Tim Cook shoots off an e-mail , Donald Trump shoot off his oral cavity , and the Modern iPod nano may shoot ( not big ) depiction . The remainders for Wednesday , February 1 , 2011 are taking a shot in the shadow .
Why I Love Apple – An electronic mail from Tim Cook(Tony Hart Photo )
It ’s been a while since we last saw Tim Cook respond to a client ’s electronic mail , but this sentence the Apple CEO reputedly responded to one consumer ’s concern over the hiring of Dixons CEO John Browett as Cupertino ’s new retail chief . In the purported letter , Cook said he “ talked to many hoi polloi and John was the best by far … His role is n’t to bring Dixons to Apple , its [ sic ] to bring Apple to an even higher level of customer serving and expiation . ” I opt to interpret that as Browett come onboard to bankrupt the client service and gratification of all of Apple ’s rivals .
Trump to Apple : Make it here(CNet )
Speaking on a Fox News program , real estate king Donald Trump said that Apple should fabricate all of its products in the serious quondam U.S. of A. , alternatively of ship Job abroad . Does n’t Trump know that there ’s only way in the Apple pundit subject area foroneluscious head of hair ?
This Camera - equip iPod Nano Is A Prototype That Takes Overexposed Photos(M.I.C. Gadget )
Will the next revision of the iPod nano bring back the camera excised in the current , sixth - coevals mannequin ? So says one rumor land site , which has undercover agent crack of a purported nano prototype with a photographic camera embedded in the back . I ’m forebode it : The next big Flickr furor will be those people withnano watch bandstaking impression of their wrist hair .
Unintended Consequences(Irby Pace )
Ever snap a pic of yourself on a Apple Store ’s Mac or iOS twist ? Then your mug might be part of an artistic production project by Texas photography MFA student Irby Pace , who collect jibe from a variety of stores and devices into a collection entitled Unintended Consequences . I look forward to when he unavoidably run across that exposure I flick of me holding a sign that reads “ HELLO IRBY PACE . I AM WATCHING YOU . ”
Mark Zuckerberg ’s letter to investors on Facebook ’s ‘ societal mission’(The Verge )
Perhaps you ’ve already heard thatFacebook has filed for an initial public offering . But you may not have it off that squirreled away inside all the legal and fiscal documents is a letter from laminitis and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to investors about the company ’s “ social mission . ” Blah , blah , blah — look , just go watchThe Social Networkinstead .
Product News :
PhatPad 2.0 for iPad – PhatWare has updated its note - pickings and collaboration app for the iPad . The new edition has been optimized for iOS 5 and adds multilingual reinforcement to its handwriting recognition engineering , so it can decipher scrawls in seven speech . The society has made the port multilingual , too ; it ’s now uncommitted in English , French , and German . Text formatting is streamlined ; you’re able to change the formatting of a text recording label without create a whole new style . $ 5 . ( That includes hand recognition support in one lyric ; if you need it to be multingual , it ’s an in - app leverage of $ 3 per language . )
Twitterrific 4.4.6 for Mac , iPhone , iPad – The in vogue update to The Iconfactory ’s Twitter node for Mac and iOS now does a better job of bring off gaps in your Twitter timeline , and fixes a bug that stimulate the OAuth authentication dialogs to appear sporadically . The iOS variation gains support for the Summly utility ( which takes a universal resource locator and returns a sum-up of that varlet ) and fixes a bug that caused the keyboard not to appear during search ; the Mac version now supports Twitterrific universal resource locator schema for bookmarklets , and saves power on MacBook Pros running Lion . The Mac and iOS ( universal ) clients are gratuitous , advert - keep going downloads ; $ 5 to upgrade Mac or iOS version to premium and take ads .
Longform for iPad 1.0.1 – A new iOS newsworthiness reader from the folks behind longform.org . Like Instapaper and others of that like , Longform let you salve stories you find on the Web for late reading . It set aside you to toggle between a story ’s original internet variant and a simplified view that ’s easier to read ; you’re able to also adjust fonts , security deposit , and text size . It ’s compatible with Instapaper and Read It afterward , and provides tools to partake article via electronic mail , Twitter , Facebook , and Tumblr . $ 5 .
