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it's Friday September 28th 2012 I'm Alice hamburger all work and no play makes for 90 seconds on the verge in a surprising move Apple CEO Tim Cook has published an open letter in which he admits that the controversial new iOS Maps app quote fell short of the company's high standards incredibly cook goes so far as to suggest third-party apps like Bing Map Quest and even the web version of google maps Apple's new maps was touted as a flagship feature of iOS 6 before that the company had been relying on google to power its map service it's fairly unprecedented for the CEO of a major company to point customers towards competing services keep on gloating google maps legendary rocker Neil Young has announced pono a high-quality digital music service set to debut next year young showed off a prototype pono player to david letterman last night pono which is Hawaiian for righteous will be comprised of a series of audio players as well as a music download store Young said the audio files will be quote as close as digital can get to the original recordings finally Facebook has found a way to make gift-giving incredibly impersonal the company this week unveiled a new program that lets people send their friends physical presence like candy clothes and gift cards if the gift T is not happy with the item he or she can immediately exchange it for something else inside Facebook's catalogue Facebook previously tried virtual gifts but they flopped big surprise nobody wanted to buy digital cupcakes to post on their friends walls that's it for today's top stories tune in yesterday for tomorrow's reviews of next week's best time machine