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rumormonger
Walmart to kill iPhone's cool on December 28
I'm skeptical, but Boy Genius Report has what's supposed to be an internal document from Walmart. It details the launch timeline to begin selling iPhones at Walmart on December 28. Here's what nags at me: Why not start the day after Thanksgiving, instead of three days after Christmas? It's not because unprepared staff and long lines would be a problem. Please explain to me how this is all part of His Steveness's master plan.

8:28 AM on Wed Nov 19 2008
By Paul Boutin
883 views, 4 comments

Most discussed godospoons: This makes complete sense--his Steveness wants as much foot traffic in his Apfel stores as possible during the fourth quarter. If more »
crime
San Francisco man risks life for iPhone
Gene Wood, an operations manager at Ask.com, the Barry Diller-owned search engine beloved by Midwestern moms, wrestled a mugger to the ground rather than lose his iPhone, for which he paid $499. While riding on a subway train in San Francisco and watching a movie, Wood felt a hand reach behind him and snatch the phone. Wood, who is 6 feet tall and weighs 240 pounds, jumped from his seat and pursued the thief. Here's his harrowing account of how he got his iPhone back through hand-to-hand combat — and got away with just one small, if nasty, head wound: More »

12:40 PM on Fri Nov 14 2008
By Owen Thomas
18,972 views, 66 comments

Most discussed pepelicious: It's called BART. If people in NYC can't figure out it's a "subway" that's their problem. more »
meltdowns
iPhone fails to save Best Buy's bacon
You can buy an iPhone at Best Buy, but more likely you won't buy anything at all this Xmas. The company's revised forecast predicts revenue between now and February may drop by 15 percent. CEO Brad Anderson's official statement is blunt: "Since mid-September, rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior have created the most difficult climate we've ever seen ... Best Buy simply can't adjust fast enough to maintain our earnings momentum for this year." Cool, but seismic changes? Brad, come on out from Minnesota and we'll demo a real earthquake for you. (Photo by AP/Paul Sakuma)

7:56 AM on Wed Nov 12 2008
By Paul Boutin
453 views, 4 comments

Most discussed guyinthevalley: how ironic that the best buy will be on the entire store. feel bad for those who work there more »
iphone
Apple kills iPhone app for being too popular
Another one bites the dust. This time, instead of banning a new app, Apple has denied a music streaming app called CastCatcher from releasing an update, due to "unreasonable volume of traffic." As with the past bans, the developers come out as the folk heroes, but an evil corporate overlord would have helped CastCatcher a lot. Here's how: More »

1:40 PM on Tue Nov 11 2008
By Alaska Miller
1,487 views, 4 comments

Most discussed UltmanMoira: WTF!? Normally Valleywag gets this sort of story totally right. This one is complete garbage, and is a bogus analysis more »
politics
Obama's cell phone sparks last-minute controversy
We knew there would be last-minute dirty tricks in this campaign — but who knew they would include attempting to turn the powerful Apple fanboy vote? iPhone Savior has revealed, with suspicious timing, that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama uses a desperately uncool Motorola Razr, not the iPhone spotted in his hands back in May. Then again, maybe Obama's trying to appeal to America's industrial heartland; Motorola is based in the suburbs of Chicago, where Obama has his campaign headquarters. Or, possibly, he just wants to make phone calls.

9:20 AM on Tue Nov 4 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,856 views, 11 comments

Most discussed longtailwagsthevalley: after he's done spreading my "wealth" around i'll probably only be able to afford a crap flip phone too... more »
rumormonger
iPhone production off 40 percent
Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Craig Berger claims his industry contacts know that Apple's Q4 iPhone production will be more than 40 percent lower than Q3. So, even though poor people are the iPhone's largest growth market, overall sales are expected to be off because rich people stop buying gadgets when the Nasdaq drops. I'm getting tired of this global-downturn talk. Where's my reality distortion field? (Photo by otakuchick)

1:40 PM on Mon Nov 3 2008
By Paul Boutin
553 views, 2 comments

Latest by Migrant Blogger: Rich people stop, but poor people keep spending? Not when they hit their credit card limits ... more »

dumbphones
iPhone's image being tarnished by poor people
The Jesusphone is no longer just for privileged white folks. "The strongest growth in users is coming from those earning less than the median household income, particularly since the launch of the iPhone 3G." So says a report from ComScore, which concludes that "lower-income mobile subscribers are increasingly turning to their mobile devices to access the Internet, email and their music collections." Awesome. Now I can buy an iPhone 3G without feeling I'm being extravagant. But I can't shake the feeling this study was secretly paid for by RIM. (Photo by r.f.m II)

1:20 PM on Thu Oct 30 2008
By Paul Boutin
18,091 views, 40 comments

Most discussed Trick: It is really sad how tarnished the Mac image has become. Now anyone with $200 left on their credit card think more »
Rick Rashid
Microsoft research chief takes credit for iPhone
At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles today, Rick Rashid, the head of Microsoft Research, reminded the audience that he helped write the Mach kernel 25 years ago. That piece of code is now at the core of Apple's OS X, the operating system which runs both the Mac and the IPhone. What he should be asking: Why didn't his employer think of that? (Photo by Ina Fried/CNET News)

1:20 PM on Wed Oct 29 2008
By Owen Thomas
785 views, 6 comments

Most discussed Pragmatic: Technically Rick Rashid isn't the head of Microsoft Research, his boss Craig Mundie is. more »
blogging for dollars
When bloggers blog bloggers, is the result blather -- or better?
Did you know Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen has joined eBay's board? Why yes, it's true — and it happened last month. VentureBeat editor Eric Eldon had gotten a belated tip about the hire, and published the story without checking the date. "I made a stupid mistake," he tells me. (He was more oblique in Twitter.) Eldon rapidly took the story down, but not before it was syndicated to The Industry Standard, where it caught the eye of Nicholas Carlson, my former charge at Valleywag who has landed at Silicon Alley Insider. More »

12:40 PM on Tue Oct 28 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,208 views, 14 comments

Most discussed eze: Well, I certainly deserved this spanking, Owen. Now I'm going to have to stay up all night stealing your scoops. more »
Adobe really really really wants Flash everywhere Why is Adobe dropping licensing restrictions and fees for its Flash video player? To prod Steve Jobs into adding Flash to the iPhone. Maybe Adobe should just keep resubmitting that iPhone Flash player application to the iTunes Store. [Wired]

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