Lukáš Gondek Casetify already offers Olympic straps for the Watch, hackers can earn half a million by revealing an error in iOS, the ConnectED program is celebrating success, Apple explained why it does not want to open NFC, the founder of Flipboard will help Cook's company with the development of medical software, and in Ireland Apple received permission to build new Data Center. Read 32. Apple week.
Casetify offers Olympic bands like Apple. But Czech is missing again (8/8)
On the occasion of the Olympic Games, Casetify, following Apple's example, released its own versions of wristbands for the Apple Watch, which depict the flags of each participating country. While Apple sells its own bracelets only in Brazil and offers the flags of 14 countries, Casetify has made its products available to the whole world and includes two more countries in its portfolio. For example, Belgians, South Koreans or Australians can wear their flag on their wrists. Of course, there is no Czech flag in the menu, but neither, for example, the Canadian flag, to be found.
Source: 9to5Mac
After Apple's 200 reward for finding bugs, a private company offers half a million dollars (10/8)
Just a week after Apple announced its own bug-detection program, topped by a $200 reward, private firm Exodus Intelligence jumped in with an offer twice as high. Exodus offers hackers up to $500 if they find a bug in iOS 9.3 and later versions. A private company also buys tips for errors in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, for example.
Similar offers from private companies are becoming more and more common. Earnings for these types of companies come mainly from selling access to their database to antivirus software programmers or government organizations.
Source: The Verge
The ConnectED Program has already helped more than 32 students (August 10)
The ConnectED program, in which Apple invested 100 million dollars, has helped more than 32 thousand students during its existence. As part of this program, the California-based company supplies iPads and Internet access to disadvantaged schools and their students and teachers across the United States. In the statistics published by Apple, we can read that the company sent more than 9 thousand Macs and iPads to educational institutions and helped them install up to 300 kilometers of Internet cables. Apple also provides schools with learning specialists who help school staff use technology effectively.
The ConnectEd program was initiated by President Barack Obama and includes, in addition to Apple, companies such as Verizon and Microsoft.
Source: MacRumors
Apple criticized by Australian banks' demand to open up NFC (10/8)
In Australia, three of the largest local banks have come together and are asking Apple to access its payment technology data as a condition for accepting Apple Pay. But the Californian firm called the condition manipulative and, in a statement submitted to the Australian Antitrust Authority, described the banks' behavior as "the creation of a cartel, thanks to which the banks want to dictate the terms of a new business model."
Officially, Apple mainly protects the privacy of its users, but behind the scenes, the dispute is probably about the fee that banks have to pay Apple every time one of their customers uses Apple Pay to make a purchase. In Australia, the Californian company has a contract with one major bank, whose representative even signed Apple's complaint. Not one of the three newly merged banks uses Apple Pay.
Source: MacRumors
Apple Hires Flipboard Co-Founder, Will Work on Health Software (11/8)
Apple's campus has grown with a new team member working on healthcare software. Evan Doll, co-founder of Flipboard, an application that pioneered online magazines on iPads in its early days, joined the California company in July in one of the leadership positions. Doll worked at Apple as early as 2003, as a software engineer who participated in the development of Final Cut and Apperature. According to Tim Cook, Apple will focus more and more on the field of medicine and is working on the development of new systems.
Source: AppleInsider
Apple gets the green light to build a billion-dollar data center in Ireland (August 12)
After three months, an Irish inspector finally decided to give Apple the go-ahead to build a data center that had sparked opposition among locals. The center with an area of 2 square kilometers will cost 960 million dollars and will technically provide services such as Apple Music, App Store or iMessage for the whole of Europe. Even though it is supposed to be an environmentally friendly project, the Irish people there are worried about the impact on their landscape and energy consumption. Apple plans to build eight data centers in the next 15 years, but each new one must of course receive government permission.
Source: CultOfMac
A week in a nutshell
Last week we heard some interesting speculations about new Apple products - the iPhone 7 could come o Home Button as we know it, Apple Watch finally they get your own GPS module and MacBook Pro offers touch panel for function keys. Apple, about whose future they spoke Tim Cook and Eddy Cue, too he bought a startup specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Demand for iPads getting stronger in corporations, deliveries to companies account for almost half of sales.
