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Sorry for the delayed response, Blogo was acting up. Following yesterday’s record quarter from iPhone, once again the bloggers beat the experts in terms of guessing how much richer Steve is. Gizmodo took apart their $5000 iPhone. Seems like Adobe has given up on the iPhone. In a different war, Google has bought an old firm from P.A. Semi. As to the idea that Apple might buy AMD, 9 to 5 doesn’t think it will happen. Apple patented iTravel and then released their newest iPhone ad. Yeah, that’s three this week.

And in our moment of stupidity, we present Anssi Vanjoki.

9 to 5 Mac is reporting Apple might begin centralizing its advertising in New York. Macgasm found something a tad bit wrong with the Canadian Apple Store. P.A. Semi’s founder and CEO has left Apple. Sony opened it’s first Apple Sony Store. ifoAppleStore is reporting that Brazil won’t be getting an Apple Store any time soon. Hardmac is reporting that Apple didn’t get gold (they actually got nothing) when it came to being a partner for the Olympic games. U.S. Mac sales were up 39% in January and February.

Over the past three days, the war between Apple and Google has had some interesting revelations. Ars Technica had a fairly length article highlighting quite a bit of the feud. Much of it came from a New York Time’s article that indicated Steve Jobs might have felt betrayed by the launch of the Android. Then there was story regarding the hit that was put out by a Google employee on the iPhone. Each side picked up a couple of free agents. The Goldman stated that Steve Jobs “simply hates” Eric Schmidt.

AppleCare for the iPad isn’t available in some state. The numbers regarding the iPad are pouring in: in-store reservations, 40,000 (TUAW); Day 1 total, 120,000 (CNN/Fortune Apple 2.0); 152,00 was the estimate for the weekend (Cult of Mac); then the world got it’s brain back and orders slowed.

Just because the Google feud has a whole paragraph, doesn’t mean Nokia has stopped complaining. The Wall Street Journal wrote an article about the favorite phone in Redmond. Last week it was some company in Texas, this week it’s Illinois: Apple and a bunch of other companies are getting sued for patent infringement by some tiny company.

And in “TheMacFeed helps you waste money” column for the day: if you are looking to buy some vintage Apple gear – here you go.

Screw the iPad – we are starting with what we want. As we noted earlier today, the Macworld Expo kicks off tomorrow and with it we expect a whole lot of third-party accessories. A French blogger indicates that he has been tipped off about a MacBook Pro update tomorrow. Here’s a round-up of your favorite sites regarding Macworld 2010:

• 9 to 5 Mac
• Apple 2.0 (CNN/Fortune)
• Bloomberg
• Computerworld
  
• Cult of Mac
• Macworld (Magazine)
• MacRumors

Despite what the forums might tell you, Apple shockingly continues to lead in customer service quality according to some people that measure quality for a living. Adobe’s Kevin Lynch responded to his own blog post indicating that Adobe was committed to making Flash play nicer on OS X. (We just hope they are more committed then we are to following this story – apologies for the five day late update. TweetDeck (our favorite free Twitter app) got some major updates in version .33.

TechCrunch reports that Apple has began to survey iPhone Developers’ happiness. (We apologize for the lack of joke there) While Medialets found that 14% of iPhone users have updated to OS 3.1.3 and now the jailbreakers can begin to update (with caution, repeat don’t do this) thanks to the iPhone Dev-Team, perhaps they won’t have problems with battery life and playlists. According to PCProUK, Mozilla has killed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Northern Kentucky University has launched the first “iPhone academy” – we aren’t sure what to think either. What we can tell you is that iResQ claims to have gotten the iPhone 4G parts (whatever that is) and it turns out they are taller then the current iPhone. We echo Erik Silvka at MacRumors who indicates that these likely aren’t real. Apparently the Wall Street Journal staff decided to tweet from an iPad and Mr. Jobs made them delete the post (in a top hat.) Inspired by Steve’s recent trip to NYC, it seems that the iHat is coming out. MacInquirer has posted a Dylan ad, as well as a screenshot of the updated Apple site. AAPLinvestors posted some thoughts about how AAPL will fare between now and the launch of the iPad.

Speaking of the iPad… Despite the universal belief, a very trusted source tells VentureBeat that the Apple A4 chip was not a creation of a P.A. Semi. Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co. (we’ll call them SGLBIC for short) is going through with plans to sue Apple, an interview with the newspaper El Mundo indicated that company president is “angry” at Apple for stealing their clone design. The Wall Street Journal is claims that if for some reason the iPad doesn’t sell in numbers, Cupertino is open to lowering prices. In what is essentially a completely opposite theory, Mitch Wagner at Computerworld wrote an interesting piece about how the iPad could hurt the Mac.

We were watching House last night, not really sure what you were doing that made you miss all of the Apple news of the last 24 hours. There is a lot of recent speculation about the iPad’s non-existent camera. CultofMac points to a picture that seems to show something like a camera from the iPad Steve used at the Keynote. Then there was a random company out of Kansas that allegedly acquired an iPad frame. TechCrunch claims that Apple is working on a much large based tablet. Patently Apple has some thoughts regarding Apple’s claim to the iPad trademark. Apple announced when the iPad would be released in the U.K., well sort of…

Apple released a second firmware update to help cure the yellowing of screens with the 27″ iMac, but refuted claims regarding the halting of production. iPhone OS 3.1.3 was released and Engadget already found some interesting stuff. Apple received a patent for the next-generation Apple TV technology. The New York Times discussed not only the new A4 chip, but the disappearance of much of the P.A. Semi staff. Apple has been questioned by the U.S. Senate regarding human rights in China. Hardmac claims not only is Nehalam expected to be outdated soon, but also that the Mac Pro may get a hexacore Xeon processor soon. TUAW questioned the lack of VoIP via Skype.