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Apple Sells 3 Million iPads in 80 Days

Apple has just issued a press release announcing that they’ve sold 3 million iPad units in 80 days and more than 11000 native iPad apps are out in the App Store.

Two weeks ago we reported that 10.000 iPad apps were available in the App Store, and 78% of them were paid applications. As for iPad sales, Apple announced 1 million units sold after 28 days, and 2 million units after 60 days. Sales are growing, and the only word I can think of right now is “impressive”. It’ll be interesting to see what’s going to happen with the iPhone 4 and iPad both out by this holiday season.

Check out the press release after the break.

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Steam User? You Shouldn’t Upgrade to 10.6.4

It seems like Steam for Mac doesn’t play well with Mac OS X 10.6.4. Valve itself has issued a warning to users who logged in during the weekend on Steam:

“The recent 10.6.4 update from Apple has noticeable performance issues for NVidia graphic chip owners running high performance games. If you wish to avoid this, you should consider waiting to install the 10.6.4 update until Apple has had the opportunity to address this issue. Full details of what is contained in the 10.6.4 update can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4150. If you have already installed this update and believe your graphic performance is affected, please contact Apple support (http://www.apple.com/support/) for details on what to do.”

If you’re a Steam user and care about your game performances, perhaps you should wait for Apple to fix these problems. Should happen soon.

New York Times Interviews Foxconn Employee

What’s it like to work at Foxconn’s hellish factories? The New York Times interviewed  24 Yuan Yandong, whom describes his technical ten hour nightshift as an assembler of hard drives.

“His task is to help complete 1,600 hard drives — his workshop’s daily quota — and to make sure every one is perfect. Seated in the middle of the assembly line in his black Foxconn sports shirt, cotton slacks and company-mandated white plastic slippers, he waits for the conveyor belt to deliver a partly assembled rectangular hard drive to his station. He places two plastic chips inside the drive’s casing, inserts a device that redirects light in the drive and then fastens four screws with an electric screwdriver before sending the drive down the line. He has exactly one minute to complete the multistep task.”

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Geohot Already Working on iPhone 4 Exploit

George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot) confirmed during the “nuit du hack” meeting in Paris that he’s already working on an exploit for the iPhone 4. He said that he posted pictures of his jailbroken iPad way before Spirit released its tool, and now he’s working hard to release its exploit once the new iPhone is released.

How he believes the exploit is gonna work we don’t know, but in the meantime check out the (blurry) video of the meeting after the break.

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iAd Applications Now Appearing on App Store

The Apple Store is finally getting some iAds love this morning in a few popular applications you might be familiar with. iLounge reports Avantar developed applications such as OneTap Movies and the Yellow Pages are gleaming with the shiny new banner, although there is one major caveat: iAds don’t officially launch until July 1st, and a test ad or empty banner act as current placeholders.

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