Valleywag editor Ryan Tate, irked by an iPad ad, drunkmailed Apple CEO Steve Jobs just after 9:30 last night. To Tate’s shock and delight, Jobs argued back and forth with him until 2:20 AM in four rounds of messages, reproduced below.
Hit the link to read the emails. They’re pretty great. Once again, a Gawker employee looks like a total ass.
CNET:
Brian Hogan, a 21-year-old Redwood City, Calif., resident, found the phone in a bar. But the affidavit prepared by detective Matthew Broad in the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office reveals that an important tip came when Hogan’s roommate, Katherine Martinson, called Apple on April 21 to let them know that he had examined it and sent photographs to back up her claim.
Hogan told her that Gizmodo had offered him $10,000 for the phone, and showed her a camera box containing $5,000 in $100 bills, according to the affidavit. It says: “Martinson said Hogan also told her that he will receive a cash bonus from Gizmodo.com in July, if and when Apple makes an official product announcement regarding the new iPhone.”
See, Apple loves Adobe, too. Right? Right…?
Apple started airing a new iPad ad tonight called “What is iPad?”. The Ad seems to be a departure from their recent ads with a bit of a gruff narrator walking through what the iPad is. However, it struck me as strangely familiar and I realized that Apple had reincarnated one of the original Apple Newton ads called “What is Newton?” from almost 20 years ago.
It’s eerie.
Today we’re introducing the beta of an all new MobileMe Mail web application, and we’re asking you to try it and let us know what you think. You can sign up at me.com by just logging in to MobileMe Mail and clicking “Request an invitation.” You will receive an email notification when you have been added to the beta and can start using it.
Betas are an unusual thing for Apple. The changes outlined in that blog post look fantastic, though. MobileMe’s webapps are already pretty good, but lack some of the features of other services — mainly Gmail.
These ads have popped up today all over the place, along with these letters from Adobe’s founders.
Obvisouly, this whole Adobe/Apple thing isn’t over yet.
A stunning, yet surreal use of technology. I loved this video when it came out in 2005, and it was great to see it again.
C4 was billed as a Mac indie conference, but at its core C4 was a computer science conference.
I believed the best way to move software forward was to inform Apple programmers about better ways to build software — to infect the best top-downer minds with fertile discontent.
My hope was that developers would care primarily about user experience yet also be passionate about utilizing lingual and tooling advances.
The kids at Taoviet have really outdone themselves. From the looks of these images, the Vietnamese site has nabbed an honest to goodness 4th generation iPhone – a 16GB model to be exact. It’s clearly pre-production judging by the XXX placeholders on the backside stamp and likely lacks any OS other than a “Bonfire” test routine. Nevertheless, it looks authentic enough that we expect Apple’s henchmen to be busting down the guy’s door before he pries it open to reveal Apple’s chipset of choice.
While all of my thoughts contained in my iPad review still hold true, I’d like to expand that review in a very specific direction — what traveling with an iPad is like.
Since buying an iPad on launch day, I’ve used it at home and at work, but not many places in-between. In those environments, the iPad shines as a quick-and-easy way to handle email and other specific tasks in my workday.
Boy Genius Report’s Michael Bettiol on MacDailyNews’ report that MobileMe may soon become a free service:
The question is: if MobileMe becomes free, will Apple dole out refunds to those who paid for the service within the past year, and will Apple generate revenue off the free service with iAds?
That is the question, without a doubt. This model would look a lot like Google’s — free syncing for calendar and contact information and email access, with ads served to members using the browser-based apps.
Paul Thurrott has posted some screen shots of a “near-final” version of Microsoft’s new mobile OS. It’s very clean and very simple. I like it.
[via Chairmen Gruber]