Apple said in a statement on Monday that its license to include the YouTube app in the iOS operating system “has ended.” Apple noted that “customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the app store.”
Seems odd for Apple to issues a statement for an operating system that’s in beta and under NDA.
NPR:
His father told him he’d never amount to anything but a ditch digger, a remark he still carries with him years later.“I was sort of studying sex, drugs and rock and roll in high school,” says Steltzner. It wasn’t just the long hair. “I liked to wear this strange Air Force jump suit. And my first car was a ’69 Cadillac hearse. I put a bed in the back.”
Great story.
A no-nonsense look at managing email from Matt Gemmell.
Classic.
Federal prosecutors on Monday announced a deal to drop a criminal case against Gibson Guitar Corp. after the instrument maker acknowledged its importations of exotic wood violated environmental laws.
iCloud documents are cached on your local machine so that you can open them even if you don’t have Internet access. The files can be accessed in the Finder in addition to the Apple application dialog boxes.
Great tip.
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AT&T has posted a new “Mobile Share Planner” tool to help you figure out if its Mobile Share Plan is a good match with your family’s needs.
EA is suing Zynga for copyright infringement over similarities between EA’s Sims Social and Zynga’s The Ville.
Samsung is pulling out all the stops to protect itself from Apple’s lawsuit, but so far everything they’ve done seems like more of a distraction from the truth — they copied Apple’s iPhone. […]
Great shots of Mission Control when Mars Curiosity Rover landed.
This is an incredible experiment.
Reuters:
The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
As a photographer, you dream about getting perfect shots like these.
Railroad Story is a time management game with a twist: You’re in charge of a railroad in burgeoning parts of the country needing rail commerce.
Mat Honan:
I know how it was done now. Confirmed with both the hacker and Apple. It wasn’t password related. They got in via Apple tech support and some clever social engineering that let them bypass security questions.
The good news is the hacker didn’t brute-force the password. The bad news… yeah.
Mat Honan:
At 4:50 PM, someone got into my iCloud account, reset the password and sent the confirmation message about the reset to the trash. My password was a 7 digit alphanumeric that I didn’t use elsewhere. When I set it up, years and years ago, that seemed pretty secure at the time. But it’s not. Especially given that I’ve been using it for, well, years and years. My guess is they used brute force to get the password (see update) and then reset it to do the damage to my devices.
I’ve known Mat for a lot of years and he’s a really smart guy. This should be a lesson to all of us.
Two of the best. […]
Very nice and free for personal and commercial use.
Asked if he told anyone at Apple to copy Samsung’s designs, Forstall replied, “I never directed anyone to go and copy something from Samsung. We wanted to build something great. There was no reason to look at anything they had done.”
HA!
Eric Slivka at Mac Rumors has a number of links from yesterday’s testimony at the Samsung trial that indicate Steve Jobs was receptive to the idea of Apple making a 7-inch iPad.
In the sworn declaration, Mr. Stretch admits to having “brought five Samsung prospective witnesses, accompanied by two interpreters, and three Samsung in-house attorneys, to see the Ceremonial Courtroom on the afternoon of August 2, 2012”.
John Kirk for Techpinions:
I do not ask silly questions, like whether a tablet is a consumption device. I do not ask whether a phone or a tablet does “real” work. I do not obsess on the exceptionally rare times when I may use my phone as a tablet, my tablet as a notebook or my notebook as a tablet. Instead, I simply use the right tool at the right time.
That’s exactly what I do.
Wired:
The moment is almost here. In just a couple days, NASA’s new Mars rover, Curiosity, will begin its descent to the Martian surface and hopefully start beaming back amazing images and data.Unfortunately, there’s no way to watch the probe actually plunge into the Martian atmosphere and undertake the carefully orchestrated sequence of landing events known as the “Seven Minutes of Terror.” Even the radio waves that indicate the rover’s position have to obey the laws of physics and recognize the 14-minute communications delay between Earth and Mars.But there are still plenty of ways to catch the action online and feel like you’re getting a front-row seat for NASA’s next big mission.
If you can, spare some time on Sunday to watch this event – and it’s on less of a tape delay than NBC’s Olympic coverage.
Harry McCracken wishes the venerable TRS-80 microcomputer a happy 35th anniversary.
“[Copying] creates a huge problem in marketing on many levels. We market our product as the hero and how distinctive it is, how consistent we’ve kept it over time,” said Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, as he was questioned by Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny. “Now when someone comes up with a product that copies that design and copies that marketing, then customers can get confused on whose product is whose… If you steal [the way the iPhone looks] you’re stealing all the value we’ve created.”
Sounds like Schiller did a great job in court today.
Engadget has put the Retina Display-equipped MacBook Pro through its paces as a Windows gaming box – interesting results for Mac gamers looking for a Windows fix.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California claims Zynga’s recently released Facebook game “The Ville” willfully and intentionally “copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements of the Sims Social.
Sounds like Samsung designers are working for Zynga.
“The longer hair provides a higher UPF at the smaller SZA, but the difference between the protection provided by the longer hair compared with the shorter hair reduces with increasing SZA. Protection from UVR is provided by the facial hair; however, it is not very high, particularly at the higher SZA.”
In other words, you bastards are going to die a miserable death, while I live forever.
Lemmy sings the Blues. […]
The Pixelmator Team has a major update coming to its image editing app and it should arrive on August 9, the team told The Loop. […]