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How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books
I’ve already made my feelings known about the iBooks Author license agreement (it’s “mind-bogglingly greedy”). The
first reaction of Apple-watcher John Gruber, who knows the company
better than anyone outside Cupertino, was that the new EULA represents “Apple at its worst.” (In a later post, he backtracked somewhat and wrote a complicated defense of Apple’s actions.)It’s certainly Apple’s right to control access to its bookstore and
curate its content, and if they had implemented this policy with some
thought, I could even have supported their decision.But I can’t. Here’s why.
The iBooks format is ePub (or, as it’s formally known by its caretakers, EPUB). Here’s a snippet from the iBooks FAQ, as last updated December 22, 2011:
In the original version of the FAQ published in April 2010,
when iBooks was launched, Apple was even more definitive about the
format: “iBooks only uses books published in the ePub format.” An Inside
iTunes page written by Apple at the same time is still available
online. It states in no undertain terms that ”the iBooks app uses ePub,
the most popular open book format in the world.”http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-apple-is-sabotaging-an-open-standard-for-digital-books/4378
Don't think Apple is going to win this battle. nless everybody is too stupid not to fight back. (publishers, consumers, rivals.) locking up standards? lol
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With last week’s changes, Apple is deliberately sabotaging this format.
The new iBooks 2.0 format adds CSS extensions that are not documented as
part of the W3C standard. It uses a closed, proprietary Apple XML namespace. The experts I’ve consulted think it deliberately breaks the open standard.
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apple will always be apple. That's why they can't win corporate and go beyond fanboyz.
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yay spending at least these whales are fighting hard and putting big money.
Intel, which said Thursday (Jan. 19) it plans to spend roughly $12.5 billion on capex, and Samsung, which revealed earlier this week it plans to spend about $12.2 billion on semiconductor capex, are
each expected to more than double the 2012 capital expenditures of
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), the third biggest
spender, IC Insights said. TSMC said earlier this week it plans to spend about $6 billion on capex this year.
"It
is apparent that for Samsung, Intel, and TSMC, the time has come to put
the hammer down and position themselves as the strongest and most
dominant IC suppliers in the industry," IC Insights said in an excerpt
from the 2012 edition of the firm's McClean report. IC
Insights said the three firms are becoming more dominant in their areas
of specialization and that smaller competitors may soon find it
extremely challenging to remain competitive in developing new products
or competing on a cost basis.
http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4235006/IC-Insights--Intel--Samsung--smell-blood-in-the-water-
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CyanogenMod App Store to sell the apps Android Market won't
http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/23/2726723/cyanogenmod-app-store-android
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Apple big blow out sales. niceee...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/some-observations-sequential-apple-revenue-growth
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Overall Nokia sales fell 21% in the last three months of the year,
while smartphone shipments fell 31% from a year ago. Much of Nokia's
smartphone dip is attributable to the decline in popularity of phones running the company's Symbian and MeeGo operating systems as consumers have turned to Google's Android platform and the iPhone. When Nokia agreed to take on Windows Phone, it stated that it would abandon Symbian and MeeGo as well.The company's $1.38-billion fourth quarter loss follows a profit of about $980 million a year earlier.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/nokia-loses-lumia-windows-phones.html
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The latest news out of mobile phone provider AT&T
isn't good. AT&T posted a loss of almost $7 billion for the fourth
quarter, which equated to a loss of $1.12 per share. This is the first
quarter where AT&T has posted a loss in the last three years. Much
of the loss can be attributed to adjustments to the company pension
plan, fees from the breakup of the T-Mobile merger, a write-down of
their phone directory business, and high subsidization cost of the Apple
iPhone. The first few of those massive expenses are generally one-time
expenses that won’t have the same financial impact in future quarters,
but subsidization of the iPhone should be a major concern for AT&T.
AT&T is the largest iPhone carrier, activating over 7.6
million units last quarter alone; over 80% of all smartphones sold by
AT&T in Q4 were iPhones. This represents a 10% increase from the
year over year quarter.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46162925/ns/business-motley_fool/
ATT lost $7 Billion?? lol.on record smartphones sales. haiiiilarious... must be cocaine party every night at the office.
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Apple Rules Q4 but Samsung Takes 2011 Smartphone Sales Crown
Apple shipped 37 million units during the fourth quarter, up from 17
million the quarter before. Samsung, fighting the good fight, shipped 36
million units, up from 28 million the quarter before.
"Samsung advanced in 2011 because of its strategy of offering a complete
line of smartphone products, spanning a variety of price points,
features and operating systems," IHS Senior Analyst Wayne Lam said in a
statement. "This enabled Samsung to move past perennial market leader
Nokia and to slightly exceed Apple's total for the year."
