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What If Buying Hard Cider Was Like Buying an Apple Product
Somersby Cider in the UK created a cheeky commercial that pokes fun of Apple product launches by imagining a world where buying hard cider is like getting a new iPhone. The Genius Bar
Read More »How Apple’s Password-Reset Security Breach Worked
Yesterday, The Verge uncovered a security breach that allowed malicious users to reset Apple ID passwords with nothing but an email and the user's birthday . Luckily, the process didn't leak out in
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Report: Apple Passwords Can Be Reset With Just Email and Birthday
Have you turned on your Apple ID two-step verification yet? You'll want to get on that. A report from The Verge indicates that if you haven't, hackers can change your password with nothing
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Apple’s Podcasts App No Longer Has Horrible Reel-to-Reel Skeuomorphism
Apple's Podcasts app has long been a horrid example of Scott Forstall's most epic crime as a software designer: Skeuomorphism. Why do I need a graphic of a reel-to-reel tape machine in my
Read More »The New Roku 3: Super Fast Spanking New Interface
The best little streaming black box just got a spanking new model: the Roku 3.
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Apple to Settle In-App Purchase Lawsuit With Free iTunes Credit
Apple has announced that it's to settle a class action lawsuit about in-app purchases—that could have involved more than 23 million App Store users!—by bunging the affected parties free iTune credit. The case first
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Apple Theft Is So Bad That the NYPD Has a Dedicated iTheft Division
It should come as no surprise that iPhones and iPads are prime targets for theft, but it's gotten really bad in New York City. It's so bad that, according to the New York Post
Read More »This Is Where Apple Sources All Its Components (Spoiler: It Ain’t Just China!)
This map, put together by China File, plots all of the publicly available suppliers who fuel Apple's production lines. While the majority are found in Asia, it's interesting to see that the rest
Read More »The Burden of Apple iOS
When Apple released the iPhone in 2007 , they released iPhone OS (later known as iOS) with it.
Read More »There’s No Such Thing as a Fake Apple Product
By now, the year-old claim that Apple makes people work on fake products is well-known. How scandalous
Read More »The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Just Got $200 Cheaper
Apple just cut the price of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. You can now pick one up for $1,500—$200 less than the original starting price of $1,700.
Read More »Why Facebook, Apple, and Google Will Fall Like the Roman Empire
John Naughton at the Guardian has a perfect—albeit obvious—observation: Despite their overwhelming dominance, Facebook and Apple will eventually fall. "History should teach us that for today's technology industry titans, the only way is
Read More »Sorry Apple, the BlackBerry Z10 Is Hotter Than the iPhone
I've always hated BlackBerry phones. Disgracefully ugly bricks they were—until the BlackBerry Z10. The BlackBerry Z10 is hot .
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Apple Sold More iPhones and iPads Than It Ever Has, And Somehow That’s a …
Apple's first quarter earnings are in. According to Bloomberg News, Apple made $13.1 billion in profit on $54.1 billion in revenue. It sold an absurd 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPads—both records
Read More »The Amazing Story of How a Savvy Entrepreneur Sold Two Companies You’ve …
In December of 2009 Apple bought a small startup led by Bill Nguyen named Lala. The company was named after the first words of Nguyen's adopted son. It was also a word play
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Reuters: Sharp Cuts Screen Production as iPad Demand Drops
Reuters is reporting that Sharp has "nearly halted" production of its 9.7-inch iPad screens, as demand for Apple's large tablet drops. According to "sources familiar with the matter" , screen production at Sharp's
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Cloud-Based Voice Recognition Could Make Oral Commands Actually Useful
Think of voice recognition, and you probably think of Siri. Now, though, the company behind Apple's tech, Nuance, is planning a cloud-based, cross-platform system which could make the tech properly useful
Read More »Grace Your iPad Mini With the Sterile Charm of an Apple Store Display
If you're worried about friends, family, or co-workers breaking or even scuffing up your new iPad Mini, this heavy-duty acrylic security base is reminiscent of what Apple uses to protect its hardware in
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The ITC’s Proposing Some Rough Sanctions Against Patent-Infringing Samsung …
The Apple vs. Samsung battle is trucking along, and this time there's more bad news for Samsung. Yesterday, a somewhat censored version of presiding Judge Thomas Pender's suggested sanctions regarding the Apple's complaint
Read More »When You Should (And Shouldn’t) Buy AppleCare
If you're making an investment in an Apple product, whether it's a new machine or a permanently on-sale refurb , you want to protect it.
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Steve Jobs’ Yacht Is Free to Sail After Being Repossessed
Last week we reported that Steve Jobs' yacht, Venus , had been repossessed in the Netherlands at the behest of designer Philippe Starck, who claimed that the Jobs family owed him three million
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Apple Crushes Universal Charging Project Over Its Use of the Lightning Connector
Surprise! Apple's being a dick again.
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Tim Cook Is the Runner-Up in Time’s Person of the Year
A surprising number of nerds made it on to the shortlist for this year's Time person of the year award . More than the others, though, Tim Cook has clearly made a lasting
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Today’s Awful Apple Rumor: Retina iPad Mini
There's something in the air this week. Maybe it's that the holidays are coming, or that it's getting colder, or that there's not much actual news to be had three weeks before the
Read More »iTunes 11 Is Finally Out: Here’s What’s New
Apple's slightly overdue update to iTunes is out. Finally. It's a sizable re-imagining of a piece of software used by a massive amount of people.
Read More »Bloomberg: Apple Fires Guy Responsible for Crappy Apple Maps
The world hated his creation, and now Apple is giving him the boot: Bloomberg News reports Apple exec Richard Williamson, the name behind the ill-fated, Internet- ridiculed Apple Maps just got fired. The
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