Apple Store Ginza – Chinese iPhone resellers hire homeless to wait in line
Both of these were further back in the line (around a block and a half from the...
Akihabara shop selling a gold 128GB iPhone 6 Plus for 169,800円
That’s over $1,700 US at todays exchange rate. This is still several hundred dollars below what this same...
Apple’s New iPhones Seen Fueling Switch From Android
via Bloomberg. Samsung Mobile sort of reminds me of Microsoft and the whole Wintel ecosystem where as far...
Tokyo Geek Girl gets her 6 Plus
After nearly a week of waiting outside the Ginza Apple Store, Tokyo “geek” girl and Ustream personality Ayano...
Lot of Chinese nationals standing in lines at various Apple Stores
I was just channel flipping and CNBC (which I normally do not watch), was showing a clip of...
The one handed argument
One thing I noticed in many iPhone 6/6 Plus reviews was the ability to use them one handed....
iPhone 6/6 Plus pre-orders top 4 million in first 24 hours
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/15Apple-Announces-Record-Pre-orders-for-iPhone-6-iPhone-6-Plus-Top-Four-Million-in-First-24-Hours.html They didn’t hint anywhere that they got the product mix wrong as what had happened when they...
Apple Pay details leaking out
Financial Times has some interesting details about Apple Pay in a report entitled, Apple Wages War on the...
Speaking of rage and iPhone 6 pre-orders….
There’s some funny raging going on with iPhone 6 pre-order failures (check the comments section)…. http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/12/6139369/apple-iphone-6-pre-order-fail Perspective… first...
Tim Cook was right…
… in saying that he expected this would be the mother of all upgrades. Record number of iPhone...
Lousy iTunes execution on the free U2 album
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-11/-who-is-u2-ask-itunes-users-miffed-at-apple-s-album-giveaway.html As part of a PR campaign, music group U2 and Apple decided to give away the bands...