Blog on iPod and iPhone

The world’s eyes have been on Apple this week after it announced record-breaking quarterly earnings In the midst of all this commentary and congratulations was a sobering article by New York Times reporters Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. Titled “In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad,” the report was critical of Apple’s relationship [...]

We found Boxee at CES’ ShowStoppers event this year, and when we cornered them to complain about dropping official PC and Mac support late in 2011, they were appropriately apologetic. Boxee’s Liz Dellheim said that yes, they’re sorry that they’ve abandoned that part of the company, and says that with just 20 people in their [...]

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you — the readers — and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We’ll [...]

Every time you walk into an Apple store and are greeted by one of those friendly badged employees you might see someone who wants to help you with your question or grab you the latest Apple product, but when Apple looks at that same employee they see 320,000 George Washingtons. That’s right, each Apple retail [...]

Tech.pinions’ Tim Bajarin has opined on why they feel Google and Microsoft hate Siri, citing some excellent sources. As the article states, Google’s Andy Rubin told the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, “You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.” Likewise, Bajarin quotes [...]

Some iPhone 4S users are reporting their screen has a yellowish tint. The tinting problem supposedly affects the whole display and gives everything a washed out appearance when compared to the iPhone 4. This is apparently different from the yellow tinting problem of the iPhone 4 which appeared as yellow blotches on the screen. The [...]

As the unending battle between Apple and Samsung continues into its third epoch, a Dutch court today denied Samsung’s request for an injunction against every single Apple product that uses 3G technology. According to Reuters, the Dutch court not only denied Samsung’s requested injunction, its ruling pretty much put an end to Samsung’s hope of [...]

Last Tuesday’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” Apple event was the first time that Apple CEO Tim Cook had the opportunity to run the show for a major product introduction. In the past, of course, most Apple product announcements were “Stevenotes,” with the late CEO Steve Jobs wowing the audiences with whatever new products were coming out [...]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Amazon Set to Challenge Apple: Pundits are saying that if anyone can challenge iPad’s tablet market dominance–standing now at 80% of the North American market–it is Amazon. The retail giant of the Pacific Northwest has a proven history in hardware–the Kindle–and more importantly, a solid history in digital commerce that could give Apple’s [...]

Other sites have rumors. We have the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today’s topic is Apple’s mysterious fall “product transition.” During Apple’s Q3 Financials, Peter Oppenheimer mentioned an upcoming product transition due to take place this autumn. Without giving specific details, Oppenheimer hinted that [...]