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iPad Owners Are “Selfish Elites”

Wired:

According to a new study the psychological profile of iPad owners can be summed up as “selfish elites” while have-not critics are “independent geeks.”

Consumer research firm MyType conducted the study, in which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm’s conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness. In other words, “selfish elites.”

“As a mainstream, closed-platform device whose major claim to fame is ease of use and sex appeal, the iPad is everything that they are not.”

I’m dying to know how these studies actually work. The more I think about it, the more I picture “experts” trying to extort information from scared iPad users inside Apple’s anechoic chambers.

Steve Jobs Fourth Best-Paid Executive in the World

For a guy who only makes a $1 a year at Apple, he’s doing pretty good. The man’s worth approximately $759 million.

Apple’s Mr. Jobs also took a $1 annual salary throughout the decade. But he ranked fourth primarily because of a $647 million gain on restricted stock that was granted in 2003 and vested in 2006. He still holds the shares.

Apple directors gave Mr. Jobs the restricted stock in exchange for stock options that were then worthless, but which ultimately would have been worth more than the restricted stock had Mr. Jobs held them. Apple later acknowledged that some of the options exchanged for the restricted shares had been backdated, boosting their value, and restated its financial results. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.

[via The Wall Street Journal: Business]

DIY Project: Build your own iPad Case

So Amazon is full of leather iPad cases that fail to impress, and you haven’t been able to find anything personal enough to call “yours.” But if you have some bamboo lying around (because everybody has that), an old coat you’re about to throw away, and some carpenter tools and supplies, you can roll your own.

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37signals Buys Ember iPhone App, Makes it Free

Ember is a great Campfire application Federico and I occasionally use when we’re mobile. Jason Fried must have thought it was so great, it was worth buying the app from Overcommitted, then making it available for free on the iTunes App Store.

You can download the Campfire app (renamed) at this link. If you have a Campfire client and you’re interested in the mobile app, you can read our original review of Ember here.

[via TechCrunch]

Annamika for iPad is a Trippy Pixel Bender

Just in time for Inception I suppose, Annamika gives us some insight into the darkest dreams your iPad can conjure. It’s a world full of mind melting pixels and trippy visuals, all seemingly taking place through the virtual lens of an innocent kaleidoscope.

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The Beauty of Apple’s Magic Trackpad

Surely this slate of aluminum is really pretty to look at. I don’t think anyone would deny that this gargantuan trackpad of love isn’t just so inviting to your fingers – looking at the gallery, I could dip my fingers right through the screen to touch it. But despite the invitation, is a giant touch surface like this actually practical? Without any hands-on experience yet with the Magic Trackpad, I will say yes.

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