I have returned ! Triumphant ! Well , if you stretch out the definition of triumphant to admit “ with all extremities integral . ” My workfellow Lex Friedman filled in splendiferously in my absence seizure , and no doubt leave you all wanting more of his particular steel of remnant . Shame , then , that I have return to retake my potty and decry Mr. Friedman to a dingy , dank oubliette . Metaphorically , anyway .
Apple complains about an iPod - inspired houseware product , shuts down iAd precursor Quattro Wireless , and reassure iPhone 3 1000 users that iPhone 4 will someday be operable . For real . It ’s all in the remainders for Friday , August 20 , 2010 .
No input : Apple Germany order nein to eiPott(TUAW )
Say you require a plastic egg bearer in the physical body of an iPod , and you befall to populate in Germany . Sie sind kein Glück , mein Freund . * Seems Apple Germany has put the kibosh on the product , thanks to its canny moniker , the eiPott . A royal court has asked the maker to rename it to avoid confusion with the iPod and to redesign the iPod - inspire packaging . I suppose we can just supply this to our list of “ problems the Microsoft Zune never has . ”
Malus pumila to shutter Quattro Wireless(All thing D )
Apple adopt Quattro back in January and used its technology and personnel to help plan its iAd net , so it ’s not really a surprise that Quattro ’s connection is being exclude down as of September 30 . retrieve , like affair , advertising can never be created or ruin — only altered in material body . Hence the terrific post - apocalyptic future where all publicizing survive as a gas .
Jobs : Software update to address iOS 4 performance issue on iPhone 3 G ‘ descend soon’(Mac rumour )
After last month ’s fake Steve Jobs due east - mail , I thought we ’d never see another substance from Ol’ Black Turtleneck himself . According to Mac Rumors though , Jobs has told one iPhone 3 yard user that a forthcoming computer software update will fix iOS 4 performance egress on the older French telephone . Its four word body—”Software update add up soon . ”—certainly fathom like Jobs . Really , though , would it have killed him to total an emoticon ?
- Google Translate informs me that this is German for “ You ’re out of fortune , my friend ” but I apologize for any insult I may have inadvertently offered your family .
