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Today's Steve Jobs email was a hoax?

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Jul 1 2010

It appears that today’s email stream between a disguntled iPhone 4 customer and Steve Jobs was probably a fake.  Fortune.com (who have some fantastic writers btw) is reporting that Apple PR told them the whole thing was faked.

BGR has updated their post with headers and iPhone 4 screenshots which seem to look pretty legit…at least a first glance.

I guess it comes down to: Who do you believe?  Apple PR or a random guy (above) who works in advertising.  Tough call.

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App store tops 2 billion downloads, 85,000 apps

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Sep 28 2009

The numbers keep piling up for the App Store.  Today, Apple announced that the iPhone App Store downloads surpassed two billion and the number of apps available for download surpassed 85,000.  The App store hit a billion downloads in late April and turned a year old in July with 1.5 billion tallied. 

App Store by the Numbers:

2 Billion: Apps downloaded
85,000: Apps available
125,000: developers
50,000,000: iPhone and iPod touch customers
500,000,000: Apps this quarter alone
>10,000,000 Average apps per day average currently

Apple’s Press release follows:

CUPERTINO, California—September 28, 2009—Apple® today announced that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone™ and iPod touch® customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.

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iPod Touch. So much more than just an iPod

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Sep 7 2007

ipod touchEDIT: This article was picked up by Computerworld – go check it out there.

More Newton than iPod, more tablet than music player, the new Apple Inc. iPod touch unveiled this week by CEO Steve Jobs breaks into a new hardware category that should scare the ultra-mobile PC/Nokia Tablet world.

Apple’s much-anticipated launch of the iPod touch this week heralds a new era for Apple‘s
wildly popular line of music and video players. The iPod, which emerged
first as nothing more than a portable music player — albeit one
dripping in cool — grew up to become a music and video device in
adolesence and is now a semi-full featured Internet tablet device.

The iPod is a mass market device, an international device. One that every high school kid from Tokyo to Paris to Albuquerque absolutely

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New Low End Mac at August 7th Event?

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Aug 7 2007

So we’ve heard many rumors about the new iMacs and what appears to be the loss of the 17 inch variety.  We’ve also heard that the old 17 inch might be staying on as an eMac. 

Add to that the reports of the death of the Mac Mini.  This obviously leaves a huge hole on the low end side for Macs.  It would be hard to believe that Apple would just cut off the under $1000 crowd (but not impossible).

More likely, there is some low end device waiting in the the wings.  We’ve been kicking the idea around here a bunch and have come up with some interesting senarios:

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Microsoft Bowing Out of the Mac Platform? Could Office 2008 Be the Last from Microsoft?

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Jun 16 2007

MacWindows The resignation of Roz Ho as General Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit before WWDC 2007 should have been a premonition of Microsoft’s incredibly poor showing at the event (either that or she knew how painfully lame it was going to be). It had been speculated that Redmond would announce the distribution of the new 2008 version of its market dominating Office suite at the event.  But Microsoft had nothing to announce. Is this a sign of things to come?  When will it get released and will Office 2008 be the last upgrade to Office that the Mac sees?  Are Bill and Steve not getting along as well as they appear to be with Walt Mossberg?