Posts tagged as iPhones
Why Do Poor People Hate iPhones?
The data suggests the people who have average or low incomes are way less likely to own iPhones! That is so inexplicable. (via)
Four Mobile Photo Apps That Are Actually, Like, Useful
Most people spend their app pennies and time on effects apps for photos. Everyone has Instagram, so they can put scratchy, slightly out of focus, over-saturated pictures on their Tumblrs, and it looks so meaningful. This is a thing that people really like doing, and even those of us who disapprove must learn to accept it. Instagram is the top free photography app in the Apple store! So the people have spoken. Go on, download it, I know you want to. READ MORE
Humanity Now Allowed to Purchase, Use Products
In 2010, it was made official that you could purchase physical products and then put them to whatever use you wish.
Everyone Is So Upset For Crime Victim Steve Jobs!
Aol. blogger Jeff Bercovici was totally unable to digest his dinner last night because he was SCANDALIZED and OUTRAGED about Gizmodo's "checkbook journalism" regarding the new iPhone. Sure, Gawker Media had already long-ago returned Steve Jobs' missing iPhone, but that would not settle his OUTRAGE. He writes: "Gawker Media brazenly, publicly flouted the law. It subsidized a crime: the selling of stolen merchandise. Then it published a misleading, whitewashed account of the seller's actions meant to make it look as though he was not acting with criminal intent. It published this account in order to disguise its own culpability in the matter." Oh mercy! READ MORE
iPhone-Wielding Hipsters Ruining It For Other iPhone-Wielding Hipsters
Neutral Milk Hotel recluse Jeff Mangum will be making a rare appearance at a benefit show here in town this May, and it's already causing controversy! READ MORE
A Country Of Junkies Cannot Put Down Their iPhones
A survey of 200 students at Stanford University revealed the newest crippling dependency that is sapping the vitality of our nation's youth: iPhone addicition. Nearly half the survey's participants admitted to being very or completely addicted to the devices, while 41 percent admitted that they would characterize the loss of their iPhones as a "tragedy." Also: READ MORE
Horrifying iPhone Plastic Surgery Apps Rated!
What can't the iPhone do? It can even help you figure out what you would look like after plastic surgery! Awl pal Marisa Meltzer tries them all out. (Spoiler: it turns out that America's beauty standard means that "big" noses are "very ugly.") "I uploaded a close-up of my profile and got to work. I noticed immediately that the sound effects seemed wildly inappropriate; the constant beeping of a heart monitor punctuated with screams, chain-saw noises, and the occasional orgasmic moan seemed more suitable to a slasher film than a woman-friendly game."
When iPhone Apps Fail: Gail Collins Nude!
Hello, New York Times most-emailed list on the iPhone this morning! Why Gail Collins, you naughty feminist! It's just like I always said-sooner or later, technology will demean us all. READ MORE
What Digital Reading Is Like
I don't remember ever having had one of my daily experiences described perfectly in print! It is a very weird sensation. It comes from a very unhappy accounting by Nicholson Baker of the uses of the Kindle in today's New Yorker, and concerns reading on the iPhone. READ MORE
