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The Curse of the iPhone 4

Is it Steve Jobs' impatience, or an unlucky number?

(Newser) - Is the IPhone 4 cursed? Before you laugh, consider the evidence: Apple's would-be star has been plagued by setbacks including a suicide, misplaced prototypes and, now, the antenna problems the company will address at a news conference today, notes the Los Angeles Times . These problems, they theorize, may have something... More »

Engineer Warned Jobs About iPhone Defect

But Apple ignored concerns to keep svelte design

(Newser) - The iPhone 4’s antenna problems didn’t exactly sneak up on Apple. A top antenna expert warned Steve Jobs early in design that the proposed antenna—a metal strip circling the phone—could lead to dropped calls, a source tells Bloomberg . Later, one of Apple’s carrier partners raised... More »

Fun Facts About Apple

Computer giant's original logo featured Isaac Newton

(Newser) - Secretive , vengeful , and irresistible, Apple occupies a unique niche in technology and business. Some obscure facts about the company, courtesy of Mashable :
  • The Macintosh was named for a variety of real apple: "Steve Jobs is said to have tried to change the project’s name to 'Bicycle' while
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Apple Apps Store Is Hacked

Developers rejiggers sales data on ebooks

(Newser) - A developer of Apple applications for the Apple store managed to game the system and make it look as if his ebooks accounted for 42 of the top 50 books being sold on the site. It is unclear whether he hijacked other people's accounts or just faked sales data. Either... More »

Website: Steve Jobs Emails Were Real

Tech site accuses Apple's PR team of lying

(Newser) - This little tempest in the tech world isn't going away: Boy Genius Report today is lashing back at Apple and insisting that the email exchange it published between Steve Jobs and a customer is legit. (Jobs tells him to "calm down" about iPhone "rumors.") BGR says... More »

Steve Jobs iPhone Emails Fake: Apple

Apple CEO did not tell customer to 'calm down'

(Newser) - An email conversation between Steve Jobs and an irate iPhone 4 customer is fake, Apple's PR department says. The messages show Jobs taking a flippant tone with a customer who is angry over the new handset's widely criticized reception issues, Fortune reports. In one response, the Jobs impostor tells the... More »

Apple Sued Over iPhone 4 Glitch

Class-action suits allege fraud, negligence

(Newser) - Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple and AT&T by iPhone 4 buyers irked by antenna problems. The plaintiffs—evidently not satisfied with Steve Jobs' advice to "just avoid holding it in that way" to dodge dropped calls—accuse Apple of knowingly selling a defective phone.... More »

Software Fix May Solve iPhone 'Death Grip'

Report says Apple will have a remedy next week

(Newser) - AppleInsider thinks the mysterious reception problems plaguing some users of the new iPhone might actually be a software problem—with a fix on the way within days. Most people are blaming the hardware, specifically the antenna, with all kinds of videos demonstrating that the signal goes way if the... More »

Steve Jobs: 'Just Avoid Holding It in That Way'

Apple's fix for reception issues is fairly low-tech

(Newser) - As the Internet rages about what seems to be an accidental bias against left-handed users by Apple, the people over at Engadget shared with the world tonight an email exchange between an Apple customer and Steve Jobs himself in which the latter responds to a complaint about signal degradation with... More »

The Poor Tale of Apple's 3rd Founder

Ron Wayne sold his 10% stake for just $800

(Newser) - You know Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as Apple's founders, but you probably don't know the tale of third founder Ron Wayne. The Chicago Tribune presents the somewhat sad story of the then 42-year-old, who designed the original logo and wrote the manual for the Apple I computer—but got... More »

Pranksters Add Porn to iPad Ads

Group having some fun with Steve Jobs

(Newser) - Apple has covered San Francisco with iPad advertisements, giving one group of pranksters plenty of ammunition to tweak Steve Jobs over his anti-porn ways . The group, Freedom From Porn, is pasting alternate screen images over the ads to make it look like the iPad users are looking at adult websites,... More »

Jobs Touts iPhone 4's 'Retina Display'

New Apple phone's display has 4x the resolution

(Newser) - Steve Jobs reveals Apple's latest work today at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference. Due to a leaked iPhone prototype, most know that Apple's signature device is getting thinner, brighter, and will sport a flash for its camera. But what else does Jobs have in store? The Wall Street Journal and... More »

Peeved Apple Bars Gizmodo From iPhone Unveiling

Tech blog will still live blog the event—sort of

(Newser) - Steve Jobs has found his sweet revenge: Gizmodo's request to attend today's super-high-profile Worldwide Developers Conference—in which Jobs is expected to unveil the new iPhone that Gizmodo leaked —has been met with radio silence from Apple, leading the tech blog to make the awkward choice of creating a... More »

2M iPads Sold in 2 Months

Will be available in nine more countries in July

(Newser) - Want an iPad? Hurry up, because Apple might run out soon. Exactly one month after announcing it had sold one million iPads (in the first 28 days of release), Apple announced yesterday it has now sold two million. For the math-challenged, that’s one million iPads per month, Mashable reports.... More »

Apple Is Now No. 1 Tech Company

It finally overtakes Bill Gates' baby

(Newser) - A business and tech milestone today: A little after 2:30pm, Apple overtook Microsoft to become the most valued technology company in the world, reports the New York Times . Apple ended the day with a market capitalization worth $222.1 billion, vs. Microsoft's $219.2 billion. Among US companies, Apple... More »

Apple Will Screw Publishers Like It Screwed Music

Assuming anyone buys the currently crappy iPad magazine apps

(Newser) - Magazine publishers seem convinced Apple's new “Jesus Tablet” is going to save them, but they are shockingly wrong, and you'll realize why after 10 minutes on the device, writes Jacob Weisberg for Slate . Whereas on the iPhone's cramped screen, an app is genuinely better than visiting a website, the... More »

Jobs: iPad Gives You Freedom —From Porn

Apple boss gets into late-night email war with tipsy Gawker writer

(Newser) - When Gawker writer Ryan Tate saw an iPad commercial proclaiming the device a “revolution,” it kind of pissed him off. It probably helped that his employer is in a legal battle with Apple, and that he was having a stiff drink. So he fired off a sort-of nasty... More »

Hi, It's Steve Jobs. Give Me Back My iPhone

Even Apple CEO called Gizmodo personally

(Newser) - Evan as Brian Hogan pocketed a wad of cash in exchange for Steve Jobs' latest iPhone and Gizmodo was busily analyzing it, the wheels were in motion: Hogan's roommate tipped off cops to his involvement the day before the report was published, Apple honchos were pushing for criminal charges, and... More »

Adobe Strikes Back In Flash Scuffle

Letter, newspaper ads refute Jobs' anti-Flash argument

(Newser) - Adobe isn't taking Apple's assault on Flash lying down. The company's founders released an open letter of their own today—albeit a much shorter and less combative one—and took out ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg reports. “We believe the question is really... More »

Steve Jobs 'Fully Operational' One Year Later

Apple's leader appears to be fine after transplant

(Newser) - A year after his liver transplant, Steve Jobs appears to be the Steve Jobs of old. He's still too thin for his own liking, but Apple's leader seems to have licked the worst of his health problems, say friends (anonymous, of course) and industry observers in an assessment by Bloomberg... More »

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