Lukáš Gondek Steve Jobs parking tickets, Mac ads vs. PC, Apple Car as a disease, weak Macs for Oculus and also very cheap Apple Watch for healthy employees...
San Francisco owes Steve Jobs $174 for parking tickets (29/2)
The San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Authority owes several hundred thousand residents money for overpaid parking tickets, and one of them is Steve Jobs. The Apple co-founder has overpaid a total of $1995 in parking tickets since 174, which his family is now entitled to. However, Jobs' fortune is estimated at 11 billion dollars, so it is likely that his family will get tired of less than two hundred dollars. In San Francisco, 1,5 million parking tickets are overpaid every year, for example, Uber founder Travis Kalanick, who is owed $510, is entitled to a refund for four of them.
Source: Cult of Mac
Windows 10 PCs can do more than Macs, says Microsoft in new ad (29/2)
A new series of ads from Microsoft focuses on presenting the advantages of Windows that differentiate it from Macs and OS X. The main two protagonists explain how functions such as Cortana, Hello or Inking help them introduce the world of insects to schoolchildren. In every ad featuring an individual feature, they don't forget to mention that they couldn't do this or that on their Mac.
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Cortana is only a short-term advantage for Windows, as Apple is planning to include Siri in OS X in the next version of the system, according to unconfirmed information. We will probably never see a touch screen on Macs, which Apple's vice president of software Craig Federighi justifies by saying that the Californian company is mainly focused on developing the trackpad, as its use is much more convenient for users.
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Source: MacRumors
The head of Fiat Chrysler: Apple should rather cooperate with car companies (March 2)
According to the head of Fiat Chrysler, Sergio Marchionne, Apple should cooperate with car companies that already have several years of experience in the production of cars. According to Marchionne, Apple's compulsion to design its own car is a disease that the iPhone maker should get over. Marchionne spoke on the subject of Apple Car on the occasion of the Geneva Motor Show.
"If they have any urge to make a car, I would advise them to lie down and wait for it to pass," Marchionne said. "Such diseases will pass again, you can recover from them, they are not fatal," added Marchionne, who is not too sure that Apple should - if it ever happens - start making cars on its own.
Source: AppleInsider
Apple could deploy OLED displays as early as next year (March 2)
Apple is said to want to start using OLED displays in iPhones as early as 2017, which is a year earlier than the Californian company originally expected. Apple is said to have agreed with LG and Samsung to start their production already in December, so that OLED displays can be rebuilt in the iPhone 7S. However, due to production restrictions, they should first appear only on the iPhone 7S Plus version. Apple originally wanted to make OLED displays curved as well, but this plan was reportedly abandoned after iPhone sales began to decline, and the curvature would have required more time to plan. The rapid implementation of OLED displays may thus be an attempt by Apple to increase sales of iPhones.
Source: MacRumors
Oculus will support Macs when Apple releases a proper PC (2/3)
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, one of the most successful companies producing virtual reality headsets, was asked an interesting question at a press conference last week, whether the Oculus Rift headset will also support Apple computers. Luckey's answer to this: “That depends entirely on Apple. When they make a good computer, our products will start to support it."
Luckey explained his point shortly afterwards. Macs simply don't have powerful enough graphics processors. Even Apple's most expensive computer, the $6 Mac Pro, would still not be able to handle the Oculus headset. If Apple starts focusing on the performance of its models again, then it will not be a problem for Macs to make a device with virtual reality. At least that's what Luckey claims now.
Source: Shack News
Apple Watch for $25 if you stay healthy (4/3)
Three American companies, Amgen, DaVita HealthCare Partners and Lockton, came up with an interesting program for their employees. Business leaders will sell their employees an Apple Watch for just $25 if they meet the daily activity limits set on the watch every day for two years. Companies want to ensure healthy employees and lower health insurance costs with this program. The catch for employees is that if they don't meet the given activity limits, they have to pay the full price of the watch to the company.
Source: The Next Web
A week in a nutshell
Last week, the tug-of-war between Apple and the FBI reached the US Congress, where the US government she admitted possible consequences of your request. Apple then he has received support from dozens of technology companies in the form of a friendly letter. Learn about the importance of data security first hand convinced even an American journalist whose e-mail was hacked by a hacker even on a plane.
Apple too lowered customer support Twitter account and Tom Fadell si he recalled on the creation of the iPod and Apple and shared some behind-the-scenes information.
On Jablíčkář, we also brought you an article about how useful they can be být Apple Watch on the wrist of a blind man, what are the pros and cons of Apple Maps and how the smaller iPad Pro could affect the future of iPads and MacBooks.
