Possibly down to the older Apple TV’s appeal to jail breakers, a new 720p model is listed on Amazon from $178, compared with a brand new 1080p model which is the standard $99.
The Smithsonian has announced that they will host a new exhibit showcasing highlighting the many patents awarded to Steve Jobs. The exhibit will be called “The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World.”
Over the past couple of days two reports have been released showing Android with a healthy hold on the U.S. smartphone market. One small problem with those numbers. Sales data from the three largest U.S. carriers don’t back them up. At all.
Every year Apple, just like most other major tech corporations, does its best to avoid billions in corporate taxes in the U.S. and around the world. By routing money, and setting up offices in tax-friendly countries, they hang on to vast amounts of profits each year. And it’s all legal.
The difference in the price of apps is hard to justify, so much so that members of parliament in Australia have asked Apple why they are paying more for exactly the same thing.
Android based tablets, including Amazon’s Kindle Fire, saw a “steep drop” in shipments during Q1 2012, as Apple’s popular iPad accounted for a whopping 68 percent of the number of tablets shipped worldwide during the same period.
In an interview with Business Insider, Liquidmetal inventor Atakan Peker has stated that he thinks Apple will use the technology for a ‘breakthrough product’, in other words, more than likely not the iPhone 5.
Robert Herskowitz says he was double-charged for a song he downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. Now he wants his money back. Plus he’d like $4,999,997.42 as a little something for his troubles. He claims Apple “double-bills” with “troubling regularity” and is suing the Cupertino company for $5 million.
Scott Forstall, Apple’s VP of iOS software, and a man considered to be a “CEO-in-waiting” for Apple, sold off 95% of his shares in the company on Friday, raking in a sweet sum of $38.7 million for over 64,000 shares.
This is another video taken from the archive. Only recently discovered by Network World, it was meant as an inspirational video for the sales team against IBM. Steve Jobs plays FDR, while some other employees have roles including then vice president of marketing Mike Murray as The General.
Apple is battling a request for a deposition given by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The deposition relates to the relationship Apple has with Universal Music Group (UMG). Apple says the deposition reveals trade secrets and could cause damage to the company.
Apple has begun rejecting apps that use the Dropbox SDK to provide integration with the cloud storage service. Apple’s reason for the rejections; Someone could find a way to get to Dropbox’s website and pay for additional storage without Apple getting their normal 30% cut of the action.
This will no doubt not appeal one bit to Android fans, but an article published on Forbes suggests that Android has reached is peak and that the only way it can go is down.
As the courtroom battles between Apple and Samsung drag on… and on, Apple has made a request of the court to exclude some statements made by Steve Jobs from court documents, and while they’re at it, could they please obscure the Samsung logo on those monitors sitting in the courtroom?
iOS’s superiority in terms of app appearance is down to several factors including fragmentation and developer support, an investigation by Wired reveals.
Following an earlier court decision that Apple and Samsung must meet to discuss a settlement to their lengthy court battle, those meetings have now been scheduled for May 21 and 22 in San Francisco.
