29Jan2012
A Look At How The iPhone 4S Benefits From Apple’s Multimedia Ecosystem
The Apple iPhone 4S is the latest in a long line of success stories for the California based tech giant. It is the handset which introduced groundbreaking features such as Siri, the voice activated personal assistant, and the 8 megapixel camera which many critics agree is the best on the market.In this article, I will take a look at how Apple has used its multimedia ecosystem to ensure the continued success of the iPhone brand.iTunesWhen you buy a new iPhone, you are required to activate it
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Apple iPhone 4S 16GB – An Upgraded Handset That Confirms Apple’s Dominance!
With the launch of Apple iPhone 4S 16GB, the long wait for the next version of iPhone has finally ended. The handset that has been announced and released last month is an upgraded version of iPhone 4. The smartphone makes a number of improvements over its predecessor and comes with so many impressive features.The release of the new handset did cause some disappoint initially among Apple aficionados. This was because of the fact that the company has come out with the new handset after almost
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Apple’s real market value: How many U.S. jobs it creates
The death of Steve Jobs was followed by an avalanche of superlatives – brilliant, genius, and visionary among the more common. He was likened to Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison,” Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele write for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “But in the case of Edison, there was one significant difference that went unmentioned. For more than a century, just one of Edison’s inventions alone – the incandescent lightbulb – was manufactured at numerous
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Apple’s magical design studio and Jony Ive’s new toy
The timing of both a new Apple patent application and where I was in Isaacson’s biography this past week seemed to coincide perfectly,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “While our report presents you with a brief overview of Apple’s latest toy for Jonathan Ive, the heart of this report really touches on Apple’s Magical Design Studio that mercilessly cranked out one hit after another for the past decade to the chagrin of their competitors.” “In the bigger picture, while I
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Apple’s malware strategy: more than just file quarantine
Apple has released Security Update 2011-003, whose main purpose in life is to squash the MACDefender malware that some Mac users have been tricked into installing. Triumphant crowing has gone up in some camps at Apple’s “fall from grace,” but rumors of OS X’s demise are grossly exaggerated (still no known viruses or worms on the Macintosh, thank you very much). Keeping in mind that MACDefender is ultimately exploiting a weakness in the computer user (namely their gullible nature), it is
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Amazon attempts to compete with Apple’s Mac App Store
Amazon has launched a new download store for Mac OS X apps, directly competing with Apple’s own system-integrated Mac App Store. Although Amazon’s new store is merely web-based, it contains quite a few notable apps (some of which aren’t even available in the Mac App Store) such as Roxio’s Toast, Microsoft Office and Quickbooks. Purchases made on Amazon’s new store are stored in users’ digital lockers that are associated with their account and allows an unlimited number of
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Report: Apple’s Cloud Music Service Will Mirror and Augment Your Library
Apple’s hard work at winning over record labels may well be rewarded, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The publication says Apple’s upcoming cloud music service will offer the ability to scan your hard drive, and then mirror your music collection on its own servers, according to three people “briefed on the talks” between Apple and the labels. Not only that, but if some of your tracks are of poor quality, Apple’s service would automatically replace it with a better version, the
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Apple’s iAds no longer serving ads in apps for kids
Mike Zonrek, the developer behind a Pokémon browser app known as Dex, has reported that Apple is removing iAds from apps targeted towards children in the App Store.Zonrek uses a combination of iAds, AdMob and in in-app purchases to make money from his app, which has gained over 500,000 downloads in the App Store. He had noticed that his iAd fill rate fell from 16.5% down to 0, and sent an e-mail to Apple to find out why. The company responded with the following:Follow-up: XXXXXXXXXXXHello
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Apple’s iOS Is the Big Revenue Bread-Winner
Apple’s iOS (software and devices) is responsible for about 75 percent of Apple’s profits as of last quarter, while OS X is responsible for only about 20 percent, according to a new report from market intelligence firm Asymco. Combined, both platforms account for about 96 percent of Apple’s overall profit picture, where four years ago, Mac OS X (the only OS offered by Apple at the time) accounted for 50 percent of the company’s total profit. Surprisingly, Apple’s Mac sales have
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Apple’s iCloud Referenced in Mac OS X Lion
Apple does indeed appear to be planning big changes to its cloud services package, according to references found in the latest developer preview of Mac OS X Lion. French blog Consomac discovered code referring to something called “Castle,” which is described as an upgrade to MobileMe in Lion programming strings. Consomac was looking for references to Find My Mac and iCloud when it came across something called “Castle,” which was referred to in phrases like “Complete your Castle
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