Apple picker A rare Apple Walt computer auctioned, a patent for a glass trackpad, fingerprint scanning on the iPhone, speculation about the next iPad or a car accident at the Apple Store, these are some of the topics you will find in the third edition of Apple Week for 2013.
A car drove into the Apple Store in Chicago (January 13)
They had a very unpleasant experience in Chicago's Lincoln Park Apple Store, where a Lincoln car flew through the glass window on Sunday. Fortunately, no one was injured during this incident. The elderly driver of the car was taken to the hospital in good condition, according to the Chicago Tribune. Unlike last year's event in California, this time it was not part of any robbery, but an unfortunate coincidence.
Source: 9to5Mac.com
Rare Apple WALT Appears at Auction (January 13.1)
A very rare and interesting product appeared on the auction portal eBay. Starting at $8 (155 crowns), the prototype WALT - Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone from 1993 was offered here, which combined a telephone, fax, personal directory and more. This product was announced but never sold. The WALT had a touch screen, stylus and text recognition. Unlike the iPhone, for example, it was supposed to be a desktop device.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Apple's Top Lawyer Bruce Sewell to Sit on Vail Ski Resorts Board (14/1)
At Apple, the trend continues where the company's top executives sit on the boards of other companies. This time, Bruce Sewell, who holds the position of senior vice president and general counsel at Apple, has joined the board of directors of Vail Resorts, ski resorts in Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan and Wyoming. Sewell has a key position in Cupertino, overseeing all of Apple's legal affairs, so he was also involved in the big battle with Samsung. He worked for Intel before joining Apple in 2009 and now also sits on the board of Vail Ski Resorts.
Sewell thus follows Eddy Cue, who recently sat down on the Ferrari board. Such behavior was not seen under Steve Jobs, but Tim Cook obviously has no problem with it. After all, he himself joined Nike in 2005.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Apple received a patent for a glass trackpad (January 15)
MacBook users have become so accustomed to glass trackpads that they no longer even think of them as a major advantage of Apple machines. However, the competition knows very well what a gem MacBooks are and tries to get as close as possible to Apple's glass trackpad. Now, however, other manufacturers will have it a little more difficult, as the US Patent Office has granted Apple patent to the design of these glass trackpads. The patent explains that while the surface is metallic, the trackpad itself is glass.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Apple's annual shareholder meeting will take place on January 27 (15/1)
Apple has notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission that its annual meeting with shareholders will be held on January 27. The meeting is expected to take place at the Cupertino campus, where holders of the company's shares (as of 2/1/2013) will be able to vote on various proposals. This will be, for example, the composition of the board of directors or the approval of Ernst & Young as an independent accounting firm.
Source: AppleInsider.com
The next iPhone could scan fingerprints (January 16)
This week we are they reasoned, what can we expect from the next generation iPhone. There were jarring terms like haptic response, Liquipel, Liquidmetal. However, Chinese analyst Ming Chi-kuo from KGI Securities believes that the future Apple phone will get (among other things) a fingerprint sensor. Although the assumptions of various analysts are often completely wrong, in the case of Qi-ku, it is good to be careful. At the end of last year, he correctly predicted that Apple would update almost all of its mobile products, and he was also right about the iPad mini and the new Lightning connector.
The fact is that Apple was very hasty in August of last year bought AuthenTec, which deals with fingerprint sensors. From this, the Chinese analyst concludes that the Californian company is planning to build a fingerprint reader into the next iPhone. As part of the minimalist design, it would be built directly under the Home button, according to Chi-ku. This feature could serve as one of Apple's (ie its marketing) main reasons to buy a new phone. An ingenious fingerprint sensor would be an interesting alternative to security with a code lock, which, despite its obvious advantages, gets annoying after a while.
Source: AppleInsider.com
The next generation of iPad should be significantly thinner and lighter (January 16)
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KG Securities, the next generation of the big iPad should borrow some elements of its little brother. Apple's fifth large tablet should be significantly lighter and thinner. There is also talk of reducing the frame on the sides, as in the case of the iPad mini, which would significantly reduce the dimensions of the device, but the question is whether such an iPad would hold up well due to the size of the display, after all, the mini version gives a thinner frame on the sides greater meaning. Kuo expects the introduction of the next-generation iPad in the third quarter of this year, while other forecasts talk about a March keynote that would confirm the transition to a semi-annual cycle. Along with the new large iPad, we can also expect the launch of the second generation iPad mini, which is expected to have a retina display in particular.
Source: AppleInsider.com
Tim Cook was summoned for questioning due to the agreement not to extend employees (January 18)
Tim Cook, along with Google's Eric Schmidt and other executives, has been subpoenaed for questioning over hiring practices, particularly an agreement between the companies not to hire each other. This agreement is several years old and protects companies from losing their key employees due to a better offer from the competition. This agreement also included an agreement that employees will be hired collectively, individual negotiations are prohibited.
A civil lawsuit was filed by several former employees of these companies who feel harmed by the agreement. The case is currently under investigation by the US Department of Justice, and subpoenas of executives and other high-ranking people at the companies involved in the deal are part of the investigation. The irony is that Tim Cook was not Apple's CEO at the time of the deal and apparently had no part in it, yet he cannot escape questioning.
Source: TUAW.com
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What does the connection: "Senior bus driver" do there?
slave translation :-D google translator?
Anyone who knows our editorial office would know that we speak English and do not rely on machine translation ;-)
The first message really amused me. Lincoln crashed into the apple store and the bus driver went to the hospital in good condition :D Although I guessed that the bus was probably part of the accident, it really sounds like a joke :)
Heh, of course it was supposed to be a car, the bus inexplicably got tangled up there.