Since personal computers became a thing, we’ve always been free to install any app we like as long as the code was compatible on a very basic level. No approval processes. No regulation. OS X has been no exception. But this week, two things happened in Appleland that could change that entirely. The introduction of [...]

When Siri was announced strictly for the iPhone 4S, the mod community likely took that as a challenge. Before long, the service had been hacked and shortly thereafter ported to a number of potentially compatible devices. The problem, of course, is that Apple gets to decide what devices are compatible, not the users. So they’ve [...]

Apple posted two new iPhone 4S television ads to its YouTube account this evening, “Road Trip” and “Rock God”. Both ads showcase the various ways to use the iPhone 4S’s Siri functionality to find directions, locate a restaurant, or send text messages. There have been several other iPhone 4S ads previously. In December, Apple released [...]

Apple today released a series of three EFI firmware updates bringing Lion Internet Recovery to the company’s Late 2010 MacBook Air, Mid-2010 iMac, and Early 2010 MacBook Pro. Available firmware updates include: - MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3 (2.98 MB): This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook Air (Late 2010) [...]

In Adam Lashinsky’s book Inside Apple, he examines how brutally insane and awful it is to work at Apple. Turns out having plainclothes spies and murky job descriptions isn’t enough because Apple sometimes makes its new employees work on fake products until they prove themselves trustworthy. More »