Just to prove that no one is perfect, it seems that Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the man credited with the iPhone and the iPad, made a stock deal back in 2003 that has since cost him the amazing sum of $10 billion.
Depending on which analyst or pundit you listen to, the astonishing sales of Apple’s new iPad table computer either may or may not have the effect of hurting the sales of Mac computers, or iPods, or whatever else.
Once upon a time, Apple would have heralded the arrival of a speed-bumped MacBook with a press release properly festooned with a “fastest ever” quote from Phil Schiller or even the man himself. Now, however, the rest of us must make ourselves content merely with the joy of shiny new things.
The factory where Apple’s iPhone is assembled has seen a cluster of suicides over the last year with dozens of attempts and 7 confirmed cases of workers taking their own lives. In all, nine people are believed to have died by their own hands and, now, their employer has deployed a company of counselors to stem this deadly tide.
According to court documents, the loss of a next-generation iPhone in a Redwood City bar started a chain of events which Apple feels was “immensely damaging†to their intellectual property and sales revenue.
Are you fan of Apple’s white MacBook and its long-lasting battery? You might not have much longer for a spec-bumped version with a faster processor and more powerful graphics.
For anyone who regularly checks their account preferences to see what Facebook’s opted you into this week, the idea of giving the acquisitive social networking site direct to the operating system is unsettling and begs the question, “Where’s the opt out for that?”
Sometimes success makes things difficult. It looks like almost no one will get an iPad in the United Kingdom on the promised launch date because supplies are too tight due to United States orders.
Smiling faces and lots of talk about openness and free markets — hugs all around! It all might have a little more meaning if they actually had product on the market, but Adobe’s trying to spin itself out of a very, very deep hole that it’s been digging for itself for years — good luck with that.
HTC has filed yet another suit against Apple for infringement of patents in the field of wireless telephony, this time seeking to halt iPhone sales in the U.S., showing once again how ridiculous these suits are to begin with.
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