Remains of the Day: Take five

11.02.2011

Mobile advertising firm Chitika is tracking the balance of Verizon and AT&T iPhones, based on the information it collects from its app partners. The good news, AT&T, is that you're kicking butt. The bad news is that you have no place to go but down.

(TechCrunch)

And not the good kind of hurt. Yes, it seems that Apple's iAd program isn't all chocolate and kitten whiskers. The "fill rates" for ads appear to have dipped since the beginning of 2011. Shocking stuff, right? It's almost hard to believe that people don't want to watch commercials.

(The Onion)

Poor Tim Cook. He never could fill Steve Jobs's sneakers, could he? The worst part of this fake news, though, is the fake drubbing it gave Apple's fake stock price.