Apple picker In today's Apple Week, you'll read about Steve Jobs' patents, the real cheaper iPhone that will be released alongside the iPhone 5/4s, the compelling story of how Apple got the App Store name, or new developer beta updates. Therefore, do not miss today's overview of the week in the world of Apple with serial number 33.
iPad 3 displays will be supplied by 3 manufacturers (August 22)
They became LG, Sharp and Samsung. LG should do the most, followed by Sharp, and Samsung is somewhat on the sidelines, because there is a possibility that if Sharp can handle Apple's big demands, Samsung will be out of luck. We can only guess why.
The display is the most anticipated hardware change for the iPad 3. Indeed, many sources give us hope that the next model of the tablet will increase the resolution of the display by 4x, which would entitle it to use the moniker "Retina". However, these displays should only appear at the beginning of next year, instead of the original estimate, which was the end of this year. The main reason is the inability to produce the required quantity quickly enough. The quality of displays from LG and Samsung with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 px is said to be currently being tested.
Source: 9to5Mac.com
Cheaper iPhone 4 8GB and iPhone 5 next month? (August 22)
There have been several reports of a very tempting cheaper version of the iPhone 4 with 8GB of memory in recent weeks. It should be released to the world together with the fifth generation iPhone at the end of next month. Currently, Apple's flash memories are supplied by Toshiba and Samsung Electronics, the 8GB modules are said to be manufactured by an unnamed Korean company.
The iPhone 5 is supposed to have a larger display, an 8MP camera and a better antenna, but an article on Reuters mentions that the next Apple smartphone will look identical to the current one.
Source: Reuters.com, CultOfMac.com
United Airlines bought 11 iPads (000/23)
"The paperless cockpit represents the next generation of flying. The introduction of iPads guarantees our pilots the most important and immediate information at their fingertips at any time during the flight."
That's how Captain Fred Abbott, United Airlines' vice president of flight operations, commented on the move. A single iPad effectively replaces almost 18 kilos of manuals, navigation charts, handbooks, logbooks and weather information that were the contents of every pilot's bag until now. The tablet is not only significantly more efficient at work, but also greener. Paper consumption will decrease by almost 16 million pages per year and fuel consumption will decrease by approx. 1 liters per year. United Airlines is the second company to put iPads in the hands of pilots, the first was recently Delta, which was somewhat more modest with 230 pieces.
Let's just hope that the necessary applications avoid bugs.
Source: CultOfMac.comThree more open Apple stories (23 August)
Apple is growing unstoppably and relatively quickly, this is also reflected in the frequency of Apple Stores appearing. The people of Cupertino set themselves the task of opening 30 stores from July to September. Just like last week, 3 Apple shrines were scheduled to be launched this week, this time they are:
- Carré Sénart in Paris, France, which is the fourth Apple store in Paris and the eighth in France.
- Northlake Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina as second in the city and fifth in the state.
- The Promenade at Chenal in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is the first brick-and-mortar Apple store in the state, leaving only 6 US states without an Apple store.
iPhone 5 with dual-mode and GSM and CDMA support (August 24)
Since February, Apple has offered two different iPhone 4 models. One with support for GSM networks for the American operator AT&T and the other with support for CDMA networks for rival Verizon. The upcoming iPhone 5 should already have dual-mode, i.e. support both networks. This is claimed by iOS developers who read from some documents that their applications are tested with just such a device.
The records show that the app was briefly tested using a device that is almost certainly an iPhone 5 running iOS 5 and supporting two different mobile codes MNC (mobile network codes) and MCC (mobile country codes). These codes can be used to distinguish mobile networks.
This means that Apple would really be preparing only one model of the "five" iPhone in this regard, which will be easier for both users and Apple with its production.
Source: CultOfMac.com
Steve Jobs resigned as CEO (August 25)
Although we already brought you detailed information about the end of Steve Jobs as Apple CEO during the week, we are returning to our coverage due to its importance, at least in the form of links:
Steve Jobs is finally stepping down as CEO
Tim Cook: Apple will not change
Tim Cook, the new CEO of Apple
Apple with Jobs, Apple without Jobs
Apple hired the creator of JailbreakMe.com (25/8)
A hacker known by a nickname Comex, who was behind JailbreakMe.com, the first and also the easiest way to unlock the iPad 2 directly from the device without the need for a computer, with special software, will start working for Apple as an intern from next week, he announced on his Twitter. However, according to 9to5Mac, it is likely that he will hand over the reins of JailBreak.me to someone else and the project will continue.
