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There’s been a lot of talk about Louis CK directly marketing his recent concert online and how he made a million bucks at it in little over a week, and I think it’s well deserved. I paid 5 bucks for a video that at times is fantastically funny and other times (much fewer and further [...]

I just took a quick gander at an old Apple iPhone Service Guide that was sent to me, along with a replacement phone, when I called with problems recently.  I never noticed before, but the staples on the white booklet are also white. Who cares about details like this?  Apple, that’s who.  Despite receiving tons [...]

Thank goodness we all have 600 bucks lying around to spend on a pile of soon-to-be-dumped HP products within 24 hours of receiving a super deal like this one.  Thanks a bunch, guys!

DC’s hometown boys make good.

Who carves an Apple symbol into their head when most kids would probably prefer a mohawk? This kid. I love this story.

It surprises me that no one has talked at all about Tim Cook joining Apple’s board at the same time he’s stepping into the CEO role.  This has been speculated since Eric Schmidt vacated his seat in August 2009 (see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125019983643730309.html).  One can only infer that this succession plan has been in place for at least [...]

Robert Scoble pens this Steve Jobs retrospective.

The big question in the interim is ‘how’s his health?’ and I’m not sure we’ll have the answer anytime before we hear any really bad news.  He will continue to drive product in his new role as chairman and employee – ain’t collecting COBRA alone.  What he has done is provided Cook with a fantastic [...]

Sometimes when I’m using an Apple device I feel like I’m being taken for a ride – literally.  It’s like there’s some feature or ability missing that I really want now, but I’ve either been told or I strongly anticipate it’ll be there very soon in the next release… so I continue going on the [...]

After Apple’s widely publicized developer rules were updated for iOS, attention immediately returned to what appeared to be a retreat in Apple’s longstanding war with Adobe over Flash’s exclusion from the iOS platform.