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Apple Inc.

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Year of the Takeout Day 143: Apple Sticks?

    Apple Sticks (from ANYWHERE)

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    NYPD Officers Can Now Use Basic Technology to Get Your Stolen iPhone Back

    ​Don't worry, New Yorkers. Crime rates might be up this year due to warm weather, but the NYPD is ON IT! The police department is now officially training officers to use the Find My iPhone application, to help aid in the recovery of stolen mini-computers everywhere. In an internal training m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Protestors Descend on Grand Central Apple Store; Reporters Attack Them

    There were more reporters than protestors at a rally today at the new Apple store in Grand Central. A lot more reporters. But it's an important cause, especially for you iPhone-iPad-MacBook-Apple-loving folks, so listen up! SumOfUs and Change.org, two groups speaking out against labor practices i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Grand Central Apple Store Opens, Is Gigantic

    ​Thousands of people crammed into the Apple store in Grand Central for its opening today, and we decided to pop in and check it out. For a 23,000 square-foot flagship store, the new Apple store occupying the east balcony of Grand Central Terminal is pretty invisible. In fact, the most striking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2011

    McDonald's Cashier Cleared of Assault Charges; Unemployment Down; Deadly Shooting on Q111

    ​Rayon McIntosh, the McDonald's cashier who was videotaped beating two unruly customers with a metal rod in October, was cleared of all charges after eleven days of grand jury testimony. The Daily News reports McIntosh, who had previously served almost ten years in jail for a manslaughter rap, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Grand Central Apple Store Ad Masquerades as a Train Timetable

    Grand Central Terminal's new Apple store is opening soon, and has been shielded by a temporary construction screen that doubles as a moving ad. It simulates the old Grand Central timetables, with flipping letters. The display, which says things like, "Apple Store, Grand Central, Arriving Soon," "Gra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Meet the New Apple Store Cube, Same as the Old Apple Store Cube

    This morning the flagship Apple Store on 5th Avenue unveiled its new look. As a reminder, here's what the old one looked like: Luis Penadas/flickr​ Now, the new and improved version:

  • Theater

    October 19, 2011

    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs: Mike Daisey's iTheater

    The Public hosts the monologuist's look at the late Apple chief

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Steve Jobs Portrait Already in National Portrait Gallery

    The deification of recently deceased Steve Jobs continues apace. A 1982 portrait of the Apple chief by Diana Walker is now being displayed on the first floor of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian. It's a pretty amazing photo:

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Steve Jobs Has Died

    Apple has announced that Steve Jobs, the visionary CEO and cofounder of the company, died today. He was 56. Jobs had been battling pancreatic cancer. From Apple.com:

  • Voice Choices

    September 28, 2011

    TECH SAVVY

    Mike Daisey takes a bite out of Apple

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Marty Markowitz: Apple "Won't Reach the Big Time" Till It Opens a Store in Brooklyn

    ​Remember how part of the Brooklyn Municipal Building is being turned into a mall? The anchor of the new retail space is going to be an upscale restaurant. Sounds fine, even if Brooklyn doesn't necessarily need more restaurants. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has other ideas for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Apple Store Will Let You...Order a Pizza, Dress Like Darth Vader, Have a Date, Have a Goat

    To all those complaining about the Apple store soon to be ensconced in Grand Central Station, what's so bad about an Apple store at Grand Central Station? Apple stores, it seems are wonderful, open-minded, happy places, where anything can happen, and frequently does. Not only will the people who wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Live: Jadakiss Takes A Bite Out Of The Apple Store

    Jadakiss Apple Store Soho Tuesday, June 14 Better than: Waiting your turn at the Genius Bar. Jadakiss stood in front of a large projection screen, dressed in black tee and jeans; Steve Jobs kitted. He had just "freestyled" the lyrics to "Trading Places," which is to say that he performed his full ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Apple Store Employee: 'I've Never Been Treated So Badly in My Life'

    ​Along with speculation that Grand Central Terminal is getting its very own Apple Store comes the anonymous insider's account "Confessions of an Apple Store Employee" from Popular Mechanics. In all, it's not very scandalous, but if Apple is really going to occupy 16,000 square feet in our city ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Live: Deerhunter Close Down The Genius Bar At The Soho Apple Store

    Taken with an Apple product out of brand loyalty​Deerhunter Soho Apple Store Tuesday, September 28 Better than: An intro course to GarageBand or whatever the hell ordinarily goes on in here. These Apple in-stores are super-weird. The tech-seminar vibe, the folks politely seated close enough ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Wristbands Now Available For Deerhunter's Show at the Apple Store Tonight

    Deerhunter's aptly named Halycon Digest is out today, and Bradford Cox & Co. seem poised for a lively fall, with a beloved new album and a looming date at Webster Hall in the band's near future. But first, one of those awkward but usually quite lovely free stands on the second floor of the Soho Ap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    The Gizmodo iPhone Case: Editor Brian Lam's Off-Record Email to Steve Jobs

    ​Well, journalists, just remember: Off-record don't mean nothing to a court subpoena. Gizmodo, who had a huge, huge story when they paid for an iPhone prototype that was lost in a bar, is now experiencing that wonderful tidbit of information. Their editor, Brian Lam, shot Steve Jobs' public em ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Exclusive: Further Legal Troubles Rumored For Gawker

    ​The battle between New York-based blog network Gawker Media and Apple over an exposed iPhone prototype is far from over, having made The Daily Show last night. Looks like they're going to have more legal troubles on their hands, however, though not from Apple this time. We hear that there are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Morning Links: Apple Making Serious Bank, Doorman Strike Averted, Shepard Fairey Begins

