Macworld: Apple’s 10-Q form filed with the SEC noted that the company had 14,000 full-time retail employees as of the end of the past quarter. That number stands in sharp contrast to the 15,600 employees the company reported in the same document filed at the end of the December 2008 quarter. Most full-time employees at Apple Stores [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Gmail Tips for iPhone Users
I recently re-setup my iPhone, but my Gmail account was acting wonky. It wasn’t syncing Drafts, Sent, and Trashed messages correctly with my Macs. This article set me straight.
Apple Still Making Lots of Money
Apple has reported their second quarter results: The Company posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.4 [...]
iPods Hurting Music?
Relevant Magazine: In the 1970’s, every self-respecting music fan had a basement or bedroom that contained big, big speakers and crates of vinyl. In the 1980’s, the CD player became popular, and the shiny plastic discs were still mostly played through larger home stereo units. In 2009, a large amount of music listening is done [...]
Correct, Just Incomplete
Riva Richmond, in the New York Times’ “Gadgetwise Blog:” But just how relaxed (or smug) should Mac users be? It’s true that very few viruses have been written for Macs — and none are spreading actively right now. Similarly, hacker programs distributed by malicious Web sites typically run only on PCs. Yet Macs’ relative safety [...]
Flickr Find: eWorld’s Closing
Flickr user sonnyhung has posted some screenshots of eWorld’s last moments. Here’s some background on eWorld: Apple’s marketing and promotion efforts were at best indifferent. The service was only available on the Macintosh, along with e-mail only support on the Newton handheld. Apple was in a challenging financial position at the time and CEO Michael [...]
The SlingPlayer Mobile Debacle
TUAW on SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone: So, here we are, more than three weeks after SlingPlayer Mobile was submitted to the app store, and there’s still nothing. Nada. Bupkis. Zlich. In the meantime, Sling Media has alienated many Slingbox owners by intimating that a lot of their older gear won’t work with the iPhone app when [...]
Simple and Refined
John Gruber, on Tweetie for the Mac: There is much to like about Tweetie for Mac, but what I like best is that it is visually quiet. Most of the new desktop Twitter clients I’ve checked out try to show more at once. Twitter by its nature is inherently distracting; I want a client that [...]
The Fine Print
MacJournals has posted the text shown on the new “Legal Copy” ad from Apple: Please note: trying to remove registry items on your own is not recommended. It is often difficult to determine which items correspond to which applications, and by attempting to remove items yourself, you might accidentally remove a valid registry item, causing [...]
What the ‘iWork Trojan’ Means for You, Me and the Macintosh Platform as a Whole
Background on OSX.Trojan.iServices.A & .B: Back in January, it was discovered that a trojan horse was running around on the Internet affecting OS X. There have been a handful of these things in the last few years, but this was the biggest one to date. The trojan horse was bundled inside an iWork 09 (which has [...]
