Apple CEO Tim Cook issues apology for Maps lapse

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's CEO Tim Cook issued an apology to customers who may have experienced issues with the new Maps app that comes standard with iOS 6. In a letter on Apple.com, Cook stated that more than 100 million devices were already using the app, which have searched half a billion locations.

Cook's letter, which can be found in full after the break, promises that Maps will get better and gives users the option to download "map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app."

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Meet Supr Slim, it's like the MacBook Air of wallets

Slim - The Thinnest Wallet Ever. from Supr Good Co. on Vimeo.

It is a simple concept, really. An elastic wallet just  for  credit, debit and coupon cards that can take as few as 2 and as many as 10 cards and still stay unobtrusive. The Supr Slim wallet is designed by the Melander brothers on Kickstarter yielding around $204,000 in pledges so a lot of people are into this idea.

Source: Core 77.com

The Apple Beat: Ecosystem of Inheritance

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

There's some real genius to Apple's iOS hardware strategy and how they manage to come up with new devices each year while still benefiting heavily from iPhone models that are two-years-old.

Once could think of it as the ecosystem of inheritance or smart trickle-down logic. By keeping one to two-year-old products current through iOS software updates, Apple makes it possible to extend its user base and keep their products desirable far beyond anyone else in the mobile industry.

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Are these RIM's new BlackBerry 10 smartphones?

One of the biggest questions that RIM watchers have asked is whether there will be a QWERTY keyboard BB10 smartphone and the answer from RIM has always been yes even if they showed off the new OS on a multi-touch smartphone, the Dev Alpha device.

The image above, a screenshot from a video (Update: Original Vimeo video has been taken down) shows both an multi-touch display BlackBerry and a QWERTY keyboard and a large touchscreen smartphone that's similar to the BlackBerry Bold. There's no telling if this is final hardware but whatever will be released in 2013 will likely look very similar. These devices represent the L Series (full touchscreen) which will come to market first, while the N series the anticipated BlackBerry 10 phone that features a full qwerty keyboard and familiar styling.

Update on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 9:46PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The video was asked to be taken down by AMV BBDO which is BlackBerry's Creative Agency.