    ​Here's what's on our minds (and in the news) this morning: • Apple posts its best non-holiday quarter in history. The company said net income in the quarter that ended March 31 rose 90 percent, to $3.07 billion. (Which is not quite what Goldman Sachs made, but getting on up there.) • Ai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    The New iPhone, Revealed: The Basics, Why You're Probably Buying One

    ​There are scoops, and then there are scoops. And there's reporting, and just getting absurdly lucky. And this is a scoop, and from the sound of it, someone got absurdly lucky. And someone else likely just got absurdly unlucky because of this. Meet the new iPhone:

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    A Persecution of Phonies: Steve Jobs, Philip Roth, John Grisham

    ​What do the disembodied voices of sexxytime Jewish Guilt-lit author Philip Roth, Apple brain Steve Jobs, and southern lawyer-lit machine John Grisham have in common?

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2010

    iPad Arrives.

    ​The first release of the Apple iPad went on sale at 9 this morning to the long lines of customers who were camped out in front of Apple Stores and Best Buys waiting to buy them. The hand-held 9.5" touchscreen computers, which can access WiFi but not yet 3G (those go on sale later this month) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Apple's iPhone Porn Purge Deletes Thousands of Apps: Reports

    ​The rumored removal of sexy apps for iPhones seems to have come to pass. The first shot in the war on porn apps came, per CNET, when "Apple notified developer Chillifresh that its Wobble iBoobs application was being removed from the App Store." Now it is reported that thousands of other apps ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Report: Smoke While Using a Mac and They Won't Fix It When It Breaks

    ​And you thought Mayor Bloomberg was tough on smokers: Consumerist reports authorized Apple repair specialists have voided warranties on Mac laptops in need of repair because of evidence of cigarette smoke. In a few cases the refusals cited an unwillingness to expose technicians to the "bioh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Live: Sonic Youth at the Soho Apple Store, Which Isn't That Weird, Actually

    Surreptitiously taken with an Apple product. Sonic Youth Soho Apple Store Tuesday, June 9 "It's so quiet," says Kim Gordon, and it instantly gets even quieter, everyone instinctively inhaling with anticipation, because Kim's not one for banter unless she's thought of something profound. "One wou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    iZap! iPhones, iPod May Give "Quick Electrical Shock"

    We don't know what they expect us to do about it, but here it is: Apple reportedly cautions that if you use an iPod or iPhone in very dry climates, you may experience "a small and quick electrical (static) shock from your ear buds." The shock is compared to that received when you rub your feet on a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Bad Apple: Mugger Stalked Apple Store, Mugged Customers

    As we hope you know, there are some places in the city where you ought not flash your iPhone. Unfortunately this recently included the immediate vicinity of the Soho Apple Store. Dwayne Stewart has confessed to robbing three people near the store of their newly-purchased Apple products: two computer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2009

    People Still Outraged Over Pulled "Baby Shaker" App

    Won't someone please think of the virtual children? You may have heard that Apple abruptly pulled the fanciful "Baby Shaker" app it had briefly offered for iPhones. The app allowed users to shake their iPhone until the image of a squalling infant went silent and developed red X's over its eyes. Now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Pols, Peeps Protest Prince St. Post Office Closing Threat

    Well, it's not a tea party, but pretty good for a local event: This morning about 150 citizens protested at the crappy Prince Street Post Office to protest its possible closing. The P.O. used to be where the Apple Store is now, but when the Macs moved in the branch got squeezed into a little nook a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Bones Beat: Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    Frugal Fridays at Craft

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2008

    Late Edition: Apple Knockers, Men's Rights, Mad Cops, Soap

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    Are You An iDiot? Camping Out For The iPhone

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 29, 2008

    Thursday 05/01

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2008

    No Context: Sia and the Big Rainbow Bus

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2007

    Mark Your Calendars: It's a Pig Roast

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2007

    Live: Mark Ronson at the Apple Store

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2007

    Live: Blonde Redhead Vs. Machines

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2006

    Status Ain't Hood Interviews the Rapture

    This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, spends some time out in the cold with Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures. Call it art vs. the Apple Store... Faced with the invitation to participate in the 1999 Venice Biennale, the then-31-year-old German artist Christian Jankowski relocated, ... More >>

  • Music

    September 19, 2006

    Pop Will Please Itself

    The Rapture can't quite afford Timbaland, but their bright, sharp pop triumphs anyway

  • Screens

    April 4, 2006

    Confessions of a Conflicted Mac User

    So, Apple can run Windows. Think that'll settle the heart of this geek?

  • NYC Life

    November 22, 2005

    And Let's Give Thanks to You, BJ's Wholesale

    A Roundup of Thanksgiving and December Sales

  • News

    February 8, 2005

    Site Precedent

    What Apple Computer Insists are 'Trade Secrets' These Websites are Calling News

  • Music

    December 7, 2004

    Fair Useless

    Corporations vainly scheme to the beat of a different DRM

  • NYC Life

    December 30, 2003

    Swimming

    Wet Dreams

  • News

    March 18, 2003

    Darknet Blues

    The Music Industry Makes Peace With Big Software—at Dial-Up Speed

  • News

    January 18, 2000

    Left To My Own Devices

    Memoirs of a wired student

  • Film

    February 16, 1999

    Global Village People

    Memoirs of a wired student

  • News

    December 8, 1998

    Up Against The Wall

    Hocus Focus rewrites Apple's ad campaign

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