Steve Jobs is pretty awesome when it comes to handling customer emails. I admit I might be more prone to send something long winded and terse back to my most brash adversaries, but Jobs is always as cool as a cucumber. Fortunately it’s not a journalist this time, but instead some dude getting worked up over the iPhone 4’s antenna issues.

But this dude had a youtube video which an Apple engineer saw. So the engineer contacted ‘Tom’ (as Boy Genius names him -later called out as Jason Buford), and as with everyone else, Tom was told the antenna problem was a non-issue. The most arrogant trollish rage ensues in the emails, but Steve Jobs himself eventually intervenes with a confident nerve and appropriate demeanor.

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Cisco might have their Cius (a new fangled Android tablet that docks into - wait for it - a corded telephone hub), but such vaporware might not be able to make a dent once the iPad takes hold in corporate America. David Hornik of August Capital writes, “Where once they carried Palm Pilots, now they hold an iPad under their arm. iPad is the new cool toy.”

9 to 5 Mac comments,

For business users, at least, the iPad is a more discreet computing device than a laptop, but offer all the bits and pieces that may be required: calendar? Got it. Email? Right here. Browsing? Yep. Output presentations to Keynote to a video projector using the iPad? Sure can. Play Civilization for hours while the rest of them speak the usual garbage? Of course. It just works.

Business users admit it’s difficult to type on the iPad, but they could always use an application like SoundPaper to supplement text with audio from their meetings. But let’s hear it from you guys: are any of you corporate go-getters replacing your laptops with iPads? Let us know in the comments.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]

I have to say, I love these parodies.

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The Facebook app for iPhone was updated a few hours ago with support for iOS 4 multitasking and high resolution graphics. But, the designers over at Facebook also refined some elements and interactions in the app, which now surely feels and works much better than before.

Those are subtle changes, but that’s what making a good iPhone app is about, right? Focusing on the details. Check out Brandon Walkin’s overview of changes in the latest Facebook app update.

So you’re a rich Russian guy devoted to design. What’s to do? Make a supposedly awesome iPhone 4 case out of African Blackwood and (count ‘em) 18-karat gold. And that’s not any African Blackwood either. It’s 200 years old. Whoa.

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Christ T., a MacDailyNews reader, wrote in to ask Steve Jobs about HD video. “What’s the point of building in HD video capabilities when the compression upon uploading directly to youtube makes the video’s useless and not viewable?” But it’s not that big of a deal (it’s really not), and while Steve could have said that, he gave us an interesting tidbit instead. “You can upload them via a Mac or PC today. Over the air in the future.”

So those high def movies you’re making? You’ll be able to upload them over the web (uncompressed) eventually. Just not now.

[MacRumors via MacDailyNews]

Are you likely to recommend your device to a friend or colleague? AdMob asked that very question to 963 respondents (February, 2010) whom picked up some good numbers. While it’s a small group, 91% and 88% of iPhone and iPod touch owners would recommend their devices to friends and family, compared to only 84% for Android and 69% for WebOS recommendations.

Asia is pretty happy with Apple products (not just knockoffs) as well. Japan and China ranked 2nd and 4th for unique iPads that showed up in AdMob’s analytics. 58% of all iPad users reside in the United States, however, with Japan in a far second at 5%.

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Impressive result, like other videos we’ve seen this week. Be sure to select 720p in the Youtube options.

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