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iPhone
Synergy gone wrong
Perhaps we're just cranky from the Steve Jobs-addled fanboy who IM'd late last night to test his new iPhone's SMS. Amidst the tweets and texts and Facebook status updates we've gotten from new iPhone owners, we're left wondering one thing: How many of them are, at this very moment, using their iPhones to watch illegal copies of Ratatouille — the new Pixar release from Disney, where Apple CEO Jobs is, of course, a board member and major shareholder?

4:07 PM on Sat Jun 30 2007
By The Wag
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Latest by wolfbrooks: Wait, I can watch movies on my new iPhone? more »
"If Apple made sliced bread, yeah, I'd buy it.... It's just good stuff. Everything they touch." [New York Times]

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Rich kid gets declined at the iPhone counter
What happens if you've stayed in line all night and day for an iPhone, and your credit gets declined? What if you also happen to be Kris Tate, 20-year-old founder of the startup Zooomr and one of the Internet webtard crowd constantly updating the world about waiting to buy the $500 surrogate vagina (have you seen how you enlarge photos on that thing?). What if it all happens on live video? A fellow nerd relays the scene. More »

6:51 PM on Fri Jun 29 2007
By Nick Douglas
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Latest by Trackback: $600 for a cell phone? Fuck you, Apple. Complements for figuring it out, though. Yesterday, more »
"He's the Doogie Howser, MD of software startups, except for the fact that he probably has no idea who Doogie Howser is, given that the show went off the air when he was 4 years old, and, frankly, at age 4 he was probably too busy working on his second IPO to watch much television." [Joel on Software]

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The iPhone aftermarket thrives less than three hours after the gadgets were made available for purchase. [eBay]

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In Brief
Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak — the creator of the first Apple computers — drops by the iPhone line at Santa Clara's Valley Fair. "Woz" was always a man of the people. Don't expect Steve Jobs, Apple's other founder, to pose for photos quite so willingly if he, as rumored, drops by an Apple store at 6pm. The Apple chief exec's procession will be more along the lines of a Roman triumph, lacking only the sight of Helio and Verizon executives in chains behind him.

1:32 PM on Fri Jun 29 2007
By Nick Denton
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Latest by Ladyz: Apple should have sent him a phone and not made him wait in line. That would have been the noble more »

In Brief
Robert and Patrick Scoble
A Scoble makes the front page of the Drudge Report, the most popular online news site. Not Robert, the former Microsoft evangelist and Silicon Valley celebrity; but his 13-year-old son, Patrick, seen here, wearing an iPhone t-shirt, and waiting in line for the wonderphone at Apple's Palo Alto store. Taking after his father: already a media magnet, and barely into his teens.

1:12 PM on Fri Jun 29 2007
By Nick Denton
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Latest by DeeHaney: yeah, I've always thought he was awfully obnoxious too. more »
How to camouflage $125m of real estate From Gizmodo, a good panorama of Bill Gates' $125m lodge-style complex, on the shores of Lake Washington, outside Seattle. For a billionaire's mansion, it's remarkably discreet.

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In cities across the country, the masses wait, and hope MORE »

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Wendi Deng, wife of Rupert Murdoch, named chief of strategy for MySpace China, expected to join MySpace co-founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe on board. [Forbes]

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