Lemelson-MIT Invention Index conducted this survey aimed at young adults aged 16 to 25, and found that 24% of respondents labeled Steve Jobs as the greatest innovator of all time. Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of many modern day technologies took first place with 52%.
Mac Observers covered this survey and said that demographic is highly influenced by technologies and consumer electronics provided by Apple and has been subjected to much lauding of Mr. Jobs by the media, especially since his death. It is therefore reassuring that, despite modern day coverage, young adults still have a grasp on history. Perhaps the only concerning thing about this list is the inclusion of someone like Mark Zuckerberg over Nikola Tesla.
“iFixit’s iPhone transparent rear panel mod let’s you give your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S an amazingly distinctive look in a world where tens of millions of them are otherwise all but indistinguishable.” Georgia from iMore.com shows us a Clear Back Plate Mod from iFixit:
Quick Update: During last quarter, AT&T sold 9.4 million smartphones. Of which, 1.8 million were Android devices, and 7.6 million were iPhones. 80% of smartphones AT&T sold were iPhones, while only 20% were Android based devices, according to idownloadblog.com.
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Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released some interesting data on Thursday that suggests Apple’s latest iPhone model accounts for 89% of all Apple smartphones sold since the iPhone 4S was released in October,
We’re a bit surprised by the figures; the new iPhone offers beefier specs and a better camera than previous generation models, but the iPhone 3GS is free on a contract with AT&T and the iPhone 4 is still available at a discount in several markets. Still, those devices accounted for just 4% and 7% of all iPhone sales, respectively, since October according to CIRP.
“An amazing 19% of all iPhone buyers upgraded from the iPhone 4, a phone barely a year old at the time of the launch,” Mike Levin, CIRP’s co-founder, told AllThingsD. “Forty-two percent of iPhone buyers broke existing carrier contracts to get the new iPhone 4S.
Yesterday at the Town Hall meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed some new Apple employee benefits; Apple employees will soon be given $500 discounts on purchases of new Macs and $250 discounts on purchases of a new iPad. 9to5Mac reports this extra discount is on top of the already existing 25% discount. Come June and Apple employees will be getting Macs and iPads for peanuts. Congrats
Cook announced that Apple employees will soon be given $500 discounts on purchases of new Macs and $250 discounts on purchases of a new iPad.
The new discount program will officially kickoff at some point during the month of June. A major caveat is that Apple employees may only utilize this opportunity every three years, and employees must have been working for Apple for at least 90 days.
A few days back Indian media went on saying that Apple was looking at launching an Apple Store in India. Yesterday during Apple’s quarter earnings call, Tim Cook, simply rubbished the rumors and called out India as a small market, which is growing but has a small installed base to get a retail presence.
He went on to say that currently Apple is focusing on Greater China region and Cook thinks Brazil will be the next key market, without promising an Apple Store launch there either. So no Apple Store in India guys. Be happy with Imagine stores instead. haha…
This $2 iOS app is available for Free for another few hours. Draw Pad Pro is designed as a beautiful and innovative way to create and manage all your notes, sketches, scribbles, and more. The app takes advantage of new iOS 5 technology to offer an experience unseen in other note-taking or drawing apps. Here is the App Store link.
Simply put, there is no existing writing app that allows the level of customization that Draw Pad offers. Change everything from the color of your notebooks and the pages they use, to the background and appearance of the app itself. With over 30 different papers, 15 notebook colors, and 10 app themes, you can make things look just the way you want them.
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Virgin America spokesperson Abby Lunardini made an interesting statement yesterday – Virgin America Airbus A320 now features the quote, “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” directly beneath the cockpit in tribute to the late Steve Jobs, reports CNET.
The quote is taken from Jobs’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech and was suggest by a Virgin America employee. ”The ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’ aircraft name was actually submitted as a tribute to Mr. Jobs by one of our employees in an internal plane naming competition.”
The idea behind Virgin America was to reinvent the travel experience by thinking differently about design and service–we are known for the tech-forward amenities we offer onboard,” Lunardini said.
Quick Update: Yesterday Apple posted its Q1 2012 financial results – 15.43 million iPads, 37.04 million iPhones and 5.2 million Macs sold. Apple posted quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion. iPhone represented a 128% unit growth over the year-ago quarter, while iPad reported a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.
We’re thrilled with our outstanding results and record-breaking sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong, and we have some amazing new products in the pipeline.”
“We are very happy to have generated over $17.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the second fiscal quarter of 2012, which will span 13 weeks, we expect revenue of about $32.5 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $8.50.
This is Apple’s best quarter ever. Congrats Apple.
Saurik has updated his twitter status with something real interesting. He has revealed that the release of the Corona jailbreak for A5 devices has led to almost one million newly jailbroken iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices, in just 3 days. The release of Corona for A5 devices marks the first time a jailbreak has been available for the iPhone 4S.
So, @MuscleNerd’s 205k number was just the number of on-Cydia iPhone 4S’s; I believe that is now 494k. iPad 2 5.0.1 adds an additional 463k.
When Cydia is launched for the first time, it contacts the Cydia server, in part to see which SHSH blobs are available for it. This 957k number should be an accurate report of the total number of A5 devices jailbroken as of Monday afternoon. (Note: the number doesn’t include A4 devices or lower).
iPhone dev team have shared the following numbers - 491,325 new iPhone4,1 devices. 308,967 new iPad2 devices. 152,940 previously jailbroken (at 4.x) iPad2 devices. Total: 953,232 new A5 jailbreaks in a little over 3 days
