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- $100 iPhone rebate only for AT&T customers
- Sorry hackers. If you purchased an iPhone and have not activated it with AT&T you won't be eligible for Steve Jobs' Mea Culpa US$100 rebate for early adopters. If you read the fine print on Apple's freshly posted store credit page you'll see that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Customer, AT&T Corp., Credit, Apple Inc., Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- iPhone's recessed rationale
- In a previous post I vented about iPhone's recessed headphone jack in the iPhone and mentioned that "I haven't heard a single rational explanation as to why Apple would do this." A source with contacts at Apple sent me this explanation: Apple found, prior to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Headphone, Apple Inc., Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-09
- Apple updates iPod lineup; touch, nano and shuffle (Updated 10x)
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs used today's "The beat goes on" media event in San Francisco to announce the iPod touch. It's basically an iPhone without the phone and email. It's a full screen iPod that's 8mm thick with almost all of the features of the iPhone–except the annual...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, iTunes WiFi Music Store, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Steve's Mea Culpa: $100 credit to iPhone pioneers
- In a startling reverse of position Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated that Apple would offer a US$100 store credit at the Apple store to everyone who purchased an iPhone either from Apple or AT&T "who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration." The move comes...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Steve, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Apple releases iPhone 1.0.2 Firmware (updated)
- Apple released iPhone firmware version 1.0.2 last night via iTunes. The update screen says only that the 3.7MB update includes "bug fixes."Isn't it high time that Apple comes clean about what these updates really do? Remember the Web gallery update?My favorite comment from Digg.com about the update: "The party doesn't...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Firmware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- iPhone AC adapters failing
- There appears to be a problem with the failure rate of Apple's iPhone AC adapters (part# MA816LL/A).Rob Parker from the PowerPage podcast reported that his iPhone AC adapter died about a week after bringing it home on 29 June.Both me and my wife's iPhone AC adapters died within 24 hours...
- Tags: iPhone Diary, iPhone, Accessory
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Apple announces record revenue, profit and Mac sales
- Apple tonight reported their financial results for the third fiscal quarter which ended 30 June, 2007. Apple reported (compared to year-ago quarter): Revenue of $5.41 billion (compared to $4.37 billion in the year-ago quarter) Net quarterly profit of $818 million (compared to $472 million) or $.92 (compared to $.54) per diluted share Gross...
- Tags: Finance, AAPL
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- iPhone battery tips from Apple
- Apple has also posted some tips for maximizing your iPhone battery life. Since it will cost you US$86 to have Apple replace your battery when it eventually fails, plus $29 for a loaner iPhone it behooves you to pay attention to what Apple suggests.Some highlights: Heat will degrade your battery's performance...
- Tags: Battery, iPhone, iPhone Diary
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Apple offers AppleCare for iPhone
- Apple is now offering an AppleCare Protection Plan APP for iPhone. The just-announced program (Apple part number MB135LL/A) extends the one year hardware warranty included with iPhone an extra year for a total of two for US$69. Geez, what happened to providing three years total like they do on Macs?The...
- Tags: AppleCare, iPhone Diary, iPod
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- AT&T Q2 results, Apple announces tonight
- AT&T announced their second quarter 2007 financial results yesterday stating that they signed up 146,000 new subscribers in the first two days, slightly down from the 200,000 Wall Street analysts expectated. AT&T's second quarter officially ended June 30th.One thing to consider is that AT&T only reported activations–not physical iPhone sales....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple, AT&T, Finance, iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- iPhone root vulnerability or bogus MSM hysteria?
- A lot of hay has been made about a purported "vulnerability" in iPhone that allows a malicious Web site to extract personal information and take control of the device from the a WiFi connection. I put "vulnerability" in quotes because it hasn't been publicly demonstrated yet.The NY Times reports that...
- Tags: Security, iPhone, Hack
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- 6G iPod user interface leaked; it's not like iPhone
- According to a MacRumors video since removed at the request of Apple legal the new iPod interface will look stylish and more graphical - but nothing like iPhone, as most have predicted. Most people figured that the next iPod would simply be iPhone, sans the phone part. But would it...
- Tags: Leak, iPod, iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- iPhone Diary Day 7: Argh! accessories
- Apple's been pretty straight with us from the beginning about iPhone accessories. They said that some accessories will work, but others - especially those that send a signal, like FM transmitters, or that receive a signal, like voice recorders - will not.With those pre-qualifications in mind I was eager to...
- Tags: Music, iPhone Diary, iPhone, Accessory
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- iPhone day: why I chose an AT&T store
- I was like a kid on Christmas eve, I couldn't sleep last night. The night before I dreamt about buying an iPhone from a guy behind a pizza counter. All this over iPhone.I chose to pick up my iPhone at a local AT&T store rather than an official Apple store....
- Tags: AT&T, iPhone, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Store, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Apple.com updated, new Finger Tip video added
- Apple this morning updated the front page of Apple.com with a giant iPhone group picture and removed the Hot News area and the small tiles from the bottom of the page. The image clicks through to, where else, the iPhone product page.On the iPhone page Apple has added a new...
- Tags: iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Apple allowing up to two iPhone purchases per person
- In a new press release posted today on Apple.com the company clarifies how iPhone sales will work tomorrow. In the release, Apple states that iPhone goes on sale at "6:00 p.m. local time at Apple retail stores nationwide. All 164 Apple retail stores in the US will stay open until...
- Tags: Retail, iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Apple posts iPhone Q&A, pictures of dock and headset
- Furthering their strategy to make us all insane by slowly releasing information on their silly little phone, Apple posted an iPhone Questions and Answers section on their Web site today.Most of the information is already known, but the picture above is the best photo yet of the iPhone dock, which...
- Tags: iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Nine new iPhone wagers
- If you're into betting, here's the latest round of Apple iPhone related wagers that can be placed on BoDog.com Will a shipment of Apple iPhones be hijacked before reaching its destination? How many Apple iPhones will be sold between June 29 and June 30? Will the Apple iPhone feature a dedicated RSS application? Will...
- Tags: iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Apple drops the ringtones tab from iTunes
- Apple shows a slightly different interface for the iPhone portion of iTunes in the new Activation and Sync video posted today. It appears that Apple has dropped support for ringtone managment via iTunes in the launch version of iTunes for iPhone.Here's a screen grab from Job's iPhone demonstration at Macworld...
- Tags: iTunes, iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Apple beefs up iPhone battery specs
- It's a classic example of Apple's under-promise and over-deliver philosophy. In a last minute surprise Apple has posted new information about the iPhone battery and touchscreen that is sure to please potential buyers. In a press release posted this morning Apple claims that iPhone now gets up to eight hours...
- Tags: Battery, Displays, Hardware, iPhone, Multi-Touch, Touchscreen
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
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