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Best Buy sells Nearly as many iPhones as Apple

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AllThingsD: Apple’s move to make Best Buy an outlet for the iPhone back in 2008 is proving a wise one — lucrative, too. Over the past few years, the retail chain has become an increasingly important outlet for Apple, extending … Continued

Josh Topolsky says Mike Daisey had to lie

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Josh Topolsky:

Mike Daisey is not a hero, but I’m not sure he’s a villain either.He leaned into his lies to sell tickets to a show, to get on network TV, to make money and get famous. But along the way — either on purpose or by accident — he opened a lot of eyes.And that’s the truth.

Bullshit.

Daisey made up some horrendous lies about Foxconn and Apple that never should have been told. He didn’t open anyone’s eyes. Rather, he infuriated the population with false stories of abuse, caused harm to the reputations of both companies and many of its executives, including Steve Jobs and Tim Cook.

Apple has been auditing its factories since 2007 and making conditions better for workers — that’s before Mike Daisey came along and they’ll be doing it after he leaves the public eye. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. In fact, much of the information that media organizations use against Apple comes from the reports it makes public.

There is no reason to make excuses for Daisey or his lies.

Android fragmentation

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The following pie chart and table is based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Google Play within a 14-day period ending on the data collection date noted below.

Collection date was March 5, 2012.

Creepy Google

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TNW:

The patent discusses the technology to analyze the background noise during your phone call and serve up ads for you based on the environmental conditions Google picks up on. Yeah, that’s creepy.

Don’t be evil.

[Via Ben Brooks]

Microsoft says Windows Phone will outsell Apple in China

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software maker, said its Windows Phone operating system will propel it past Apple Inc. (AAPL) in China’s smartphone market as its partners release devices costing as little as $158.

Microsoft is losing its mind. Maybe they’ll hold another mock funeral for the iPhone because that worked so good for their iPod strategy.

New petition asks Change.org to retract its petition against Apple

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The original petition is based on the testimony of Mike Daisey which has been shown to be primarily fabrications and fantasy. The power and efficacy of Change.org is diminished by allowing petitions that are based on lies.Apple is already doing more for worker rights in China than any just about any other IT company that deals with Chinese suppliers and they have been acting responsibly since well before anyone else took notice.

I kid you not people, this shit just writes itself.

China surpasses U.S. iOS and Android activations

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Arnold Kim:

Mobile analytics company Flurry reports that activation of new iOS and Android devices in China has surpassed the U.S. for the first time.

We all knew this was going to be a huge market.

iPhoto for iPad, iPhone hits 1 million users in less than 10 days

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Apple told me today that its newest iOS app, iPhoto, hit 1 million users in less than 10 days after its release. It’s important to note that figure is users, not downloads. It quite possible that one user downloaded the app multiple times, but Apple isn’t counting that, only the unique users. […]

American storytelling, American compromise

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Mark Willis:

The stories we tell ourselves; the compromises we make to live as we do. What’s the real cost of living in our modern American culture? I’d argue, “looking ourselves square in the face.”

John Gruber on Mike Daisey

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Daisey impugned the integrity of Apple — and the journalism of ABC News — in order to work people up regarding problems that don’t exist. This only served to draw attention away from the labor, health, and environmental issues in Apple’s Asian supply chain that do exist.

Great read from John.

Consumer Reports: From bagels to iPads

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Consumer reports is at it again, this time the organization is trying to torpedo Apple’s new iPad.

I say “torpedo” because it seems to me Consumer Reports has an agenda playing out here. I would think that would be to get as much press as possible and the way to achieve that is to find a problem with the iPad 3. […]

Innovator’s Dilemma

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Simon Ly:

Essentially it turns around Apple’s complete willingness to destroy its own revenues. It built a phone that destroyed it’s major source of revenue, the iPod. It built Macbook Airs that have now disrupted another major source of revenue, their Macbook Pros. It built the iPad, which is already beginning to disrupt the Macbook itself.

Apple also killed off the iPod mini at the height of its popularity and introduced the iPod nano in its place. That completely disrupted the competition because at that time they were all trying to copy the mini.

Boombotix wireless speakers for iPhone and iPod

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The BB2 wireless speaker fuses Japanese urban design with mobile audio in a truly portable package. All Boombots are rechargeable, loud as &@*%, and durable enough to withstand the abuse of your lifestyle, guaranteed.

No business model

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Jenny Blumberg:

We’ve been asked before what our business model is, and honestly there isn’t one in place yet. We’re looking into a freemium model. I posted an answer on Quora that goes into more detail here. A business model that relies on targeted advertising doesn’t jive with our culture at Sepia Labs. We’d rather add amazing new features that people would be willing to pay us for, because they enjoy Glassboard so much.With that in mind, we’d love for you to use Glassboard, and with a tear in your eye, trembling lips… utter the words “You complete me.”

Sepia Labs is Brent Simmons new company. Love these guys and their honesty.

Update: The original headline of this story was “No business plan,” when in fact, it should have read “No business model.” Sepia Labs clearly has a business plan.

Google’s missing developer payments

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BBC:

Europe-based software writers have posted hundreds of comments on the company’s forums, saying their February fees had not been received on 7 March as scheduled.

Oops.

John Legend working with Samsung

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Speaking of Om, he noticed this little nugget: All five winners will be honored in a special Washington, D.C. ceremony in April with John Legend, the Grammy Award-winning recording artist and education advocate. Is he crazy? Legend working with Samsung? … Continued

iPhone become top seller in Japan for 1st time

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Mainichi Daily News:

The iPhone captured the largest share of mobile phones shipments in Japan for the first time in the October-December quarter, accounting for 26.6 percent, due to the popularity of the iPhone 4S smartphone model, research firm IDC Japan said Thursday.

Thanks to Daring Fireball.

In defense of Readability

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I’ve linked to articles defending Instapaper, so it’s only fair to get the other side of the story.

Tether for iPhone goes HTML5

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Tether’s new version for the iPhone is purely based on HTML5 and creates a completely wireless connection over AdHoc. This circumvents the need of buying the application directly from Apple’s App Store and allows any iPhone or iPad with a … Continued