign and choose “add to home screen.”

Just a few months after Apple bought Lala, my favorite streaming music service, they are closing it down. They bought it to kill it. Apple will shut down its Lala online music streaming service on May 31. The move comes just five months after Apple bought Lala for an undisclosed price. Could this indicate Apple is serious about opening up …

Apple guru Steve Jobs today issued a denouncement of Adobe’s popular Flash technology. Apple has been widely criticized because the iPad does not support Flash. Jobs’ list of complaints about Flash is quite long and concludes with this: Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an …

A 54 year-old Vancouver man has been arrested after the mother of a 15 year-old boy called police to report that he and her son had hooked up for sex via Grindr. Bren Tynan, 54, from Vancouver was charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching. Police said the suspect met the victim through geo-social networking app …

California police raided the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen on Friday after the tech blogger posted a story about the next generation iPhone. Chen had paid a source $5000 for the phone after it was accidentally left in a bar by an Apple researcher. Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chen came home Friday to find cops in his house, looking for …

JMG reader Mikey tips us to this gal who says she’s the world’s first iPad DJ. (This might be interesting to clubheads and fanboys only.) Jump ahead to the 10:00 mark for a demo of Daft Punk’s amusing iDaft program. I still miss vinyl.

According to a survey of the 206 top metropolitan areas in the U.S., the #1 market for owning any Apple product is, surprise, the Bay Area. Fortune reports: In a report issued Friday, Experian Simmons surveyed 206 so-called DMAs (designated market areas, or what we used to call “cities”) and identified those that have the highest concentration of Apple (AAPL) …

The Israeli government has banned Apple’s iPad, saying its wireless signal is too strong and could interfere with devices that operate at a lower power. The Ministry of Communications said the ban was instituted earlier this week because the iPad’s Wi-Fi wireless technology was built to the U.S. standard, which allows stronger signals than those allowed in Europe and Israel. …

(Via – Engadget)

Somebody’s already mounted their iPad on their dashboard.

A few fanboys have been lined up outside Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue store for days already, but the scene isn’t remotely like for the iPhone launch as only those with pre-orders will get their machine tomorrow. But some folks like to be FIRST! as YouTube tells us every day. Apple expects to sell 7 million units this year and are forecasting …

LouZoom enlarges your contact list. Meh. I’d rather have an app from his girlfriend, Laurie. One that told us when the sun was coming up like a big bald head. (Via – Gothamist)

I’m getting reports that Apple has deleted Grindr from the iPhone app store. According to Wikipedia, the deletion took place at midnight last night. One JMG reader writes: “How in the hell is Grindr ANY different from apps like Loopt Mix, except in that is it targeted toward gay men? Homophobia in the Bay Area? You have got to be …