Talkcast tonight, 10pm ET: Apple's rough media week
Last week's show celebrated ten years of Apple's retail stores with NPD Group's Ross Rubin and Gary Allen from ifoapplestore.com, anticipating a week of good news about Apple. Well, it didn't quite work out that way.
Yes, there's the Apple Store 2.0 reboot featuring snazzy, customized iPad information stations... but between the clamor of Mac Defender malware and the anxiety of patent-challenged iOS developers, there was bad news aplenty; add in the Foxconn factory fire and it just got worse. We'll look back at the week that was and look ahead at the week to come; join us, won't you?
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