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Re-reading my first iPhone review: I was right about the AT&T problem

A decade ago today, Apple’s first iPhone went on sale and the Internet lost its collective mind for the first of many times.

My review of this device had to wait for another six days, on account of Apple PR only providing me with a review unit at the iPhone’s retail arrival and it being a simpler time before gadget-unboxing videos were a thing.

Ten years later, that write-up isn’t too…

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Declaraciones de Manuel Carmena recogidas en Libertad Digital

¿Exactamente un 99%? ¿Cómo lo ha medido? ¿Por qué no un 99,1%? ¿O un 88,99965%? 

Si quiere decir “estoy casi segura de que habrá un acuerdo de gobernabilidad, ¿por qué no lo hace sin más? 

-Former GM CEO Dan Akerson on Apple Car, via Mac Rumors.

I had to laugh when I read this. Is it just me or is this eerily familiar to this beloved piece of "claim chowder"-

“PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” - Palm CEO Ed Colligan in 2006 after the announcement of the first iPhone.

Gruber:

When the prices of the steel and (especially) gold Apple Watches are announced, I expect the tech press to have the biggest collective shit fit in the history of Apple-versus-the-standard-tech-industry shit fits.

-John Gruber on the Nintendo 2DS