Apple picker Another horror with Siri, which is supposed to learn other world languages, among other things, the slow burial of the iPhone 3GS and the definitive burial of the white MacBook or the incredible growth of Apple shares. These are also the topics of today's Apple Week, which you should definitely not miss.
Apple Removes Standard OS X Update Due to Bugs (5/1)
The transition to the latest OS X 10.7.3 did not go well for Apple. Lots of users are reporting the CUI issue where all apps crash right after launch. After investigating the problem, Apple decided to disable the standard update instead and offered only a combined one, which takes up several hundred megabytes more and can only be downloaded through Apple website. On the other hand, the combined update does not contain the annoying bugs that cause apps to crash in OS X 10.7.3.
Source: 9to5Mac.com
Another horror mini-movie starring Siri (6/2)
Siri is becoming a popular actor in short amateur horror films. In this new film, an unfortunate man finds a lost iPhone 4S, which he plans to sell. However, Siri does not like this idea and does not hesitate to go to extremes to prevent this from happening. Have fun:
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Source: cultfmac.com
HTC proved Apple right, it was still early for LTE (February 7)
Energy efficiency? Need to place the chip somewhere? Very poor 4G coverage? Until recently, none of these facts prevented American smartphone manufacturers led by HTC from pointing out the absence of LTC chips in Apple products. However, the lack of 4G support was clearly not a problem for buyers, so iPhone sales are still skyrocketing, while HTC slumped 26% last quarter. So it admitted that switching to LTE so early was a mistake that will soon be fixed and will wait until 4G is available - according to Apple maybe already this year.
Source: CultOfMac.com
The end of the iPhone 3GS is coming. Apple wants application developers for the Retina display (February 7)
Apple has sent out a message to iOS developers announcing that new apps and updates submitted for approval must be 960 x 640 pixels. At the same time, developers have the task of sending images from their applications to the App Store in a resolution suitable for Retina displays. All this indicates not only the end of applications with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels, but also the apparent early end of the iPhone 3GS. As the last Apple phone sold, it does not have a Retina display.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Apple updated EFI firmware, added Internet Recovery support for more machines (7/2)
Apple has released new updates for EFI firmware on MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac. This update brings support for Lion Internet Recovery, i.e. restoring the system via the Internet, for the models of the mentioned computers from 2010. The update can be downloaded either through Software Update or directly from the Apple website.
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.6
The update enables Lion Internet Recovery for MacBook Pro (Early 2010).
MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3
The update enables Lion Internet Recovery for MacBook Air (Late 2010) and fixes a system restart bug that could occur if the power button is pressed after waking from hibernation.
iMac EFI Update 1.8
The update enables Lion Internet Recovery for iMac (Mid 2010).
Source: 9to5Mac.com
A quarter of accesses to Wolfram Alpha are via Siri (7/2)
Many third-party services are connected to Siri, the voice assistant of the iPhone 4S. One of them is the Wolfram Alpha answer machine, which almost 25 percent of all users access using Siri. Apple worked with Wolfram Research, the company behind Wolfram Alpha, to develop Siri to offer customers the ability to calculate or search for more complex queries. As the iPhone 4S spreads around the world, so does the use of Siri, which now accounts for a quarter of all access to the smart tool. Wolfram Alpha now serves 200 employees.
Source: 9to5Mac.com
The pilot is suing the airlines, he didn't get an iPad (February 8)
Virgin Australia's first officer, David Kloster, is suing his employer for nearly $2009 million. He allegedly failed to effectively provide flight manuals and information for the flight, resulting in Kloster's back injury while carrying an approximately eighteen kilogram bag. According to him, these documents could be directly on the plane or in electronic form on the iPad. He says he suffered the injuries after boarding a bus with a heavy bag in December XNUMX. He is now seeking a sum of money to cover anticipated monetary losses, medical expenses and other costs.
The only problem is that Kloster's injury happened in late 2009, while the iPad didn't go on sale in Australia until May of the following year.
Source: TUAW.com
Siri will learn Japanese, Russian and Mandarin in March (8/2)
According to a Chinese website Donews should the voice assistant Siri, present in the latest iPhone 4S, learn three new languages. To the present English, German, and French should be added Japanese, Russian, and Chinese, or Mandarin dialect, if you will. Apple also promised that Spanish, Italian and Korean should be added to Siri's language equipment in the future. It's understandable, because the company wants to expand to as many countries as possible with its voice assistant. There will be more and more languages, quite possibly even our picturesque country in the heart of Europe. Everything is only a matter of time, Siri will certainly appear in future Apple devices, it will not be limited only to the iPhone 4S.
Source: TUAW.com
Two new ads featuring Siri and the iPhone 4S (February 9)
Apple has released two new ads for the iPhone 4S, called Road Trip and Rock God, both promoting Siri. In the first one, a pair of young people is shown on vacation, in the second one, a teenager is learning to play the guitar with the help of a voice assistant. Ads are carried in traditional Apple style, Siri is used here to find coordinates, send text messages, search with Wolfram Alpha, etc.