Apple claimed the year's second-best performance, with a total of 93
million units to Samsung's 95 million. Nokia, once the long-time leader,
again lingered behind the two, shipping 77 million phones in 2011, down
from its market-leading 100 million in 2010.
Sony Ericsson and Motorola shipments remained flat from the third to
fourth quarters, shipping 6 million and 5 million, respectively. Sony
Ericsson shipped a total of 20 million units for the year, to Motorola's
19 million, not sharing in Samsung's success, despite their similar
investment in Google's Android OS.Motorola has gone banana.
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NEC Corp said
Thursday it will slash 10,000 jobs, almost one in 10 of its
workers, in a bid to cut costs as competition from foreign
rivals including Apple Inc pushes it deep into the red.NEC blamed its poor performance on weak demand for its
smartphones amid the popularity of Apple's iPhone in Japan, as
well as on inroads by foreign rivals into the domestic IT
infrastructure business and difficulty in expanding overseas.http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/27/nec-idUSL4E8CQ49420120127
Stop whining NEC, you've been making crappy phone in the past 2-3 years. whaddya expect?
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Samsung Galaxy S III Pops Up on Samsung Support Site
Some previously leaked information about possible specifications says it
will have a 4.6 inches AMOLED screen HD, Exynos 4212 processor
dual-core 1.8GHz, 2GB of RAM and a camera 12MPX.http://www.xda-developers.com/android/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-pops-up-on-samsung-support-site/
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Japan-based Android gadget blog Ameblo.jp has
recently discovered some juicy information regarding two currently
unnamed Samsung tablets that are expected to debut at Mobile World
Congress 2012 in just a few weeks.
According to several sources,
these newly discovered tablets are expected to sport Samsung's new
2.0GHz Exynos 5250 powerhouse 32nm SoC based on ARM Cortex-A15
architecture, which just begun sampling earlier last week. While other hardware details of these next-generation tablets are currently under wraps, a recent Wi-Fi Certified Interoperability Certificate from the Wi-Fi Alliance lists the tablets under codenames GT-P3110 and GT-P5110.
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/25798-samsung-galaxy-tab-third-generation-codenames-leaked
iPad 3 is now 2 generations behind from next release top end android tablet.
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"Barnes & Noble's primary line of defense against Microsoft's allegations of patent infringement by the bookseller's Android-based devices has collapsed in its entirety. An Administrative Law Judge at the ITC today granted a Microsoft motion to dismiss,
even ahead of the evidentiary trial that will start next Monday
(February 6), Barnes & Noble's 'patent misuse' defense against
Microsoft. [...] Prior to the ALJ, the ITC staff — or more precisely,
the Office of Unfair Import Investigations (OUII), which participates in
many investigations as a third party representing the public interest —
already supported Microsoft's motion all the way. The OUII basically
concluded that even if all of what Barnes & Noble said about
Microsoft's use of patents against Android was accurate, it would fall far short of the legal requirements for a patent misuse defense."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/01/1541208/itc-throws-out-bn-antitrust-claims-against-ms... and it's not a tax.
Rather,
Microsoft is a medieval style guild, and they collect dues from any who
would practice their trade. If you don't pay, they come and burn down
our house.And it goes way, way deeper than any "shortcuts". To
put it another way, if we were talking about mechanical and structural
engineering, not only would MS hold the rights to be the sole bridge
builders in the land, but the very concept of a device or structure to
facilitate the crossing of a body of water would be theirs. They'd own
the rights to cables, supports, bolts; not only to steel but to alloys
in general.With our technology, there is nothing that doesn't
stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before at this point. We
should still be in a rapid development cycle, spinning upward. Instead,
we squabble over who gets to build anything at all.And
eventually, we're going to absolutely destroy American technological
innovation. First, by making it impossible for most everyone but the
established players to build anything at all. And by doing so, we will
lay the groundwork for the first other nation to surpass us to
absolutely ensure that we are subject to the very idiotic laws that we
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Fact is that software systems other than Microsoft's run most devices
available. BusyBox rules the roost, Android has a huge portable devices
market and the rest of the know universe belongs to Apple with a
smattering of odd ball stuff like Symbian. The United States patent
office has been subverted by companies like Microsoft and the rest of
the world is now becoming the source for real product innovation.
Plain
and simple the whole concept of an economy based more on IP than real
products has backfired. The statements coming out of Washington about
how IP has to be protected at all cost and how American "innovations"
are more valuable than real products has led to this sad state of
affairs.
The rest of the world could care less, America is being miss
lead by corporate junkies like Steve Ballmer and the economy is going
to go down the tank because of corporations like Microsoft and the
failure and shameful decline of real industrial innovation, education
and leadership within the United States.