It is not unusual for Apple to employ skilled developers from the jailbreak community as well. Most recently, he employed the author of an alternative notification system from Cydia, whose concept was then used by Apple in iOS 5. Thanks to the jailbreak community, Apple gets a great space for inspiration, and that too for free. There is nothing easier then to employ some of the skilled programmers and implement their ideas in the next version of iOS.
Source: 9to5Mac.comSteve Jobs alone owns 313 patents (25/8)
Although Apple owns many common and unusual patents, Steve Jobs himself is a signatory to 313 of them. Some are solely owned by him, however most are listed with multiple collaborators. You would probably expect some of the patents. This is, for example, the design of the iPhone, the iOS graphic interface or the design of the very original iMac G4, even in several variants. Among the less common ones is, for example, the legendary mouse in the shape of a hockey puck, which, however, did not bring much ergonomics to the IT world.
Among the most interesting are the glass stairs that decorate the App Store, the cable that was used to hang the iPod around the neck and at the same time was connected to the headphones, and finally the graphical interface of the telephone software for the iPod. It was the very first iPhone prototype using the iPod design we're talking about they wrote earlier. On pages New York Times you can then view all of Jobs' patents in a clear, interactive form.
Source: TUAW.comA short story of how Apple came to the App Store (August 26)
The executive director of the company recalled in an interview with Blooberg Salesforce, Marc Benioff, at a meeting with Steve Jobs in 2003, when he gave him one of the most valuable pieces of advice of his career. She sounded to around her product Salesforce built an entire ecosystem. After a long period of planning, the App Exchange electronic store was created, but it was preceded by another sounding name - App Store. He also had this brand patented and also purchased the domain of the same name.
When Apple introduced its own iPhone app ecosystem in 2008, Benioff was in the audience. Fascinated, he went to Steve Jobs immediately after the Keynote. He told him that he was dedicating the domain and the patented name to him as an expression of gratitude for the advice he had given him in 2003. What would Microsoft pay for that, which would like to use the name App Store and argues in court that it is a generic term.
Source: Bloomberg.comApple released new versions of OS X, iCloud and iPhoto for developers (August 26)
A week after the release of the new iOS 5 beta, Apple releases the new developer versions of OS X Lion 10.7.2, iCloud for OS X Lion beta 9 and iPhoto 9.2 beta 3. All these updates mainly concern iCloud, which is to be introduced in the fall. Lion in version 10.7.2 should already have iCloud integrated in the system. In iPhoto 9.2, the synchronization of photos via the Internet, Photo Stream, which is also part of iCloud, should appear.
Source: macstories.netApple once again the most expensive company in the world (26 August)
Just two days after Steve Jobs resigned as CEO, Apple was once again the most valuable company in the world. It surpassed its imaginary rival for the position, the petrochemical company Exxon Mobil, by less than a billion dollars when its value reached a respectable $26 billion on August 352,63, while Exxon's value was at $351,04 billion.
Source: 9to5Mac.comThey worked together on Apple Week Ondrej Holzman, Michal Ždanský, Tomas Chlebek a Radek Čep.
I don't think a cheap version of the iPhone is a good idea. They wouldn't make that much money on it anyway, and if it's true that they're going to start making it, I don't see how Steven P. Jobs could approach it.
that's right, they can lose the stamp of exclusivity and people won't want to pay for exclusivity anymore when they find out that it's not exclusive at all, only if you can only give it 8GB
But it's nothing new. Even today, it is sold alongside the iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS with 8 GB of memory (although before that it was only sold with 16/32 GB)
When the iPhone 4 came out, the iPhone 3GS 8GB also came to light.. why couldn't it work now?
Of course, it could work, but Apple never focused on the lower class, but on the middle and higher. That is, except for the period when Steve Jobs was not working there and for the last few years. I don't think the 8GB version makes sense. Even if they sold more of them than the higher versions (16/32GB) they wouldn't make as much money. Of course, double the earnings is very tempting. Maybe they just want to revive the iPhone 4 market after the iPhone 5 comes out.
Apple wouldn't sell more of them than normal iPhones anyway.
I would like to ask, is it possible to use the iMac only as a monitor for a desktop PC?
( Sorry for the OT, but you don't have a forum. :( )
With a corresponding reduction http://www.mujmac.cz/art/periferie/kanex-c247dl-19-8-11.html or directly from a computer supporting TB, it should work.
A cheap iPhone makes sense. It's not about "exclusivity". It's a damn good phone in the upper middle class, probably only with 8GB. Maintaining market share is important to Apple. Android is sold for a few bucks and there is a way around it. This makes Apple lose the interest of developers, and it cannot afford that. A cheap iPhone won't be exactly cheap, but it won't be outrageously expensive. A computer for twenty thousand VS. phone for 15000?? If it's for 5 thousand, it will be great! :)