In a response to a new email, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has sent a very special email to one of his fan. This email provides some insight into why the man from the Digital world and CEO of Apple Inc has publicly thrown his support and strength behind the pro-organ donation bill making its way through California's state senate. Unlike all the previous email replies from Steve, this one is not about technology or Apple, but about real life. In just two words, Steve has shown his deep feelings, emotion and his human side to the public. Normally, everyone focuses on Steve as the CEO of Apple, but forgets that there also exists a real human being and a normal person in him, who does care about health and good causes.
Apple has just released iTunes 9.1.1 for both Windows and Mac. This is a minor release for stability and bug fixes which addresses issues like problems in “converting songs to 128 kbps AAC while syncing”, “stability issues with VoiceOver ”, and various other bug fixes.
We had already informed you earlier about the availability of iPad on 30th April for those of you who have already placed an order for the 3G version. A reader today sent an email to Steve Jobs asking about the availability of iPad 3G at Best Buy stores on the launch day. Jobs reply was as usual quick and short: “Yep”.
The physical keyboard of the iPad Keyboard Dock is for sure much faster and more comfortable for creating long documents than the onscreen virtual one. The biggest problem with both the iPad Keyboard Dock, and the regular Dock is that it is designed in a way that forces you to attach the iPad in portrait mode.
The greatest strength of Apple and its iPhone has always been the availability of nearly 200,000 apps in the iTunes App Store. No other phone manufacturer has so far been able to match the success that iPhone’s App Store has got. This amazing success of the App Store has led to people wondering if Apple would bring such a business model to its OS X platform as well.
Earlier this week, we informed you on how some hackers managed to port Android on the Apple iPhone. For those of you who were a little hesitant on trying it out because of all the advanced instructions; here is a simple step by step guide for you (courtesy of Android A Alot) which will enable you to dual-boot Android with iPhone OS on iPhone 2G.
The law enforcement agencies in Silicon Valley have stepped in to investigate how the next Apple iPhone was lost, and subsequently landed into Gizmodo labs where it was reviewed and ripped apart for the world to see. This is what the Police had to say.
Earlier today, two prototype models of iPod touches were spotted on eBay which had cameras on the back with one of them shown running a development version of iPod OS, while the other one was running ‘switchboard’ window which could perform screen and camera test. They were marked as DVT-1 and DVT-2 which confirmed them as a development model. The recently “lost” iPhone 4G also had “DVT” written on its back.
Apple has published its Q2, 2010 financial report and once again their Q2 has proved as one of the most successful quarter for the company. The total revenue was $13.50 billion USD with net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion. iPhone sales raised to 8.75 million (increase of 131% from last year) and iPod sales were 10.89 million (down 1%). Here is what Apple's CEO Steve Jobs had to say.
Before handing over the handset back to Apple, Gizmodo had a full dissection of the next-gen iPhone. They found out that it had larger battery – around 19% than that of iPhone 3GS, processor (whether A4 chip or not) couldn't be verified as the logic board was completely sealed by Apple, it had tons of screws and every component was shrunken down to accommodate the larger battery which now takes around half of the inside.
