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What to do Now That the iPhone is Shit

by on September 14, 2012 in Opinion

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i-dungSo here you were, glued to the monitor (TV? iPad?), hoping for Tim Cook to pull a Jobs-worthy performance out of his hat, and when the moment came, that magic wand of your waiting held aloft for the world to see, and you could only feel a stink of disappointment in the pit of your stomach. You clapped with glee because it was a new iPhone after all, and it was bigger, it was faster, and it was thinner than a stack of nickels, but you walked away from the keynote knowing that something was amiss.

For the first time in almost a decade, Apple is playing catch-up with the market. There is nothing extraordinary about the new iPhone. It is as exciting as a hardware upgrade on the Galaxy Note 2, or another announcement of a EA FIFA game. The iPhone 5 looks eerily like another iteration in a beloved but ageing franchise.

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Cost of the iPhone 4S Across 28 Countries

by on August 20, 2012 in Analysis

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iphone-pricesI bought a new iPad for my girlfriend two days back. I originally intended to buy her a phone, but couldn’t find anything in the market that wasn’t the iPhone and was worth my money. I really liked the Samsung Galaxy SIII, but it was beyond my budget. The hardware on Nokia Lumia 810 was a revelation and Windows Phone continues to impress, but it won’t get the WP8 upgrade, making it a poor choice. I was determined not to buy a Motorola (though the Atrix 2 was impressive) or a LG (again, the Optimus is a fine phone). HTC didn’t have too many new ICS models, and the new ones were either underpowered (HTC One VC) or too expensive (HTC One X).

Frustrated, I ditched plans for a phone and decided to buy an iPad instead. My girlfriend definitely isn’t complaining.

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That DrawSomething Habit

by on March 10, 2012 in Opinion

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draw-somethingEven if you’d been living under a rock the past two months, you would have somehow heard of OMGPOP’s DrawSomething. It’s that popular.

A Pictionary-like game, DrawSomething has been topping Apple’s charts for weeks and is seeing up to 10M daily active users (that’s a whole lot of users).

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iWork, No More

by on March 10, 2012 in News

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In a few months – July 31 to be precise – Apple will close the curtains on iWork and redirect all users to iCloud instead. According to this Apple release:

“Documents already shared on iWork will not be available to you or to those you shared documents with”

Farewell, iWork. You will not be missed.

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Don’t Forget About Microsoft in the Apple vs. Google Fight

by on January 3, 2012 in Opinion

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Palm has been knocked cold, and from all indications, RIM has thrown in the towel too.

Now, there are just four players left in the ring: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Nokia, battling it out for the future of computing.

The Daily Beast’s Daniel Lyons reduces this fight to just two competitors – Apple and Google – with scarce a mention of the giant from Redmond and the lumbering Finnish beast.

Perhaps Lyons is right. Apple and Google have proven to be far nimbler in the past decade, outmaneuvering and outinnovating the competitors. And while you could be skeptical two years ago, there is no doubt whatsoever that the future of computing is in mobiles and tablets. Apple and Google already have a large foothold in this space. It is not a stretch to imagine Google dominating these markets in the near future (not due to superior quality, but due to affordability of its products), with Apple coming in a healthy second (with massive profit margins, to add).

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Siri for TV Might be Seriously Annoying

by on December 19, 2011 in Opinion

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Cue the ‘Why so Siri-us’ jokes.

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The rumors of Apple launching an all out assault on Samsung and Sony’s home front with a new Apple TV refuse to die down, with the WSJ reporting that Apple execs have been in long discussions with media executives over the future of television. This comes after the entire blogosphere has already dipped its ink in the rumors, dubbing an Apple TV as the next logical step in the company’s all conquering agenda of disrupting every industry in the world. It already has the hardware, the technology, and most importantly, the sheer balls to take on the world’s TV manufacturers after hits that include every product on your Christmas wishlist.

Then the Gizmodo weighed in today that the Siri might actually be a beta-technology meant for much, much bigger uses.

At present, Apple is collecting millions of queries, testing its technology on thousands of accentsand dealing with all manner of crazy requests. Take all that data, and it puts Apple in a perfect position from which to develop a voice recognition system to beat them all.

In effect: with the Apple TV and prospective future products, you could very soon be talking to your TV instead of getting a finger workout on the remote, courtesy of Siri’s wonderful voice-recognition technology.

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Apple’s Founding Documents Sell For $1.6 Million

by on December 14, 2011 in News

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Apple makes not just expensive electronics, but also founding documents, it appears.

A recent Sotheby’s auction for the 1976 founding documents for Apple, signed by the Woz, Jobs, and Ronald Wayne, sold for a meaty $1.6M, 10x the estimated price tag.

AppleInsider notes:

Bidding started at $70,000 for the lot and reached seven digit territory after only ten minutes on the block. The winning offer came from an unidentified phone bidder who paid $1.35 million plus a buyer’s premium of $244,500 to own the historic tech documents

I’m assuming he used an iPhone to make the call. But that would be far too perfect, wouldn’t it?

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