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Spotted in China: OSX Sea Lion

It started as a joke. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, long pressed as to what Apple would name its operating system when it ran out of cats (i.e Lion, Leopard), joked at a 2013 keynote that Apple’s latest Mac operating system would be named Sea Lion. In reality, the new operating system is called Mavericks (after the famous California surf spot). The joke was lost...

See inside Beijing’s Giant Apple Store(Photos)

A decade ago, Apple’s brand was limited mostly to the USA, with some limited penetration in Europe and Asia. Now, only a short time later, they’ve built an incredible worldwide empire of stores, one of which I visited today. The Beijing Apple Store is massive, with a multistory glass storefront right in the heart of Beijing’s more upscale commercial district. Just down the street,...

iOS 7 Bug Bankrupts Blackberry

In a surprising turn of events, Blackberry’s stock price has fallen to below zero. This is especially surprising considering that in most sources it is nowhere near bankrupt, and that a stock price cannot possibly fall below zero. Investors would literally have to pay to offload the stock. The bug was reported by reader Brendan, who noticed it in Apple’s latest iteration of their...

iOS iCon Competiton – iOS 6 Vs iOS 7

With a massive redesign comes all-new icons, but new doesn’t always mean better, so we decided to rate the operating system’s new design based on an icon competition. We put the old (iOS 6) head to head with the new(iOS 7), and the results may surprise you (even we were surprised).  Rating System: Each app can receive a maximum of two points. For ties,...

7 Funniest iOS 7 Jokes

I for one am happy to see the refreshing iOS 7 (although some of the icons remind me of my short-lived fingerpainting career, and the colors look like something you’d see at toys R’ Us), but plenty of Fandroids had snide comments to make about Apple’s latest releases: Enjoy 7 of the best jokes about iOS 7 (including one mac joke). iOS 7 looks...