from CBS Some may have called it the “Jesus Phone” but the Vatican sought to remind the faithful that there are limits to mixing the sacraments with technology – even when it comes to the iPhone. A new application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that lists sins to be taken to t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Worship of Steve Jobs.
On last Friday’s “Real Time,”Bill Maher painted Steve Jobs as “not a corporate type” only to minutes later accurately note, “Apple makes their s–t in China. And they could still make it here and make a big profit, but they make more of a profit by making i[...]
October 9th, 2011 - 9:07 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Waiting for Steve (Balmer)
The Coming Battle (based on a piece in the Huff Post) A new survey by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in both China and America, showed that Windows easily outpaced iOS, MIcrosoft has a great opportunity, its own fanbase! John Rose, one of the lead authors of the report, told HuffPost tha[...]
October 9th, 2011 - 8:07 am § in The Ave Scene
Amazon Seems to Think Its “A” Stands for Apple
This reads a LOT like WWJD … that is what would Jobs do? I have been thinking about getting a Fire but with Sprint starting to support the iPad and offering 4G on the Motorola Zoom (now a product of Google), it seems to me that either of those is a better choice even if […][...]
October 7th, 2011 - 9:11 am § in Misc.
Apple on Fire: At $199 this thing is going to sell!
UPDATE: More details on what Applesauce can and can not do, Seattle Times. Bottom line. Amazon’s Fire is directed squarely at media. For $200 it replaces any need for another device to read books, read pdfs, watch TV, or play games. Apple is in trouble. There are also hidden design elements [...]
October 6th, 2011 - 12:17 pm § in The Ave Scene
More on Applesauce.
Over at SLOG David Goldstein is defending his love for the new iPhone and mourning the loss of Steve Jobs. The odd thing about Job’s death is the wierd comparisons to Einstein, Edison, … even Aristotle. A better caparison is to the Beetles. I think David confuses the Beetles’[...]
October 6th, 2011 - 12:13 am § in America
End of an ERA,
from Vos iz Meias? – In this Jan. 24, 1984, file photo, Steve Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple Computer, leans on the new “Macintosh” personal computer following a shareholder’s meeting in Cupertino, Calif. Apple on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 said Jobs has died. He was 56.[...]
September 28th, 2011 - 9:58 am § in America, The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Amazon’s Apple sauce arrives!
UPDATE: I highly recommend Paul Constant’s comments on how the Apple Sauce will affect book stores. I agree with him that they will change. I especially doubt the viability of Barnes and Noble. On the other hand, the Kindle does leave a huge opening in its model for used book stores[...]
September 12th, 2011 - 8:48 am § in The Ave Scene
Will Amazon Applesauce Be The BIG Winner?
What future for books in the digital age? As iPads make an appearance in classrooms in France, the question is being asked – are we getting closer to an era of only having electronic and digitised books? In Correze, France the… If this story IS the future, the company that will benefit is Amazon[...]
September 4th, 2011 - 4:30 am § in The Ave Scene
Amazon May Make Apple Sauce
Apple sauce anyone? After months of rumors, Amazon finally released some details of an approximate release time and pricing for its version of an Android pad. . Not one but two tablets. The first of these upcoming tablets will be 7-inch, with a dual core processor running the android opera[...]