John Gruber on how different smartphone manufacturers negotiate with carriers: Android handset makers: Here are our phones. How would you like us to change them so that you will sell them? Microsoft: Here’s $200 million. Please sell our phones. Apple: Here is our new phone. It comes in black or white. We will let you [...]
Negotiating with carriers
Jan 12
Best Buy, a US consumer electronics retailer, is offering twenty percent off on iTunes gift cards. Cards are available in $15, $25, $50 and $100 denominations. Best of all, there’s no shipping fee; the cards are delivered via email. Walmart seems ok in catering to international customers. As a matter of fact, they provided instructions [...]
Apple has taken the wraps off the Fifth Avenue store glass cube with 75 less glass. Work on the 32-foot glass cube took almost four months to finish. Via AppleInsider
Google Reader Plus crap
Nov 4
John Gruber of Daring Fireball on the new “improved” Google Reader: Is there anyone, anywhere, who thinks the new Google Reader is an improvement? It’s pretty messed up to me. Doesn’t look right on Safari.
Apple opened its fifth Apple Store in China and its third in Shanghai today. Considered to be the largest in China, the store opened its doors to 500 customers waiting in line. The five-story retail store is located at East Nanjing Road and houses 300 employees ready to serve 40,000 customers per day. Apple is [...]
WebOS’s second coming?
Sep 23
With Apothetaker out and Whitman in, will HP give the TouchPad and WebOS and second lease on life? Probably not.
OS X 10.7 Lion bug #1
Aug 14
Safari on fullscreen mode and loading a Youtube video. I have ClickToFlash version 2.3.3 installed. Swiped to my desktop and this is what I found:
Here’s one excellent video showing Adam Reeder sculpting a figure of Plato holding an iPad in time lapse. In a post at StudioRealism Videos: This sculpture series, “Socio-Technic Evolution”, is about “how technology changes the way western culture interacts with it’s world”. I am allowing these videos of figurative sculptures to be experienced as I [...]
If you go to Apple’s website at www.apple.com you will see it proclaim “Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget”, telling visitors to come back for an exciting announcement from iTunes. The front page lists the time in different locations as to when the announcement will be revealed: 7AM in California, 10AM in [...]
Forget iPod and iPhone knock-offs, the Chinese has cloned Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. Well, not exactly. Jobs’ clone is Hong Kong’s local celebrity, Lar Kar Ying, who donned a black turtleneck sweater to help the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway launch version two of their subway app, MTR Mobile (link to App Store). [...]
Apple issued invites for a special media event next Wednesday with what is expected to be a Mac-centric event. The “Back to Mac” invitation shows Apple’s logo slightly rotated with an image of a lion on the left side of the logo and says “Come see what’s new for the Mac…” The invitation mentions there [...]
Got this email from Globe a few minutes ago: A few seconds later, I got an SMS from Globe basically saying the same thing. You are so close to owning the new iPhone 4 from Globe! Because you pre-registered your interest, you now have exclusive access to the reservation page. Check the email you registered [...]
Safari 5.0.2 for Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Windows contains improvements to compatibility and security: Fixes an issue that could prevent users from submitting web forms Fixes an issue that could cause web content to display incorrectly when viewing a Google Image result with Flash 10.1 installed Establishes an encrypted, authenticated connection to the Safari Extensions [...]
Gameloft’s 99-cents sale
Jun 24
In celebration of the release of iPhone 4 this week, Gameloft is offering some of their best games at only $0.99. One such game is N.O.V.A. (Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance), a highly acclaimed game that has garnered great reviews. IGN gave N.O.V.A. a 9/10 rating and called it “Best Action Game of the Year”. Macworld gave [...]
