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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…

• discovered a new, fun activity that calms the boy: karaoke singing bryan adams songs. #
• AAPL Q3 booyah: http://tr.im/toIv #
• the earnings “dark spot”: iPod sales dropped from 11M to 10.2M. so sad. #
• glad Pogue is calling out the cellphone carrier’s greediness:
  http://tr.im/tK06 #
• Autostitch of Infinite Loop 1 lobby with the App Wall.
  http://bit.ly/1TEaVf
  http://twitpic.com/bdmbl #
• mothership lobby art. http://twitpic.com/bdz5m #
• Google Wave looks like it’s gonna eat email, IM, wikis, forum comments. looking forward to it in Sept. #

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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.

• Revenue down 17%
• Profits down 26%
• Windows sales down for the first year ever
• 86% of businesses still running XP

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]