Apple sold its first 1 million iPads in just 28 days, so its no surprise that market research firm IDC sees the device as driving global adoption of media tablets. (more…)
According to one industry analyst, Apple’s recently released iPad has surpassed the Mac in terms of sales per week. (more…)
Apple is being sued for allegedly infringing a patent that covers selling music over the Internet, according to a new lawsuit filed in the U.S. (more…)
AppleInsider had a story yesterday that Apple was refocusing its professional Final Cut Pro apps to more of a prosumer suite. I talked to Apple today and they said its pro apps are staying pro and its customers will be pleased. No doubt they’ll continue to add consumer and prosumer features, but there are a lot of pros out there that rely on these apps.
Like many people on Wednesday, I downloaded the new free Twitter for iPhone app as soon as it was released. I’ve already made my decision, I’m sticking with Twitterrific. (more…)
Google co-founder Larry Page admitted during a talk at Google’s annual partner forum, Google Zeitgeist, that multitasking and some apps could drain the battery of its Android phone. (more…)
The long awaited Twitter client for the iPhone has arrived. Twitter 3.0 showed up in my list of downloads just a few minutes. (more…)
The talk of a Verizon iPhone started as soon as the device was first released. That was three versions ago and AT&T is still the exclusive carrier in the U.S. However, if that did change, some people think that hordes of customers would leave AT&T and join Verizon. AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega isn’t concerned.
AT&T wireless CEO Ralph de la Vega said this morning at the JPMorgan tech conference (without formally confirming that iPhone exclusivity is ending). Why not? Because switching carriers is still pretty tricky to do.
AT&T Wireless CEO: Here’s Why We Won’t Get Our Butts Kicked When The iPhone Goes To Verizon [Business Insider]
There was a lot of talk earlier this week about an NPD report that put Apple’s iPhone OS behind Google’s Android in terms of market share. However, a new report by market research firm Gartner says Apple is winning the race. (more…)
A new report released on Wednesday by market research firm Gartner shows that Apple increased its iPhone sales in the first quarter of 2010 by 112.2 percent over the same period last year. (more…)
Apple is being sued for infringing on patents for the way it summarizes data on its Mac computers and Mac OS X operating system. (more…)
CNBC’s Jim Goldman on Monday said Apple should buy gaming company Electronic Arts, but Business Insider’s Dan Frommer thinks its a bad idea. I have to agree with Frommer on this one. There was a time when people wanted Apple to purchase companies just to bring apps to the platform, but Apple is way beyond that now.
Yes, there are plenty of reasons for Apple to continue to work closely with Electronic Arts. But there are no reasons for Apple to own it.
No Way, Apple Should NOT Buy Electronic Arts [Business Insider]
Nodconcept on Tuesday released its newest app, bringing the popular Emoti iPhone app to the iPad. (more…)
Apple on Tuesday launched a new video section on its iTunes Store, designed specifically for the ladies. (more…)
Adobe has some of the best apps on the market today, but when it comes to getting Flash on a consumer device like the iPhone, the company’s cries for solidarity seem to be falling on deaf ears. (more…)
Apple added a speed boost and longer battery life to its MacBook line of computers on Tuesday as the company quietly released an update to the notebooks. The price remains the same at $999. Looks like a good time to pick up a MacBook.
The new MacBook now has a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of memory. The notebook has a 250GB hard drive and boasts battery-life of 10 hours, up from the seven hour battery of the previous model. The MacBook is also now using the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics card, the newest mobile card from the company.
After admitting to collecting data from Wi-Fi networks, Google could find itself at the center of investigations in both Germany and the U.S. The data was being collected by the cars Google uses for its mapping service, which also collected Wi-Fi addresses and snippets of data.
“This may be one of the most massive surveillance incidents by a private corporation that has ever occurred”, said Marc Rotenberg, leader of the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Centre in Washington.“It is unprecedented vacuuming of WiFi data by a private company. Can you imagine what would happen if a German corporation was sending cars through Washington sucking up all this information?”
