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A Look Inside Afghanistan’s Almost-Apple Store – Gizmodo
Fake Apple stores are nothing new. China has a slew of them , all polished and shiny, appearing almost as if they are the genuine article at a glance. Quartz dug up some
Read More »The Only Thing Apple Really Sells – Gizmodo
A recent Wall Street Journal article posits an interesting question: Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? Does it sell iPhones or iClouds? The answer has deep meaning for the analysts
Read More »What Famous Ads Would Look Like Today
It's funny how fondly we look back at classic ads—print, commercials, anything—compared to how we react to ads today. That Apple 1984 commercial? Perfection.
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Samsung Is Building 1400 Retail Stores Inside Best Buys
In a bid to compete more directly with Apple, Samsung has announced that in the coming months it will open 1,400 Samsung Experience shops within Best Buy stores around the US. Following an
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Why I Ditched the iPhone: My Very Own Protocol Droid
I've been a die-hard "Apple evangelist" for over twenty years - first an avid Mac user, then an early adopter of both iPod and iPhone. In the 90s, when everyone I knew used Windows,
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.
Read More »Report: The Next iPhone Is Coming in August
iMore is reporting that Apple will release its next-gen iPhone in August. Obviously, the device will be stronger, better, faster, and so on, but the real takeaway is the timing.
Read More »Google Chromebook Pixel Review: Awesome, Just Not $1300 Worth of Awesome
Google set out to build " the best laptop possible ." The result: the Chromebook Pixel . A sleek and powerful device designed specifically for life in the cloud
Read More »The Best Alternatives for Every Pre-Loaded iPhone App
The iPhone comes with a bunch of apps you never use. Some of them are poorly implemented
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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 »Apple’s Upgrade Dilemma
Apple has been taking a beating on Wall Street, in part due to skepticism over future growth of iPhone and iPad sales. With the market becoming saturated with iPhone and, to some extent,
Read More »10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Dropbox Master
Dropbox is a robust independent file syncing tool (which Apple once tried to buy ) that recently hit the 100m user milestone . It's arguably the most popular cloud service around, and for
Read More »The Burden of Apple iOS
When Apple released the iPhone in 2007 , they released iPhone OS (later known as iOS) with it.
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NYT: Apple Is Messing Around with a Curved Display iOS Watch
The tablet revolution has arrived and stabilized and now everybody's scrambling for the next big thing. Google's quite publicly doing its whole glasses thing, but Apple's been characteristically quiet about any fancy new
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 »jOBS Review: a Satisfying Experience for an Apple Fan
Gizmodo reader Seth Kinkaid was one of the first people to watch jOBS—the first Steve Jobs' biopic starring Ashton Kutcher—at Sundance 2013. These are his impressions
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jOBS Review: a Satisfying Experience
Today I saw jOBS at Sundance, the story of a young Steve Jobs, the now legendary co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer. And although I know it may be inaccurate and exaggerated ,
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Apple Audit Reveals 106 Cases of Underage Labor in China
Apple has released its seventh annual supplier audit and it reveals that one of its suppliers—Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics—was found to violate its underage labor policy 74 times. Unsurprisingly, Apple was clear
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Can Apple’s Stock Recover Without Steve Jobs?
Apple's stock is going down like a plane in flames sinking 12 percent on its biggest fall since the 2008 Wall Street crash. That's $60 dollars per share just after they announced one
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Woz On What’s Wrong With Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie
The first scene from iJOBS —the biopic on Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher —may be pretty decent, but it never happened .
Read More »Android Is Popular Because It’s Cheap, Not Because It’s Good
The story goes like this: The iPhone comes out, and it's the only smartphone anyone wants, because there's never been anything like it. It is the smartphone. Step forward a few years, and
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Whoops, Best Buy Accidentally Gave Away $50 in a Coupon
Best Buy released a too good to be true coupon earlier today: Spend a $100 and save $50 automatically when you pay with a MasterCard credit card. The fine print had excluded a
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Yes, Apple Is Cutting Down iPhone 5 Orders, and It Isn’t Giving Any Explanation
The New York Times confirmed today that Apple is drastically cutting iPhone 5 orders , just as the Wall Street Journal and Nikkei of Japan reported yesterday . Apple hasn't answered the reports,
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How Apple Sets Its Prices
Apple pricing is unlike almost every other brand in consumer tech: consistent across each and every retailer, and rarely discounted. How do Cook and Co manage to pull that off? MacWorld has an
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The Future of TV May Not Be Worth It
The platonic ideal of television's future is a la carte consumption: the ability to pay only for the channels you want. It's a dream that everyone from Apple to Intel has reportedly pursued,
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You Can Now Pirate Apps On Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking
Apple must have heaved a great sigh of relief when it heard its Christmas wish had been answered—Installous, the jailbroken iOS app pirating app from the Hackulous community, was finally dead . But
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Report: Intel’s TV Service Won’t Be Announced at CES, But More Details Emerge
Bad news for anyone who was excited for Intel to finally reveal its long-rumored set top box and TV service plans at CES next week. According to Janko Roettgers over at Gigaom ,
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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
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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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