The N9 is flawed and doomed, but you have to understand, I don’t care. The universal experience of using this phone is one of delight and desire. Yes, it can get bamboozled and freeze up, and no, you won’t be finding an avalanche of awesome new apps for it, but those downsides fade in comparison to the abundance of positives.
It’s a shame the N9 is dead in the water. It really is.
I borrowed a passcode-locked iPhone 4S from a colleague here at Sophos and, with his permission, was able to write an email, and send a text message. If I had wanted to I could have meddled with his calendar appointments too.
All without having to enter the passcode. I’m sure you can imagine some of the ways this could potentially be abused.
Of course, this can be changed with a simple setting. I’m glad Cluley points this out, but I could do without the side order of passive-aggressive sauce1:
What’s disappointing to me though is that Apple had a clear choice here.
They could have chosen to implement Siri securely, but instead they decided to default to a mode which is more about impressing your buddies than securing your calendar and email system.
Passcodes are good, but — as always — once physical access is acquired, all security measures are less effective.
[via CNET]
Oh, and the advertising in the article is nice, too. ↩︎
I’ve gotten a ton of emails asking where I got my iPhone wallpaper. Well, here’s the source!
All I know is this: my three-year old will go crazy when we get this film into iTunes.
I love everything about this.
This sure puts things into perspective.
On episode 4 of Ungeniused, Myke and I discuss two US military programs during World War II that tested using bats and birds as bombs.
Clearly, Apple’s new CEO needs to get the boot.
Just look at these charts! iPhone sales down with rumors of a new model coming out? TERRIBLE! iPod sales continuing to decline show that AAPL is has-been. The iPad didn’t grow 650% over last quarter? Android tablet makers are taking over! Android’s time has come, all thanks to Tim Cook’s mismanagement of Apple.
How could the company miss a number carefully crafted by an analyst?! For crying out loud, it is their job to come up with such figures! They know all.
SELL! SELL! SELL! SELL! SELL! SELL!
#sarcasm
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2011. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $28.27 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 40.3 percent compared to 36.9 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 63 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
The Company sold 17.07 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 21 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 11.12 million iPads during the quarter, a 166 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.89 million Macs during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 6.62 million iPods, a 27 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.
Apple’s earnings were predicted at $7.28 per share and revenue of $29.45 billion. I wonder what AAPL will do after-hours.
