• Samsung Takes Another Jab at Apple With New Super Bowl Advert

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    Samsung Galaxy Note

    Samsung Galaxy Note

    Samsung again hit with a new Super Bowl ad featuring the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note which is a tablet and a phone.

    Samsung‘s ‘The Next Big Thing’ moniker started around 3 months ago bashing Apple people waiting in lines to get the new iPhone. Watch the ad for yourself below and tell us what you think? To me, I don’t think having a stylus is something awesome?!!

  • Apple Q1 2012 Results: $46.33 Billion Revenue, 37.04 Million iPhones, 15.43 Million iPads Sold

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    Apple Q1 2012 earnings call

    Apple Q1 2012 earnings call

    Apple held its Q1 2012 fiscal earnings call yesterday, and the company posted a record-breaking revenue of $46.33 billion with a net profit of $13.06 billion, 15.43 million iPads, 37.04 million iPhones, 15.4 million iPods and 5.2 million Macs sold.

    here is a roundup of interesting numbers collected by cultofmac from the earnings call to check out.

    • There were 140 million App Store downloads on December 25th alone.
    • 1.5 million iPads are already in use in education institutions.
    • 600,000 copies of iBooks Author have been downloaded since last week’s announcement. 3 million copies of the iTunes U app have been downloaded as well.
    • There were more than 62 million total iOS devices sold in the last quarter, totaling a staggering 315 million iOS devices sold to date.
    • iCloud has 85 million customers.
    • $4 billion has been paid to developers from App Store sales.
    • There is an average of 22,000 visitors per Apple store each week.
    • Apple has $97 billion in cash, with over $60 billion offshore. Apple said, “We’re not letting it burn a hole in our pockets.”
    • Tim Cook noted IDC’s research saying that the tablet (iPad) is expected to overtake PC sales in the US.  Cook said, “We’ll continue to innovate like crazy in the tablet area.” He said, ”People thought it was going to be the year of the tablet. It actually was the year of the iPad.”

  • ‘Inside Apple’ by Adam Lashinsky Now Available in the iBookstore

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    'Inside Apple' by Adam Lashinsky

    'Inside Apple' by Adam Lashinsky

    INSIDE APPLE book is now available to download and read on the iBookstore and Amazon Kindle. Those interested in getting that find the direct links below.

    About the book

    INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.

    If Apple is Silicon Valley’s answer to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the “DRI” (Apple’s practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).

    Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky, a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune, knows the subject cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Company Someday he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO.

    While Inside Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one, unique company (and its ecosystem of suppliers, investors, employees and competitors), the lessons about Jobs, leadership, product design and marketing are universal. They should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavor.

  • iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak for A5 iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Using Absinthe Guide

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    This is a tutorial on how to perform an untethered jailbreak of your A5-Powered iPhone 4S or iPad 2 running on iOS 5.0 or iOS 5.0.1 using the newly released Absinthe. For Mac, Linux and Windows

    Note: Make sure to do a backup of your device in iTunes because you may lose you Camera Roll during this process.

    Do it at your own risk.

    Step One
    Download the latest version of Absinthe. Links below.

    Step Two
    Double click to extract/launch the Absinthe application.

    Step Three
    Connect your iPhone 4S or iPad 2 to the computer via USB.

    Step Four
    Click the Jailbreak button to begin

    Step Five
    The application will take you through several steps.

    Step Six
    On your device, locate the Absinthe icon and press it to complete your jailbreak

    If the server is down and you get an Error establishing a database connection message then tap the Settings icon on your springboard and turn on VPN.

    You will get a configuration error; however, after about a minute your device will reboot with Cydia on the Springboard!

    Download Links:

    • Download iOS 5.0.1 for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad