Tag: APPLE
An 88-year-old Upper East Side man is suing Apple to try and keep the world’s largest company from opening their imminent Madison Avenue retail outpost, the New York Post reports. Herbert Feinberg’s lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, argues that the store is incompatible with the neighborhood’s “small and luxury retailers” and “well-known art galleries […]
Floppy Cloud lets you play NES and Super Nintendo game Roms on your iPhone by cleverly disguising itself as file managing app. Normally apps like this are prohibited on the Apple’s products and services so expect this to be available for oh say … download it now! It seriously won’t last long. All you have to […]
A tiny violin is playing for Police Commissioner Bill Bratton today because he’s unhappy that Google and Apple’s new encryption techniques won’t allow law enforcement to search your phone. Responding to the companies’ latest effort to make phones with default encryption settings that even they can’t access, Bratton says: It’s disgraceful that these two companies are… consciously… thwarting […]
The NYPD is cracking down on people they believe are reselling Apple’s newest gadgets. After several days of waiting in line for the iPhone 6 release, a Chinese woman was apprehended by the cops near the Fifth Avenue Apple store. She tells the Daily News that the officers fabricated the story. Hui Lin, a 51-year-old […]
If you were one of the victims of the Apple x U2 promotion which deliberately infected your iTunes with a “gift” — the band’s new album Songs Of Innocence — there’s something you can do. It’s a pain in the ass: Because U2’s album was distributed via Apple’s iCloud, the album is not stored locally on your iPhone or iPad. If there […]
Before it became one of the biggest, most powerful companies in the world, 1986 was a dark time for Apple. After a dispute with Apple CEO John Scully, Steve Jobs had resigned to start his own company. The release of the Macintosh was a huge leap forward for personal computing, but the company’s turbulent period produced […]
Yes, the iPhone 5S is on sale today! Hooray for gold! Hooray for capitalism! For many of us, the lust for new Apple stuff was satiated by this week’s release of iOS 7 (which, I must admit, I am really enjoying so far), but those true devotees, nothing short of a shiny new phone will […]
The official trailer for the Steve Jobs biopic has been released. Yey. Played by Ashton Kutcher, see Steve leave college to start Apple Computers in a garage with his neighborhood friend Steve Wozniak. He’s also banging chicks and looks at the sun in a way people who take psychotropics look at the sun. Look at him […]
At least one form of communication is still safe from PRISM, the long-ranging NSA electronic surveillance program uncovered this month. According to a statement Apple released today, the company does not release any iMessage, Facetime, Siri search, or Maps search data to any law enforcement agency. The encryption on those two formats is so thorough, […]
By now, if you care about these sorts of things, you’ve seen iOS 7, the new Apple mobile operating system that will be running your life come fall. It’s “flat!” It’s filled with colorful gradients! According to one coworker, it looks like iOS for babies! As the first OS to be overseen by longtime Apple […]
