Disappointing

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Funny how people people can take a successful iPhone 5 launch and try to say it’s disappointing.

“I’m not fucking Justin Bieber, you motherfuckers!”

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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong smashed his guitar on stage because he was angry that his set was cut short for Usher and Justin Bieber. He is now “seeking treatment for substance abuse.”

I don’t know, sounds justified to me.

A Pale Horse Named Death

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“A Pale Horse Named Death is the brainchild of Brooklyn, NY native Sal Abruscato, and sounds like Alice in Chains mysteriously sneaking up behind Type O Negative with a butcher knife while being filmed for a future episode of “Law & Order”.

I am loving this band.

Apple TV update

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Among the things we like in the new Apple TV software (in addition to the obligatory stability and performance fixes) is the ability to easily save multiple iTunes accounts and switch between them, support for Shared Photo Streams and AirPlay broadcasting from Apple TV to other devices

Sounds like a huge update.

Google mocks Apple Maps

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I understand why people would be upset for with Apple’s Map application, but if you are going to mock it, you should have a product that, you know, people want.

RIM deathwatch

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“This is the first quarter we are expecting zero subscriber growth – a loss in enterprise [customers] offset by a small gain in international consumer subs,” said Kris Thompson of National Bank Financial. “Starting next quarter, we see the sub base in a downward spiral with Blackberry 10 potentially slowing [the losses], but we’re not holding our breath.”

Dead.

About iPhone 5 sales

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Eric Slivka:

Marshall notes that many of those first-day pre-orders, as well as ones made after that date, have yet to be delivered, and thus Apple can not yet count them as sold.

That would boost the sales numbers by quite a bit.

Apple recruiting ex-Google Maps engineers

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Darrell Etherington:

My source — a contractor who worked on Google Maps as part of a massive undertaking to integrate Street View and newly licensed third-party data to improve European coverage, as well as develop the platform’s turn-by-turn navigation — says that when attention turned to indoor mapping, things started to become less interesting and a lot of staff began looking around for other opportunities. That turned out to be good timing for Cupertino.

They should have done this a long time ago, but it’s still good to hear.

Google acknowledges Feedburner issues

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Subscriber counts and stats have been missing for days for publishers. At least they acknowledge the issue. Feedburner’s biggest issue is being owned by Google.

Defects

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Jean-Louis Gassée on Apple Maps: The ridicule that Apple has suffered following the introduction of the Maps application in iOS 6 is largely self-inflicted. The demo was flawless, 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn navigation, spectacular flyovers…but not a word from … Continued

PR Firewall

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But lately things have changed. It’s been a long, gradual shift, though I can definitely see it more clearly in the past year. Startups are hiding (or being hidden) behind a great firewall, intended to protect them until they’re ready … Continued

Apple asks court for additional $700 million from Samsung

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The total of the jury’s August 24 damages award ($1,049,393,540) and Apple’s requested enhancements, supplemental damages and prejudgment interest would be $1,756,121,384 ($1.756 billion). The amount could even go up to $1,911,963,273 if the court grants Samsung’s wish to disaggregate the jury award but ends up agreeing with Apple.

Pixelmator

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Now you can easily remove image imperfections or just about any image element you want, so your pictures look their absolute best.

That’s what I love about the Pixelmator guys. They keep making amazing software with features that everyone can use, not just the pros. Check out the video on their site to see the healing tool in action.

Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

Windows 8 tablet fragmentation

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Ben Bajarin:

Microsoft needs developers to be writing touch based applications but my concern with the touch based hardware fragmentation is that it will may cause them to target only specific screen sizes and not others. This would mean that the touch based software experience will be better on some Windows 8 hardware but not others. I can tell you right now that an application that is built for 10” Windows 8 hardware is not going to be a pleasant experience on a 27” all-in-one running Windows 8 with a touch screen.