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Tag Archives: Apple
I couldn’t have put it better myself
Mathew Ingram, writing for GigaOm: “Call it a deal with the devil or whatever you want, but Apple is the one that came up with devices that are so appealing, and a content-distribution model that is so effective, that it … Continue reading
Apple denies content purchasing change, confirms content purchasing change
Apple’s Trudy Muller, talking to John Paczkowski: “We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines,” But wait… “We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Apple, iPad, iPhone
Tagged Amazon Kindle, Apple, AppStore, John Paczkowski, Kindle, New York Times, Safari, Sony
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Why Microsoft is right to hold off on a tablet
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Joe Wilcox, Betanews: “Ballmer was right not to make any major tablet announcement, showing off something that wasn’t ready. Any zealous tablet push would have led to bloggers, journalists and Wall Street analysts making … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPad, Microsoft
Tagged Apple, Consumer Electronics Show, Courier, iPad, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Tablet PC, Wall Street
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WiFi tethering and the iPhone: Battery life?
John Brownlee at CoM: “It seems likely, then, that as soon as the Verizon iPhone comes out, Apple will pump an official iOS update for all devices down the pipeline, bringing the Hotspot app to all devices, including iPads. Naturally, … Continue reading
I don’t really see why this is worth a story
Brian X. Chen, for Wired: “The company recently approved an iPhone camera app that carries a special feature: the ability to snap a photo by pressing the physical Volume button rather than tapping the touchscreen. Oddly enough, about four months … Continue reading
In praise of Kindle
Getting the out-of-box experience right with consumer electronics is hard, which is why so many companies get it wrong. With the Kindle, Amazon has produced a customer experience that Apple would be proud of. In fact, it’s arguable that the … Continue reading
Apple reassures FutureTap: “We’re not making a patent claim on your work”
Remember the story about how Apple was stealing a third-party app developer’s work and patenting it? At the time, I explained in a long post that the patent was nothing to do with FutureTap’s excellent WhereTo? application. And, after consulting … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, FutureTap, intellectual property, law, Ortwin Gentz, Patent
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iPads only selling to the Apple faithful? Only if you count anyone with an iPod as “the faithful”
In search of a headline, Marketing Magazine cites a YouGov survey as showing that the iPad is only “reaching out to the converted“: “In the two months since the iPad launched in the UK, YouGov has found that 96% of … Continue reading
No, Apple isn’t patenting developers’ work. But it still has a bigger problem
Patents are hard to understand. If any government wants to reduce the costs of running a business quickly and easily, it should revamp the system of patents to make them easy for people who aren’t lawyers to read, and harder … Continue reading
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Tagged App Store, Apple, FutureTap, iPhone, Macintosh, Om Malik, Patent, Steve Jobs
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The myth of “programming is the only creativity”
One of the often-used memes concerning Apple’s approach to iOS is that it’s for “passive consumers”, people who aren’t creative. In an interesting post on Google App Inventor, O’Reilly’s Mike Loukides dredges this one up again – and I think … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Google, iPhone, Web/Tech
Tagged Apple, Computer programming, Cory Doctorow, Google, Google App Inventor, HyperCard, iPhone, IPhone OS
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