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Source: CultOfMac.com
Apple is now worth as much as Google and Microsoft combined (9/2)
Apple shares seem to exist outside of the global economic crisis. They again reached a record high of $493,42 per share, and the company's total value rose to a fabulous $460 billion, further cementing its position as the leader in the stock market and the former most valuable company Exxon Mobil left far behind with a lead of over 60 billion. When you add up the combined value of the second and third largest companies in information technology, Microsoft ($255,9 billion) and Google ($197 billion), this is less than the total value of Apple. Although the Apple company could not buy both companies, it has "only" a little over $100 billion in cash, but Apple's growth is still admirable.
Source: CultOfMac.com
According to the FBI, Steve Jobs was not suitable for the job in the White House (9/2)
The White House considered hiring Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1991 during the George Herbert Walker Bush administration, newly released FBI documents show. Documents it has 161 pages, contains extensive documents about Jobs' life and was requested by the newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act Wall Street Journal. As a result, we learn more about this visionary from his official biography written by Walter Isaacson.
However, it is possible to find many interesting comments from the investigators of the time in the document. Although their names have been redacted, we learn from their words that Steve Jobs was "sneaky" and that he has "questionable moral character." Another commenter is also very apt: "Mr. Jobs is only honest as long as it lasts."
Although the investigation did not play very well in Jobs's favor, he eventually got a certain position in the US government, namely in the Department of Commerce as one of the advisers to the president on trade policy. However, his work was not intensive, the members of the export council met only a few times a year, moreover, this position was not paid.
Source: ArsTechnica.com
Apple Store workers accept petitions for better conditions at Foxconn (February 9)
On February 9, a little over a dozen protesters came to sign a petition created by Change.org and SumofUS, which has already been signed by more than 250 people. Both organizations are calling on Apple to improve working conditions in the factories of overseas suppliers, especially in the most famous Chinese supplier, Foxconn.
CNET reported that despite the importance of the event, the number of attendees was not that high. He even stated that those who cared about the event were more present than those who came to protest. Apple Store employees received a large box in which the signatures of those interested in better employee care were attached. In addition, the protesters announced that the same call for signatures will also be delivered to stores in San Francisco and will go global when it reaches stores in Bangalore (India), London (UK) and also Sydney, Australia.
Currently, it is difficult to say whether the protestors had clothes made in the USA, or whether they will continue to protest with other well-known brands. Among such brands that work with suppliers that have cheap labor abroad can be included Best Buy, Walmarts, Gamestops, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Dell or Hewlett Packard.
Source: TUAW.com
Amazon touts "three Kindles for the price of one iPad" in new ad (9/2)
The enormous popularity of the iPad and the efforts of competitors are responsible for the fact that the apple tablet is increasingly becoming the target of various advertisements. Most recently, such a spot was released by Amazon, which in its clip shows that customers can buy three Kindle tablets for the price of one iPad, so that every member of the family can have their own device.
The ad features a conversation between a man owning an iPad and a woman owning a Kindle.
Man: Hi, sorry, this is the new Kindle, right? For $79.
Woman: The best tool for reading, even in the sun.
Man: Yes, but if you want to watch videos or surf the Internet…
Woman: I have a Kindle Fire for that.
Man: Three Kindles, that must be expensive.
Woman: Not at all, they cost less than this together. (Points to iPad.)
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Source: MacRumors.com
White MacBook officially buried (February 10)
The white MacBook is definitively disappearing from Apple's portfolio. Since last July, this portable computer has been available only to educational institutions, now Apple has informed retailers that the white MacBook will stop selling completely. However, the "educational" offer does not end there, Apple immediately replaced the white MacBook with a 13-inch MacBook Air, which it offers for schools for $999. This means that this 13-inch MacBook Air, which will only be available to educational institutions, is just as expensive as the base 11-inch MacBook Air. Apple offers a model with a 1,6 GHz Intel i5 processor, 2GB of RAM and 64GB of flash memory in a package of five ($4, about 995 crowns), ten ($95, about 500 crowns) or twenty (11 dollars, about 399 thousand crowns) pieces. AirPort Extreme and a cart with a built-in charging base are also included with the other two mentioned packages.
Source: TheVerge.com, TUAW.com
According to the FBI, Steve Jobs was not suitable for the job in the White House.
Probably the wrong wording. (According to the FBI, it would ….)
Otherwise, another nice read.
you have a mistake in the prices for 5,10, 20 and XNUMX pieces of macbook air for schools ;).
"of five ($4, about 995 crowns), ten ($95, about 500 crowns) or twenty ($11, about 399 crowns) each"
- does not make sense. 2x 5 is more advantageous than 1x10? Crap.
The prices are right. You don't get the aforementioned AirPort Extreme and the cart with the built-in charging base with the 5-pack.
You don't have the exact info from when the 3GS is supposed to be cut off? I would expect them to do it after the introduction of 5.
ad in the first topic, the combo "and it can only be downloaded via Apple's website" - now it is available by default via software update, where delta is normally downloaded due to the problems
Excellently prepared apple tejden. Great reading, thanks to all authors! -h-
Fiiiha, that's information. And the funeral of the white Macbook at the end of the long article - it was a while before I scrolled it down. It was the passage I wanted to clean first - I wondered if I would have to go and bury my white man somewhere. :-) Probably not. And still, even after those five years, it works great and has full support from Apple, Lion sleeps well on it. It just doesn't do multitouch, a maximum of two fingers like jezine. :-)
Protestants? How did they sign a petition against Catholics?
And with the GW Bush administration in 1991, I wouldn't have seen much of it either. That W probably doesn't belong there.