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The Apple Spring Event: tldr

Here's the too long didn't read version of today's (4/20/21) Apple Event with my initial takes on the announcements and non-announcements. Announcements: * New iMacs in colors with M1 chip * iPhone now in Purple * Apple TV with a faster chip, new remote, and

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Apple Released New Stuff 9/12/2017

This morning, in a 2 hour keynote at the new Steve Jobs Theater, Apple released a few new products. Click through for a brief update on these 4 products.

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Finally.

The iPhone is now available in white. Rumor: The unicorn and Sasquatch will be announced soon.

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Visa backs Square

Edwin Chan of Reuters: The credit-card company has made an unspecified investment in Square, a two-year-old service that helps businesses and consumers pay with credit cards on a mobile phone or Apple Inc iPhone, both companies said in a statement. I’ve been using the Square with my iPhone since

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Charley and the Apple Factory

Simply great. From the guys at College Humor: watch Charley and the Apple Factory on YouTube.

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Apple said Yes.

One iPad came back with a post it note on it that said “Wife said no.” It was escalated as something funny, and two of the VPs got wind of it. They sent the guy an iPad 2 with a note on it that said “Apple said yes.” via MacRumors

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A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T

Point of the talk was, when you’re lucky enough to create a smash hit product — when the stars align, and the hardware is great and the ecosystem is great and the apps are great and the whole experience is great, and everything you do just makes everything else better,

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Welcome to the Microsoft Store: Thanks for the Idea Apple

A quick peek inside the Apple Microsoft store. Seriously, it’s hard to note the differences – even the cheering and clapping is the same.

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Ice-T Presents Mac Repair

“There’s probably a better way to do this.” “This thing, this thing right here, if this doesn’t work, you’re fucked.”

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Apple Store Back up with updated Goodies!

When the Apple Store goes down Apple fanboys get excited. Preeminently a tall-tail sign of new products. Today’s new (or updated) products include the iMac, the Mac Mini and the king of all kings, the Mac Pro. Apple® today introduced the new Mac® Pro using Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors

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BlackBerry ad shoots Apple through its heart

A new BlackBerry ad in spite of the BlackBerry Storm: Pretty good commercial. Too bad the Storm is a pain-in-the-ass to use — especially when compared with the iPhone. Via TG Daily.

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Apple's design process

From Businessweek: Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new feature. Not, Lopp said, “seven in order to make three look good”, which seems to be a fairly standard practice elsewhere. They’ll take ten, and give themselves room to design without restriction. Later they

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Evidence shows Apple testing next-gen iPhone

News Flash: Apple is testing out a new iPhone device! The 2007 launch iPhone identifies itself as iPhone 1,1, while the current iPhone 3G lists as iPhone 1,2, indicating that it’s a minor revision of a similar design. As with similar practices for Macs, Apple’s choice

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Where are the iPhone Push Notifications?

And I’m not talking about MobileMe. Dan moren says: We put in a call to Apple to find out the reason why, but unless you’re new to this whole scene you won’t exactly be flabbergasted to hear that the company was about as communicative as your average

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Apple Introduces Revolutionary Laptop With No Keyboard

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

There has been much speculation about the health of Steve Jobs. Apple’s been riding a mini roller-coaster because of this, with the value of their stock. Even more speculation “occurred” once Apple had stated that Phil Schiller, Senior VP of worldwide product marketing, will be giving the keynote instead

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Quick Fix: MobileMe keychain error -2147415734

Keychain is OS X’s database of passwords and keys used when retrieving email, connecting to Mobile Me (Formally .Mac), or anything that contains auto sign-on. We take the Keychain for granted and usually don’t even know of it’s existence. However, there’s one error that people keep

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Steve Jobs on MobileMe Fail

Steve Jobs sent a letter to the MobileMe team about their lack of success.

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Apple opens massive retail store in Beijing, China

Apple has just opened a retail store in Beijing, China. Apple has joined the International retail presence in Beijing with their first Chinese Apple Store opening today. Without any other obligations on a Saturday morning, I decided to check out the scene at The Village at Sanlitun, near a popular

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Apple extends MobileMe subscriptions by 30 days

Apple has decided to extend MobilMe subscriptions by 30 days for those who

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Apple Opening Up iPhone Developer Program

Based on reports from developers, it seems Apple has opened the program up and dropped the “beta” designation. Multiple developers have reported that they have been accepted into the $99/yr developer program which allows them to install their applications directly onto their iPhone and also submit their apps for