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You might remember the furor last week over the discovery that your iPhone was keeping a log of cell tower locations it has accessed while also backing it up on your computer. People were understandably upset over this seemingly egregious breach of personal information. This morning, Apple released a fairly comprehensive list of questions and answers responding to the issue.
The internet was nearly broken in two this morning on the revelation from Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan that there has been a hidden file in iOS 4 that has been recording the locations of where your iPhone or iPad has been as you’ve been using it.
Nilay Patel from This Is My Next writes a very comprehensive and readable guide to the Apple vs. Samsung Lawsuit filed yesterday.
What’s the only thing that could make the internet briefly forget about Charlie Sheen’s newly minted Twitter account? A new Apple product launch, that’s what.
Apple pulled the covers off their brand new iPad yesterday and while many of the specific changes to the device were outed weeks ago, the company still managed to pull off a couple of surprises.
Apple Store “Geniuses” are easy to hate on because of their smarmy appearances, but if you had to deal with the crap they do on a daily basis, you may get a bit of a complex too. Popular Mechanics (of all places!) had an anonymous Apple Store employee reveal to them several aspects of working at an Apple retail store that you may or may not have known.
Earlier this morning, Apple sent out a press release detailing their new policy on subscription revenue for content sold on iOS devices. Essentially, they’re mandating that any subscription sold within an app will be subject to Apple’s 30% cut and that any in app subscription option be as cheap, if not cheaper than any out of app option.
Horace Dediu from asymco put up a couple of very interesting graphs on the operating profit of the top eight mobile phone manufacturers yesterday. The second one in particular is fairly eye opening:
Jeff Yang had a great article in the San Francisco Chronicle explaining Apple’s Japanese influences. More specifically, he talks about what made Sony so successful in the latter part of the 20th century and how Apple has succeeded by doing what Sony is no longer doing today.
Yesterday, Apple released a beta of iOS 4.3 to software developers. The new version of the iPad/iPhone software incorporates a bunch of new features, the biggest of which is a slew of new multitouch gestures.
Verizon to sell iPad that Connects directly to its network Verizon Wireless will sell a version of Apple Inc.’s iPad…
Microsoft to launch new set top box TV, iPhone users miss New Year thanks to alarm glitch, and Vizio to showcase Google TV sets at CES
New Sophisticated Virus Threatens Android Phones, HTC files a trademark for “Scribe,” and Standard phone charger to come out in 2011
John Gruber may be generalized as one of the biggest Apple “fanboys” out there, but sometimes he has some really well thought out, bias-free pieces. “Emotional Rescue” is a must-read post if you’re interested in the Android/iPhone “battle” going on right now.
iPad is No. 1 on Mossberg’s Best Of 2010 List Apple’s iPad has been named by the Wall Street Journal’s…
Skype to bring video chat to Apple devices in January 2011, Google TV Steps in, Forces Logitech to Delay Revue Set-Top, Kindle is the Bestselling Product in Amazon.com’s history
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