Lukáš Gondek VirnetX's victory over Apple nullified, the new iPhones may not arrive in China for a few months, iOS 8 may not grow as fast as previous systems, and Tim Cook attended the launch of the new iPhones in Palo Alto.
Apple joins NFC group GlobalPlaftorm (15/9)
A month before the Californian company officially launches Apple Pay, Apple has joined a non-profit organization called GlobalPlatform, which focuses on chip technology security standards across multiple industries. GlobalPlatform describes its mission as follows: "The goal of GlobalPlatform is to create a standardized infrastructure that accelerates the deployment of secure applications and related assets, such as encryption keys, while protecting them from physical and software attacks." Together with Apple, this organization includes American carriers, competitors Samsung and BlackBerry and Apple's newest partners in the field of payment cards, i.e. Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
Source: 9to5Mac
Court invalidates VirnetX's victory over Apple (September 16)
VirnetX sued Apple in 2010, alleging that the Californian company infringed on a patent owned by VirnetX in its FaceTime service. In 2012, the court ruled in favor of VirnetX, and the company was awarded $368 million from Apple. However, the court on review found incorrect procedures in the decision in 2012, which were caused by giving incorrect information to the jury and using an expert opinion that should have been rejected. Apple and VirnetX will again sit in court. Apple had to FaceTime after a court ruling in 2012 rework, which led to reduced call quality.
Source: MacRumors, Apple Insider
New iPhones may not arrive in China until next year (September 16)
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has not approved the sale of new iPhones in China. The date of approval of the sale has not yet been determined. This snag could mean a lot of trouble for Apple. China is one of the main countries the company has been targeting with its new iPhones, and pushing the release until early 2015 would see Apple miss the Christmas season. For example, when the iPhone 5s was released, China was in the first wave of countries to which this phone reached. Interest in the iPhone 6 is huge in China, as confirmed by local operators who have already started accepting pre-orders for the phone. Apple could also be harmed by traffickers who bring iPhones to China from other countries and sell them to wealthy Chinese, often at many times the price. On the other hand, this delayed release would balance iPhone sales in the coming quarters, during which sales of the latest models logically decline. Apple could also better prepare for the great interest of Chinese customers and use the longer waiting period to produce stock of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which are already in short supply a few days after their release.
Source: MacRumors
iOS 8 adoption is not as fast as previous systems (18/9)
Despite Apple calling iOS 8 the biggest iOS update ever, users weren't that enthusiastic about the new system. Not only did fewer users download the latest system in the first 12 hours than iOS 7 a year ago, the adoption rate is even slower than iOS 6 two years ago. In the first half day that the new system was available, only 6% of Apple owners downloaded it , during the same time last year, however, iOS 7 managed to charm 6 percentage points more people. Another interesting finding is that iPod touches are updated to iOS 8 earlier than iPhones, and vice versa, users on iPads are the slowest to switch to iOS 8.
Source: Cult Of Mac
U2 working with Apple on new music format, according to Bono (19/9)
In order to stop music piracy, Apple and U2 are working on a new music format that should be innovative enough to discourage users from downloading music illegally. According to a report by TIME magazine, this collaboration is mainly aimed at musicians who are not touring to make money. The new music format would help them monetize their original works. Apple has not yet commented on this collaboration.
Source: The Next Web
Tim Cook attended the launch of new iPhones in Palo Alto (September 19)
On Thursday evening, eager Apple fans began to gather in many places around the world in front of the Apple Story. For example, outside the iconic Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, 1880 people stood in line for the new iPhone, 30% more than last year. Excited executives from the Californian company appeared at various Apple Stores to welcome the first owners of the iPhone 6. CEO Tim Cook took pictures with fans in Palo Alto, Angela Ahrendts experienced the first sale of Apple in the Australian Apple Store in Sydney, and Eddy Cue came to see the long queue in Stanford, California.
Source: MacRumors
A week in a nutshell
Apple could be rubbing its hands after the introduction of the new iPhones, interest in them was record high in the last few hours. Plus, Tim Cook in an interview with Charlie Rose he revealed, that Apple is working on other products that no one has even speculated about yet. On the other hand, there is a problem with production, the Foxconn factories they can't handle it a huge rush.
Disassembling the new iPhones too it showed, how Apple assembled the individual components in them, including the fact that the A8 processors produces TSMC. The NFC chip, which is also present in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, will still be there available only for Apple Pay.
It came out in a week iOS 8 final version, however just before that Apple was forced stop app with integrated HealthKit service. They should be out by the end of the month. On the Apple website then the new section showed about the security and privacy of users, which is obviously key for Tim Cook.
At the end of the week we also tried the new iPhone 6, read our impressions here.
To the Adoption. Today, everyone has this phone as well, compared to earlier times. I.e. even a person who does not need to use the Internet on it. And any ios update will absolutely go beyond it. And I believe that until the end of the operation of that device.
there are also ox million iPhones on the market more than last year, so 6% today is not 6% last year. In addition, advanced users will probably wait a while to see what childhood diseases iOS8 will have
Regardless of the fact that by shutting down the iPhone 4, they lost a lot of devices that cannot be updated :)
Sir, ios8 can be turned off in safari settings so that pages are displayed only in full version, but I did not find it anywhere. Don't you know where it could be? The mobile view of web pages annoys me sooo much, thanks for the info
I just tried it today and couldn't find it. Google friends:
When you have the page open in the mobile version, click on the "address bar" where you will see your "bookmarks" and when you drag them down, "Add to Favorites" and "Request Desktop Site" will appear there :)
Super-thank you very much. However, it doesn't work for everyone - perhaps it doesn't work for seznam.cz
But thanks anyway
But I wouldn't really look for it here!!