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That's what Kodak or Palm Inc. was about. And what Apple Inc is going to be about.
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Permanent Injunction: Apple Removes iPhones, iPads from German Online Store
Due
to Court in Manheim siding with Motorola on FRAND-pledged patents,
starting today, Apple Deutschland GmbH was forced to remove all
infringing devices from its online store. The patents cover all devices
which used Infineon/Intel baseband chip:- All iPhone 3G phones
- All iPhone 3Gs phones
- All iPad 3G tablets
- All iPad 2 3G tablets
Apple
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/2/3/permanent-injunction-apple-removes-iphones2c-ipads-from-german-online-store.aspx
was officially quoted that the removal of dozen or so devices was a
consequence of an injunction that Motorola Mobility won in Mannheim
court. The lawsuit was covering the FRAND patents from Motorola’s 17,000
patent heavy treasure chest, which were not paid or licensed by
Infineon/Intel nor Apple. Apple’s iPhone 4S was excluded from the
injunction because it uses the Qualcomm baseband chip. As we all know,
Qualcomm is a licensee of Motorola Mobility and vice versa.
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Apple may release 7-inch iPad later this year
what? the screen is not "too small" anymore? Now that amazon is selling gajillion units... feh...
I for one want to talk to the idiots at Google who was chasing St. Steve aura and decide to fuck around with 10" for months, instead of directly hitting the jack pot.
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whoa ...out of control
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ARM on TSMC’s 28nm delivers a better processor than Atom on Intel’s 22nm finfet process, says TSMC.
“Today,
ARM on TSMC’s 28nm gives better performance and power than Atom on
Intel’s 22nm finfet process,” TSMC’s President for Europe, Maria Marced,
tells EW, “it’s not just technology it’s also the architecture.”come on intel. where are you?
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I like this phone. I think it's the sleekest of them all followed by that experia.
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20120209_510891.html
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China's Administration of Industry and Commerce has started confiscating any iPads it finds for sale after the verdict of the Apple's court case with Proview, reports DigiCha.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-authorities-are-removing-ipads-from-store-shelves-2012-2
This is retaliation for tibet, dupont spy and stuff. Apple has become the new "McDonald", if a country has problem, bash and burn Apple. Pretty soon, apple will be a symbol of american imperialism/infidel/yankee/what have you ...
Every time there is china bashing, Apple china gets it. retaliation. (And since over 600 hedge funds and aapl is in bubble state, the chinese is going to make huge amount of money busting knee caps.) The order has come down to destroy apple.
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MediaTek lays groundwork for cheaper Android 4.0 smartphones
The first phones based on MediaTek's new platform will arrive during the first quarter
The first smartphones based on the new platform will become available in
the first quarter of 2012, according to MediaTek. The company doesn't
get into the specifics of what the phones will cost, but it wouldn't be
surprising if the Chinese vendors were to launch "reasonably
sophisticated smartphones" at below $150 before subsidies this year,
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Apple demands US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus
for a company with zero manufacturing capability, apple sure has way too much attitude. Somebody should put them in place and remind them who needs whom. So far they've been pissing off Korea, taiwan, china. How exactly are they going to build all those iThing? ..say if the power that be decide to shut down their entire supply chain for 6 months... See how much their worthless cash suddenly worth when their iThing becomes iXplode.
Apple has only 2 products going. either one stop flowing, they are done for.
Apple market cap/bubble is now the size medium european country... It's easy target.
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Android is now above 50% globally
http://wmpoweruser.com/gartner-windows-phone-sales-increased-450-yoy-62-between-q3-and-q4-2011/
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Toray Announces Fingerprint-resistant Film for Smartphones, Tablets
Toray claims that the new film does not have those problems. When the
company evaluated the film by using its original index called
"fingerprint resistance," its resistance turned out to be "Class-2,"
which is superior to the resistances of competing products ("Class-4" of
a lipophilic film and "Class-3" of an oil-shedding film). The
fingerprint resistance is quantified based on the variation in the color
and luster of the light reflected on the surface of a film. The lower
its value, the higher the properties.
The total light transmittance, haze and gloss level of the new film are
91%, 0.6% and 155%, respectively, which are equivalent to those of
competing products. The production cost of the film is low because it is
made by coating a PET (polyethylene terephthalate) film with a
solution, Toray said. It is also possible to make the film by coating
other resin films or glass.
To realize those properties, Toray employed two techniques. First, the
company improved oil-shedding property to prevent the film from being
stained. It used a new add-in material so that an oil-shedding material
can be easily dissolved in the base material and a film can be uniformly
formed. As a result, the amount of dirt attached to the film is about
one-third that of an existing oil-shedding film. The company did not
disclose the names of the materials used for the film.
