Ondrej Holzman The auction of Steve Jobs' personal items, patents on the Apple Story also in favor of Samsung, the head of Facebook as the most popular CEO and a very interesting "security" reinforcement for Apple...
Steve Jobs watch sold for $42 (500/22)
The Seiko watch worn by Steve Jobs in the famous photo with the Macintosh from 1984 was auctioned off at the auction. Although the watch was quite worn, 14 bidders applied for it, and in the end the amount rose to 42 dollars, i.e. more than 500 million crowns. However, not only watches were auctioned, but also old Birkenstock sandals, black turtleneck with NeXT logo a many other items including business cards and pencils from the NeXT era. In addition to watches, these other items were auctioned for a total of more than 651 thousand crowns
Source: MacRumors
Apple received patents for its stores in Turkey and China (February 23)
Apple has received design patents for its Apple Store in Istanbul, opened in 2014, which is also known as the "Glass Lantern" and is one of the company's most architecturally interesting stores. The second Apple patent was obtained in the form of a store in China's Zhongjie Joy City, which is two stories high with huge floor-to-ceiling glass panels. Apple also bet on this model in several other stores.
Source: 9to5Mac
iOS 9 adoption is at 77 percent (February 24)
Five months after the official launch of iOS 9, this system is running on 77 percent of active devices, Apple revealed. During February, the number of iPhones, iPads and iPod touches with the latest operating system installed was practically unchanged. Compared to the situation at the beginning of January, this is an increase of two percentage points.
Source: MacRumors
Mark Zuckerberg beats Tim Cook as most popular tech CEO (26/2)
The most popular CEO of American technology companies is Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, showed survey Morning consult. Apple boss Tim Cook finished second, followed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and the trio of Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Larry Page (Alphabet, which includes Google) and Elon Musk (Tesla and SpaceX).
Mark Zuckerberg was also the most famous CEO, with only a third of respondents not knowing who he was. 44 percent of those surveyed had never heard of Tim Cook, while at least half did not know about the rest.
Source: The Verge
Apple hired the creator of an encrypted communication application (February 26)
A rather interesting reinforcement was received by Apple, which decided to invite Frederic Jacobs, the developer behind the encrypted communication application Signal, for a summer internship. The most famous whistleblower Edward Snowden used it to communicate. Jacobs revealed his summer plans on Twitter, and for Apple, the announcement comes as it battles the US government to force it to he cracked the security of his own iPhones.
I'm delighted to announce that I accepted an offer to be working with the CoreOS security team at Apple this summer.
- Frederic Jacobs (@FredericJacobs) February 25, 2016
Source: The Verge
Samsung succeeded in the appeals court, Apple does not have to pay 120 million (February 26)
Samsung won a patent battle at the Court of Appeal, which it overturned the originally set fine of $120 million for copying Apple patents. The new verdict says the South Korean firm did not infringe on a patent related to quick links, and an appeals court ruled two other patents related to "slide-to-unlock" and autocorrect functions invalid.
"Today's decision is a victory for consumer choice and puts competition back where it belongs - in the marketplace, not in the courtroom," Samsung commented on the successful appeal. Apple declined to comment.
Source: Reuters
A week in a nutshell
In the last week of February, the most discussed case where the US government is on one side, wanting Apple to crack a secure iPhone, and it is Apple that vehemently refuses and wants to the court annulled the decision. On your side will have all the biggest tech companies in court.
There was also some interesting information about new products. You, on the other hand, Apple will finally present on March 21 and he will be among them iPhone SE a iPad Pro. He is preparing chips, probably the latest A9 series, for them Johny Srouji, who is one of the most important Apple managers.
Although Apple will introduce the new operating system for Macs only in the summer, it is expected to be the biggest news will be the arrival of the voice assistant Siri. And speaking of computers, in a yet-to-be-released video, you can see as Steve Jobs once envisioned the NeXT computer.
