Posts tagged as Apple
Who Knows What About the Great Ebook Price-Fixing Conspiracy?
Blech, it's going to take ages for the thirty-odd different class action suits against Apple and/or various book publishers and Amazon and Barnes & Noble for ebook price-fixing to get consolidated and settled, at which time, in 2018, we all get checks for 30 cents and sign away our rights to further recourse and then keep buying ebooks from this cartel. Meanwhile, there's apparently a smoking gun, or someone who claims they saw a gun smoking, at least: a source who says he or she was privy to the actual alleged strategy for price-fixing. (This person, or others similarly situated, should feel free to email us to tell all.)
Store Open
In a poignant demonstration of how the emptiness at the center of American life has resulted in a yearning so desperate for any kind of connection with which to fill that gaping void, a whole bunch of people showed up early today at the train station for the opening of an electronics store.
Less Human Than Human: The Design Philosophy of Apple
The late Steve Jobs is known to have been very keen on "taste." Microsoft has absolutely no taste, he said, going on to explain that by this he meant that "they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their product." Great products, he said, were a "triumph of taste." The exquisite taste of Jobs himself has long been a matter of doctrine in the tech world. Kevin Kelly's remarks after his death expressed the general sentiment: "Steve Jobs was a CEO of beauty. In his interviews and especially in private, Jobs often spoke about Art. Taste. Soul. Life. And he sincerely meant it, as evidenced by the tasteful, soulful products he created over 30 years." READ MORE
Embrace Your Prairie Looks And Make Some Applesauce
When I was a sophomore in college I was an incredibly cool and awesome girl, so my two best friends and I did what cool and awesome kids do in college and spent our spring break at Colonial Williamsburg. Don't get me wrong: it was awesome. We were the only people there over 16 and under 40; one of us danced the minuet in a dance-styles demonstration, one of us caught the blacksmith's eye, and all three of us got strange, bemused looks from the employees/waiters/reenactors who were the only people there around our own age. “What are you doing here?” the waiter in one tavern asked. We answered cheerily, spring break! And then he laughed, then shrugged and came back with spoonbread. Now, spoonbread—which is like corn bread but is pudding—was maybe the thing I'd been looking forward to the most about the trip, having remembered it from a trip my family took to Colonial Williamsburg when I was ten. That trip was over Passover, but on the second day we gave in to rolls and spoonbread, and it's funny to look back now and think that that mattered. READ MORE
New York's Most Photographed Attraction
Do you know what New York City's most photographed attraction is? Rep. Anthony Wiener's penis! Kidding, it's the Apple store uptown. Of course. Nerds.
Your Blind Allegiance To Steve Jobs Can't Save You Now
Hey Mac user, I'm sorry to inform you that you've got one less thing to be smug about: "Apple has long boasted of the Mac's immunity to viruses and malware. But the computers, once marketed as more secure than those running on Windows software, are facing an increased threat from criminals because of their popularity. Online security experts have warned that Macs are now a more attractive target for hackers due to the rising number of people who choose them over a PC."
Video: The Case Against Apple
Here, in two minutes and 41 seconds, is a roundup of everything there is to dislike about Apple.
Radiohead Is Apple Is Radiohead
"This is the easiest of connections; I don’t even have my thinking cap on. Apple is the most valuable technology brand in the world. Their products are sold to People Of Wal-Mart but the aesthetic still shimmers diamond-hard, like faith beyond reason. When the first iPhone came out the cast of the Apple store applauded every buyer. READ MORE
Apple Doesn't Give a Damn About Your iPad Magazine
The New Yorker's "Dec. 6 issue wasn’t available on the iPad for more than 36 hours, which led several people within the ranks at Conde Nast to speculate that Apple was holding the issue hostage. But why?" Good morning! First Steve Jobs came for the weeklies, but I said nothing, because I was a monthly....
