Attempted to use the Apple Bluetooth interface cable with my iPhone 4 yesterday without success.  No power up, no connecting my Apple Bluetooth headset, nothing.  I’m going to try some more tricks later, but it looks like this one’s in the books which is sad because it’s awesome to see the charge levels of both the iPhone and Apple’s Bluetooth headset all on the lock screen.   Even better, pairing the two is as simple as plugging them into the cable.

Don’t trust me, listen to Jimmy Fallon: if you live in NYC you need to get your iPhone 4 upgrade now.

The old school Apple guys like me will love this one.

CNET reviews the two big players in Apple mobile video.

I keep wondering who was surprised that FaceTime didn’t wind up looking more like iChat.  Is this going to make it easier or harder for those of us who want to use our home boxes to chat with mobile folks?  I want to be able to call my wife when she’s in another town, for example, and I want to do it from the iMac sitting at my desk.

Pretty good article on the antenna problems some have experience with their iPhone 4 devices.  Easy to forget this is not the first time the antenna has been the subject of problems for a phone manufacturer.

Is iPad an e-book category killer or are the commodity players just killing each other in a fight to be the cheapest number two player?

• Amazon has cut the price of the Kindle by $70 to $189 in response to Barnes & Noble’s Nook price cut and, probably, Apple’s iBooks threat

More on this story at Business Insider.

Great comprehensive iOS 4 review from Ars.

9 to 5 Mac scoops the release and the right place to go to get your iOS 4 download fast.

Am I the only one that missed this?  How long has this been enabled?

Now that we’ve been treated to an incredible new Mac mini release, I can’t get this old AppleInsider post out of my head.

Here’s the final sentence: “Ladies and gentlemen, AppleInsider believes in all sincerity that the Mac mini is dead.”

I completely lost trust for AppleInsider as an Apple news and information source when I read this.  ”Believes in all sincerity”?  Interesting language when you’re holding yourself up as a vital source of information.

Perhaps I wouldn’t have lost trust – now I just laugh about it, in case you’re wondering if it had some big long term impact – had they not reported around the same time that the hard drive based iPod would be forever discontinued (last I checked, it’s still around).

The lesson: don’t write crap that lacks truth and/or substance.  That’s called propaganda.