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What iPhone Third-Party Apps Would You Like?

While the dust is still clearing from yesterday’s All Things D (as in Digital, Damned, Drowsy, completely Delightful and even Dildonic at times), the best news for me has been Jobs’ announcement that Apple is planning to open the Mac OS X Messiah-phone to developers. To achieve their need to balance security and openness, my…

Video: Jobs Says “Fake Steve” is “Pretty Funny” and Other Semi-Revelations

You like the Steve Jobs? You hate the Steve Jobs? We gave you the textier version yesterday, now here’s a clip of his All Things D appearance, in full technicolor moving picture, for you to comment on in your own special way. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-at-d-now-264586 Jobs on YouTube Weirdness, Windows Love and “Fake Steve”

Jobs v. Gates: The Movie

More on the iTunes Plus High Quality, 256kbps Bitrate Tracks

If Charlie’s take on the iTunes Plus songs wasn’t enough for you, then check out our own Wilson Rothman’s piece in the NYT about the same subject. https://gizmodo.com/listening-test-compares-itunes-plus-to-itunes-128kbps-264617 Not to spoil anything, but Wilson and his two test partners could hear a difference between 128kbps and 256kbps on his medium to medium-high end speaker setup.…

Live Rumble: Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs vs. Swisher vs. Mossberg

Click to view7:15 The show is about to start, and I’ve got major butterflies. Fingers don’t fail me. 7:19: No one’s on stage, but there’s a video on screen, of the Macintosh dating game. The year is 1983, and Microsoft needs Apple to make half its revenue. Jobs is introducing Bill, and Bill has scripted…

Steve and Bill…in Pirates of Silicon Valley

Bill and Steve go on stage in about 30 minutes or so. And before they start pulling each other’s hair, and before Walt starts dancing around these two with tough questions, I’d like to take this moment to remind you of Pirates of Silicon Valley, the made-for-TV, unauthorized 1999 “docudrama” of how Steve got rich…

CD to iPod Ripping iLoad Reviewed (Verdict: Only For People Who Hate Computers)

The only type of person who would use the iLoad by Wingspan is the person who either hates computers or doesn’t know how to use them. The device takes in your iPod, then rips CDs into digital form and loads them onto your iPod. No PC required. Crunchgear took one for a spin, and thought…

Official: Third Party iPhone Apps Later This Year

Click to viewFrom the D Conference Q&A: https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-at-d-now-264586 Question: We’d love to write apps. Will it open up? Steve Jobs: This is a very important trade-off between security and openness. We want both. We’ve got good ideas, and sometime later this year, we can open it up to third-party apps…

Steve Jobs at D Now

[UPDATE Youtube on Apple TV. More Below] 12:15 We’re at the fluffy intro 12:21 WM When you made the change to Apple from Apple Computer, people wondered if it was the exit. Are you committed to computers? SJ Totally. WWDC is big. Leopard is coming in October. we love it. 12:22 WM Are you planning…

YouTube on Apple TV – It’s Official

Click to view It goes live in a few weeks. Read more in the liveblog. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-at-d-now-264586 All Things D at Giz [Gizmodo] YouTube Coming to Apple TV CUPERTINO, California-May, 30, 2007-Apple® today announced that it’s bringing the Internet’s most popular originally-created content from YouTube to the living room with Apple TV™. Beginning in mid-June, Apple…

Apple TV Gets 160GB Upgrade

Quick note out of the D conference. Apple TV just got a storage upgrade to 160GB. You can now select either the new 160GB disks or the 40GB (not sure if those will be phased out) when you’re checking out of the Apple store. Who can complain about 4x the space? Not us. Press Release…

Apple’s iTunes U Means You Can Ditch Class and Still Learn

Our man Chen was on top of the big Apple news last night, that iTunes 7.2 is out, and you can now go to town on DRM-free songs. But with Apple there’s always one more thing. This time, the una cosa mas is iTunes U, a hub of academic audiotracks and movies that you can…

Apple Launches iTunes 7.2 and iTunes Plus

Just a quick note for those of you who are looking forward to the EMI DRM-Free iTunes tracks rumored to be launching this week. Apple’s just updated iTunes to version 7.2, and added iTunes Plus support. iTunes Plus is the new higher quality, DRM-free music store that sells at $1.29 per track we’ve been talking…

What to Expect from Steve vs. Bill (And Who Will Win?)

It seems ridiculous to compare tech moguls to pro wrestlers and prize fighters, but I can’t stop. In my mind, tomorrow’s Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs is the tag tech team matchup of the century. For geeks, it’s like Hulk Hogan vs Macho Man, or Ali vs Frazier. But, hmmm…..the WSJ is in the ring,…

iPhone Data Plan at $30

Today, much of the tech press is interested in speculating on the iPhone’s data plan. Here’s something new to add to the conversation. Last week, when a Cingular business sales rep told me that the date for release was June 11th, she also told me that the data plan would be $30 bucks. I have…

New Audiobooks From iTunes Store Won’t Play on iPods; Lazy People Weep

Too-busy-to-read (or slackass) bibliophiles are in for a surprise if they grab Al Gore’s latest account of his hunt for Manbearpig from the iTunes Store. Apple has confirmed that The Assault on Reason, as well as a number of other new books released on the iTunes Store will not play on iPods, though they will…

Quanta Does Or Does Not Have Contract To Make First And/Or Second Gen iPhone

The closer we get to the iPhone’s launch (June 11th? June 20th? June 37th?), the more everybody gets excited over the smallest scraps of information pertaining to the Phone of Phones. Today’s hot-and-heaviness surrounds the quasi-announcement that Quanta, would-be maker of the OLPC, is also the would-be maker of the iPhone. Initial reports simply focused…

Mysterious Google iPhone Apps Still Un-Unveiled

Briar Dudley of the Seattle Times interviewed Glenn Lurie, AT&T President of National Distribution, about the Jesus Phone. The meat of the piece kinda sorta confirms that there are more unannounced iPhone apps, which we kinda sorta heard about during the Q2 earnings call. The Apps, specifically from Google, are presented in the context of…

NYT Strays Into Sony Style, Runs Back to Apple Store’s Loving Arms

We already knew that The New York Times is warm and fuzzy on the Apple Store. But the lovin’ gets hot and sloppy in yesterday’s article “Apple’s Lesson for Sony’s Stores: Just Connect.” How unconditionally does the Times’ Randall Stross love the Apple Store? https://gizmodo.com/nyt-trendspotting-everyones-copying-the-apple-store-243706 He’s unabashed in his affection from the get-go: “The best…

LG Prada as Verizon’s “iPhone Killer”? (LOL)

TheStreet.com claims that the LG Prada, a phone we definitively declared not as good as the iPhone, is going to be Verizon’s answer to AT&T’s exclusive. Scott Moritz of The Street says he just confirmed that Verizon will release a version of LG’s phone here in the States. Whether that will be Prada or something…