Throughout our history, Apple has created entirely new products — and entirely new industries —&by focusing on innovation. As a result, we’ve created or supported more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers: from the engineer who helped invent the iPad to the delivery person who brings it to your door.

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I just found out that Apple is rejecting my new manifesto&Stop Stealing Dreams&and won’t carry it in their store because inside the manifesto are links to buy the books I mention in the bibliography.

Quoting here from their note to me, rejecting the book: “Multiple links to Amazon store. IE page 35, David Weinberger link.”

So this is going to be challenging for affliates and publishers trying to include links in their ebooks.

Apple, apparently, won’t carry an ebook that contains a link to buy a hardcover book from Amazon.

Finally Seth's advice to the ebook stores:

I think that Amazon and Apple and BN need to take a deep breath and make a decision on principle: what’s inside the book shouldn’t be of concern to a bookstore with a substantial choke on the marketplace. [...]&These stores can’t have it both ways. The web works because it’s open. The stores (all three of them) need to be too.

I personnally think it's pretty useless not being able to link to sources of content on the web from an ebook. Ebooks can be kept up to date easily and links to new sources curated by the author. Not being to include links takes away one of the benefits of digital books...

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As for the next-generation iPad itself, sources say it will be pretty much what we’ve been led to expect by the innumerable reports leading up to its release: A device similar in form factor to the iPad 2, but running a much faster chip, sporting an improved graphics processing unit, and featuring a 20481536 Retina Display — or something close to it.

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Page 39, FBI File on Steve Jobs The FBI has released its file on Steven Paul Jobs, the late Apple founder, compiled mostly during the presidency of George H.W. Bush. According to the The Vault description, “In 1991, Jobs was considered for an appointed position on the U.S. President’s Export Council. This release consists of the FBI’s 1991 background investigation of Jobs for that position and a 1985 investigation of a bomb threat against him.” The background check includes tidbits like, “Several individuals questioned Mr. Jobs’ honesty stating that Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.”

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The inspiration for Everything Butt Art can be traced back to when I was seven or eight. I used to spend hours doing step-by-step drawing. Being a silly kid, I’d start with a butt shape and challenge myself to see what I could turn it into. Then, I’d show off my drawings to friends. They were a big hit. When my daughter was about three, I showed her some of my go-to butt art. She loved the whole idea of it. Because it’s such a simple concept, I was sure someone else had done something with it. After searching quite a bit, I found there wasn’t anything like it. Using silliness and technology to encourage creativity in kids felt like a worthwhile pursuit.

I love this. Can't wait to get an iPad in 2012.

Source [TheNextWeb]

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Apple on Thursday announced a new platform for creating and reading digital textbooks.

"In like five minutes flat, we created an e-book and deployed it to the iPad. I hope you find that as inspiring and empowering as I do," Apple's Phil Schiller said at a press conference at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, according to live blogs of the event posted online.

At the press conference, Schiller mocked paper textbooks, saying, "They're not portable, not durable, not interactive, not searchable." Books on the iPad are all of those things, he said.

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A new report from Ars Technica says the company is about to unveil a set of tools to create interactive e-books

This is going to change the world of e-books.

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The latest scuttlebutt on Apple’s big&education announcement&next week: the company is venturing into textbooks.

An industry insider&confirmed&to the&New York Times&that Apple will, in fact, be partnering with textbook publishers. No new devices will be shown, the source says, but Apple will discuss their new digital textbook business next week.

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Instead, they undesigned it by creating the simplest shape possible. The iPad is the core essence of what a tablet can look like.

Apple is really good at this. Look at the Cinema Display, the Apple wireless keyboard, the Macbook Air, the iPod, and all their other devices. The reason why their "design" is so successful is because they are not actually designing their products. They are reducing them to the simplest form possible.

It is beauty through simplicity.

You cannot force people to add design elements that don't need to be there. You can trademark design, but not simplicity.

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24 years later, Siri is here. That's called vision.

I recall when this video first came out how awe-struck I was. You have to remember that the graphical Web version of the Internet that we have today did not ...

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Wow, i bet Apple is going to change the way to distribute and track these prototypes, and now there is an iPhone 5 going around...

The San Francisco police department this weekend admitted that it did in fact help Apple employees search a Bay-area home for a “lost item,” which most reports say was a missing iPhone 5 prototype. Days later, the story took two strange turns. First, a San Francisco police official said the department had no record of an investigation involving a missing Apple product. Then Sergio Calderón, whose home was searched for the lost iPhone, said six people that claimed to be police but weren’t searched his home. This implied that that Apple investigators could have impersonated police, which is a criminal offense.

