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It's official: more than 50-billion apps have been downloaded from the Apple App Store since it was launched in mid 2008. With iDevice usage climbing monumentally since then, no one's doubting the success of the App Store, as more and more owners of iDevices are logging in to get their hands on everything from Instagram to Angry Birds.It's not a milestone that Apple has let sneak by unnoticed: to draw attention to the fact that its App Store has ...
Most would think that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had a bitter relationship until the end. But that just isn't true, as the Microsoft founder tells 60 minutes, during an interview in which he describes his last visit to the late Apple co-founder.Gates grew emotional talking about his last visit with Jobs before his death. According to the personal computing billionaire, the visit ended on a "forward-looking" note."He showed me the boat he was working on, and talked about ...
Apple's Q2 results contain something few would have thought likely a year ago: the company's first profit drop in a decade.Make no mistake, they're still solid results. The Cupertino-based giant posted US$9.5-billion profit on quarterly revenue of US$43.6-billion. Sure that's down on net profit of US$11.6-billion on US$39.2-billion a year ago, but most companies would still kill for that kind of money.It's flagship products are still growing too. The company sold 37.4-million iPhones in the quarter, compared ...
If you have an predilection towards tech and you’re a serial Apple fanatic, this will delight you. What used to be an Atlanta-area CompUSA store has now been transformed into the Apple Pop-up museum; 6 000 square feet of Apple gadgets and paraphernalia from the beginning in 1976 to the present. It will be showcasing an Apple I, the first disk II and controller card, an original Apple II, an original Lisa and a Xerox Alto, among other rare Apple ...
No it wasn't a joke. The objections to Apple's 'iPad Mini' Trademark Application issued on 1 April by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) were all too real. These objections though, one week later, have officially been withdrawn.According to MacRumours the primary objection, related to the 'iPad mini' name being determined as "descriptive" rather than a distinctive product name was removed as well as the secondary objection, relating to the use of the iPad mini overview ...
Alright, so Funny or Die is really doing this. The humour-based video site has made its own Steve Jobs movie based entirely on the late Apple founder's Wikipedia page. The project will be the longest project by the site to date with a running time of 60 to 75 minutes.The teaser trailer is essentially a collection of Apple buzzwords, Jobs' melodramatic moments and an iFan product display presentation. It's pretty cliché driven and not very serious at all so ...
Trouble is brewing in Apple's second largest market -- and it's not a quiet affair.According to the Wall Street Journal, the Chinese government's traditional mouthpiece, The People's Daily, ran a front page article criticising the tech giant's response to a recent broadcast by China's official state-run TV network. In it, the newspaper said Apple refused to grant its journalists interviews and instead simply offered "empty and self-praising" responses to the complaints raised.The broadcast, which was spotted by Tech ...Even if you're not an iDevotee, you have probably heard about the competing Steve Jobs movies due to hit our screens shortly. There's the indie one starring Ashton Kutcher that premièred at Sundance this year, and there's the 'official' one in pre-production, based on Walter Isaacson's biography and featuring assistance from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and written by The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin. But now it seems there's a third movie about the life of the late Apple co-founder, brought ...
The design wars between Apple and Samsung are the stuff of legend. The two tech giants have fought battles in courtrooms across the globe, with each accusing the other of copying unique designs and infringing on valuable design rights.The culmination of those battles saw Samsung ordered to pay US$1-billion to Apple following a lengthy trial in a California court.On the surface much of the conflict seemed to be around rectangles with rounded corners. As Professor Charles Gielen of ...
Picture this: you're a fruity tech company (no, not BlackBerry), which is suing its competitor, Samsung, for patent infringement in courts around the globe. You win a case in the US, requiring Samsung to pay you more than a billion dollars in damages, but the judge fails to grant you a sales ban to stop the company from selling its gadgets and eating up your marketshare. You file an appeal, asking the court to reconsider. And who should step in ...
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