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January 31, 2010

Fake Steve Doesn’t Dig The iPad

Filed under: AppAdvice — Tags: across-the-web, fake steve, google, group-says, iphone, iPod, news, reaction, tablet-showdown, take-on-the, virtually — @ 11:26 pm

A whole lot of bloggers across the web were deeply disappointed about the iPod Jumbo announcement.

While most of us are now starting to slowly understand the concept and getting more incline to acquire it, I came across the reaction of Fake Steve, aka Dan Lyons, and I think it represents very well how some of us felt at that moment.

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What’s your take on the matter? Any changes in your iPad love/hate relationship?

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Fake Steve Doesn’t Dig The iPad

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Win One Of Four SplashID Promo Codes With A Retweet Or Comment

Filed under: AppAdvice — Tags: across-the-web, brain-balance, contest, giveaway, maker-reggae, mobile, news, promo, retweet, take-on-the, three, three-groove, typing-speed, win — @ 10:45 pm

This is the very last giveaway for the month of January, and it certainly is a good one. Today AppAdvice has teamed up with SplashData in order to offer you a chance at winning one of four promo codes for their super secure information manager, SplashID ($9.99).

SplashID is one of the most feature-rich information managers for your iPhone and iPod touch, and it’s one of the most secure. The app allows you to store vast amounts of sensitive information, such as account passwords, credit cards, prescriptions, notes, and basically anything else you can imagine safely and securely on your mobile device.

SplashID also sports many features that other information managers simply can not compete with, like 256-bit Blowfish encryption, an automatic password generator, anti-phishing URL icons, and the ability to sync and backup your information wirelessly to your Mac or PC with SplashData’s companion software. SplashID, the desktop software, is priced at $19.99, but the company does offer a 30 day trial so you can find out for yourself if it is worth it.

To have a chance at winning one of two SplashID promo codes, simply hit that green retweet bottom near the bottom of this page or retweet this post from your favorite Twitter app before 11:59 PM PST tonight (January 31st). We will then search the Twitterverse for all of the retweets and randomly choose our two lucky winners. The winners will be notified via Twitter, so please be sure to follow us so we can send you your promo code via a direct message.

Non-Twitter users and those of you who want to increase your odds of winning can simply leave a relevant comment below before 11:59 PM PST tonight to have a chance at winning one of the other two SplashID promo codes.

Feel free to participate in the giveaway via either or both methods. If you end up winning multiple promo codes, just give one away to a friend or co-worker. This giveaway is only open to U.S. iTunes account users.

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UPDATED: Apple Store Down — No iPad Pre-Orders, Could be Nothing…

Filed under: tipb — Tags: about-the-story, apple, disagreement, even-at-prices, for-the, nothing-, other-product, prep-work-for, price, sunday, tipb, update-as-soon, you-have — @ 10:08 pm

UDPATE: Nothing. Behind-the-scenes maintenance or prep-work for some later update. Seriously. Can’t find a difference…

ORIGINAL: Yes, the Apple Store is down. We have no idea if this is for iPad pre-order setup, for some other product update/refresh, or for behind-the-scenes maintenance.

If you have any ideas, let us know in the comments and we’ll update as soon as it’s back!

[Thanks to Andy for the tip!]

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TC50 People’s Choice Winner YourVersion Comes To The iPhone

Filed under: techcrunch — Tags: a-step-further, account-on-the, after-receiving, applications, attention-data, content, free, information, iphone, its-competitors, launch-the-app, only-the-first, took-the-stage, which-includes, yourversion — @ 10:01 pm

Last September, YourVersion took the stage at TechCrunch50 as the DemoPit People’s Choice winner, after receiving the most votes from conference attendees. The startup’s goal is fairly simple: to help you find content that you’re interested in, in real time. And now it’s bringing its application to the iPhone. You can download the free app here.

The app is pretty straightforward. First, you enter some topics that you’re interested in. Every time you launch the app, you’ll be presented with a list of these topics. Clicking on one will bring you to a list of recent blog posts, tweets, and other content that contains those topic keywords. You can also filter through this content by source, allowing you to see only content from Twitter, news sites, and so on. If you’ve already set up an account on the YourVersion website, you can sync that with the app (any items you bookmark or share from the app will be reflected on the site as well).

Of course, there are plenty of other applications out there that let you search for news stories by keyword. YourVersion tries to go a step further than basic keyword matching by adding some intelligence to its story recommendations. In the current version, the app will track all of its users’ attention data, which includes the stories they’ve click on, shared, given thumbs up/down to, and a handful of other metrics. YourVersion then uses this data to generate a weekly Email digest, which includes the week’s top stories from each of your YourVersion topics (it will omit any stories that you’ve already read).