Second, nanometer-size concave and convex structures were randomly
formed on the surface of the film so that dirt does not concentrate and
become visible.
"By optimizing the composition ratio of the base material, oil-shedding
material and add-in material as well as the coating and drying
processes, it became possible to add a self-organizing function and form
minute concave and convex structures," Toray said.http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20120215/204836/
whatever majic trick they are pulling. no more greasy fingerprints...yay
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This is not the bubble you are looking for.... bahahahaha...
http://macromon.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/apple-gone-wild/
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Apple
Still Trying To Sue The World Into Oblivion With A Fresh Suit Against
17 Samsung Devices Infringing Upon 8 Apple Patents; In Other News, Sky
Blue, Water Wet
Have they sued anybody for putting handheld phone near crotch yet?
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Amazon passes Samsung for No. 2 spot in tablets
Amazon.com Inc, the world’s largest online retailer, surpassed
Samsung Electronics Co as the No. 2 seller of tablet computers last
quarter, shipping 3.89 million units, according to research firm IHS
Inc.Amazon’s share rose to 14 percent in the period, up from zero
in the third quarter, while Samsung slipped to 8 percent from 11
percent, according to Englewood, Colorado-based IHS. Apple Inc,
meanwhile, maintained its lead in the market, accounting for more than
half of shipments.http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2012/02/18/2003525740
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Share price of Samsung Electronics Co. hit its highest point ever of
1.18 million won per share during trading Friday on strong foreign
buying as its Japanese rival Elpida Memory Inc. teeters on the brink of
collapse.
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20120217000927
very soon, nobody will make DRAM anymore except Samsung. Taiwanese fabs are all dying.
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Industry buzz suggests that Samsung may soon be planning to spin off its
LCD division. If that happens, the impact could be felt in the prices
of everything from HDTVs to notebooks and tablets, according to a new
report from NPD DisplaySearch.
Currently, Samsung sources more than half of its LCD panels for its
television products internally and also purchases millions of panels a
year from itself for its notebooks, displays, and tablets, according to
NPD. The Korean tech giant's LCD manufacturing division is the
industry's largest in terms of revenue, and supplies panels to Apple,
Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and a host of other major computer and consumer
electronics manufacturers.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400402,00.asp
Sell it to apple, maybe they want to compete with the chinese... heh... massive display price war coming. die die die...
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Chinese Court Orders Ban On Apple's iPad
I suppose the imperial edict has come down. It'll be very unpleasant being Apple soon. I wonder what happen if the aapl bubble pop.
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Apple iPad 3 Doesn't Feature A6 chip: 28nm Die-Shrink A5X InsideSAN FRANCISCO--Analysts are predicting that Apple will launch a smaller,
Apple to release 7-inch mini iPad, say analysts
more affordable iPad tablet in 2012 in addition to its high end iPad 3,
due out next quarter.
Brett Simpson and Richard Kramer of Arete
Research said they expected to see Apple launch “a 7-inch iPad with a
low-end specification,” in or around the third quarter of the year at a
price point of about $299.
“Given the iPad 3 aims to use higher spec
parts (quad-core CPU, higher resolution display, LTE, and improved
camera) there is plenty of scope to offer a cost down model supporting
~$100 lower bill of materials,” said the pair.
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4236688/Apple-to-release-7-inch-mini-iPad-say-analysts-
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The 10-inch tablet based on A9 core and capacitive screen is less than $111
Amlogic 8726-M3, second generation Cortex A9 core, Android4.0.3 OS, 1G
frequency, 1G memory, 10.1-inch capacitive screen with 1024×600
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First Custom Rom Appears for the Asus Transformer Prime
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime
is arguably the most versatile and featured packed tablet available
today. In addition to packing the exceedingly-fast Nvidia Tegra 3
processor, it lives up to its name thanks to its convertible form
factor. And now that we have been graced by the official bootloader unlocking tool, things will only get better.
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime was one of the first tablets to get an
official Android 4.0 software update when Asus started rolling out the
software in early January. Now the company’s also offering Android 4.0
for the original Eee Pad Transformer, which should come as good news to
anyone who already picked one up… or who’s still thinking of… -
Smartphone share from 1Q 2007 to 4Q 2011. Android has led for four
quarters; Apple became the biggest single vendor. Source: Gartner.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/15/android-smartphones-apple-2011
Smartphone sales in different countries: comparing a four-week
period to Jan 23 2011 to four week up to Jan 23 2012 in US, UK, France,
Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia. Source: Kantar Worldpanel ComTech
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/21/android-smartphones-os-uk-apple?newsfeed=true
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