Are you a fan of Apple’s notoriously shy head designer, Jony Ive? This might be of interest to you.
A one-of-a-kind 12.9-inch iPad Pro, Smart Cover and Apple Pencil holder designed by Ive’s team will be auctioned off as part of a fundraiser for the London Design Museum.
The iPad Pro is bright yellow (awesome), literally one of a kind (Edition 1 of 1 is etched on it) and special because it highlights Ive’s relationship and support of the museum – back in 2003 he was the first recipient of the museum’s ‘Designer of the Year’ award for the iMac.
The Smart Cover is made from blue French leather and the Apple Pencil will sit in an orange Italian calf leather case.
Did you know that although we think of Apple as being everywhere, and that their Fifth Avenue Apple store was the city’s most photographed attraction in 2011, there are 6 states in the US that have no Apple Stores?
Sorry, Vermont, North Dakota, Wyoming, West Virginia, South Dakota and Montana.
That sounds fake, right? We had to check when we heard it – just like we bet people have to check that Apple was actually founded on April Fool’s day 1976.
Something else Apple related that isn’t a trick? Apple has trademarked both a hybrid animal called Clarus the Dogcow that appears in some Apple applications, and the noise it makes.
Did you know that Apple was one of the first companies to launch a consumer digital camera? And that their 1993 device the Newton originated the term “personal digital assistant” as well as being the first to feature handwriting recognition?
The Quicktake came out in 1994 was one of the first consumer digital camera lines but was a smidge before it’s time – being discontinued in 1997. The QuickTake cameras had a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels maximum and was ranked by Time Magazine as one of it’s “100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present”
The Newton was also before it’s time – with production only running from 1993 until February 27, 1998, with price and handwriting recognition problems blamed for lack of sales.
Nah. That’s what then GE chairman and CEO Jack Welch said to the offer to buy Apple for $2 Billion dollars back in 2006.
This info was given to The New York Post by Bob Wright in an interview about his book The Wright Stuff: From NBC to Autism Speaks.
Cast your minds back to 1996 – Antonio Banderas married Melanie Griffith, the first flip phone, (the Motorola StarTAC,) goes on sale, Apple was having a hard time, and the CEO was Michael Spindler.
From the Sauce:
“The stock price was $20, and [Spindler] was explaining he couldn’t get the company moving fast enough and the analysts were on his case,” Wright told The Post in an interview on Tuesday. “He was sweating like mad and everybody said, ‘We can’t manage technology like that.’ We had a chance to buy it for $2 billion.”
Apple would certainly have been a different (if still existent?) company if that sale had gone through. Instead, Apple bought NeXT for $427 million and Steve Jobs returned to lead the company in 1997. YAY STEVE JOBS! Then came the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, allllll the i’s that we have come to know and love.
Right now, Apple is worth more than $600 billion clams. Lotsa clams made between then and now.
Uh Oh. So a bunch of people have lied to you, faithful iPhone user. They said that you could extend iPhone battery life by closing down background apps.
Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering, Craig Federighi, has confirmed that this piece of info is not true.
Just keep that brightness down, and put it on Airplane mode, yo!
Have you gotten an iPhone SE? Or as we like to call it, the iPhonsey?
If you haven’t, and you’re thinking about it – here’s the lowdown.
It’a a 4-inch iPhone. By all accounts, it might be a bit hard to get used to if you’re leaving your iPhone 6S behind for it, but that it’s super easy to handle once you’ve passed that barrier to entry.
It feels very, very similar to the iPhone 5S.
It has a 12-megapixel rear camera (like the iPhone 6s), however the front-facing camera is still just 1.2 megapixels, although it features a new ISP and a Retina Flash.
According to all reports, the best things about the iPhonesey is the battery life, the A9 processor and the price. The battery life is said to outpace the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 6s. You’re looking at a life of about 10 hours.
The A9 processor makes the phone very fast and it also has 2x faster CPU and 3x faster GPU performance compared to the iPhone 5s.
You’re crazy Apple, making us feel ALL THE FEELS this weekend!
Apple has released 2 short videos in support of Autism Acceptance Month and in promotion of the iPad and how it can help those with Autism.
Both videos feature Dillan, an Autistic boy, as well as his mother and his therapist / communication partner and how he uses the iPad to let people hear his voice.
Watch, and feel. ALL THE FEELS. We’re telling you man, all the feels. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
If you’re chilling out eating some delicious candy eggs, or taking some time out from talking politics with family members, here’s some Apple ads for you to watch!
and then, after al that gleamy Apple goodness, have some chocolate science knowledge in your FACE! Mmmm chocolate
The rumor wheel is spinning faster and faster coming up to the Special Media Event on March 21st, and one in particular has caught our eye. A dual camera iPhone 7 Plus, which will (perhaps) be called the iPhone Pro.
Yes, you read that correctly – a dual camera model is expected (by some), as well as a single lens camera iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 7.
This is disputed however, as it seems to many like Apple are trying to simplify their product line-up – not make it bigger and more complicated.
The iPhone 7, 7 Plus and Pro wouldn’t be released until later on in the Fall of this year, well after the rumored 4-inch iPhone SE, which is expected to be announced at the March media event.
Also at the media event there is expected to be announcements about a 9.7-inch iPad, purportedly branded as an iPad Pro.
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April 20, 2016 5:42 pm | 
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