Don’t think we missed the fact that the new iPod touch 3G doesn’t have a camera! We were shocked to see that Apple postponed adding a camera to the iPod touch 3G. Probably that’s what we’re going to see next year in the fourth-generation. What happened you ask? It’s all so confusing but Steve Jobs claims that the touch doesn’t have a camera since it’s a gaming device. It’s probably a lot harder to play all those cool games on a device that comes with a camera on board. That’s probably why the nano doesn’t have support for any games.

So here’s what Steve Jobs did say, word for word:

Q. You put a camcorder on the iPod Nano. Why not on the iPod Touch?

A. Originally, we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine. Because a lot of the games were free on the store. Customers started to tell us, “You don’t know what you’ve got here - it’s a great game machine, with the multitouch screen, the accelerometer, and so on.”

We started to market it that way, and it just took off. And now what we really see is it’s the lowest-cost way to the App Store, and that’s the big draw. So what we were focused on is just reducing the price to $199. We don’t need to add new stuff - we need to get the price down where everyone can afford it.

I bet my horse that next year the iPod touch 4G will have a camera. What do you think?

via NYT

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We were actually waiting for Steve Jobs to return on stage where he belongs. Whether you like or hate the guy, you have to admit he sure knows how to speak to the crowds. And Steve Jobs was present at Apple’s rock and roll event ready to show off the company’s newest toys.

Steve Jobs had a liver transplant from a 20-year old who died in a car crash:

I’m very happy to be here with you all. As some of you might know, I had a liver transplant.

But now he looks ready and confident to deliver all the good news so we should be back with all the details about the hot new iPods. And Apple’s event will reveal a lot of interesting things: iPhone OS 3.1, iTunes 9, ringtones in the iTunes store, Genius feature in the App Store and of course, the new iPods.

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If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed then it looks like Steve Jobs has returned to Apple only to find himself extremely busy again. This time it’s not the iPhone but it’s Apple’s upcoming tablet. We’ve been talking about the tablet for quite a while now and it appears that Steve Jobs has been working on it around the clock.

The Wall Street Journal goes on to say that the tablet project has been canceled twice be Steve Jobs, once because of a bad batter solution and once because of memory problems. But we’re glad that Apple’s CEO hasn’t killed the project for good.

Steve Jobs has responded to the article saying that “much of your information is incorrect.” That means that some parts of the WSJ article are correct and we might see the tablet sometime later this year.

via WSJ

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Apple’s future keynote hasn’t been properly announced yet but we hear the next event is coming in the week of September 7. According to these rumors, Steve Jobs might be present and Mac lovers have probably waiting for him to return for quite a while now.

What will Apple launch? We will probably going to see the next generation of iPod touches, you know, the ones with cameras and microphones. The new iPod touch will come in new sizes, 16, 32 and 64GB which will cost $199, $299 and $399. Considering that that hot new Zune HD is coming on September 18 we should very well assume that Apple is indeed launching the new iPod touch a week before.

What else can we expect? Will we see the tablet? A MacBook refresh? iTunes 9? Whatever it is, we’ll be watching!

via daring fireball

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After a 6-month leave, Apple main-man Steve Jobs has officially returned to work to fullfill his day-to-day duties. Just as previously reported, Mr. Jobs recieved a liver transplant when on leave and has presumably returned to good health.

Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, was quoted to have said that Jobs will be working at Apple’s Cupertino, California headquarters “a few days a week” with the remainder of the week being done from home.

This is great new but one question, Mr. Jobs. Have you been working on that fabled iTablet everyone was talking about last month?

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Apple is excited to announce that the latest version of their popular iPhone line, the 3G S, has gone ahead and sold over 1 million copies since its June 19th release date. Apple front-man Steve Jobs was on hand to comment on the phone’s success:

Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning. With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.

But that’s not all Apple was pleased to announce as they also let us know that the latest iPhone OS version, version 3.0, has been downloaded over 6 million times since it was released last week.

Does anyone out there still doubt that Apple is attempting to take over the world?

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It looks like Apple’s CEO had a liver transplant about two months ago in Tennessee. Steve Jobs will apparently return to work sometime later this month. Will Apple host a special event featuring Jobs at the end of June as it was speculated before?

