Apple is one of the best companies of these last years. Steve Jobs was a genius, an inventor for some people. But did Apple create all its i-stuff or did it buy, borrow or even steal some ? Jobs was saying in 1996 : “Good Artists Copy. Great Artists Steal. And we have always beeen [...]
Written on 31 Oct 2012 by Vincent AbryApple is set to challenge Pandora in 2013, as the company has reportedly gotten serious in prospective deals with major music companies, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. This move by Apple means it will no longer limit its services to digital music as it seeks to offer radio streaming services. In the past weeks music executives from [...]
Hours before and after the iPad Mini announcements, consumers got down to business straightway — selling their used iPads. In an article published by Marketwatch, used iPad sales skyrocketed to more than 700% in two major resale websites after Apple released product and availability details on the much-awaited iPad Mini. These iPad owners appeared not [...]
Apple has finally unveiled the iPad Mini as well as the fourth-generation iPad on Tuesday. While the Mini is designed to be significantly lighter and thinner than its predecessor – 53 percent lighter and 23 percent thinner, to be exact – there is nothing “small” about the iPad Mini. It boasts of an almost feathery-thin [...]
Last year, Apple made an unexpected decision when it hired iPhone hacker Comex as one of its interns. Nicholas Allegra, then a 20-year old Brown University undergraduate, gained notoriety for having devised the the JailbreakMe jailbreaking tool for the iPhone, which allowed iPhone users to do away with the strict security measures imposed by Apple [...]
Everyone familiar with Apple knows that the company based in Cupertino, California revealed its long awaited iPhone 5 to the world on Wednesday, September 12, 2012. The device became available to pre-order on September 14, 2012 at 12:01 AM PT in time for its September 21 official release to the market. In record breaking numbers, [...]
Written on 18 Sep 2012 by Vincent AbryFinally, guys, here is the official video for Apple iPhone 5 and Earpods. Is this a Revolution … ? Here are the tech specs : -Height: 4.87 inches, Width: 2.31 inches and Depth: 0.30 inch. Weight: 3.95 ounces. -Retina display 4-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display 1136×640 pixels -8-megapixel iSight camera -Video recording HD (1080p) up [...]
Written on 13 Sep 2012 by Vincent AbryApple’s win over Samsung is just HUGE : the company will be awarded over $1.05 billion damages. “In a verdict that would have warmed the heart of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a federal jury on Friday handed Apple a resounding legal victory in its bitter patent war with Samsung, ordering the South Korean [...]
Written on 24 Aug 2012 by Vincent AbryWith Apple’s unveiling of their newest operating system, iOS 6, consumers have noticed that Google is slowly being removed from Apple’s out of the box features. Many wonder if this is directly related to the growing tensions between Apple and Google as they compete against each other in the mobile world (iOS vs Android). One [...]
Written on 07 Aug 2012 by Vincent AbryDespite existing news that Apple is set to launch their newest iPhone in the fall, newest reports say that the iPhone 5 will be released at an earlier date. Apple is planning an event that will launch the latest iPhone on September 12, 2012, reports iMore. The device will be released nine days after the [...]
The numbers have spoken. In a press release made by market intelligence firm International Data Corporation or IDC, Apple has given way to Samsung as the top smartphone vendor for the second quarter of 2012. In their Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, IDC reported about the rate of growth of the mobile phone market worldwide, [...]
Now that Apple has already launched the new Mac OS X better known as Mountain Lion in their Mac App store, what is there to expect from this newest Mac operating system? Is it any different from the OS X 10.7 Lion launched by Apple last year? Or is the Mountain Lion technically a rebranded [...]
A British judge has ordered Apple to publish ads, saying “Samsung did not duplicate their iPad”, in magazines, newspapers and in their UK website. This ruling is the latest development in a string of battles concerning the patents of Apple and Samsung, specifically on their iPad and Galaxy tablets, reported Bloomberg. The previous year, Apple’s [...]
The tablet market is an ever expanding market, and now tech companies have taken up the gauntlet as to which among them – or which among their tablet products – may get a better hold of the market this year. After news about Microsoft’s Surface surfaced last summer and Google finally started selling its pocket-friendlier [...]
In the face of lower-priced, smaller-screened tablet competitors, Apple is planning to launch a smaller edition of the iPad, according to people who have insider access to the matter. iMore first reported about the rumors two months ago, including Apple’s plans to launch the device on October 2012. Today Bloomberg has also reported that Apple [...]
ReadWriteWeb made a great job by creating a video with a presentation of both Apple iPad and Microsoft Surface at their first conference. In one side we have Steve Jobs with the iPad and on the other side we have Steve Ballmer and a member of staff showing the Surface tablet. This is a very [...]
Written on 21 June 2012 by Vincent AbryApple has introduced the latest version of their operating system, the iOS6. The iOS6, which will be available starting this fall, is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Some of the most attractive features include a mobile mapping service for the iPad and iPhone, a more intuitive voice-interaction feature through Siri, and videophone [...]
In a report first released by the Wall Street Journal, Apple is working to introduce bigger screens for their next batch of iPhones, set to be released this year. People working closely on the project reveal that Apple is currently in talks with their Asian suppliers, and that requests for wider screens on their ubiquitous [...]
How big is Apple company ? Just look at this amazing infographic about Steve Jobs’ baby : [via]
Written on 02 May 2012 by Vincent AbryFor quite some time Apple and its many fans thought the Macintosh computer is impervious to malware attacks – from widespread viruses to silent but deadly Trojans. But a recent virus attack specifically directed at Macs has spread surreptitiously this week, infecting as many as half a million machines all over the world, from the [...]