Wednesday, June 10, 2009
You Can Live Without Apple’s New iPhone. But it’s getting harder to live without the App Store.
I didn’t go to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday expecting a revolutionary new iPhone.
I didn’t go to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday expecting a revolutionary new iPhone.
Wow, there’s two hours of my life that I won’t get back anytime soon.
A spokeswoman for Apple (AAPL) today said the company was not going to respond to rumors and speculation about the health of CEO Steve Jobs. Four years ago, Jobs had surgery for pancreatic cancer. The spokeswoman would not discuss speculation that he may have had a recurrence.
Is Steve Jobs healthy? A lot of people who watched yesterday’s keynote at the Apple (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference worry that Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, looked too thin, gaunt, maybe unhealthy. Multiple readers wrote to me this morning asking about his appearance yesterday.
AT&T is now limiting sales of the Apple iPhone to one per customer, according to a memo to its retail stores published by the blog Boy Genius Report.
Earlier this week, Apple’s online store started listing the iPhone as “currently unavailable.”
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