- Draw Something: Pictionary meets Scrabble
Some call the hot new app 'Draw something' (12 million downloads and 7.1 million daily active users, in less than 5 weeks of introduction) the next 'Words with friends', the next 'time waster', because time-wasting is …
Topic: App, Mobile game, Gaming | Read more
- Four ways to secure your smartphone
A study on smartphone security found that of all people who found smartphones, 72% tried to access photos, 57% tried to open a file called "Saved Passwords," and 43%tried to open an app called "Online Banking."
Since m…
Topic: Geek, Apple, Android, Smartphone, Tips | Read more
- Apple's excuse for its China sweatshops: We create ample jobs and business for Americans, so just shut up
Responding to its critics who complain about bad work situations in its China factories (run by Foxconn), Apple chief Tim Cook says that Apple has created 514,000 jobs in the United States though its gadget business - c…
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- How Apple's TV plans will no better than its Appified Internet Walled Garden Plan: cable companies and content providers will be most hit
Get this thing clear: Apple just wants to sell us its shiny, bauhaus-style gadgets. Apple isn't concerned with better TV experience (which eventually is about better content). This is what Business insider says about App…
Topic: Apple, Apple tv, Video | Read more
- iPhone financials: Apple's margin on each iPhone sold is around 55%
Apple sells an iPhone for around $650. A report says Apple's cost of Goods sold (COGS) is $293. Of this COGS, the bill of materials (e.g. touchscreen cost) for an iPhone is $200. That means Apple spends around $90 on man…
Topic: Big Business, Apple, Iphone | Read more
- The Problems with Cults (Cult of Apple Redux)
Cults are the 'disease' of modern existence. Cults are everything that is wrong with this world. This thing that started with organized religion now finds its greatest manifestation in form of consumerism. In his last bo…
Topic: Idea, Apple | Read more
- 35 Most Important Apple iPad numbers
A no-nonsense look at facts and figures that really matter, related directly or indirectly to the iPad.
Pricing and Costing
$499 Price of cheapest iPad, with 16GB of memory and Wi-Fi
$829 Price of most expensive iPa…
Topic: Gadgets, Apple | Read more
- 32 Reasons Why iPad and Apple are Wrong For Us
A rundown of all that is wrong with Apple's latest offering towards world domination, a roundup of what the internet thinks about iPad.
1. iPad is not Green: One e-reader requires the extraction of 33 pounds of minera…
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- 10 things you must know about Apple Tablet and Tablet computers
This is the year of the Tablet computer. Even Google is rumored to be planning a Tablet. The Microsft-HP tablet is also there, to mixed reviews . We have had tablet before but this boom in Tablets is fueled by the rise…
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- Why are we not happy despite all these social media tools?
Kevin Kelly says, "Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy." He writes about the ubiquitous presence of technology all around us but still, we have become sadder and anxious still.
Why aren’t we grateful for all…
Topic: Web20, Happiness | Read more
- simplelist: Top 10 Countries where kidnapping is a major industry
An article in Hotelclub lists out these post-macrocalypse countries. Is this the future for all countries fallen on hard times?
Haiti
Iraq
Afghanistan
Chechnya
Nigeria
Philippines
Venezuela
Colombia
Br…
Topic: Crime, Simplelist, Kidnapping | Read more
- The 20 Best iPod Utilities
Essential gizmos for iPod fans everywhereNext: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appliances, home services, cars, money and more.❤ If you liked all this, consider supporting us by checking out Tiny Ski…
Topic: Best of 2007, Music, IPod, Apple | Read more
