Jobs taking a ‘medical leave of absence’

The Wall Street journal has uncovered an internal Apple memo from Steve Jobs indicating that he will be taking a medical leave of absence. Team,...
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Rumor: Apple might remove subscription-based apps

A website from the Netherlands is reporting that Apple’s playing tough with developers who have managed to build subscription models in to their apps that...
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App Store developers are the new rock stars according to sales

A lot of developers have ‘rock star’ status in the community. I’ve always been uneasy with treating some developers like they can do no wrong,...
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Naperville Apple Store gets robbed, again.

Breaking News Chicago has reported that two idiots smashed their way into a Naperville Apple Store and cleared out $30,000 in merchandise. In typical Apple...
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Reminder: First 2011 Apple financial call tomorrow

Tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. PST/5:00 p.m. EST, Apple will hold its first financial call of 2011. The holiday quarter is always the company’s strongest, and with...
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Rumors of the day: iPad 2, iPhone 5, SD card slots, and Qualcomm chips

Those sly minxes over at Engadget believe they have the low down on the iPad 2, and the upcoming iPhone 5. According to their “reliable”...
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Analysts think CDMA iPhone will find its way to India and China

The moment an official CDMA phone was released from Apple we suspected that we would start to hear rumblings of the phone being released in...
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Rumor: Apple to remove the home button from iPad 2 and iPhone 5

Some rumors seem far-fetched, and while this one does, it’s hard to ignore the fact that Apple has a propensity to remove ports and buttons...
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Is Apple thinking about another social network?

Almost everyone I know, geek and non-geek alike, has tried a location-based social network. Some of them, mostly the geekier crowd, have tried Gowalla and...
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The Daily delayed weeks not months and has a leak

These highly touted “daily” iPad magazine sure find themselves in hot water pretty quickly these days. News Corp’s ‘The Daily’ has already been delayed “weeks”...
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Cultured Code’s “State of Sync” series updated

People have wanted sync in Cultured Code’s Things for a really long time, so long in fact that it’s really difficult to understand why it’s...
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Braid now available on the Mac App Store for dirt cheap

If you love platformer games as much as I do, you’ve probably already played Braid. It’s on a ton of platforms, and in my opinion,...
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Game Center hacked: Say good-bye to your high scores

An iOS hacker has pulled apart Game Center and figured out how to submit faulty scores to any game that has included the service. It...
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Verizon CEO: Verizon didn’t pass on the iPhone first

Verizon’s been a running joke in the Mac community ever since the rumor about Verizon forgoing the exclusivity deal with Apple hit the wire. They...
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The App Store: almost 10 billion downloads served

It’s hard to remember that the App Store is only a couple of years old already. It seems like just yesterday that Apple was arguing...
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Rumor: You better sell that iPad. iPad 2 to launch in April

If you own an iPad, you should probably consider selling it right this very second. It’s still a buyers market, and the general population might...
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We asked why you jailbreak. You say the carriers.

What started out as a brief aside in an article eventually got me thinking about why people jailbreak. Now that iOS does a lot of...
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What’s Verizon’s game plan? Focus their efforts on CDMA iPhone 4 sales.

I’ve long stated that the lack of iPhone availability on the Verizon network played a large part in the Android explosion. Apple erroneously assumed that...
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