Apple’s highly-visible iPhone is great for the company’s bottom line. Unfortunately, it makes for a great lawsuit target. Apple has again been sued on claims that the iPhone treads on multiple patents ranging from media consumption through iTunes, the AppStore and even the iPhone’s camera image sensor. Affinity Labs has filed suit against Apple for…
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Apple egregiously dropping the ball on iPhone developer payments, customer service
By now it’s clear that Apple has its hands full trying to deal with the deluge of iPhone developers straining its iPhone AppStore infrastructure. Apple was apparently unprepared for the flood of iPhone application submissions, leading to the iPhone-maker’s continued backlog in approving iPhone apps for the App Store. Now, we’re hearing of even more…
Apple sued for pushing iPhone as eBook reader
In a strange twist of fate, Apple’s move to regain ground lost to the Kindle by pushing the iPhone as a legitimate eBook reader has earned it a new lawsuit for violating an eBook patent filed seven years ago. eBook pioneer Amazon is meanwhile clear to keep peddling its Kindle Reader. Apple is being sued…
Apple preparing updated iPhone Bluetooth Headset?
When Apple changes its purposely limited product lineup, the world takes notice. For instance, Apple over the weekend changed the status of its iPhone Bluetooth Headset to “discontinued” in Apple’s online store, prompting some Apple fans to speculate that new iPhone Bluetooth hardware is coming down the product pipeline. Curiously, the Apple online store still…
Apple and AT&T sued for slow iPhone 3G data speeds
This is really getting out of hand. Yet another lawsuit has been filed against Apple and AT&T, charging that both companies misrepresented the data speeds and performance of the AT&T 3G network and iPhone 3G smartphone. The lawsuit follows numerous others filed against Apple and AT&T in regards to disappointing 3G performance. Apparent iPhone 3G…
Apple still talking to China Mobile on iPhone deal
It’s the same old song and dance between Apple and Chinese wireless carriers. In the latest round of we-said they-said negotiations surrounding the iPhone, China Mobile’s CEO Wang Jianzhou confirmed that Apple and China Mobile were still in talks to bring the iPhone to China, but no deal has yet been made. Wang told reporters…
Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 and the unannounced Podcast features
Apple did say yesterday that there were over 100 new features packed into the iPhone 3.0 OS. Then they left us hanging after demonstrating just a handful of new features. But, we’d prefer it that way. There’s nothing like a long presentation filled with application demonstrations to lull us to sleep. So, as they do…
Apple posts iPhone 3.0 OS webcast for public consumption!
If you felt left out of the party yesterday, as Apple introduced the next-generation iPhone 3.0 OS, cheer up, the good folks in Cupertino were kind enough to post up a Quicktime video stream of the entire event. In the presentation, Apple unveiled a few key features in the upcoming iPhone platform that many iPhone…
Apple finally brings Copy/Paste to iPhone with iPhone 3.0 OS!
It’s that time of year again when Apple previews their next major update to the iPhone OS. Apple managed to undermine Sprint’s Palm Pre webcast last week by announcing the iPhone OS 3.0 on the same morning that Palm and Sprint had expected to have the hype-machine all to themselves. Today, Apple took us on…
iPhone 3.0 to Feature Cut and Paste, Bring Apple up to Speed with Pre?
Kevin Rose of Diggnation fame has just let the cat out of the bag about iPhone 3.0 features. Looking for something really awesome like video recording or background applications? Who needs stuff like that? Let’s do cut and paste! Much more ominous is the comment that this update will basically bring the iPhone up-to-date to…