Apple posts

I can definitely remember many mornings spent sitting in front of the t.v. It’s flickering glow keeping me warm and shows like ‘Sesame Street’ filling my brain with the alphabet and other things a small child should learn about. My mother was running around the house gathering extra sweaters, preparing lunches and signing field trip forms. She didn’t have time to entertain or educate us every single moment so she plopped us in front of the next best thing: the television. If I had been growing up now, you probably would’ve seen my brother and I, pyjama-clad, sitting in front of the warm glow of an iPad….

When Apple announced their iAd advertising platform yesterday, it’s possible many excited iPhone users yawned a bit. What was this going to change? Well, the answer to that question is: a lot. Jobs himself explained why: right now, mobile advertising sucks. You either see a tiny text ad that gives very little information, or you see a large ad in an app that, once you click on it, takes you out of the application and into the browser, ruining the seamlessness of your experience. Worse, because ads are so terrible, the mobile market remains both massive and untapped; there are tens of millions of people…

The iPad has been dubbed as a device for content consumption and not creation, but one person wasn’t willing to live with that. Adam Kumpf went as far to actually create his own stylus for the iPad so he could better interact with art-focused applications on the iPad. It works too. The stylus was created by using materials like conductive foams, fabrics and some everyday items including an anti-static sock and pencil. Patience helps as well. As can be seen in the video above, it actually seems to work flawlessly, and it looks like fun too. Maybe this could serve as a legitimate replacement for those…

And, to your left, we have an adorable young girl phonetically recreating last year’s Beyonce hit with the help of three iPhones. My biggest question has nothing to do with her musical ability (which is reasonably superb, by the by), but more to do with how the hell she can afford three iPhones, much less their bills. Okay, yeah, maybe they’re iPod Touches. Whatever. Just watch the video. [Via CrunchGear]…

“RIM Acquires QNX… zzzz… what?” Whoa. Sorry. Almost nodded off there for a sec. But before you fall asleep, here’s why Blackberry-maker Reserach in Motion’s acquisition of QNX Software Systems is actually much more intriguing than a standard ‘M&A’ story. QNX were previously owned by Harman – you know, those people who make receivers and JBL speakers – in order to improve how their products integrated into cars. But rather than getting Blackberries to work better in automobiles, a much better explanation for the acquisition is that it’s all about battling Apple’s iPhone. Why? Well,…

Like most Apple products, the iPad is, understandably a beautiful device. For most people, that is good enough. But what if you want to personalize it and make it your own? You could grab a paint brush and a prayer not to mess up, or you could spend a few pennies on one of the following amazing decals. Apple Pi? Clever! You can have your Apple and eat it too. Nintendo’s SNES people know. It reminds us of Android, but we like it. Iron Man is Apple power. [via DamnCoolPics]…

Déjà Vu All Over Again For anyone who’s been around long enough to remember the epic battles for desktop supremacy waged between Apple Computer and Microsoft in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the current situation in the smartphone market has more than a hint of déjà vu.  The players have changed -although Apple is at the center of the comparison in both cases- but the battle lines are once again over proprietary hardware and software. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is fanatical about controlling all aspects of his products and every product the company releases reflects that insistence.  Apple…

The iPad is a killer of freedom, innovation, and all things good with the Internet. But do you want to know the worst part? I am being entirely serious about that statement, and it is not funny at all. Of all the Apple products I have seen over the years, the iPad is, by far, the biggest disappointment, and the fact that so many people purchased it is absolutely horrifying — it proves that consumers are truly lacking in judgment and objectivity, and it proves that any device you slap an Apple logo is considered gold. So let’s run down the list of reasons that Apple has created a device that truly restricts…

The answer is $260. That is how much it costs Apple to manufacture an iPad device. That also means that Apple makes at least $240 every time someone has purchased an iPad — this is interesting to note, because it reveals that the iPad could have been priced even cheaper. Much cheaper. Apple still would have made a nice chunk of change, either way. However, we know that Apple marks up their products because they are considered “luxury” items, but it doesn’t seem quite right considering how much Apple claimed that they wanted everyone to own one of these things. After all, Apple is making a killing from…

What do you do with a device that isn’t quite so useful? You throw it away! Okay, so you are not going to do that to your iPad, so we have an alternative: you could, quite literally, shelve it. Now we’re talking. The iBookend (again, with these “i” names), is a concept design by Dominic Wilcox that actually makes the iPad a useful device, and it is quite fitting as well. The iBookend would allow you to store your iPad in a book shelf and use it as a stand for your books. Quite handy. If only this accessory became reality… I would, only then, have a reason for buying the iPad, or not! [via LikeCool]…