Born in 1926 near Turin in the industrial north of the country, Pininfarina worked with top carmakers during his long career, designing the Ferrari Testarossa, Fiat 124 Spider and Maserati GranTurismo, among others.
There’s a lot of design talent in one man.
Chris Matyszczyk, CNET:
Gates began by being circumspect, saying that the market hadn’t declared this was what it wanted yet, but he said that the idea of Apple having to create a Surface-like device was “a strong possibility.”
“This is a seminal event,” he declared.
Um… no.
Rene Ritchie:
One of the worst things a company can ever do is mistake their products for their business. Products come and go. If you mistake your product for your business, when — inevitably — that product goes, your business goes with it.
Apple evolves its products as technology allows, giving users a new way to do things. Other companies try desperately to hold on to a successful product and milk it for all its worth. Consumers are becoming more educated and see stunts like that for what they are.
Ted Landau has a nice overview on how things are going, good and bad.
Reuters:
Apple was threatened with the temporary closure of its operations in Italy and with further fines of up to 300,000 euros ($377,500) if it does not offer customers a free two-year warranty as demanded by Italian law. Italy’s AGCM competition and market authority has already imposed fines of 900,000 euros on divisions of Apple, which offers a paid technical support service, for failing to tell customers about their rights to free assistance. But months after the previous fine, Apple has failed to comply with the antitrust request, the watchdog said.
The most common request we’ve had over the years is for editable user constants, so they’re now available. Not only can you create and export your own categories of constants, but they will sync automatically to all your devices via iCloud.
Another great update from James Thomson.
Very interesting chart.
Candid, controversial and funny…the original and unedited interview with Steve Jobs, conducted by tech journalist and former Apple Inc. employee Robert X. Cringely, from 1995 when Steve Jobs was still CEO of NeXT Computer and Pixar.
Research In Motion Ltd Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said on Tuesday there is nothing wrong with the company as it exists now, denying the maker of BlackBerry smartphones is in a “death spiral.”
Clearly they’re screwed.
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I started using this over the weekend. It’s like amp modeling except for cabinets. I’ll let you know how I make out with it.
Jean-Louis Gassée:
A short five years ago, the BlackBerry was sine qua non in the smartphone world. Today, the future looks gloomy.
Alex Brooks has a nice look at what he expects for future Retina Macs.
Jackie Dove has a look at some services that can replace what you had with MobileMe.
AppleInsider:
The 65.27 percent share of Apple’s iOS platform, which is found on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, was up from 62.65 percent in May. Apple’s share has steadily risen, growing from a 53 percent position in August of 2011.
Apple’s next closest competitor in mobile browsing marketis Google’s Android platform, which took 19.73 percent in the month of June.
I’m not going to say it, I just won’t. (Android is winning)
Incredible.
Avid has agreed to sell its consumer audio and video product lines. The company’s consumer audio products are being sold to inMusic, the parent company of Akai Professional, Alesis and Numark, among others.
The products involved in this transaction include M-Audio brand keyboards, controllers, interfaces, speakers and digital DJ equipment and other product lines. Avid will continue to develop and sell its industry-leading Pro Tools line of software and hardware, as well as associated I/O devices including Mbox and Fast Track.
Separately, the company’s consumer video editing line is being sold to Corel Corporation.
Tough times.
That’s when the real sneaking around began. For the next two months, Avitzur had to find new ways of getting into the building. He kept his canceled badge around his neck and timed his arrival for when he knew there’d be crowds coming through the front door.
What a fascinating story. A must read.
We took Chrome for iOS for a spin this weekend, tucking Safari into a folder and using Chrome exclusively on the iPhone and iPad. By Monday morning, Safari was back in the dock.
It’s the details that frustrate people.
Associated Press:
A Chinese court says Apple has agreed to pay a local company $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name. The Guangdong High People’s Court said Monday that Apple and Proview Technology reached the settlement through mediation. The court said that ended the legal case.
The Next Web:
Twitter’s success has long been intertwined with the independent developers that have chosen to use the platform. The third-party ecosystem made Twitter what it is in the most literal fashion possible.That’s why there has been some consternation over a post on Twitter’s developer blog today. The gist of the posts was that Twitter was cracking down on how third parties were using its APIs.
Along with GigaOM’s “Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg”, there is growing concern the folks at Twitter are doing what is best for their short term economic interests – and those actions may kill the service in the long term.
Imagine the stories this guy could tell.
An explanation of how HTML5 differs from previous versions of the language.
This definitely wasn’t copied from Apple, nope not at all.
Matt Gemmell:
There’s nothing to be gained from engaging with people at that level. Here we come to the nub of the matter: I’m not saying we shouldn’t be able to engage with customer reviews. We should be able to. Google understands that, but they’ve (as usual) chosen an odd and poorly-considered mechanism of encouraging app devs to air dirty laundry in public, and burn out due to having an additional public support forum over which they have zero control. That’s horrible. Count me out.
Gemmell takes a hard look at Google’s new reviews system which allows developers to talk with users; the renewed calls by iOS and Mac developers for a similar way to interact with customers on their stores; human nature; and what really can be done to affect positive change.
Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has just granted Apple a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, an Android-based smartphone co-developed by Samsung and Google.
GALAXY S III became smarter. It reads you and understand what you need. Smart Stay, Smart Alert, Direct Call, Double tap to top, S Voice will make you more convinient. What is your most wanted?
First of all, I think you meant “convenient.” Please tell me how a phone makes “you more convinient.” Samsung, you make my head hurt.
You have to love these pups.
Everyone is writing about the iPhone’s birthday today and how much it changed the industry. That’s all true, but I thought I’d take a different approach and look at some of the iPhone naysayers so we could make fun of them together. This list was actually compiled in 2008 by MacDailyNews, but here are a few of my favorites.
November 16, 2006, Palm CEO, Ed Colligan
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
December 07, 2006, CNET, Michael Kanellos
“Apple is slated to come out with a new phone… And it will largely fail…. Sales for the phone will skyrocket initially. However, things will calm down, and the Apple phone will take its place on the shelves with the random video cameras, cell phones, wireless routers and other would-be hits… When the iPod emerged in late 2001, it solved some major problems with MP3 players. Unfortunately for Apple, problems like that don’t exist in the handset business. Cell phones aren’t clunky, inadequate devices. Instead, they are pretty good. Really good.”
December 08, 2006, Morningstar analyst, Rod Bare
“The economics of something like [an Apple iPhone] aren’t that compelling.”
January 15, 2007, Bloomberg, Matthew Lynn
“The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant… Apple is unlikely to make much of an impact on this market… Apple will sell a few to its fans, but the iPhone won’t make a long-term mark on the industry.”
January 17, 2007, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer
“[Apple’s iPhone] is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine… So, I, I kinda look at that and I say, well, I like our strategy. I like it a lot.”
January 18, 2007, Microsoft Senior Marketing Director, Richard Sprague
“I can’t believe the hype being given to iPhone… I just have to wonder who will want one of these things (other than the religious faithful)… So please mark this post and come back in two years to see the results of my prediction: I predict they will not sell anywhere near the 10M Jobs predicts for 2008.”