Here’s what the Wall Street Journal is saying about the liver transplant:

William Hawkins, a doctor specializing in pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., said that the type of slow-growing pancreatic tumor Mr. Jobs had will commonly metastasize in another organ during a patient’s lifetime, and that the organ is usually the liver. “All total, 75% of patients are going to have the disease spread over the course of their life,” said Dr. Hawkins, who has not treated Mr. Jobs.

Getting a liver transplant to treat a metastasized neuroendocrine tumor is controversial because livers are scarce and the surgery’s efficacy as a cure hasn’t been proved, Dr. Hawkins added. He said that patients whose tumors have metastasized can live for as many as 10 years without any treatment so it is hard to determine how successful a transplant has been in curing the disease.

We wish all the best to Steve Jobs and we’ll be waiting to see what wild Apple products he will come up with next. When he’s good and ready of course!

via WSJ

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After we have gone through all the rumors and all the leaked pictures depicting the next iPhone, we will finally get all the official details about the new generation iPhone. In less than two hours the WWDC will go live and we’ll be bringing you all the news.

In the mean time we hear that the new iPhone will be codenamed the iPhone 3GS although we don’t have any idea of what the S represents.

John Gruber of Daring Fireball says about the iPhone 3GS:

I expect Apple to announce updated iPhones with significantly faster processors, twice the RAM, and twice the storage. I expected prices to remain the same as the current lineup: $199/299 for 16/32 GB, respectively. The video camera is going to be a major selling point.

A cheaper iPhone is also expected to be announced too while an Apple tablet, although it’s said to exist already, won’t be announced at this time. Will we see Steve Jobs announce it when he comes back to Apple?

via Daring Fireball

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Nothing is exactly clear when it comes to the next WWDC but it looks like Apple’s event will be dedicated to the all new iPhone. Steve Jobs will not be presenting this latest phone as we heard earlier this year but he is to return sometime in late June to Apple. And Jobs will come back with a bang as Apple is going to host another major event around that time. Are we to expect a shiny new product?

As we’ve seen before the new iPhone will be called Video although Carphone warehouse has it in its inventory as the V3. Apple is also said to be prepping a cheaper iPhone version at WWDC. Are we going to see the iPhone nano emerge? Said device will be sold anywhere from $99 to $149 with a contract.

via WSJ

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Apple has just announced that this year’s WWDC will be held on Monday, June 8 and the keynote address will be given at 10:00AM PT by Apple’s own Phil Shiller. It looks like Steve Jobs isn’t coming back for this particular keynote. Or is it just a slick strategy meant to distract us while we wait. Besides the new iPhone, the iPhone OS 3.0 and possibly an Apple patent we’re also going to get some more details about the OS X Snow Leopard. What do you say? Will the WWDC keynote be just as fun without Steve Jobs.

via Apple

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There are two things to look forward to come this June. One is the expected return of Apple CEO Steve Jobs who has since been on forced leave due to his health. The other is the expected announcement of a new iPhone being hyped as the “iPhone Touch HD”.

With the burgeoning success of the iPhone, iPod, and Mac, Apple is beginning to do what Microsoft has been trying for a decade to do: Create a common software platform that transcends devices. This is one of the most important trends for Apple’s long-term growth prospects.

With two huge announcements and critical things expected to come out this June, Apple is expected to continue its hold on the market and likewise formalize its entry into the netbook market.

(Source) Yahoo Finance

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We all know how Steve Jobs decided to take a break from daily Apple chores, but he is still the acting CEO and he is still involved in important and very secret Apple projects.

According to rumors, despite the fact that Steve jobs is working from his him, he is involved in key features like new interface elements in iPhone 3.0 and an “iTablet” or a bigger iPod touch. Apple doesn’t have an official position yet so we’ll have to keep waiting just a few more months for relevant keynotes. Will Steve Jobs give any keynotes himself this year?

via WSJ

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One thing that Apple has to deal with these days is the temporary (or perhaps permanent depending on his health) departure of CEO genius Steve Jobs. It is no secret that Jobs has been responsible and marked as an advertising icon for Apple computers and his absence is similar to taking out the processor on a PC. Will Apple survive the absence of their prized product endorser?

