Archive | March 30th, 2010
Andy Ihnatko on what elevates the iPhone above all other smartphones
Andy Ihnatko nails a key difference between the iPhone and everything else: If there’s a single feature that elevates the iPhone from the rest of the pack, it’s the way that it urges and enables me to maximize the amount of time I spend thinking and doing and creating, each and every day. I’ve got […]
Continue reading...Elan Microelectronics files ITC complaint against Apple, seeks to ban import of iPad and iPhone
30. March 2010
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Apple once again finds itself at the center of a controversy brought before the International Trade Commission (ITC), a governing body tasked with preventing unfair trade practices and equipped with the power to outright ban the import of a company’s products. Bloomberg News is reporting that the Taiwanese based company Elan Microelectronics has asked the […]
Continue reading...Tony Fadell, iPod Godfather, steps down as special advisor to Steve Jobs
30. March 2010
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When you work at a company as large as Apple, your accomplishments and contributions to a device even as revolutionary and important as the iPod often go unnoticed to the public at large. One notable exception to the rule is Tony Fadell, a former Apple employee often referred to as the “godfather of the iPod.” […]
Continue reading...Former Apple board member Jerry York was “disgusted” at the secrecy surrounding Jobs’ liver transplant
30. March 2010
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When Apple announced that Steve Jobs wouldn’t deliver the 2009 Macworld keynote, speculation ran wild about what, if anything, had befallen Apple’s trusty leader. Was Jobs taking a step back from the limelight? Had his cancer resurfaced, or spread? Was he attempting to groom a successor by letting other Apple executives take center stage? Shortly […]
Continue reading...“iPhone HD” rumored to include double resolution display, front facing camera, and A4 processor
30. March 2010
When it rains it pours. On Monday evening the WSJ posted an article detailing Apple’s plans to release the iPhone on Verizon. Well “detailing” might be too strong a word, a fact that Daring Fireball’s John Gruber made sure to drive home when he labeled the Journal’s report as a “lame entry in the iPhone […]
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30. March 2010
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