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Joseph Tame decided to map out and run a half marathon as a message of thanks to Steve Jobs for his awesome achievements at Apple. What was special about the route he chose to run?  Well it was in the shape of the Apple logo.

The route was recorded using the Runkeeper app and two iPhones. Joseph is no stranger to this type of running art. He has previously run routes which resemble the Twitter bird and an elephant.

Asked why he wanted to create an Apple logo, Tame said that having an iPhone had really changed his life in Tokyo. In Japan it is like a lifeline, even more so now that it can warn him when an earthquake is about to hit.

[Cnet]

Earlier this summer 9to5Mac and iFixYouri found some white iPod touch 5 front panels floating around, and now teardown site iFixDirect has gotten their hands on something similar. Given we saw the iPad 2 get a white version this year, it only makes sense that the iPod touch would follow suit sooner or later.

I’m typically a little skeptical with part leaks but the connectors and circuitry appear to be a bit different than the current 4th generation iPod touch, which makes this a bit more believable. Other than adding a white iPod touch to the current line up, it doesn’t seem like the form factor will deviate much from the current lineup. We’ll probably see more changes internally than anything which are the types of changes I prefer seeing anyways. Have you told us [what you want to see in iPod touch 5] yet?

[9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo]

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Meta

• iPhone Live 167: Steve Jobs resigns
• Superfunctional 8: Causes and responsibilities
• Iterate 5: 1Password

Steve Jobs

• End of Act Two
• TiPb Asks: How do you feel about Apple without Steve Jobs as CEO?
• Tim Cook's email to Apple employees
• Apple offers Tim Cook 1,000,000 reasons to stay until 2021
• Closedish

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• iPhone, iPad untouched by mobile malware attacks
• Acer reports quarterly losses, blames iPad "fever"
• Samsung defends against Apple iPad lawsuit by claiming 2001: A Space Odyssey as prior art
• Apple shuts down $0.99 iTunes TV show rentals
• Apple television set for 2012/2013?
• MobileMe to iCloud phishing scam hitting inboxes

Tips

• How to switch from webOS to iPhone and iPad
• App for That: How to print emails, webpages, and photos as PDFs

Apps

• Peggle HD for iPad hits the App Store [Giveaway]
• Developer Spotlight: Boyd Timothy of Appigo

There are hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps for just about everything — so how come the one you need, the one you know just has to be there, is so hard to find? Enter TiPb’s new weekly feature where staff and readers alike sort through the App Store and help you find just the right App for That. This week, Sam asks:

I’m looking for an app that can pause recording video (like Android) for my iPad 2. Do you know of anything?

To see what we found for Sam, follow along after the break!

MovieCam [$2.99 - App Store link] claims to be the most powerful camcorder for the iPad 2. It comes loaded with 9 different effect presets and has recording options for DVD or HD quality. Additionally, MovieCam allows you pause video recording and continue it later – exactly what Sam is looking for!

Honorable mention: Camera Plus Pro [$1.99 - App Store link] is an iPhone app packed with all kinds of photography features, including the ability to pause video recording. However, since it’s not a universal app, Sam will need to hit the 2x button on his iPad. This isn’t the most elegant of solutions, but if he also has an iPhone, this may be an economical way for Sam to get the feature he’s looking for on both devices.

Anyone else have any App for That suggestions for Sam? Let him — and all of us — know.

Having trouble finding what you need in the app store? Send us an email to iosapps@tipb.com and let us know what you’re looking for, and we’ll do our best to find you just the right App for That!

VentureBeat boldly restarts the Apple television set rumors this weekend, saying it’s “almost certainly” being prepared for 2012 or 2013 according to “multiple sources in Silicon Valley”. They backup the claim by citing numerous analysts, many of whom have records so hit and miss with Apple predictions that magic 8-balls could give them a run for their money, as well as a few opaque quotes from the WSJ and sites with equally hit or miss records.

An Apple-based television makes sense in light of Apple's continued expansion out of the computer industry into the larger consumer electronics market.

But here’s the thing — Apple isn’t expanding into the larger consumer electronics market at all. They’re slowly, step by step, adding very specific products that leverage existing technologies like iOS, can be put together with lower component costs than the industry average, will sell for higher margins than the rest of the industry, and offer better customer experiences than any of the competition.

Television sets are currently a cut-throat, low margin business. Sure, like computers, there a high-end premium market Apple could aim for, and like the smartphone market, existing suppliers have been battling it out on specs, leaving their flanks wide open for disruption on the experience side — but is it a market where Apple could sell hundreds of millions of iOS devices?

They’re trying with Apple TV, priced at only $99, and it’s remained a “hobby”. Certainly adding a secondary box (after the cable box) is nowhere near as elegant a solution as having iOS built into the TV itself, but it’s also one that doesn’t require consumers to buy a whole new television set.

The last time there were strong rumors about an Apple television set, TiPb heard it was really a 27-inch iMac. Now we have a 27-inch iMac and still no television set. We haven’t heard anything about Apple working on a 32-inch iMac (or cinema display) to justify these new rumors, but we have been around long enough to know Apple won’t release anything that doesn’t grow their business.

