Funny, I’ve never heard of any problems with the iPhone battery cover falling off.
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Archive > November 2009
Turley Muller on Apple and AT&T
Fact-checking and countering a Bloomberg TV interview with analyst Brian Marshall.
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iPodRip Renamed iRip
At the request of Apple’s attorneys, The Little App Factory has renamed their iPodRip app “iRip”. (Disclosure: The Little App Factory is a previous and future sponsor of the DF RSS feed.)
I’m sympathetic to both sides, especially with regard to The Little App Factory’s rights under Australian trademark law. (They’re not a U.S. company.) But [...]
U.K. Retailers Suspend Sales of Sony Ericsson’s Satio After Customer Complaints
The Telegraph:
Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U suspended sales of Sony Ericsson’s
Satio after a flood of returns from angry customers citing
problems with the phone. […]
Speaking at the launch of the handset in May, Nathan Vautier,
managing director of Sony Ericsson UK, said the phone would “help
return the company to profitability”. [...]
Jon Stokes on Chrome OS
A smart take on Chrome OS from Jon Stokes:
Apple and Microsoft began decades ago with “the PC,” and they’re
currently involved in a slow and painful process of trying to
stretch and push “the PC” out towards the Internet and towards a
more useful and integrated relationship with the cloud as a [...]
Magic Highway USA
“Speed, safety, and comfort will be the keynotes of tomorrow’s highways.” Awesomeness from Disney in 1958.
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When Information Overwhelms Facts
Alexander Micek on last week’s report on laptop reliability from SquareTrade:
When you only have two data points to model, however, two things
happen: (1) you can easily model the two points with a linear
curve that perfectly fits the data (R2=1). (2) Your model is
capable of predicting nothing. So, the SquareTrade [...]
New Quad-Core iMac “worth the wait”
Reviewer James Galbraith (macworld.com) gives the new quad-core 27-inch iMac computers with Intel Core i5 and Core i7 “Nehalem” processors 4.5/5 mice, calling them “worth the wait.” In performance tests, writes Galbraith, the 2.55GHz Core i5 iMac was “the fastest standard configuration Mac we’ve ever tested” and the Core i7 “showed even greater performance prowess.”
“The Obama Time Capsule”
A custom coffee table book by co-author and publisher Rick Smolan takes you back to — and into — the story of Obama’s rise to the presidency. Says co-author and publisher Rick Smolan: “Every component of this project, from photo editing to design to video, was created entirely on a Mac.”
