Appletell

We interrupt our regular blog programming for a little bit of an important news. Apple was rated as the second most gay-friendly company based on the result of a study conducted by Prime Access and PlanetOut. The survey was polled to 2,259 people with age range of 18 to 62, 1,502 of them belongs to the general public, while 757 belonging to the gay and lesbian communities, Apple got a 23% approval from the general public and 39% approval from the gay communities.

Perhaps one of the reasons why Apple got into the 2nd rank is the fact that it is one of the first company to give out benefits to their gay and lesbian couple employees. And since the perception on being gay-friendly relies mostly on advertising and the influence of friends and the media, it is but understandable that Apple tops the survey.

Incidentally, taking the top spot of the most gay-friendly company is Bravo Network which runs gay-friendly shows such as Project Runaway, Workout and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Following Bravo Network are Showtime, HBO, Absolut and Levi’s.

While taking the lowest seal of approval from respondents of the survey are Samsung, Wal-Mart, Dunkin Donuts and Cracker Barrel.

Via [Macnn]

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So AT&T recently sent out a small survey of about 30 questions to most iPhone owners asking whether or not they’d like certain features or upgrades. Some of the questions were very interesting and show us what AT&T and Apple may be working on, they include:

How interested are you, if at all, in the following iPhone potential enhancements?

• Ability to control my DVR (TIVO) with my Apple iPhone
• Apple iPhone Insurance
• iPhone purchase anniversary rewards (free iTunes, videos etc.)
• Ability to use my iPhone as a credit card

These questions are all very interesting and lets hope we see them in the future. But in the survey AT&T also confirmed that there would be a 3G iPhone...in 2009. Now, we’re not sure if this was just AT&T talking or both Apple and AT&T, so we may have to wait another year before we see 3G in our iPhones.