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Daily News Recap (March 11, 2010)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onMarch 11th, 2010

Everyone’s friend Steve Jobs is now the 136th richest person in the world, he was questionably the richest person at the Oscars. Mac resellers Club Mac and MacMall are now one in the same.
iTunes has some new competition according to Wired compliments from Steve’s friends at Dell and Amazon. Screw Google, someone thinks Cupertino might be responsible for the new world takeover. Infinite Loop also would like you to exercise more, that’s why they have developed some new patents. Dolby is bringing 3D sound (which we still don’t understand) to the Mac.

AppleInsider claims that iPhone OS 4.0 will have multitasking support. If you’d like to have some magnets that replicate your iPhone’s home screen, click here and then click buy. While the iPhone surges, Microsoft and Google will fight it out, according to one analyst. DARPA, our favorite part of the U.S. government, is looking to launch apps for both the iPhone and Android platforms?

The Nook is coming to the iPad. Google Reader is coming to the iPad. Forbes has attained some information about how Apple is prepping the iBooks Store. Patently Apple found two new patents regarding the iPad’s display and the iPhone’s audio output. Despite banning boobs from the App Store, Gizmodo thinks that they might reappear in the iBooks Store with their own category.

Tomorrow is Charlie’s birthday, it is also March 12th, more importantly tomorrow is the day that many of you will go to Apple’s Online Store to pre-order the iPad. If anyone would like to send Charlie an iPad…

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Daily News Recap (March 10, 2010)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onMarch 10th, 2010

Not a whole lot of news, except for a whole bunch of Apple getting number one on a variety of surveys… Apple topped Brandkeys’ 2010 Customer Loyalty Index in two categories. In Vocalabs Tech support study, they also took number one. And the one that you know about, Consumer Reports, yeah – number one in tech support. Cupertino’s newest trademark: New Music Tuesday. Incase, everyone’s favorite case maker has updated their popular Neoprene Sleeve. Apple and a bunch of other people are getting sued for a couple of patent violations. This goes away in: 3, 2, 1… Speaking of lawsuits, Elan Microelectronics claims they haven’t settled their pending lawsuit with Apple. There is a new rumor about the Core i7 “hexacore” Mac Pro and (next) Tuesday. In a sign of things to come regarding gaming on the Mac, Razer, everyone’s favorite gaming peripherals company, announced Mac support on all future products.

Apple now claims a quarter of the smartphone business. Google Voice is back in the App Store. The backlash over the lack of boobs in the App Store continues, this time in Germany. MacDailyNews took some time to ask AT&T where tethering was.

According to Engadget, the latest iPad SDK indicates no camera, but some more fun stuff was found. Here’s a funny headline compliments of Verizon: “Apple introduces the iPad – an opportunity for VZW.” You remember that company that threatened to rip-off Apple? Shenzhen Great Loong Brother (in case you had forgotten) Anyways, they are back, with a new ripoff of Apple.

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Daily News Recap (March 9, 2010)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onMarch 9th, 2010

Hardmac decided to investigate why Apple sells Macs at a higher price in Europe. Please, tell us if any of the following are cheaper in Europe: Coca Cola, Nike Air Force Ones or my beloved Canon T1i. Nope? Didn’t think so. Our daily news regarding HTC compliments of All Things Digital. CNN’s Apple 2.0 blog reported that Apple gave warnings to other handset makers earlier this year. Apple won three more Industrial Designs. Apple released MainStage 2.1.1. Jonathan Schwartz (former Sun CEO) claims Steve threatened to sue him as well…

Powerbook Medic has some new evidence to support the iPad camera theory. Our favorite Apple analyst (John Gruber) decided to explain the lack of iPhone Apps on the iPad. The Loop is reporting that the iPhone and iPad OS’s will unify in OS 4.1. What happened to OS 4.0? or Steve’s claims about no tethering. Craig Berger believes that Apple will ship five million iPads in the first half of 2010.

