Tuesday’s filing saw Apple categorically dismiss accusations from the class, which now includes 31 states, stating several times that the evidence will “speak for itself.” The response breaks down the complaint paragraph by paragraph, challenging the charges by either citing a lack of “sufficient evidence and belief” or denying them outright.
iPad
Tim Cook: In his own words
The folks at Macworld have a great story summarizing Tim Cook’s conversation at D10 last night. Cook talked about Steve Jobs, the Apple TV, Macs, iPad, and a number of other topics.
Designing for multiple mobile densities
Travis Hines:
The sharpness of your phone or tablet’s display is referred to as density. iOS devices measure density in PPI (pixels per inch) and Android in DPI (dots per inch). The more pixels or dots you fit in one square inch on a screen, the higher the density and resolution of it.
I don’t envy designers.
Dell’s Windows 8 iPad competitor
Hmmm, reminds me of something, but I can’t put my finger on it.
The 7-inch iPad
Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that the 7-inch iPad was too small. While the technologies that would allow such a device have changed in the last couple of years, the reasons Apple would release it haven’t. […]
FlipStands for iPad
I like that it has multiple positions — that would come in handy.
Sweet Mother of God make the pain stop!
How to take screenshots on the Kindle Fire. You’re joking right?
Apple’s iPad will be dominant until…
My newest column on Techpinions:
The next time you see a forecast of Apple losing its dominance in a market, ask yourself what the competitors are doing to differentiate themselves from Apple. That answer is all you need to know.
Dell sucks balls; stock drops 12%
Dell posted first quarter sales, earnings, second quarter revenue guidance — you name it — well short of expectations Tuesday, sending shares of the Round Rock, Texas technology company were down more than 12% in after-hours trading.
Maybe they could bring back the Streak.
Tivo streaming to your iPad and iPhone
The IP set-top box works with the TiVo Premiere Q, a home’s primary gateway device, to give consumers access to live and recorded TV, operator VOD, plus broadband-delivered content on every TV in the house. This is delivered through the innovative TiVo experience consumers have come to know and love. It includes integrated MoCA to simplify home networking and multi-room applications.TiVo Stream seamlessly delivers the content available on a consumer’s TiVo Premiere or Premiere Q DVR to alternative screens such as iPads and iPhones. Unlike similar offerings in the market, this is the first product to enable streaming or download of shows simultaneously to multiple portable devices without interrupting what’s playing on the television. The power of TiVo Stream enables users to quickly transfer shows to their mobile device for viewing outside the home.
iPad pours beer
Great illusion.
[Via Ubergizmo]
Panic unveils Coda 2, Diet Coda for iPad
Panic has announced Coda 2, a new version of their web editor for OS X, and Diet Coda, a companion app for the iPad.
Four years of App Store
Federico Viticci’s incredibly in-depth look at Apple’s App Store.
Hello iPhoto for iPad and iPhone on iBookstore
Hello iPhoto for iPad & iPhone interactively guides you through all the features of iPhoto. With over 200 screenshots, you’re going to get an in-depth look at iPhoto and so many cool and hidden features.
This is what I love about iBooks Author — interactivity and well designed books.
Judge comes down hard on Apple, publishers
Jeff John Roberts for paidContent:
In a strongly worded opinion, US District Judge Denise Cote rejected requests by Apple and five book publishers to throw out a class action suit that accuses them of price-fixing.Citing ongoing state, federal and international antitrust investigations, Cote turned down arguments that Apple and the publishers had acted independently when they changed the pricing model for e-books.
Apple forced to drop “4G” name from some international iPads
PCWorld:
Apple has stopped calling the new iPad “4G-capable” after regulators cracked down on its U.S.-only capability to connect to high-speed LTE networks. Although it is still listed as being “4G LTE capable,” the new iPad is now called “Wi-Fi + Cellular” instead of “Wi-Fi + 4G” in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, and several parts of Asia.Apple’s labeling drew criticism from regulators in Australia because its advertisements misled regarding the device’s 4G connectivity, and Apple also got complaints from customers in Europe.
iCloud
Ben Brooks:
A widely adopted, seamless, fast, robust iCloud is the greatest threat to Apple’s competitors — and this time around I think Apple knows it.
iCloud is becoming the center of everything Apple wants to do with it’s devices, whether it’s a Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple TV.
Apple planning photo sharing upgrade to iCloud
Eric Slivka:
The new features, expected to be announced at Apple’s world-wide developer conference beginning June 11, will allow iCloud users to share sets of photos with other iCloud users and to comment on them, these people said. Currently, users can only store one set of photos in iCloud through a feature called Photo Stream, which is designed to sync those photos to other Apple devices, not share them.
The original story is at WSJ, but that story is for subscribers only, so enjoy it at Mac Rumors.
This is what Android fragmentation looks like
Kim-Mai Cutler:
Animoca, a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android devices. Again, that’s testing with four hundred different phones and tablets for every app they ship!
What a bunch of shit to make your developers go through.
Astronut lands on iPad
The hit game Astronut is now available on the iPad for a $1.99, with a nifty remote control function for the free iPhone version built in.
Reminders and Notes on iCloud
Federico Viticci:
A few minutes ago, developer Steve Troughton-Smith tweeted a photo showing a “beta” login page for iCloud.com, Apple’s suite of web applications to access iCloud services like Mail and Calendar. The photo showed Apple’s icon-based navigation for iCloud.com, with the addition of Reminders and Notes icons in what appears to be an internal version of iCloud.com carrying future features.
With iCloud being at the center of Mountain Lion and iOS, this shouldn’t be a big surprise.
Maps
Mark Gurman:
While Apple has always had full control of the actual iOS Maps application design, the backend has belonged to Google. That will change with iOS 6 thanks to their purchases of Placebase, C3 Technologies, and Poly9; acquisitions that Apple has used to create a complete mapping database. Now that the application is fully in-house, it is being renamed to simply “Maps.”
Makes sense.
Judge throws out Proview’s iPad trademark suit against Apple
A California judge tossed out a lawsuit in which the Chinese firm Proview Electronics Co Ltd accused Apple Inc of tricking them into selling the “iPad” name for less than it might have.
British Parliament buys 650 iPads
The iPad trials were underway since 2011, and the House of Commons administration committee recently recommended the rapid rollout of suitable mobile tablet hardware to all 650 MPs.” And by tablet they meant iPad.
Good move. Let’s hope other governments follow.
‘It’s a form letter’
Marco Arment on AppleInsider’s report about Apple working on multi-user support on the iPad:
That’s the standard “duplicate bug” response email. It’s a form letter. It means nothing, except that he was not the first person to make that suggestion.
The security content of iOS 5.1.1
Apple posted the specifics of the security fixes in today’s release.
Technology Review on why apps don’t work for some publishers
The editor in chief/publisher of MIT’s Technology Review looks at what has gone wrong with their app strategy – and the answer is “everything.”
Samsung fails to produce source code in Apple patent case
The source code was supposed to document how Samsung had worked around design or technical elements Apple had patented, including the “overscroll bounce” described in U.S. Patent No. 7,469,381.Instead of producing this evidence, which could be used to help Samsung’s case (but could also be used by Apple to prove additional or continued infringement) the company chose instead to keep Apple and the court waiting.
iPad takes 95% of tablet Web traffic
AppleInsider:
Chitika Insights, the research arm of the Chitika ad network, sifted through its database of ad impressions and found that 94.64 percent of all tablet web traffic can be attributed to the iPad.In comparison, the second place Samsung Galaxy Tab only managed 1.22 percent of the market, while the Asus Transformer Prime eked out 1.2 percent.
So much for the competition.
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