Looks like it’s game over for the PlayBook

“While Quanta last week acknowledged that it had laid off a significant number of production workers from a factory focused on producing the PlayBook, our research indicates that the ODM has essentially halted production of the tablet. 

Additionally, our due diligence indicates that RIMM has canceled development of additional tablet projects.“

Colin Stewart analyst John Vinh

[update]

CNBC:

Research In Motion Says Talk That Its Playbook Tablet Is Being Discontinued Is "Pure Fiction: $RIMM @BlackBerry  – DJ

That was fast

Looks like it’s game over for the PlayBook

If you write about technology, you need to look at this list of names

Some names aren’t spelled the way you think they are. Macworld is not MacWorld unless you’re in Sweden, for example.

If you write about technology, you need to look at this list of names

Samsung copies Apple? Surely not

I mean just look at the packaging, the power adapter, the design of the box, the device itself, the USB cable, they’re different. Right?

Samsung copies Apple? Surely not

parislemon:

It has been almost a month since Steve Jobs officially stepped down as CEO of Apple. Today the stock is literally off-the-charts at a new all-time high. 

Apple’s market cap is now nearly $25 billion larger than Exxon’s, the second most-valuable public company in the world. Apple’s market cap will soon surpass $400 billion.

The iPhone 5 hasn’t even been announced yet.

Untouched is impossible: the story of Star Wars in film

Every time George Lucas or a fan takes another crack at the film, it’s a new interpretation of the past, and as the film ages and our viewing technology changes, it will continue to look different from how each of us remembers it.

Untouched is impossible: the story of Star Wars in film

File transfer is complicated

Source: xkcd.com

I sent an SMS to the world, I sent an SMS to the world, I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my, message on my Facebook…

If Sting had started his career this past decade

As per the news from Stephen Hackett at forkbombr, Apple has moved to decommission Apple Online Stores in Indonesia and Vietnam. No reason was given for the decision although at least for Indonesia, the writing has been on the wall for quite some time. Those who bought personalized iPods from the online store will no longer be able to receive personalized replacements should they need to exchange them under service terms.

Apple Online Store for Indonesia first opened for business in November 2008 along with several other Southeast Asian store fronts though without much fanfare. The Southeast Asian stores were established as extensions of the Singapore Apple Online Store with all orders processed and managed from the city state.

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It’s Not A Mirror, It’s A Crystal Ball

parislemon:

Aside from a few tweets, I’ve mainly stayed out of the latest TechCrunch brouhaha. These things tend to flare up every few months, and they ultimately end up meaning nothing. But I would like to address one thing in particular, because The New York Times’ David Carr names me specifically in his article on the matter today.

More generally, it occurs to me that a lot of these posts are based around a fundamental misunderstanding of how TechCrunch actually works. Journalists seem to think they can write about TechCrunch as if they’re looking in a mirror. That is to say, they think our operation runs in a similar manner to theirs and they use that as a jumping off point for misguided (but predictable) outrage. In reality, what they’re looking at when they look at TechCrunch is a crystal ball.

So gather ‘round everyone, to learn how TechCrunch actually works.

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Apple would love us to believe it’s all “Eureka.” But Apple produces 10 pixel-perfect prototypes for each feature. They compete — and are winnowed down to three, then one, resulting in a highly evolved winner. Because Apple knows the more you compete inside, the less you’ll have to compete outside.

Steve Jobs and the Eureka myth 
Source: daringfireball.net