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The Pursuit of Appiness

As the iPad prepares to launch, it’s time to consider Apple’s strange—and perhaps pernicious—incursion into our psyches

“You want to know one of the dirty secrets of modern life?” said an Apple store employee. “People shoot endless amounts of footage on their fancy video cameras and then they never bother to edit one minute of it. Why? Because it’s too hard.” It was a recent Thursday morning, and the staff member—let’s call him “Bob”—who had a round face reminiscent of King of Queens actor Kevin James, was standing in the spacious auditorium on the second floor of the Apple store in Soho, delivering a tutorial on iMovie, the Apple video-editing software. Read more »

Apple invigorates tablet offerings

The first generation of tablet computers didn’t create much buzz, yet a range of new and improved devices have become the talk of the tech world. Read more »

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