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Apple Sold More iPhones and iPads Than It Ever Has, And Somehow That’s a Disappointment

Apple’s first quarter earnings are in. According to Bloomberg News, Apple made $13.1 billion in profit on $54.1 billion in revenue. It sold an absurd 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPads—both records. Somehow, this is a disappointment. Apple has been fighting off rumors of lagging interest in its products—iPhone and iPad specifically—for weeks now.…

Every Apple.com Homepage From the Last 15 Years

I was looking at screenshots of Apple.com’s former homepages (using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine) and decided to compile them into a slideshow. With the exception of Apple’s homepage in 1997, it’s pretty remarkable how little the core design has changed. After 15 years, the layout of Apple.com is still the same: prominently feature the…

Siri Was Going to be a Droid Feature, Until Apple Stole It Away

Way back in the mists of 2009, before Siri was even a twinkle in Apple’s eye, Verizon was planning to add the app to all of its Android smartphones. Sadly for the carrier, that didn’t last. Siri was destined to be a crowning glory of its Android-toting handsets: the carrier had signed a contract with…

The No-Hire Emails That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More

A court filing has just been made public which sheds light on the “no-hire” gentleman’s agreements that have pervaded the tech industry—and reveals how Steve Jobs threatened litigation to prevent companies from stealing his staff. Notably, former Palm CEO Edward Colligan has made a statement which points out that the company was threatened with patent…

Apple Removed a Photo App from the App Store Because Artistic Nudity Is the Devil or Something

500px, one of the best iPad apps for finding great pictures, was pulled from the App Store today because Apple is Tobias Funke never nude-levels of prudish when it comes to the naked body. Apparently, the app made it too easy to find pictures with nudity in them so it got kicked out. https://gizmodo.com/500px-for-ipad-look-at-the-most-beautifullest-pictures-5853680 500px…

Mailbox: Sign Up For The Impending Email Revolution

If you follow any number of Silicon Valley insiders on Twitter, you might have seen them blathering on about a new email app called Mailbox for iPhone. Mailbox is an interesting take on the inbox. It forces new user behavior, which might not necessarily be a bad thing but having used it over the last…

Android Is Popular Because It’s Cheap, Not Because It’s Good

The story goes like this: The iPhone comes out, and it’s the only smartphone anyone wants, because there’s never been anything like it. It is the smartphone. Step forward a few years, and Apple is losing to Google—at least in sheer numbers of phones being sold. What happened? People without money happened. The split between…

Suction Cup Viewfinder Makes Your iPhone Slightly More DSLR-Like

If you’re a professional photographer who’s reluctantly embraced the iPhone as an occasional alternative to your DSLR, you’re gonna love Photojojo’s latest smartphone accessory. It’s a suction cup viewfinder that sticks your iPhone’s display letting you block out all the distractions around you and frame your shots the same way you would with your full-sized…

Is an iPad on a Pedestal Art?

At the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, there’s a strange exhibit on show: a single iPad stands on a white pedestal. It’s not for visitors to play with; instead, it’s a piece of art by Li Liao. The New Yorker explains the concept behind the piece: While Americans hash out the moral ups…

Sasha Obama Takes Stunning Presidential Inauguration Duckface Photo

Barack Obama is our president sequel, but more importantly, this photo. Duck face. Frog case. First place. Space race. Make haste. And yeah, shut up, it’s a slow news day. But at least we now know that the iPhone is the White House Tween Handset of Choice, so Google should be declaring bankruptcy any… second……

Dining Alone on Ramen Is a Little Less Depressing With a Smartphone Dock Bowl

Embraced by cash-strapped college students and young professionals struggling to scratch a living out of this cruel world, Ramen noodles have gotten a bad rap as being a depressing last resort option for a cheap and lonely meal. But that reputation could easily be undone with this brilliant Anti-loneliness bowl that makes it easy to…

Tyrant Kim Jong-Il’s Favorite Computer Was a MacBook Pro 15

Samsung? Lenovo? Sony? Dell? Nah. This was the favorite computer of Kim Jong-Il, the dead North Korean dictator, keen observer and purveyor of all things fattening: an Apple MacBook Pro 15. Sophie Schmidt—daughter of Eric, Google’s president—had the unique opportunity to visit the Bigass Leader’s mausoleum, the heavily guarded building that used to be his…

Angled Lens Case Turns Your Smartphone Into a GoPro

G-Form’s made a name for itself with extreme phone and tablet cases that can protect a gadget during falls from over 100,000 feet. But since rarely are any of us in a situation where we fumble and drop our toys from space, the company’s new G90 case that turns your phone into a GoPro-like action…

The Amazing Story of How a Savvy Entrepreneur Sold Two Companies You’ve Probably Never Heard of to Apple

In December of 2009 Apple bought a small startup led by Bill Nguyen named Lala. The company was named after the first words of Nguyen’s adopted son. It was also a word play on the solfège note “La”. Lala struggled through pivot after pivot in the music industry, buying digital radio stations, a CD swapping…

Reuters: Sharp Cuts Screen Production as iPad Demand Drops

Reuters is reporting that Sharp has “nearly halted” production of its 9.7-inch iPad screens, as demand for Apple’s large tablet drops. According to “sources familiar with the matter”, screen production at Sharp’s Kameyama plant in central Japan has “fallen to the minimal level to keep the line running” following a gradual slow down since the…

This Case Made of Old Fire Hoses Will Keep Your iPad Dry

Fire hoses transfer millions of gallons of water at hundreds of pounds of pressure. They’re tough, hard wearing pieces of kit—so what better use for them when they’re retired than a waterproof iPad case? The brainchild of Hosewear, a company set up by two design students, these slip cases are manufactured from a variety of…

Google’s Nexus 7 has overtaken the iPad in terms of market share in Japan. A trend that could spread? [CNET]

A Glimpse at the New American Airlines and Its Techie Future

This morning American Airlines revealed its plans for a “New American” with a fresh redesign of its livery, which hasn’t been updated since 1968 and a handful of tidbits about its techie new future. The new paint job can be seen on its new Boeing 777-300 when it takes flight at the end of the…

Amazon’s MP3 Store Now Has a Slick Web Version for Your iPhone or iPod

Amazon’s iOS Cloud Player app, which allows you to play all of the music you’ve got stored on Amazon’s servers in sky has been around for a while, but until now, actually buying a song from Amazon’s MP3 Store from your iPhone has been a pain in the tuchus. Amazon just launched an HTML5 web…

Whyyyyy Are Headphone Jacks on the Wrong Side of Computers?

This is a problem. It’s not the biggest problem in the world, but it’s a just such a dumb, thoughtless, annoying design flaw that it bears mentioning. Apple’s doing headphone jacks wrong. Actually, no, everyone’s doing them wrong. In short: Headphone cords almost uniformly insert into the left cup. Some still connect to both, but…