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 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.
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.
It’s amazing how big this thing has gotten.
No release date yet and you’ll need a jailbroken phone.
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.
“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.
A nice look at the capabilities of the iPhone 5 video camera.
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 announced Monday that it has sold over five million iPhone 5s during the first three days of its availability.
Apple also announced that more than 100 million iOS devices have so far been updated to iOS 6.
Obviously the iPhone 5 is a dismal failure and customers are staying away in droves.
I’m only partly being sarcastic, by the way. Some fart-sniffers on Wall Street had predicted higher opening weekend numbers, so there’s bound to be some grousing from analysts.
Jean-Louis Gassée for Monday Note:
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 the stage about the app’s limitations, no self-deprecating wink, no admission that iOS Maps is an infant that needs to learn to crawl before walking, running, and ultimately lapping the frontrunner, Google Maps. Instead, we’re told that Apple’s Maps may be “the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever.”
Gassée is the former president of Apple’s Products Division and founder of Be Inc. He’s currently in the venture capital business.
His point is that Apple shouldn’t have tried to convince anyone that Maps was superlative, but should have been up front about its limitations. That sounds uncommon for Apple, but consider that the company has referred to the Apple TV as a “hobby” and Siri as a beta, so it wouldn’t be unprecedented for Apple to admit that Maps needs a lot of work.
I certainly don’t need a $4,000 camera, but a lot of people do.
Mashable:
Verizon believes unlimited data plans are on their way out, the company’s CFO told investors at a Goldman Sachs conference on Friday. “The good news here though is the dilution is not as much as we expected,” said Fran Shammo, explaining how the company hasn’t seen much attrition after dropping its unlimited data plan in May. Shammo added that “Unlimited is just a word. It doesn’t mean anything…”
No – it doesn’t. Mostly because you cell phone providers have made it meaningless. You used it to sucker in customers and once you got your hooks into them, you removed or “redefined” the word to suit your needs – but not the needs of the customers.
So you’re right, it doesn’t mean anything – when weasels like you use it.
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.
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.
Great find by Federico Viticci.
The Verge:
Want to test your iPhone 5’s latest and greatest network technology right now? Here’s our full list of live LTE markets working off the latest official data provided by the carriers.
The list shows Verizon has many more LTE capable locations than AT&T and Sprint.
Mashable:
Traditionally, people keep dead presidents in their hearts, history books and wallets. Here’s a new place to look for fallen leaders of the free world: your Twitter feed.
Twitter is great for keeping in touch with family and friends, chatting with people about the day’s events and now – you can converse with (fake) dead presidents.
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 the stage about the app’s limitations, no self-deprecating wink, no admission that iOS Maps is an infant that needs to learn to crawl before walking, running, and ultimately lapping the frontrunner, Google Maps.
Hard to argue with that.
This is Samsung’s new ad for its Galaxy S III phone.
The spot runs for almost 90 seconds. Of that, less than one-third by my count is spent actually highlighting the product’s features and benefits. The rest is spent making fun of Apple. And more specifically, Apple’s customers.
I’m sure it’s a message that strikes a home run with the same wild-eyed Android zealots who troll Apple Web site discussion forums to pick fights, but does this message really resound with anyone else?
And what does it say about a company’s values when they’re willing to spend advertising money to make fun of another company’s customers.
I’d like to offer Samsung some advice by borrowing the words of actor and Internet celebrity Wil Wheaton: Don’t be a dick.
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 but instead sheltering them like an awkward child.
I’ve noticed this with some companies too. It seemed odd to me and still does.
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.
These are really good.
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.
Enjoy.
Yahoo! Tech:
Could the days of having to turn your cell phone off when flying be nearing an end? Aircraft manufacturer Boeing seem to think so. It’s begun the process of outfitting new models of its 747, 777, and 787 airliners with hardware to allow incoming and outgoing calls, with the aim of making them available to airlines by 2013.While this technology sounds like a boon for air travelers who’ve long awaited the ability to make calls while flying, they shouldn’t start celebrating just yet. Whether or not you’ll be able to fire up your phone in-flight still depends on the approval of government agencies such as the FAA who’ll have the final call on, well, calls from 30,000 feet.
Please Boeing, I’m begging you – don’t do this to us.
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.
A reader sent this to me today. Very impressive playing.