The Apple-Google love-in is overGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from his seat on Apple’s board. The move comes at the heels of an FCC investigation into Apple’s ambiguous iPhone App Store policies, which saw the company reject an app made by Google. But there are broader ideological issues at stake.
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Tech-sploitation? Life inside a Chinese gadget sweatshop
The manufacturers of tech products recently came into the spotlight after a Chinese worker at an iPhone factory committed suicide. So what’s life really like for the people who build your iPods, laptops and digital photo frames? Seriously depressing, according to this worker’s account.
Apple: secretly for chicks?
Apple’s effortlessly cool and easy-to-use products aren’t just coveted by gadget geeks and tech heads — the ladies love them too. Could Apple be the world’s most discreetly feminine brand? Bridget Brennan makes the case.
Resurrecting the album on iTunes
Apple is working with four record company heavyweights — Sony, Universal, EMI and Warner — to encourage full album digital sales. Albums will be bundled with an interactive booklet, sleeve notes and more.
Dying for the iPhone?
The New Yorker is trying to find out more about a 25-year-old employee at Foxconn, Apple’s Chinese manufacturer, who committed suicide, apparently after being interrogated about a missing iPhone prototype.
Apple sells 1.5 billion apps in first year
Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded 1.5 billion apps since the launch of the App Store a year ago. No doubt the company have changed the face of mobile communications, but will developers stick with them for another year?
Apple board should have spoken out on Jobs
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago but it was only revealed last week. Someone should be paying for this failure to disclose a material event, says Tim Beyers.
The Steve Jobs story
When major news breaks, like the report that Steve Jobs’ got a new liver, there’s always a scramble to find the next angle. Like: Where was he hiding?
VIDEO: Apple’s new toys
Gizmodo have put together a three-minute highlight clip of Apple’s WWDC keynote speech, where they announced all the features of the new iPhone and Macbook Pro.
Apple store gets hacked
A hacker who once infiltrated Apple’s online store has now attacked the real thing — buying a billboard in front of Apple’s San Francisco store to advertise his “cure for iPhone envy”.
The five traits of good companies
What Crocs, Boeing and Apple have in common.
Jobs ready to return to Apple
Steve Jobs is on track to return to the helm of Apple at the end of June — but will he make a surprise early appearance to present the new iPhone at the the company’s developer conference next week?
What the auto industry can learn from the Apple Store
Here’s a novel idea: get rid of car yards, and only manufacture cars on demand. So crazy it just might work?
Digital Radio: Who gives a toss? Radio’s dead anyway.
Who cares about Digital Radio? We’ve already got it. It’s called “the internet”.
Do CEOs matter? The Apple case study
Like fretful parents at the bedside of an ailing child, Apple investors have been wringing their hands over the health of Steve Jobs for nearly a year now—or even longer. Are they right?
Apple outsmarts pirates with iPod shuffle
Apple may have found a cure for the disease of hardware piracy in an unconventional way — by making a product no-one can out-smart.
The Newtown Pippin: the Big Apple’s apple?
The question on every New Yorker’s lips: will the Newtown Pippin be dubbed the city’s official apple?
One billion iPhone apps. But how many are worth downloading?
The marketplace for iPhone applications is growing increasingly more crowded, but the question must be asked: are they actually any good?
iWarfare: Soldiers using Apple tech in the field
US soldiers are being issued with iPhones and iPod Touches for cheap and functional translation, communication and data mangement.
The week in geek: Underbelly shoots pirates … What is Apple planning next?
Our weekly column from the world of the Web.
Greenpeace brings Apple to heel
Apple has copped it from Greenpeace, which singled out the company by describing its products as producing iPoison, writes AntiGeek.
Immobilised by Apple’s MobileMe, even without an iPhone
As the hype surrounding the god-like iPhone slowly face, a massive problem with Apple’s subscription email service has emerged, writes Stilgherrian.
Apple, Amex cast new shadow over US credit markets
Amex and Apple came back with lower than expected profit results, casting another shadow over the fragile US credit markets, writes Glenn Dyer.
Briefly Business: iPhone, $AU, Wal-Mart
iPhone: a tax on the stupid? … How, exactly, did Wal-Mart become the new Food and Drug Administration? … Mining your own neighbourhood for oil …
Briefly Business: Selling Out, John Stewart, Green law
Sold out: the latest must have sales strategy … Tearing down the iPhone 3G … Does NAB boss John Stewart have the best job in the world? … Boomtime for the global bourgeoisie … EU considers “green” legislation.
