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After much speculation, Hulu announced Hulu Plus – its pay service that will run on multiple platforms, including the iPad, iPhone 4 and iPhone3GS. For $9.99/month, you get a deeper reservoir of TV show content, both current and past as well as access to a limited (as in, “High Fidelity” is the only movie I [...]

Congratulations to Cupertino on the most successful product launch in Apple’s – and unless there’s some contradictory data that I’m missing – mobile phone history. Almost 2 million phones with no pre-launch TV advertising. Stick that in your creepy CGI eye, Motorola. Did I mention the iPhone 4 is only available in 5 countries? It looks like [...]

Are you one of those people who pick apart the glaring inconsistencies in political ads and hour-long network dramas? No? Then you’re probably stupid. Pop the blue pill, click ‘back’ on your browser and go back to your daytime TV. I would say that Microsoft is the master of cherry-picked factual support for advertising, but [...]

Apple is a company that brings out the worst in some people.  Whether they be fanboy-bashers or CEOs of bloated software juggernauts, there’s something about Steve’s condescending little smirk that drives people absolutely batshit.  I get it.  I really do.  For most of these individuals, the knowledge that I work with a superior OS is [...]

With Monday’s WWDC keynote, Jobs and Co. put considerable distance between the iPhone and its competitors on 2 fronts simultaneously. iPhone 4 Back in the heyday of the PC-Mac platform wars, when Microsoft was still trying to capture some semblance of mindshare on the desktop, a favorite tactic of pundits/Windows consultants when comparing their inferior [...]

So AT&T has killed off the unlimited bandwidth plan for new subscribers. TUAW has a nice summary of the changes. While it’s usually safe to assume the most evil of intentions when it comes to AT&T, and the bitchier strata of the blogosphere are wringing the tears out of their boxer briefs, the net net [...]

Mary Jo Foley, commenting on a Wall Street analyst’s speculation that none other than Steve Ballmer will be presenting at WWDC: If Ballmer is going to make a cameo appearance at WWDC, I’m thinking if such an announcement happens, it’ll be Silverlight for the iPhone. What do these 2 things have to do with the [...]

It took some time, but the inevitable has happened: as of 2:15 pm today, Apple is worth more than Microsoft. The pwnage of Microsoft represents another milestone in the enhancement of users’ relationships with the stuff of their lives and work ever since Jobs took back the helm in 1997. We expect more insane greatness [...]

M$ doesn’t have much of a presence in markets that aren’t inherited. As opposed to the Windows, Office and Server dinosaurs, Microsoft’s attempts at making things people actually want to use have been somewhat less successful. The entity known as the “Entertainment and Device” division of Microsoft has been a balance sheet singularity  responsible for [...]

The thing any serious performance artist fears most is being typecast. Newsweek columnist and Fake Steve Jobs pen Daniel Lyons knows this all too well. It’s one thing to be pigeonholed as a writer; it’s much worse when your hole comes off the backside of someone else’s accomplishments. Initially a clever bit of satire, the [...]