Apple complained about an on-air iPhone parody from Ellen DeGeneres, prompting an apology from the talk-show host. Not your fault, Ellen: Apple has a weak sense of humor. And of satire, perspective, fair play and irony. Video after the jump.

We've collected some of our favorite and most memorable Apple ads from the last three decades, so take a trip down memory lane with us as we go through Apple's most iconic TV spots.

Cupidtino is a dating website for Apple fans. Questions: Are you going to marry that guy, or wait for the 3G version? How does one have sex to Feist? Does AppleCare cover a broken heart? [TechCrunch]

Google today announced "Google Editions," another e-book service alongside Amazon's for Kindle and Apple's for iPad. Google doesn't know what gBooks will cost or how exactly you'll read them, but they'll definitely piss Steve Jobs off, so full steam ahead!

Users have jeered the New York Times' main iPad app, but the newspaper is listening to one in particular: We hear Steve Jobs is among the app's most vociferous critics and has been shunning it.

It's now clear the government is eyeballing Apple's control-freak policy on how iPad and iPhone apps are written, with two more reports of Feds looking into anti-competitive practices. Does Steve Jobs have the stomach for this fight?

This hasn't been a good morning for Steve Jobs. The Apple CEO is facing a report the feds are looking into his control-freak lockdown of the iPhone and iPad. And a Times columnist says the company's recent actions look "horrible."

Tonight on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart gave his take regarding Gizmodo's iPhone exclusive and the subsequent police raid on Jason Chen's home. Speaking directly to Apple and Steve Jobs, Stewart didn't hold back his criticism of them. Video inside.

Palm's newly-announced $1.2 billion sale to Hewlett Packard is great news for Bono: It means the U2 frontman's Elevation Partners roughly broke even on its 2007 investment in Palm. No loss! Who's the "Worst Investor in America" now, mate?

Apple believes it has a "moral responsibility" to patrol content on the iPhone. That apparently includes heavily watering down a guide to New York's gay culture, as one author just learned.

63 Ways Steve Jobs Could Strike Back [Gizmodo]

We hear Steve Jobs has tentatively agreed to appear on stage at the Wall Street Journal's high-profile D Conference for the first time in three years. The June event could be a major landmark in the Apple CEO's public recuperation.

Apple banned a third prominent cartoonist from its app store, citing mockery of Tiger Woods and a policy against "ridiculing a public figure." If we're to let Apple censor our news, we should familiarize ourselves with the company's whims.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to have sent a new email to a fan, which we've obtained.

After exceeding Apple's quota of two tablets, this medical-school student was repeatedly told "you have reached your lifetime limit of iPad purchases" by an Apple Store drone who refused to say anything else. Heaven is closed to you forever, infidel.

As opposed to the rest of the world, David Letterman said he "couldn't care less" about the story of the lost iPhone, obtained and exclusively revealed by Gizmodo, on last night's Late Show. Who does he think he's kidding?

It's been a rough week for Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who left his iPhone prototype in an ersatz German beer garden only to see it turn up on Gizmodo. So Lufthansa's offering to fly Powell to real Germany, gratis.

When A.R. Rahman's flight from India touched down in NYC, he went straight to the Apple store to purchase an iPad. Hours later, he improvised an original song using a program called Bebot- Robot Synth.

In the days following Gizmodo's exclusive on Apple's next iPhone, almost every major news outlet had its own spin on the story. From mispronunciations to a lack of fact-checking, here's the best moments from the TV coverage in one video.

Once upon a time, building computers was as solitary an affair as using one, and a smart executive named Steve Jobs exploited this cloistered secrecy for fun and profit. But Apple's hermetic seal has broken, and there's no restoring it.