That’s not to say Apple isn’t working it. They’re likely working on dozens of new devices, many of which they’ll say their famous “no” to and will never see the light of day. There were rumors and denials about phones for years before the iPhone, and rumors about the iPad immediately thereafter. From media to consumer, we always want to know what’ll be the next big thing from Apple. But what could and Apple television bring to the table, both for Apple and consumers, that Apple TV doesn’t already?

Don’t get me wrong, based on design and build quality alone, I’d love an Apple television, especially if Apple could figure out how, like iPad, to deliver great technology at a great price. I’d love how AirPlay and other iOS features would “just work” with my existing iPhone, Mac and other devices. But it would have to somehow disintermediate the cable and media companies the way iPhone disintermediated the carriers, or the way iPad sidestepped them completely. And as Steve Jobs said at the All Things D conference, that’s an even trickier bunch of nuts to crack.

It by no means “makes sense” right now, and Apple won’t ramp it up until it does, and won’t mention it until Tim Cook or another executive takes stage.

[VentureBeat via MacRumors]

Newsflash: Steve Jobs wasn’t anti-openess. He was and is anti-sucky products. Since Jobs resigned as CEO last week, and ended his second act at Apple, the usual linkbait articles have sprung up calling on the “new Apple” to embrace openness (or more accurately, openy-ess), and once again proven their dogged determination to misunderstand Steve Jobs, Apple, and the nature of successful consumer electronics products in general.

The thing is — the world hates extremes. It hates them almost as much as consumers hate extremist products. Because consumers, like the world, understand them for what they ultimately are — ploys, formed by agenda and molded from BS. They’re bills of goods. Kit craft.

Apple observably has little time for that. They’re too busy making great products. To them, “open” and “closed” were and are tools, and they tend to pick the right one for the right job in the right context.

Flex your flux capacitor (or turn on your TARDIS) and jump back a few years and you’ll see Steve Jobs, barely at the beginning of his second act, talking about Apple’s then-licensed Mac OS and the power of open ecosystems.

Flashback to 2007 and you’ll hear him talk about the sweet a development solution that is HTML5 (then Web 2.0 + AJAX)

Likewise you need only to surf with Safari to see Apple’s open approach to WebKit (which also powers Google’s Chrome and Android browsers, HP Palm’s webOS, and much of mobile. You need only look at the BSD UNIX underpinnings of OS X and iOS, and their continued developments to see a host of open projects and initiatives from the supposedly closed Apple, including Darwin, OpenCL, and more. You need only look… beyond the rhetoric.

Apple is no more completely closed than Google is completely open. (Seriously, pick up your Neo FreeRunner and search for http://www.opensource.apple.com/ sometime. Except you can’t. Because Openmoko failed as hard as Closedmoko would have.)

Corporations aren’t about black and white, they’re about green. They closely guard what makes them money and open up what makes their competitors money. They try to dominate where they can and fragment where they can’t. Apple keeps their shiny, high-margin boxes every bit as closed as Google keeps their billion dollar ad engine, and Apple keeps their IE-shattering WebKit every bit as open as Google keeps their Windows Mobile-busting Android (ironically, more so — see Honeycomb.) Even Palm, with their proprietary webOS and BlackBerry with their new QNX-based OS “opened” up to developers in almost every way conceivable.

You need look no further than their reasons for being. Apple wants to make products that delight consumers, with highly commoditized apps and services, enough to own most of the profits in the known universe. Microsoft wants to have a PC running the latest Windows license on every desk, pocket, wall, and robot, that make billions off the backs of commoditized, barely sustainable hardware OEMs. Google wants to serve a lucrative ad to every eyeball, on every commodity box running every commoditized platform.

And each of those approaches comes with some benefits and some drawbacks. 3 star Michelin restaurants aren’t diners or vice versa, and we can enjoy them both without either being more like the other. In point of fact we have to. Because nothing can be everything.

Apple no longer licenses their Mac OS to clone makers, and HTML 5 is no longer the primary development platform for iOS because those products sucked and those web apps just weren’t good enough.

Sorry, but it’s true. Apple tested them and chose them for extinction or demotion. Perhaps, like bellbottoms, they’ll get another chance for dominance one day but not today and likely not tomorrow. Apple under Steve Jobs was, and Apple under Tim Cook is, way too smart for that and way too focused. And guess what? Not coincidentally, way too successful. So is Google, which is why, marketing aside, they’re not really that open either. (What’s the make command for Search again?)

It takes a carefully considered, carefully mixed formula to craft a great product. It takes knowing which elements benefit from open sourced, community driven innovation to make them powerful and robust, and which need a strong, guiding, singularly focused — and yes, closed — will to make them truly usable and enjoyable.

So sure, the usual suspects can write the usual manifestos about Apple being closed (and stir up the usual, reliable linkbacks). And why not? Their editors are obviously open to it no matter how much the product sucks.