In 2001, a PowerBook G4 would have set you back $3500. Suppose instead that you had purchased $3500 in Apple stock instead of the computer…that stock would now be worth about $110,000. Even an original iPod’s worth in AAPL ($399) would be worth almost $12,000 today.
Category: Apple
No Mac App Store, says Jobs
Camera Connection Kit for iPad Released
You use these adapters to transfer images when you’re away from a computer with which the iPad syncs. You can view imported photos and videos at full scale, or use Photos or third-party apps to upload to various services, like MobileMe or Flickr. Photos lacks any way to send or upload multiple photos at one time, a silly limit for software that can import images. Some developers offer apps with multiple-picture upload, and I expect we’ll see more targeted more precisely at those who import photos to iPad.
iWork on iPad
In the end, using iWork for the iPad is a lot like going to the moon. It might be a nice place to visit, and it may even be fun to bounce around for a bit, play a little golf, or buzz around in that sweet little moon buggy, but in the end, it’s not a place I’d like to live, or even stay for any extended amount of time. iWork is decent, but there is only so much you can do for an office suite without a full keyboard and a mouse.
Instapaper Pro 2.2.3 Released
Details here. It’s a great app, and on my favorite on the iPad.
Gizmodo Keeps Pumping iPhone for Hits
They just keep posting stuff — this story doesn’t even include anything new, just links to the week’s news.
Massive traffic is addicting, I guess.
G5s Sneak onto new ‘Obselete’ List
HardMac is making me feel old. I used to swap logic boards on original iMac G5s daily, at the height of the capacitor failure that plagued these machines and the “ALS” models that followed them.
On Gizmodo
First, I’m fascinated by their apparently cavalier attitude regarding the legal implications of their actions. I’m not offended by their decision to obtain this unit and publish everything they were able to ascertain regarding it. It simply boggles my mind the stakes they have effectively wagered that Apple will not pursue this legally.
Second, publishing the name, photographs, and personal information of the Apple engineer who lost the phone is irrelevant to the story. It was the dick move to end all dick moves. Gizmodo is, ostensibly, a gadget site. The interest of their readers in this saga regards the phone. Publishing his name did not clarify in the least bit how they obtained the phone. The people whose identities I’d like to know are those who obtained and then sold the phone, not the guy from Apple who lost it. There is no interest served by outing him other than taking sociopathic glee in making a public spectacle of someone who made a very serious but honest mistake.
On Stolen Property
Jeff Bercovici at Daily Finance:
Put simply, Gawker Media brazenly, publicly flouted the law. It subsidized a crime: the selling of stolen merchandise. Then it published a misleading, whitewashed account of the seller’s actions meant to make it look as though he was not acting with criminal intent. It published this account in order to disguise its own culpability in the matter.
Apple Posts Massive Profits
Apple PR, on the company’s best non-holiday quarter ever:
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter ended March 27, 2010. The Company posted revenue of $13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $9.08 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.62 billion, or $1.79 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent, up from 39.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Now It’s Just Bullying, Gizmodo
In other news, Github user digdog has posted a Cocoa app that will block Gizmodo via DNS. Brilliant.
History Repeats Itself
The blogs have been filled for three years now with the constant wailing of the technorati complaining bitterly about the iPhone’s, now the iPad’s, closed system.
It’s nothing new.
The Mac now connects to everything, but the first Mac did not. It was designed to always have a fixed amount of memory—128k—with no way of ever expanding it. The core of the OS was in ROM, not RAM. It was Steve’s vision that if you made every single computer with the same exact OS and the same amount of memory, developers would always have a fixed platform for which to develop, making their jobs easier.