This is only the first step, though. In the next month or so, the site plans to roll out a feature to both its website and the iPhone application that will use this attention data to enhance the “Discover page” (the section of the app that presents you with recent stories), so that you don’t have to wait til the end of the week to get smarter recommendations.

YourVersion still has a lot of work to do — in its current form, there isn’t much to differentiate it from the countless feed readers and news apps already out there. The app needs to implement more robust algorithms that can provide story recommendations that are both more timely and accurate than its competitors’.

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Will Apple’s iPad Get Jailbroken and How Long Will it Take?

Filed under: tipb — Tags: a-good-amount, a-good-while, apple, applications, hope-the-likes, iphone, jailbreak-apps, like-the-24kpwn, manager, minds-it-will, phone-dev-, phone-platform, tipb, will-it-take — @ 8:17 pm

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When Apple announced the iPad last week, TiPb’s email quickly filled up with readers and forum members who wondered if it would be possible to jailbreak it and, if so, how long it would take? First, it’s important to remember that, while we’re all excited, the iPad doesn’t even ship until March at the earliest, so it is pure speculation at this point. We do hope the likes of the iPhone Dev-Team and/or Geohot will try their hardest to get it accomplished and that it will only be a matter of time.

The good news is, unlike the iPhone, Apple is selling the iPad 3G carrier-unlocked, so there’ll be no need for redsn0w or blacksn0w. Just pop in a Micro-SIM and you can use it on any network you want.

The bad news is, Apple has really stepped up to the plate when it comes to combating the jailbreak. With their new iPhone Platform Security Manager and hardware changes and the patching of software exploits like the 24kpwn, which no longer works on the latest iPhone 3GS and iPod touch G3 models, there is no doubt in our minds it will take a good while.

So, to anyone looking to pick up a iPad and jailbreak it when it is released, we hope you have a good amount of patience.

We’d also like to know — presuming the iPad is jailbroken, which Jailbreak Apps do you most want to see ported over?

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Jobs calls Adobe lazy, calls Google on the their “bullshit”

Filed under: crunchgear, tipb — Tags: a-healthy-dose, attack-on-the, behind-as-the, during-the-most, employees, flash, flash-steve, google, iphone, nexus, subject — @ 7:30 pm

Ahh Steve. You can always be depended on to serve up a healthy dose of crazy. It’s just fortunate that people put up with your own special brand of crazy that no other CEO could put up with. For example, at a company wide Town Hall, Steve Jobs had some very special things to say about Adobe and Google and their business practices.

Typically after each product launch Steve holds a company wide “Town Hall” meeting at corporate headquarters. These meetings give Steve a chance to talk to the employees, and also give employees a chance to ask questions (if they are brave enough). During the most recent meeting, Steve had a few choice things to say about Google and Adobe, and offered somewhat of an explanation about why the iPhone/iPod/iPad won’t support Flash.

On the subject of Google, Steve said that their avowed policy of “Do no Evil” is “bullshit.” He called the release of the Nexus phone a direct attack on the iPhone, and stated that he won’t let them win.

Google wasn’t the only target of Jobsian ire, Adobe took their lumps on the subject of Flash. Steve called Adobe lazy, and said that while they have the potential to do interesting things, they don’t. He said that the reason Apple doesn’t support Flash is because it’s so buggy, and whenever a Mac crashes it’s most likely because of Flash. Steve also predicted that it won’t be long before everyone leaves Flash behind as the standard moves forward to HTML5.

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iPad debut ignites price war between Amazon and publisher Macmillan

Filed under: appleinsider — Tags: a-price-dispute, apple, ipad, macmillan, publishers-were, said-the-move, same, street, within-the-new — @ 7:15 pm

By Neil Hughes

Published: 02:15 PM EST

Amazon stopped selling print and e-books from publisher Macmillan this weekend over a price dispute, just days after Apple introduced the iPad and its own iBookstore for e-books.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Macmillan CEO John Sargent visited Amazon Thursday to negotiate a new deal for e-book sales. Talks apparently did not go well, as he was later informed that his company’s books would only be available for sale through third parties on Amazon.com.

“Amazon, the leading e-book seller in the world, now faces the prospect of publishers demanding the same terms they receive from Apple,” the Journal wrote. “People familiar with Amazon’s action said the move by the online retailer, which targets not only e-books but hardcover and paperback titles, signals its unhappiness with the prospect that e-book prices may rise in coming months as a result of Apple’s e-book debut.”

Just days earlier, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had a conversation with Journal tech reporter Walt Mossberg in which he said that iPad book prices would be “the same” as the cost of e-book content for Amazon’s Kindle. Currently, Kindle bestsellers go for $9.99, but a previous report said Apple wanted to offer bestsellers for between $12.99 and $14.99.

