I think some people forget that marketing doesn’t end at promotions. Apparently, someone at Apple did too.

In the early days of the iPod, you had commercials of silhouettes spinning, flipping off walls, and moving in every possible way to their favourite tunes, all through their Apple earbuds. It was a great creative that made the most visible aspect of the iPod and iPhone experience – the earbuds – the most prominent, making them an icon for Apple and a huge awareness opportunity.

Why spend money on advertising when you can have your customers handle awareness for you? It was the perfect setup – or could have been, had the earbuds not sucked (and continue to suck). Poorly-fitted, tinny sounding, and tethered by a short wire, I’d choose any number of other headphones before I chose one from Apple. Premium headphones exist, but they’re little-known and for the price, you might as well splurge on something more established.

So what’s Apple’s excuse? Yes, you have manufacturing costs, but as a premium-priced product, any iPod markup could have easily swallowed the cost for better headphones.

Such a waste.

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To save an image, all you have to do is load up a page, find the image you want to save, and hold your finger over the image. From there, a prompt (like the one above) will pop up, allowing you to save the image with the rest of your photos.

Have other iPhone tricks you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments!

P.S. If you hold your finger over links, Safari pops up tool tip with the title and URL of the target page, giving you a preview of where links lead to.

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My iPhone has lost favour with me – more specifically, iPhone 2.2. Since the update, it’s been freezing at least once a day. Crappy, yes, but it’s led me to find the screenshot feature.

When an iPhone is unresponsive to everything (including holding the power button), the only thing you can do to get it going again is hard resetting it by holding down the power and home buttons in tandem. However, when the system is up and running, a tap of that same combination will take a screenshot of whatever is visible at that moment.

If you do this correctly, your flash your screen white and a shutter sound will play. From there, you can view the screen capture (in .png at 320×480) with the rest of your photos.

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Three days ago, I picked up an alternate data plan and came to a very sore realization: my ninja thumbs can’t keep up with my thoughts. In fact, this is the fourth time I’ve revisited this post by mobile.

Oh well. At least it’s done and out there!

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