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I know he is sticking as chairman, but it won't be the same.

And Steve Jobs stepping down just doesn't say any good things about his health IMO.

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Wow, some really interesting stuff in here.

I thought about becoming an Apple Genius briefly.

Apple's successful retail formula includes intensive control of how employees interact with customers, scripted training for tech support and consideration of every store detail, confidential training manuals and interviews with former employees reveal.

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Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs presents his proposal for a new Apple Campus to the Cupertino City Council. This presentation was recorded Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at...

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A log file on your 3G-enabled iPhone or iPad shows nearly every place you've been worldwide, whether you were using GPS or not. Ars explores the implications of this very disturbing discovery that tracking data generally revealed only by court order is available to anyone with the right tools.

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This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer.

this is pretty wild. if you have an iphone check this out

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Thirty-five years ago this month, a couple of geeky young members of Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club founded a company to sell a new type of device--which almost nobody had heard of yet--known as a personal computer.

We've come a long way baby. The ad copy has great details ..

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This is great, i bet lots of guys will be trying that one out!

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Pretty interesting, here is what the JointVenture service would offer for $500/yr:

• Prioritized Genius Bar – moved to the front of the line
• Genius Bar phone calls.
• Joint Venture customers can now call in support “geniuses” which will be business-focused call center employees.
• If repairs take more than 24 hours, you get a loaner computer.
• New Workshops will be offered in JointVenture – customized workshops where their staff can be taught how to get the most out of their Macs and how to grow their business effectively

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Apple Inc. is working on new versions of the iPhone that are aimed at slowing the advance of competing handsets based on Google Inc.â??s Android software, according to people who have been briefed on the plans.

Can't wait to hear more about it. i could see owning a small iPhone when i have an iPad.

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Competition is a beautiful thing!

Unfortunately, I'm still sitting here on my iPhone 3GS, unable to pull the trigger on an iPhone 4.

I've been paralyzed until recently by the Verizon launch (to which I will not be switching).

But now I'm stuck waiting for the iPhone 5.

I need to break the iPhone upgrade cycle. If I upgrade to the iPhone 4 now, I won't be able to get an upgrade price on the iPhone 5 until like 2013 at which point I'll get stuck waiting for the iPhone 7.

Damn you apple and your release cycles that are less than half that of the mobile provider upgrade periods.

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But Apple TV has one killer feature which I think will play a role in the real future of television. That is the ability to “beam” content from your computer to your TV at the press of a button.

Now, the computer is the content discovery device and the TV simply becomes a screen. This solves a few big problems. One, it allows us to avoid interacting with a convoluted and limited TV interface, which will necessarily be less efficient than the dedicated laptops, iPhones, and iPads that we’re used to. I’d much rather find content on my computer first and beam it to my TV, instead of fiddling with an awkward custom television remote. Plus, there’s a ton of free content online. The networks have blocked their shows on Apple TV and Google TV, but they haven’t yet blocked them online. Our only choice at the moment is to use the laptop to find content.

Does apple TV really do that? Anything that I'm looking at on a computer on my network can be displayed on the TV?

So, say I fire up a show in Hulu. Make it go full-screen. And I can see it the same way on the TV.

And is it in HD?

If the answer to that is yes, I'm going to buy one today.

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New business idea alert: make the tool and sell it on eBay for a buck :)

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Really exciting, i cannot wait for it.

The SD slot as reported previously, seems to be present for sure.

If Apple really provides a way for anybody to connect a larger screen to their iPads, this is definitely the beginning of the end of desktops and laptops as we know them. Allowing owners to play games, watch movies and use their ipads on a larger display is fantastic.

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I did not get the first generation of iPad because it was missing a couple things including: - front/back camera - rumors say iPad 2 will have that - usb port - skype - available

What would you like to see?

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Is the iPad 2 finally coming this February?

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Holy moly that's an expensive Apple computer right there!

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Pretty cool, @ky add this to your Xmas list!

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This is so cool. I'd love to learn to do it.

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new osx?

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They should bring these old designs back to life, i bet it would sell.

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interesting...

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I really hope that ain't a light sensor at the top but a camera!

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Wow, iPads are going to sell like bread for the Holidays.

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