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Why does Apple even have ratings and parental controls?

I think maybe Apple needs to get out more. I’m pretty sure they have no idea what pornography is. When the Hottest Girls app was released earlier this week claiming to be the “first iPhone app with nudity” on the iTunes app store, it was both exciting, and expected. After all, Apple had announced that the new iPhone OS would have parental controls, and the new... Read More

Looks like Howard Stern is not a Sirius team player

Sirius XM released their highly anticipated and long overdue iPhone application yesterday, and the big news was that Howard Stern’s Channels (channels 100 and 101) would NOT be available on the iPhone. There was no official statement from either Sirius or Apple, but Bloomberg quoted a Sirius customer service rep (who odds are knew nothing) as saying Stern wouldn’t... Read More

I was wrong: It’s Apple screwing us, not AT&T

[WARNING: This post contains references to me attempting to do math, so all figures are subject to scrutiny and your usual criticism of how wrong I have it.] Well, a full day has passed since the WWDC, and I think now with a little bit of distance comes clarity. I was pretty angrily bashing AT&T for screwing us current iPhone 3G customers with their $200 “early upgrade... Read More

WWDC 09: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

Faithful Macenstein reader Billy Cape requested I do another one of our “The Good, the Bad, and the Meh” keynote wrap ups, and when one of our readers says “jump”, we ask “how high?” And if their answer is reasonable, and we’re not already laying down or something, we do it. It is important to remember that despite what the Mac community... Read More

Attention Whores

Above: Lee and Mandy profess their love in front of 200 confused, roped-off strangers, just like Mandy pictured as a young girl. When considering a marriage proposal, far more important than the choice of person is the location. Yes, it’s not important how long you’ve known someone, what really matters is that when it comes time to pop the question, you have as many... Read More

I hate 13-year olds

God, I am so pissed at 13 year old Connor Muicahey of Weston, Connecticut who basically stole my Billion iPhone app prize. That’s right, a 13-year old won my $10,000 iTunes card, my Time Capsule, my 32 GB iPod touch, AND my 17″ MacBook Pro. Wouldn’t YOU be pissed if someone did that to you? I mean, it’s almost like the kid broke into my house. Why didn’t... Read More

This looks all kinds of stolen

I was somewhat surprised to see that Nintendo had released its first iPhone game today, the cult classic Donkey Kong, and even more surprised to see it only cost 99¢. Of course, a quick click revealed the game is not from Nintendo at all, but from a French developer called VeryGames. The first thing to tip me off was the splash screen image on iTunes. I don’t know which... Read More

Coincidencia? Or is the Mexican Government ripping off Apple?

Eagle eyed Faithful Macenstein reader Christian noticed a little potential Mac-infringement down Mexico way. “Doc, look at the image, its the pic of the infonavit (something like fannie mae or freddie mac, a house mortage corp operated by the government in mexico) they are using a variation of the finder logo in red -look center to the right the logo acts as an “A”... Read More

Will Apple pretend iPhone video recording requires the new iPhone?

Looks like all the rumors about a possible iPhone video recording app for this Summer have been confirmed. MacRumors has posted a shot of what the new video recording interface of the iPhone will look like, which appears to be a supped up version of the Camera app with a “photo/video” toggle switch at the bottom. So, now that we know video recording is coming, the... Read More

Apple announces it still makes Xserves

Apple today announced that not only do they still make Xserves, but they actually updated them. According to Apple, the new Xseres “deliver up to twice the performance of the previous system,” and feature Intel’s new “Nehalem” Xeon processors and a next generation system architecture, giving the ew Xserves up to an 89 percent improvement in performance... Read More