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How not to design your packaging

This video has been around for a while, but I’ve just run across it. Besided showing the difference between how Apple and Microsoft approach their customers, it’s just bad design.

Apple’s approach is to make a product that people love to use because it is well designed, easy to use and looks great. [...]

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The Case for SSDs in New MacBook Pros

The Case for SSDs in New MacBook Pros: “
Killer Quote:
The author is betting that with twice the storage at half the price, in the span of just 9 months, Apple will take the plunge, follow Dell’s lead and offer this decent sized SSD across the entire MBP product line.

Since when has Apple ever followed Dell’s [...]

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Bend Over The Rogers iPhone Plans Are Out

As predicted, Rogers is playing fuck the consumer
Rogers says Canadian iPhone 3G plans to start at $60 for 150 mins: “Rogers Wireless, Canada’s exclusive service provider for Apple’s upcoming iPhone 3G handset, announced Friday that monthly service plans for the new touch-screen handset will start at $60 for 150 anytime minutes, 75 outgoing text messages, [...]

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Rogers makes new BlackBerry plans official

According to The Boy Genius… Rogers makes new BlackBerry plans official:

This, to me anyway, is a pretty good indicator that Apple is dictating data plan terms. If not just to Rogers, then to most telcos. We all know that if it were up to Rogers (or any provider) there would be no [...]

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Rogers reevaluating plan pricing ahead of iPhone 3G

From a piece over at Infinite Loop, Rogers reevaluating plan pricing ahead of iPhone 3G

Rogers COO Nadir Mohamed told the National Post. “We’ll be changing our prices to reflect that.” He added that Rogers is looking to make its pricing more flexible and easy to understand, and hopes to “drive the adoption of mobile [...]

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iPod Touch Suffering Supply Shortages

In the past product shortages are one of the first signs that an Apple product is readying for an update. They have to do something to make the iPod Touch more appealing with the upcoming release of the iPhone 3g. This is probably the first sign.

iPod Touch Suffering Supply Shortages

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New iPod Touch Coming Soon?

With the announcement of the new 3G iPhones to drop on July 11th I would think we should be seeing a new iPod touch soon too. According to MacRumors Buyers Guide, it is due for a refresh soon.
The main thing I would like to see it inherit would be the GPS. That would [...]

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The Mac Fusion and VMWare

Mac OS X Server on VMWare 2.0
Developer Mac - Fusion
Am I the only some who sees something in common here? Seems to me this would be ideal for a developer.

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iPhone 3G: What is A-GPS?

I was watching the keynote the other day and noticed that when Steve was talking about the GPS capabilities of the new iPhone he was mentioning cell towers and wifi. I went to the Apple site and noticed this:

The Podophile blog and Gizmodo seem to have cleared things up a little. iPhone 3G: [...]

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Apple Canada Pricing Parity

Wow. I think Hell has officially frozen over. Today Apple announced the new AirPort Express 802.11n. The bigger news here, for us Canadians any way, is that they are priced equally at $99 on the US and Canadian Apple stores. I hope this pattern continues with new products on the [...]