Redmond is still peppering Apple with fastballs, a costume designer talks recreating Steve Jobs’s look, and yet another oldschool Apple goes for a luxury price. The remainders for Wednesday, July 10, 2013 are back, back, back to the warning track and … gone!
Microsoft Releases Fourth Anti-iPad Ad Highlighting Windows 8 Multitasking Capabilities (MacRumors)
Microsoft’s back with another ad slamming the iPad’s inability to run two apps side-by-side. Now if only there were two apps worth running on the Surface. (Heyo!)
Jobs Q&A With Costume Designer Lisa Jensen (FancyDressCostumes)
The costume designer from the forthcoming Ashton Kutcher vehicle Jobs dishes on film’s wardrobe, including the fact that they had some 60 pairs of Levi 501s for Kutcher to wear. They also got New Balance to re-make Jobs’s sneakers from the original mold. And to spice up one scene set in the 1990s, they made him a custom pair of parachute pan—oh, I can’t even finish that one.
Vintage Apple-1 computer sells for $388K (Computerworld)
Geez, I hope the person who bought it knows it’s not compatible with Mavericks.
Apple store unearths hospital ruins (El País)
They’re digging in the wrong place!
Author: Dan Moren, Contributor
Dan has been writing about all things Apple since 2006, when he first started contributing to the MacUser blog. He's a prolific podcaster and the author of the Galactic Cold War series, including his latest, The Nova Incident.