Lukáš Gondek Barack Obama saw the first iPhone even before its introduction and liked it very much. Apple is said to be negotiating a web TV and Swatch is preparing a competitor for its watch, but it will be released in a few months. And Samsung should seize the production of new chips for iPhones and iPads.
Apple is reportedly in talks about web TV (February 4)
Eddy Cue let it be known last year that the way we watch TV today is outdated and that Apple would like to completely change it. Now, information has begun to emerge that Apple is negotiating directly with the owners of TV shows, who could grant it licenses for package programs that Apple would sell directly to customers via the Web. In this way, Apple would not offer the entire TV offer, but only selected programs, and would also avoid complex negotiations with TV stations. Apple is said to have shown a demo of its service at the meetings, but the price and its launch are still in the stars.
Source: The Verge
The next generation of processors for Apple is mainly to be manufactured by Samsung (February 4)
Apple would, according to the magazine's anonymous source Re / Code should have turned to Samsung again for the production of A9 chips. A8 chips, found in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, for Apple produced z parts also Taiwanese TSMC, but it cannot use the latest 16nm technology, and therefore Apple will most likely outsource production to Samsung. Samsung has invested 14 billion dollars in its factories and can thus offer Apple one of the most advanced technologies. Even better technology is available from Intel, which, thanks to its 3D stacking of transistors, guarantees maximum performance with low energy consumption, and with whom Apple is said to have also negotiated in the past.
Source: Macworld
Typo must pay Blackberry $860 for copying (February 4)
The Typo snap-on keyboard, which allows iPhone users to enjoy the luxury of a physical keyboard, was unfortunately too similar to the iconic Blackberry keyboard, which Typo she sued for copying and patent infringement. The court agreed with Blackberry and ordered Typo to stop selling keyboards by March of last year. However, Typo ignored the court's decision and continued to sell his keyboards. For this, the court fined him 860 thousand dollars, which is much less than the 2,6 million dollars that Blackberry originally wanted to receive for violating the regulation. However, he developed Typo the new Typo2 keyboard, which should no longer infringe any of Blackberry's patents and is now available for both iPhone 5/5s and iPhone 6.
Source: MacRumors
US President Barack Obama saw the first iPhone even before its presentation (February 5)
In 2007, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, had the opportunity to see the revolutionary first iPhone before its introduction and admitted that he liked it very much. At the time, the head of Obama's presidential campaign arranged for the presidential candidate to meet with Steve Jobs, after which Obama said: "If it's legal, I'll buy a bunch of Apple shares." That phone will go a long way.”
Source: The Verge
Twitter blames loss of 4 million users on iOS 8 (5/2)
Twitter reported its results for the fourth quarter of last year, and while it did better than expected in terms of revenue ($479 million), it did not meet the forecasts of Wall Street analysts in the number of monthly active users. The company added just 4 million active users last quarter, bringing the final tally to 288 million users, 4 million fewer than expected.
Twitter CEO Dick Costello blames the lack of potential on bugs in iOS 8. According to him, problems with the transition from iOS 7 to iOS 8 caused Twitter to lose over 1 million users by using Safari to access their account and not remembering their password or Twitter app they did not download again. But the change in the Shared links function that cost Twitter the most users, which in the older version of iOS downloaded tweets automatically, and the company could thus count these users in its statistics. Now, however, tweets will not be downloaded until the user manually does so themselves, and this change is said to have cost Twitter up to 3 million users.
Source: Cult Of Mac
Swatch is preparing competition for Apple watches. They will be released in three months (5/2)
Swatch CEO Nick Hayek has finally changed his mind about smartwatches, which he found uninteresting two years ago, and announced last week that he will launch his own version within three months. Through them, users will be able to communicate, pay in stores, and their applications will be compatible with Windows and Android. It is said that Swatch has a lot of interesting patents up its sleeve, but some of them will have to wait until they reach sales pieces.
Even the first Swatch smart watch should have a powerful battery that does not need to be charged every day. At the same time, Swatch has signed agreements with the two biggest retailers in Switzerland, Migros and Coop, in which users will be able to use their watches to pay.
Source: Cult Of Mac
A week in a nutshell
Even though Apple reports incredibly high revenues which will use for example, to rebuild a bankrupt sapphire factory, which he wants to turn into a data center, decided to issue bonds for 6,5 billion dollars again. However, it is more interesting for developers and ordinary users edition beta version of the Photos application, which should reach us in the spring.
On the other hand, a new film about Steve Jobs, from the filming of which last week escaped the first photos, come to us or to American cinemas, amicable until October 9. However, we may be able to shorten the wait with Apple's new music service, which according to the latest information should be integrated on iPhone, but Android users will also have access to it.
Apple also last week rented car with a camera system and there is talk that it may be preparing its own version of Street View. And speaking of cars, did you know that the new Apple is growing in the automotive industry? To Tesla they pass dozens of people from Cupertino. Microsoft is not idle with acquisitions and for a hundred million he bought the popular productivity app, Sunrise Calendar. The only thing Apple can't be entirely happy about is the adoption of iOS 8 - albeit in January she achieved 72 percent, but it's still low compared to iOS 7.
