Apple turns up the volume on TV advertising for iPhone 4S

• Our iPad 2 wishlist

  What the rumors about Apple's next tablet are saying, and what we think it has to have to stay competitive with Android and Microsoft Slate.

  Ask people what they think of the iPad, and answers will vary. The word "magical" may be thrown around by some starry-eyed owners. "I don't get it," others will say with a shrug, while still others -- call them cynics, disbelievers, or just plain pragmatists -- MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 14, 2010 11:28 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Camera, FaceTime, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Reuters

• Is this the new iPod touch?

  A case maker's photoillustration shows a rear-facing camera and a flash

  Opinions are mixed about the images posted Wednesday by HardMac of what it claims is the next generation iPod touch, presumably set for release in September.

  The photoillustration comes from an unnamed case manufacturer whom HardMac (the English edition of the French MacBidouille.com) claims is "very reliable" on the strength of a prediction last year that the iPod nano was getting MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 5, 2010 11:34 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Camera, iPhone 4, iPod touch, MacBidouille, MacHard

• Did Steve Jobs spin the NY Times?

  When David Pogue, the New York Times' chief technology columnist, sat down with Steve Jobs after his "It's only rock and roll" keynote Wednesday, Pogue's first question was the one, as he put it, the "blogosphere's been buzzing about": Why did Apple (AAPL) put a video camera on the iPod nano but not -- as widely expected -- on the iPod touch?

  Jobs reiterated what Phil Schiller, his marketing vice president, MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 11, 2009 8:45 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Camera, David Pogue, iPod touch, Steve Jobs