Google set for probes on data harvesting [Financial Times]
Piper Jaffray Senior Research analyst Gene Munster said on Monday that he sees no signs that the iPad is cannibalizing sales of the Mac. (more…)
Renowned photographer Chase Jarvis is hosting a set of three, free classes for photographers that want to get more out of Apple’s professional workflow application, Aperture 3. (more…)
The ongoing battle between Apple and Adobe began to heat up earlier this year after it became clear that the iPad would not support Flash. The two companies brought the fight to the public in recent weeks, and I wanted to try a different approach to track how people feel about each of them, using the Wisdom of Crowds principle. (more…)
What a day it has been. After the news that the judge would unseal documents related to the iPhone 4G and Gizmodo, everyone waited to see what would happen. There were more than a few surprises and some juicy tidbits that came out late today. First, here are a couple of choice quotes from the articles and then links to some of the better stories out there. (more…)
This case is about to get a lot more interesting. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan ordered the documents in the Gizmodo iPhone 4G case unsealed on Friday. The judge said he read the affidavit and there is no confidential informant. Media organizations that banded together to ask for the documents to be unsealed include Wired.com, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and CNET.
Cretan said he only agreed to to seal the document in the first place because it involved a fast-moving, active investigation, and because “the warrant involved possible intrusion into media sources,” said the judge. “Which is ironic. Now it’s media seeking to open things up.”The judge added that information contained in the affidavit has already emerged in the press. Last month Wired.com reported that 21-year-old Brian J. Hogan, of Redwood City, California, was the one who came into possession of the prototype iPhone at an area bar, and passed it to Gizmodo in exchange for a payment.
Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Papers Unsealed [Wired.com]
We all saw Adobe’s new ad campaign launched yesterday with the tagline, “We Love Apple,” which not-so-subtly tries to get people on its side in the battle with Apple over Flash. MG Siegler wrote a great post yesterday that drew me in right away with a funny headline.
You’ve just spent God-knows how much money on an ad buy that blankets much of the technology press (including this site). It’s a strange passive-aggressive message that just makes Jobs’ aggressive-aggressive post from a few weeks ago seem even more forceful. And it’s transparent. But worst of all, it won’t work. You must know this.On the face of it, the ad is an attempt to convince people that you’re the good guys in this fight. “We Love Apple” — the problem is, you don’t love Apple. Why on Earth would you? They’re completely screwing you right now. Everyone knows that. You’d have to be crazy to love Apple right now.
Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight [TechCrunch]
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) takes place in San Francisco from June 7-11, but it’s not the only conference in the area during that time. eBay is also holding its developer conference and they are offering WWDC devs discounted entry. (more…)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs responded to an email from a developer on why the Mac was dropped from this year’s WWDC Apple Design Awards. Jobs responded saying this was “just the normal cycle of things” and that Apple was focusing on the iPhone OS. Certainly makes sense with all of the mobile products Apple has and will put in 2009/2010.
Steve Replies to Email About Mac Design Awards: “Just The Normal Cycle Of Things” [MacStories]
Two weeks after Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted an open letter on the pitfalls of using Flash in the company’s mobile devices, Adobe founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock responded with their own thoughts. (more…)
If you’re a MobileMe user, you’ll be interested in the new beta Apple launched for Mail users. (more…)
Sad news today from Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch, the organizer of the C4 developer conference — the event is dead. I never attended any of the C4 conferences, but I know a lot of developers who did and they really enjoyed it. Anytime a conference that gets developers together to share ideas and discuss the current market conditions dies, we all suffer.
Rentzsch cites Apple’s recent alteration of Section 3.3.1 of its iPhone developer agreement—the controversial clause that prohibits the use of some tools and programming languages for creating iPhone applications—as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Specifically, he points to the lack of developer outrage about the change, saying “unlike previous issues such as the senseless iPhone SDK NDA, the majority of the community isn’t riled by 3.3.1.”
C4 developer conference will not return [Macworld]
Let the gaming begin! Valve Software on Wednesday publicly released Steam for the Mac. It’s now available, and it’s free to use, though most games incur a fee to play. Valve is also giving away its popular action game Portal until May 24, 2010. (more…)
Responding to a lawsuit brought against it by Apple in March, HTC on Wednesday said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. (more…)