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iFixIt got their hands on a Magic Trackpad, and did what we all wanted them to. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is investigating why the iOS 4 doesn’t play so well on the iPhone 3G. A day after a class action suit was filed regarding the iPads, Japan’s industry minister decided to complain about the old iPod nano fire issues. Thinking about adding a second drive to your 27″ iMac like Apple did? It’s not so easy. Apple sold more phones than Motorola, again. A new job listing for Mac OS X 10.7 seems to hint at it being “revolutionary” – hmm… The most interesting news of the day, Apple ditched Google and Skyhook and is now using its own location service.
Steve Ballmer isn’t so happy with the three million iPads Apple has sold. It’s not the first time, but seems AOL screen names aren’t working with iTunes. In patent news… There was a bunch of handheld accelerometer related filings. Then there was patents about 3D portable devices. Also, more info regarding iTravel emerged. Apple also is looking into a fashion app?
Finally, my friends at Texas A&M think Apple is a new religion.
Another day, another lawsuit – this one regarding overheating iPads. Remember the Library of Congress’ recent ruling making Jailbreaking legal? Apple responded.
Following the release of the 27″ Cinema Display, . Seems Apple has started shipping free bumpers to customers. Apple released iOS 4.1 Beta 2.
Another day, another lawsuit – this one regarding overheating iPads. Remember the Library of Congress’ recent ruling making Jailbreaking legal? Apple responded. Seems the wonderful white iPhone 4 has a new issue. Best Buy may or may not be giving free invisibleSHIELDs to people.
Following the release of the 27″ Cinema Display, Apple officially discontinued the 24″ and 30″ models. Seems Apple has started shipping free Bumpers to customers. Apple released iOS 4.1 Beta 2. Apple also updated Safari 5.0.1 and launched an Extensions Gallery. That also fixed the AutoFill issue from earlier. Microsoft showed off some new features of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011.
Portable batteries for your iPhone or iPad are becoming more and more popular. Unfortunately, as a product reviewer, I tend to see a real lack of innovation in this area. Tons of companies are releasing products that are pretty much the same as what’s already out there: There are a lot of versions of the “charging case,” tons of “battery bricks” that slip into your pocket, and about a million small devices that plug right in to an iPod connector. Scosche had manaed to come out with an iPod/iPhone/iPad battery with a unique design, that actually manages to stand out from the crowd, and they call it the solBAT II. Read the rest of this entry »
Pretty interesting day in news today. Apparently, most iPhone users love AT&T. Oops. AT&T will be fixing iPhone upload speeds in the next couple of weeks. After adding Nokia to the list of companies to point out flaws in… Apple decided to post a video of the Droid X. Apple has begun shipping free Bumper cases to those in the UK. In Jailbreak news, Spirit’s iOS 4.0.1. Jailbreak is delayed because of FaceTime. But that’s really not that important, because the Library of Congress has just made Jailbreaking legal. Not really sure how they have jurisdiction over that… but.
Following reports of low iMacs and Mac Pros, Mr. Gruber seems to think there might be a whole lot of things tomorrow. A couple days after my rant on iLife 10, seems more information about iLife 2011 is emerging. Why do the French know all about this? Apple has begun testing Mac OS X 10.6.5. LG seems to think that Apple may have some delays in trying to get the iPad in other countries. Apple is rumored to be offering free engraving on iPads purchased during the holidays. The news isn’t particularly shocking, but it’s freakin’ July.
Apparently the rest of the TMF staff is incapable of posting all but two of the 93 news stories from the past couple days. So… here we go.
A day after Apple announced its Q3 financial results, Microsoft did the same and at least for now, they are Redwood is ahead. Apple has promoted Jeff Williams to Senior Vice President of Operations with a focus on Quality Control. Apple’s huge data center in Charlie’s secondary backyard should be ready by the end of the year. iSuppli believes that by 2011, Apple will be the second largest purchaser of semi-conductors. Apple was announced #2 in something this week: software instability. This might have something to do with the recent Safari Auto-Fill vulnerability. Apple updated Snow Leopard Server. Apple released yet another Xcode 4 preview to developers.
Turns out Steve isn’t done mocking other smartphones, the next victim: Nokia N97 Mini. About a week after Apple’s press conference, Apple launched the iPhone 4 Case Program App. Apple also began refunding purchases for those who have already acquired Bumpers. Shockingly, there were some hiccups.
AT&T’s dropped call rate has dropped from 1.44 per hundred calls to something along the lines of 0.91 (This link will download a .PDF) Other relevant AT&T news? They activated 3.2 million iPhones this last quarter. Apple could help add a couple more pretty soon. In other news, our friends at Verizon said that Apple changed their mind about something, too bad it wasn’t antenna placement. Chitaka Research is reporting that half of iOS devices are running iOS 4.
In patent news, Apple has filed for patents regarding a mono playback option on the iPod. There were also some ramblings on some small products. AppleInsider continued to promote the illogical idea of an ad-based OS.
iMac shortages seem on the brink and that comes in the wake of Mac Pro supply problems. The blogs are caught up in some idea that because someone posted the publish date a French helpbook for iLife 2010 as September 23, 2010. Here’s my take:
- If it gets released in September, it will be 2011
- There’s no actual evidence from Apple that it will be out then
- Anyone could have posted that book
- This is a load of crap
My favorite Microsoft blogger bought an Apple product, apparently she likes it.
Apple sent out satisfaction surveys for the iPhone 4. There was some discussion about whether Apple was going to charge for iPads moving to iOS 4 that basically resulted in a whole lot of nothing. Our friends at FileMaker have launched FileMaker Go for the iPhone and iPad. Apple donated MacPaint and QuickDraw to the Computer History Museum. Most importantly, Apple announced its Q3 results, yes – it was yet another record-setting revenue.
