when you call an iphone user and go to their voicemail, you don’t get this retarded message that eats up your air time and generally wastes your time:
* AT&T: “To page this person, press five now. At the tone, please record your message. When you are finished, you may hang up, or press one for more options.”
why? because Apple insisted that AT&T remove it.
[From Take Back the Beep Campaign - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com]
Here’s video from the opening of the 21st U.K. Apple Store in Brighton on Saturday.
I’m not so sure about the M$ strategy of opening their stores near Apple’s…
From Apple has 91% of market for $1,000+ PCs, says NPD | Betanews:
According to NPD, in June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 or more went to Apple. Mac revenue market share in the “premium” price segment was 91 percent, up from 88 percent in May.
Because of the global recession and a slumping PC market, Microsoft has suffered a number of historic lows the last seven months. In January, it initiated large-scale layoffs for the first time in its history. Sales of its flagship Windows software have also declined for the first time ever, as consumers and businesses cut back on PC purchases during the economic downturn.
[From Microsoft’s Revenue Falls 17%; PC Slump Continues - NYTimes.com]
WSJ: Apple, RIM Outsmart Phone Market
Apple has 1% of the cellphone market, and rakes in 20% of the profits. Not a bad place to be.
Note that 1% of the overall cellphone market = 15% of the smartphone subcategory.
from tuaw: the answer is gimmesometune + needledrop.
it totally works.
so the iPhone 3GS comes with a built-in compass. the Compass app itself is pretty boring, but it comes in really handy in Google Maps to show which way you’re facing.
but the real fun is yet to come, when ‘augmented reality’ apps start to take advantage of the compass. that is, since the phone knows where you are, which way you’re facing (via compass), and where the phone is pointing (via accelerometer), it can easily combine that with data from the internet to create a live heads-up-display to augment your reality.
here’s a perfect example: New York Nearest Subway app (awaiting Apple approval)
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