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Blogs 3Why Google Maps for iPhone is good for Apple
Despite its aesthetic achievements, Apple’s Maps app in iOS 6 left a lot of users unhappy. Turns out that the years Google spent building out its...
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BlogsWhy I’m writing on the iPad
When I first got my iPad, I immediately changed the email signature to read, “Lovingly handcrafted just for you by Jason Snell.” I did it to remove...
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BlogsNever quote a broken clock
Not every piece the Macalope reads causes him to butt his antlers against his desk in righteous indignation. Many of them are mostly reasonable articles...
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BlogsA brittle Surface, Tim Cook and slumping Apple shares
Today the Macalope wonders how the Surface is doing, pundits wonder about an Apple television, and you’ll wonder if you can get back the ten minutes...
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Blogs 3Apple Crumbling: Android Charging Up
Apple’s entry-level handset is currently the iPhone 4 at $449 from the Apple store – although you can likely find a 3GS or 3G cheaper at a...
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BlogsThrowing the bathtub out with the bath water
The Macalope was shocked earlier this week to hear that The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s high-profile magazine for tablets, would be ending its run...
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Blogs 1New iMac 2012 review round-up: What the critics say
Apple’s 2012 iMac models began shipping on Friday, and some have landed in the hands of experts who have put the all-in-one desktop computer...
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Blogs 2iPhone 6 rumour rollup
Cyber Monday is just a dim memory, and a dull ache caused by the absence of the Next iPhone. The iOSphere grasped at patents, concept art, a June...
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BlogsThe iPad mini from the eyes of an educator
FIRST IMPRESSIONS “Its smaller, its lighter: thats about it!” - Tasmanian Teacher / fellow Slide2learn.net co-fonder Deon Scanlon It seems to...
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Blogs 1Microsoft FTW?
The Macalope has long said it’s amazing how future products from Microsoft beat existing Apple products time and time again. It’s a wonder Apple...
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BlogsTrending: Name your children after Apple products
Now that Apple products are mainstream Apple fanboys have been joined by Apple fangirls, and they’re having babies. How do we know they’re Apple...
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BlogsArgument recycling
You will be surprised to read this (actual surprise not included), but Apple—the biggest and most successful company of our time—is doomed. Again....
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BlogsUnrequited disdain
Forbes is truly the gift that keeps on giving to the Macalope. If only it knew. Alas, linking to Forbes is simply out of the question, particularly...
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Blogs 2What will a video games industry run by Apple look like?
A CNN report claims that tablet computers are the future of the video games industry, and given Apple’s stronghold over the tablet industry...
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BlogsTurn your iPhone 5 into an … i Phone 5
The iPhone 5 sold 2 million pre-orders on the first day of its release. The first weekend the handset was available saw sales leap to 5 million! With...
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Blogs 1Apple failing at the internet?
A former Apple engineer has taken to the internet to declare Apple a dud at the internet. The hard-hitting piece by Patrick B. Gibson calls “Apple’s...
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Blogs 1All kinds of winning
It’s traditional to use the appellation “number cruncher” for someone like Horace Dediu, but that seems inadequate. Dediu does not so much crunch numbers...
