Early Monday, , two programs geared towards sharing company profits with investors and spending some of the nearly $100 billion Apple has in its bank account. Apple seemingly rejected out of hand my suggestion that they instead take the $100 billion--and apologies of complex financial concepts like this one are a bit tricky for laypeople to understand--and .
During that same press conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple had enjoyed ; Apple later explained that it had sold more than 3 million new iPads during the tablet's opening weekend. That's roughly one iPad sold for every nervous breakdown the guy who oversees the Motorola Xoom suffered during that same time period. It's clear, though, that the iPad is on fire (.
We painstakingly transcribed , only remembering the existence of built-in transcription on the new iPad once we were finished.
In other Apple news, the company . And we took a look at the special services (Spoiler: Still no drive-through iMac purchasing option.)
We reported on the growing trend of . Perhaps Draw Something developer OMGPop can use its iPhone to ring up .
We looked at , though in our case, oftentimes the iPhone feels like the electronic toy that controls us. If you use your iPhone to get from Point A to Point B, you might enjoy these . You also might enjoy saying "Maps app" over and over again. I know I do.
If you're still not sure about what to do with your old iPad, may we humbly suggest turning it into a ? (Please note: The iPad makes an absolutely atrocious cutting board.)
And like we always do, we looked at oodles of apps over the past week, among them: , , , Monster Flip, , , , and the poetically named .
We can help you get , teach you to , and .
We wrote up plenty of Mac software. Here's , for example. We reviewed , , and . And we took a first-look at , too.
Dan Frakes, Christopher Breen, and Philip Michaels dished about the new Apple TV . Elsewhere, Mr. Breen, the hardest-working TV watcher in the tech writing industry, offered , and explained a bit more about .
That's all for this edition of the Wrap. We'll see you again in a week, if we can pull ourselves away from Chris Breen's Apple TV.