The 15th season premiere of South Park parodies Apple and touches on a few recent issues in particular the iOS location tracking issue. Other Apple themes they mock include agreeing to iTunes terms and conditions (and not reading them) and the Genius Bar at Apple Retail Stores. Episode synopsis: Kyle is intimately involved in the...
The coveted white iPhone 4 is being released tomorrow according to Apple (here's why it was delayed). Our sources have confirmed Apple retail stores have already started prepping locations for tomorrow's launch, and that locations could have up to 500 units ready to go. Here's a video of the Sherway Gardens Apple Store being prepped...
With ongoing reports of Apple launching a cloud music service and only cloud storage, the latest rumours point to Apple acquiring the domain iCloud.com from Sweden-based company Xcerion, according to GigaOM: My source, who is familiar with the company, says that Xcerion has sold the domain to Apple for about $4.5 million. Xcerion hasn’t responded...
Over at Mobilized, they had the opportunity to ask Apple executives questions about iOS tracking, and also about why the mysterious white iPhone 4 took so long to hit production. Senior VP Phil Schiller explained the colour of the phone and how it acted with components led to unexpected issues to arise. Turns out the...
Are you buying a white iPhone 4? Maybe you already have one. You might be asking yourself, "can the white iPhone 4 be jailbroken?". The answer is a big YES, thanks to confirmation via former Apple employee @dpdesilva: Already confirmed but good to reiterate; white iPhone 4 is jailbreakable via#limera1n iPhone hacker @chronic was informed via...
Yesterday, Canada was one of the first countries to sell the white iPhone 4. We brought you exclusive first-hand pics from Future Shop, as units were available for Bell customers. Today, Apple officially announced the white iPhone 4 is coming tomorrow. Thanks to the tipster "FidoHound", we've received evidence of white iPhone 4 units hitting...
Rogers has announced today their Long Term Evolution (LTE) network will be launching this year in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. Thereafter, the network will be launching in 21 other markets in 2012. The company has already been testing LTE trials over the past Fall. What is LTE? LTE is a next generation technology that...
Update 1: More of this morning's interview has been posted online. Here's an excerpt (full edited transcript here): Steve, how active have you been in examining this issue over the past couple of weeks? Jobs: It hasn’t been a couple of weeks. This all started last Wednesday and we put out our response this morning....
Update 1: Mobilized posted some more details of the interview with Steve Jobs. Here's the relevant info regarding this upcoming 'traffic service': Is traffic the only thing you are using that collective data for, or do you have other plans? Jobs: We mention the traffic service and I think that is all we are going...
Apple has finally commented on the whole iOS location tracking issue, via a press release. The Q&A answers 10 questions about location data. Apple Q&A on Location Data Apple would like to respond to the questions we have recently received about the gathering and use of location information by our devices. 1. Why is Apple...
Apple has just confirmed in a press release that the white iPhone 4 will be available tomorrow. Here's the press release: White iPhone Arrives Tomorrow CUPERTINO, California—April 27, 2011—Apple® today announced that the white iPhone® 4 will be available beginning tomorrow. White iPhone 4 models will be available from Apple’s online store (www.apple.com), at Apple’s...
With the recent announcement of yet another record quarterly earnings report by Apple, their cash on hand continues to accumulate. The most recent quarter brought in an additional $6.1 billion, bringing the staggering total to $65.8 billion. To put this cash into perspective, it exceeds the GDP of Croatia. Asymco provides further insight into Apple's...