The apparent troubles between Macmillan and Amazon suggests that Jobs’ comments to Mossberg were meant to imply that Amazon book prices would eventually increase to match higher costs on the iPad. Jobs also noted taht book publishers were “withholding their books from Amazon, because they’re not happy with it.”

On Wednesday, Macmillan was highlighted as one of five high-profile book publishers that would be a part of the iBookstore, a marketplace within the new iPad iBooks application. Apple’s iBookstore business strategy allegedly employs the same 70-30 split in favor of content providers as the existing iPhone App Store.

“It is expected that publishers will now seek to do business with Amazon and other e-book retailers on the same terms as with Apple,” the Journal wrote. “By setting their own prices, publishers would be able to eliminate discounting on Amazon and elsewhere that they believe threatens the long-term business model of publishing.”

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iPad debut ignites price war between Amazon and publisher Macmillan

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Apple removes display of Adobe Flash content from iPad promos

Filed under: appleinsider — Tags: a-live-hands-on, a-picture-from, a-story-about, adobe flash, appleinsider, city, div-align, flash, from-the-flash, ipad, iphone, same, video-on-apple, within-the-new — @ 6:55 pm

By Neil Hughes

Published: 01:55 PM EST

Following an AppleInsider report that highlighted two pieces of promotional iPad material showing the display of Adobe Flash content, Apple has removed the offending images from its Web site.

On Friday, misleading content that implied the inclusion of Adobe Flash in the iPad’s Safari Web browser was noted. In an image and a video on Apple’s Web site, content from The New York Times Web site that could only be displayed in Flash was shown on the iPad.

But this weekend, Apple updated its Web site, removing an image that showed a Flash-only photo slideshow, and modifying a video that showed the Times Flash video player load on the iPad.

The image on the front page of Apple’s site has been changed from the Flash photo slideshow to a story about the 1,300th anniversary of the city of Nara, Japan. Previously, it showed a picture from the story “The 31 Places to Go in 2010,” with a Flash-only image of a beach in Montenegro.

In addition, a video intended to demonstrate real-world use in a first-person view has been modified to remove the display of Flash content. Previously, the iPad promotional video had shown the Flash-powered Times video player load properly on nytimes.com. Now, it correctly shows a missing plugin icon in its place.

The changes confirm that the previous pictures with Flash support were merely renderings, and did not in any way imply that Apple intended to add Flash support to the iPad before launch. At the product’s unveiling Wednesday, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs did a live hands-on demo with the product during which Flash content from the Times Web site did not load.

Apple has famously shunned Flash, with the Web plugin having no support in the iPhone or iPod touch Safari browser. Apple has even encouraged developers to “stick with standards” and use CSS, JavaScript and Ajax instead of Adobe Flash. Apple has instead moved towards alternatives such as HTML 5.

For more on why Apple isn’t likely to support Flash in the iPhone OS — including the iPad — read AppleInsider’s three-part Flash Wars series.

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Report: Jobs calls BS on Google’s ‘Don’t be evil’ mantra

Filed under: cnet — Tags: also-reportedly, google, google-or-adobe, iphone, james-martin, lounges-onstage, phone-business, search, steve-jobs, utter-something — @ 5:59 pm

by Chris Matyszczyk

There is something touching about honesty in business. It’s heartening when beyond the tittle and the tattle, true feelings emerge.

So you may be moved to utter something of a titter when I tell you of a report that Apple CEO Steve Jobs last week likened Google’s “Don’t be evil” mantra to the excreta of a bull.

According to Wired, Jobs held a town hall meeting at Apple last week after unveiling the iPad and fielded questions on many different topics. However, he appears to have saved some of his most deep-seated humor for a company that is increasingly becoming a rival: Google.

Wired reports that Jobs aired some strong perspectives about Google to the assembled throng, saying: “We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the
iPhone. We won’t let them.”

Steve Jobs lounges onstage as he unveils the iPad on January 27.

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James Martin/CNET)

Apparently animated by this theme, Jobs reportedly added: “This don’t be evil mantra: It’s bull****.”

But Jobs didn’t reserve his lack of reserve for those at the Googleplex. Wired reports that Jobs also lobbed some criticism Adobe’s way, describing that company as “lazy.” He also reportedly said that the new iPad doesn’t have Flash because “whenever a
Mac crashes, more often than not, it’s because of Flash,” Wired quotes him as saying. “No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5.”

Naturally, it will be interesting to see what reactions such comments might elicit from Google or Adobe.

However, there is little doubt that the Apple CEO seems rather keen to establish that he will approach Apple’s future with his customary vehemence and that he doesn’t consider too many other companies as Apple’s friends.

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