Steve Ballmer (the guy that runs Microsoft) decided to say some nice things about the App Store, that runs in steep contrast to my take on it earlier in the day. Gigaom is reporting that our beloved RIAA forced Apple into the use of iTunes LP. Gawd we hate them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is not exactly in love with the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Apple has posted the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta.

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Opinion: What Happened to the App Store?

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onMarch 9th, 2010

If you have been following “the news” in the past couple of weeks, you know that Apple’s always controversial App Store approval process has been shockingly in the news a lot. The only difference between this and the normal shenanigans? There are a variety of developments that have already massively changed the face of the App Store and will transform the nature of what some believe is the iPhone’s greatest asset. So what’s changed? We’ll detail that after the jump – but if you’ve spent fifteen good minutes on the App Store in the past couple days – you likely have already noticed some of the changes.

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Daily News Recap (March 8, 2010)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onMarch 8th, 2010

Still busy figuring out how you never heard of the Hurt Locker? Steve was in Disney capacity last night and in his Disney clothes, not his normal Apple garb. For those of you not in attendance, Apple showed off their iPad ad (three times) last night during the Oscars. (Yes, it’s smaller big brother the iPhone did the same thing) Apple has a new idea, it’s called the iKey. All Things Digital believes we might see some ridiculous numbers regarding Mac sales for February. Portal 2, Steam and other games from Valve are now officially coming to the Mac. Patently Apple found some more information regarding the changes to Apple Remote. Apple and a bunch of other companies got yelled at by Richard Durbin for not testifying before the Senate Human Rights Committee.

9 to 5 Mac (and everyone else) examined the aforementioned iPad ad and found that books are available from $7.99-$14.99, as well as some other stuff. A team of executives are heading from Cupertino to the UK to negotiate iPad pricing. IDC believes that the iPad won’t be helping Windows tablets. HP and Adobe decided to show off Flash working on the (HP) Slate. TUAW finally asked the logical question: will all the iPhone apps find their way to the iPad?

O2 decided to correct their mistake from last week regarding video calls on the iPhone. Gizmodo explained how Time Warner is going to make AT&T’s network “suck less.” The never-ending saga of the China Unicom Wi-Fi iPhone continues. AT&T tried an Android phone, the universal opinion on it: try again. Regarding the HTC lawsuit, Apple has 3,013 patents? Fact check, Patently Apple, anyone?

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Mac Sales Expected to Carry into February for Apple

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  • Written by: Daniel

Posted onMarch 8th, 2010

In a recent post by AppleInsider, analysts believe that Apple’s “blockbuster 2010 Mac sales” are “expected to carry into February for Apple.” This comes right after Apple is named the most admired company in Fortune’s survey.

A slow start to Mac sales in early 2009 will work to Apple’s advantage, potentially making strong 2010 sales seem even more impressive with numbers reflecting huge year-over-year growth, according to a new analysis.

In his latest note to investors, analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray said that Mac sales in February of 2009 were down 16 percent year over year. This represents the softest Mac comparison Munster has seen since Piper Jaffray began tracking the data five years ago.

“We expect the strong (year-over-year) growth in NPD data that we saw in (January) to continue in the month of (February),” he wrote. “We believe this presents a buying opportunity ahead of NPD data for the month of Feb. on 3/15.”

Via AppleInsder

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The Weekend Update (March 7, 2010)

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  • Written by: Charlie

Posted onMarch 7th, 2010

This isn’t another Daniel news recap – there just wasn’t a whole lot of news. TUAW captured this weekend’s moment of “Best Buy being stupid” – here. TUAW also decided to show off Apple’s video advertising patent. In case you missed it, the next-generation iPhone is believed to have video calls. Rogers (that’s Canadien folks) is launching a turn-by-turn GPS app for the iPhone according to none other than iPhoneinCanada.ca. For the American folks, AT&T is making some improvements to their beloved network. Apple and a couple of other companies managed to get a booth shut down at CeBIT.

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