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These things keep getting stranger and stranger.  According to Macrumors, a bloke named Bryan Webster emailed Steve Jobs a profanity laden email from his free Gmail account (MobileMe was too expensive?) saying:

  Bryan has posted headers.

Gizmodo adds this reader email.: 

Dear Steve,

Have you read this Gizmodo article? What are your thoughts on it? Do you believe Google is surpassing you guys or do you believe something different? What do you plan on doing if Google is surpassing Apple?

Any thoughts?

Sincerely,
Brian

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Steve Jobs wrote:

Not a chance.

Yet another leak of iPhone 4/HD coming this time out of our old friends at Apple.Pro and this time showing the already popular (in mockups) white case.  

Also, note that this version of the iPhone 4 seems to have screw holes at the bottom, like the Gizmodo version.

 via Engadget.  Another one, below.

This appears to just be a enclosure put together from parts.  Another theory: Someone took one of those black ones (which apparently are a dime a dozen right now in some parts of the world) and slapped a white button and frame (also not hard to find! – below) on it.   

Apple might have a hard time proving that Gizmodo’s leak cost them materially when a new leaked images of the iPhone 4/HD seem to be published on an almost daily basis.  Just saying.

I think I am a pretty good bellwether of what’s happening in the technology world.  I obviously love Apple products (but please don’t use the F word), so much so that I write about Apple products every day here on 9to5Mac.  I’d never consider giving up my MacBook Pro.  I love my iPad (almost as much as my kid does), I use an AppleTV (sometimes) and I’ve been an iPhone user since day one, hour one, minute one.  

I’m also a general technology/gadget head and I’ve been trying other platforms all of this time.  I have a few netbooks running Linux and Windows.  I have a BluRay player and Verizon Mifi and displays made by Dell and HP.   I have logitech keyboards and speakers and even a Microsoft Mouse.  My house is full of tech toys.

Would you really trust someone who only uses Apple products’ opinion on technology?

On phones, I’ve used Blackberries and Windows Mobile devices for work, I’ve owned Nokias (N95, N810) and been given test units of Palm Pres and even have a demo Microsoft Kin One on my desk.  I’ve never considered giving up my iPhone (which I’ve gladly paid for) for any of these.  Not for a second.

But recently, beginning with the Nexus One and culminating in the HTC EVO, I find myself using Android devices more than my iPhone.  In fact, my AT&T SIM is usually found in my Nexus One these days. (OK, a bad iPhone 4 beta 2 probably didn’t help that).

I’m sure a few of you on the fringe are deleting 9to5mac’s bookmark/feed at that statement but for the rest of you, let me share my thoughts on why I’m leaning this way.  

First of all, it isn’t entirely Apple’s fault.  AT&T happens to be particularly bad where I live and work. My EVO is on Sprint and works noticeably better for both data and voice calling.  No number of press releases and $ pledges from AT&T will change that.  To be fair, AT&T has given me a FemtoCell that works well

Remember June of 1992 — 18 years ago??  Us neither.  But that was the last time Autodesk built a Mac-compatible version of AutoCAD.

Now it is 2010, a generation later, and the first betas of their AutoCAD for Mac, dubbed Sledgehammer, are hitting the net.  Don’t worry AutoCAD, we’re sure Steve Jobs won’t hold a grudge.

More screenshots and a video below:

Plan on bailing to Android on Verizon like Fake Steve Jobs?  That’s going to cost you nearly double on new plans compared to current costs because AT&T is changing its Early Termination Fees (ETF) from $175 to $325.

They also come ahead of the expected June launch of a new iteration of the Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone, which could potentially yield millions of subscribers signing up for fresh two-year commitments.  The iPhone is AT&T’s biggest wireless growth driver; however, the company’s contract as Apple’s sole U.S. partner is expected to end over the next year. The loss of exclusivity could enable iPhone customers–particularly those frustrated by the carrier’s network issues–to go to rivals, specifically Verizon Wireless, although high early termination fees could serve as a deterrent.  An AT&T spokesman, however, said the timing of the move wasn’t related to any device.

We’re not saying it is definitely going to happen, but if the iPhone were going to Verizon in September, this is exactly what AT&T would do (as opposed to fixing their network).

Also, $325 is what Verizon charges for their ETF.

More iPhone 4 mockups:

Via iSpazio

Developers are abandoning Flash because clients want their sites to run on Apple

Will Apple’s future Macs run iPhone apps in simulation mode? Will the MacBook Air be reborn an iPad Pro? Can Google match Apple’s hardware charms? Read on.

Wait for the classy ending…

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$2.99 at the app store.

Yesterday’s Google I/O keynote is now posted online. I wonder if Steve Jobs would have kept Schmidt on the board this long had he known what was happening behind the scenes.  

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Don’t miss the Android vs. Apple iPad speed test below: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBQFXRW5ZiE&w=700&h=400]

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Dear readers, it is time to say goodbye to the

Apple is fresh out of 3G iPads across the US and has limited stocks of the WiFi-only models, Piper Jaffray reports this morning.

Analyst Gene Munster called 50 Apple retail stores to get a

Google is hoping its video codec will launch an

Apple

Google has moved to against Apple in yet another space — this time announcing a music downloads service via its Android Market.

Music will be made available for sale and download via the new Music section of the market, accessible using Android 2.2-powered devices, which for now includes handsets and in future will include tablet devices.

Details are sketchy, TechCrunch informs, but essentially its a Web-based transaction system which automatically downloads your song purchases to your device.

Google didn’t say when this capability would come to the Android operating system.

The company also introduced a new software package. Google recently acquired Simplify Media, who have developed software which will let you sync DRM-free purchases from iTunes into your Android device.

With Google now moving to compete with Cupertino at almost every point, it

Apple’s Steve Jobs has no intention picking up on Google’s attempt at a royalty-free video codec, VP8.

In his latest email response, the Apple CEO simply sent a customer asking about his thoughts on the codec a link to a critical report on the video codec.

Among other things, this report pointed to the many H.264 similarites in the codec, lending some substance to notions that patent litigation may change the royalty free status of Google’s codec. Most video developers also note the codec isn’t really ready for prime time.

“On2 VP8 offers significant gains in compression performance in a bitstream that is less compute intensive to decode than either its predecessor (VP7) or other competing technologies such as H.264,” some say — but critics continue to term the standard as incomplete.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently warned: “All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other ‘open source’ codecs

One in five US consumers plan to purchase an iPad. “Consumer demand for the Apple tablet going forward is even stronger than the extraordinary pre-launch demand we recorded back in our February ChangeWave survey,” Changewave reports.

iPad demand is growing, with the company selling more iPads than Macs each day.

This trend seems set to continue. Read on.

Google announced GoogleTV at their I/O event today.  Truthfully, it looks like a pretty strong product.  It is a shame that Apple basically has let its own AppleTV product languish for so long.  Hopefully this announcement lights a big fat bonfire under Apple’s TV hobby.

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Gizmodo probably isn’t going to buy a white iPhone 4 so iSpazio has put together some renderings of one for your viewing pleasure…at least until they show up in Vietnam.

Another, below.

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Reports are hazy, but our people at the front tell us Google’s taking a big dig at Apple at their I/O conference today, without ever mentioning Apple by name..

“If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future,” Google said during its keynote today.  Looks like things are hotting up.

Google also notes sales of 100,000 Android devices each day.

You can watch the keynote live right here.