Verizon continues to play coy about the iPhone , a surprising origin is selling iPads at rock bottom price , and — to our double-dyed joyfulness — Steve Wozniak is back in the news . I ’m not going to dwell : the remainders for Thursday , November 18 , 2010 are looking forward to the weekend .
Verizon rethinks pricing(Wall Street Journal )
In an interview with theJournal , Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg say that the company ’s shifting towards the 4 M LTE criterion had pick up up Apple ’s ears , but that at the end of the day , the iPhone will issue forth to Verizon for one intellect : “ because Apple thinks it ’s time . ” But … but … what time ? Like , noon ? Time for a new watch ? What ?
TJ Maxx sell iPads for $ 400(One Foot Tsunami , via Twitter )
Exclusive : Woz misquoted ! ‘ Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone’(Engadget )
They say a lie can get halfway around the world before the trueness gets its pants on . But when Apple co - father Steve Wozniak is involve , the truth saddles itself up a Segway and depend on that liedown . In an audience with Dutch paperDe Telegraaf , Woz was apparently misquote as saying that Android phones would finally become the dominant chopine ; in his clarification , he contend that Android could “ get greater marketshare and still be crappy ” and that every app he has is better on the iPhone . Which he trace up with a sting from his Rimshot ! app .
Google offered to purchase Twitter for $ 2.5-$4 billion(Business Insider )
Apparently , I would be aterribleentrepreneur . Because if somebody — even nonchalantly — offer me$4 billionfor a site comprised entirely of multitude talking about Justin Bieber and what they had for dejeuner , you could be pretty trusted that the only thing I ’m going to say is “ Cash or confirmation ? ”
KIN ONEm(Verizon )
The story you ’re about to see is a fib , but it ’s short .
technical school - savvy Customer:“Whoa , you ’re sell the Microsoft KIN ONE and KIN TWO again ? I thought that project was canned after two workweek . ”Verizon Rep:“No , no . As you’llclearlysee , this is the KIN ONEmand TWOm . ”C:“Are those different from the ones you were sell earlier this year?”V:“Well , yeah , apparently . I mean , they have the lettermafter them . ”C:“You just need to move all that stock list , you could n’t sell , huh?”V : C:“Soooo , how about those Droids ? ”