Jobs’ health problems are serious. In fact, Apple has announced that his illness has become so serious that he had to surrender his duties to COO Tim Cook until the end of June. With that said, you can imagine the rage that the Apple investors got into, seeking better explanations on the inconsistent reports and sudden turn of events made by Apple.

Did Jobs deceive Apple and shareholders regarding his health? No one has uncovered hard evidence that he did. But it sure looks bad, and securities lawyers are sure to exploit the situation given the drop in Apple’s stock in after-hours trading Wednesday and a further drop Thursday.

Apple is a notoriously secretive company. That strategy has allowed Apple to generate hype better than perhaps any company in America, but it could have backfired in a big way Wednesday. So how can Apple respond?

(Source) CNet

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One of the favorite topics for various blogs and publications has been for the past few months the health of Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. We’ve heard lots of rumors but Jobs has always assured everyone that he was fine. Yesterday he has sent an email (see below) to all Apple employees telling them that he will take a prolonged leave of absence from Apple due to complex health related problems. Tim Cook will replace him until the end of June but he will still be the CEO. Will this affect Apple’s creativity in 2009? Well hopefully he will fully recover by June and get back to what he does best!

Here’s the email I was telling you about:

Team,

I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.

In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.
I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.

Steve

via AppleInsider

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I am sure you were not expecting this at all. Apple has announced that the next Macworld Expo would be the last one to be held in San Francisco. Furthermore the company announced that Steve Jobs won’t be holding it’s usual keynote this year. That’s odd wouldn’t you say?

It’s Philip Schiller the designated person to give us the opening keynote. The event will take place at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009, at 9:00AM. The Macworld Conference & Expo will end on January 9.

Adobe and Belkin won’t make it to next year’s show and we expect other companies to do the same. Harsh economic conditions? That might be it for these companies. But what about Apple? What’s the real reason for these sudden changes?

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Steve Jobs‘ health has been an issue since earlier this year. While iPhone sales and not only went up, Apple’s stock went down inexplicably. People have been blaming the fall on Jobs’ health despite his reassuring that his current medical condition was fine and its previous cancer problem didn’t reappear.
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A picture is worth one thousand words or more, depending on your imagination and your average WPM. A video is even better so in case you don’t exactly like reading events minute by minute on our earlier live coverage of the “Let’s Rock” event, Apple has it on their official site. Go on and watch it!

My favorite slide of this presentation is the one in which Steve Jobs mentions his health. Enjoy!

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Steve Jobs wants to sell at least 10 million iPhones this year. With about 4 months to go, people are already counting handsets. A joint project between AFB and Investor Village’s Sanity board claims that Apple has already sold 8 million iPhones already.

The project counts IMEI numbers of every iPhone 3G already sold and records them on a spreadsheet. According to it 5,649,000 sold iPhone 3G have been counted. Adding to that the 2.4 million handsets already sold this year we get 8 million phones already.

2 million phones in 4 months… Can they do it?

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Steve Jobs is alive and I say this again. Various reports of his physical condition and general health have circulated since we’ve seen him looking not that well at this year WWDC. While the iPhone was being sold in 1 million units during its first weekend, Apple’s shares dropped due to Steve’s rumored health problems. (more…)

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It appears that Apple doesn’t always think outside the box the proper and legal way. A former top lawyer has just agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal charges. Apparently she cooked Apple’s books in order to hide backdated stock options issued to Steve Jobs and other executives.

The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Nancy Heinen helped Apple backdate two options grants to senior executives including herself. The move lead to $40 million being underreported in expenses. Steve Jobs was supposed to be a witness in the trial but Nancy Heinen settled. Besides the fine she agreed to be barred for five years from serving as an officer or director of any public company. Well that must mean she can afford it all. Not that it’s relevant to the whole case, but does she own any iPhone model?

Apple said its CEO knew about the whole think but he didn’t benefit from it. Sure he didn’t! He is just an innocent bystander in all of this right?

He didn’t know it was illegal, Apple says. Well I guess it is. Jobs wasn’t charged yet and I wonder if he’ll ever be…

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