February 8, 2010 - 11:52 pm
Tags: apple, developers, does-it-matter, iphone, News, reportedly-even, satisfied, since-approval, starting-2010, trained-staff
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TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has started sending developers invitations to take a satisfaction survey with regards to the App Store in general, and the App Store approval process in specific. Apple asks you to answer with: “Very dissatisfied,” “Somewhat dissatisfied,” “Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied,” “Somewhat satisfied,” “Very satisfied,” or “Don’t know.” They also ask, “What one thing could Apple do to make the iPhone Developer Program better?” and give you a text box to write anything you want.
February 8, 2010 - 10:09 pm
Tags: 278-million, all-appearances, apple, curious-tidbit, custom-chips, designing-chips, graphics-core, guts, ipad, pa semi, posts-tagged, power, source-says, true-talent
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A curious tidbit from VentureBeat: The A4 chip that Apple’s pimping hardcore in iPad promos might not’ve been done by their PA Semi team (which Apple acquired for $278 million). Their source says it was designed by Apple’s existing VLSI team, who made custom chips like northbridges for the old G5 Macs. Sounds possible, since there likely isn’t a whole lot “custom” going in the A4’s actual design, which by all appearances is an ARM Cortex A9 wrapped up with a PowerVR graphics core and some other parts in a custom SoC.
February 8, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Tags: apple, apple-financial, economy, entry, financials, insider, intel, redmond, silicon-alley-insider, turns-out-apple
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Filed under: Apple Financial , Apple Back during the earnings call a few weeks ago , it was mentioned that Apple has a jaw-dropping almost $40 billion just sitting around in cash. In the chat, we started talking about other companies that might have that much money in the hopper — Google came up, but I don’t think we were able to guess another one.
Filed under: Hardware , iTunes , Apple , iPhone , SDK , Jailbreak/pwnage Jailbreakers ahoy! Yesterday brought the release of the Dev Team’s pwnage tool for jailbreaking and unlocking iPhones equipped with the new 3.1.3 firmware . As usual, though, there are a few catches: first, if you don’t need to update to 3.1.3, the dev team says you shouldn’t bother anyway — it doesn’t do much that the old versions of the firmware doesn’t, so if you don’t need to upgrade, just leave your jailbreak as is. 3G and 3GS users especially should be leery of this one, since if a mistake is made, there’s a chance you could upgrade your firmware and then not be able to unlock it again.
Filed under: Hardware , iTunes , Apple , iPhone , SDK , Jailbreak/pwnage Jailbreakers ahoy! Yesterday brought the release of the Dev Team’s pwnage tool for jailbreaking and unlocking iPhones equipped with the new 3.1.3 firmware . As usual, though, there are a few catches: first, if you don’t need to update to 3.1.3, the dev team says you shouldn’t bother anyway — it doesn’t do much that the old versions of the firmware doesn’t, so if you don’t need to upgrade, just leave your jailbreak as is.
February 8, 2010 - 8:11 pm
Tags: asses-at-halo, bungie, calendars, developer, final-farewell, microsoft, near-the-top, playlists-over, retail, shuts-off-xbox, xbox, xbox 360 news forum
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via Eurogamer Bungie’s organising a send-off for Halo 2 a day before Microsoft shuts off Xbox Live support for Xbox 1 games. On 14th April, those of you with all of the Halo 2 maps released so far will be treated to “one last hoorah”. “We’re all saddened at the realisation that an era is coming to an end but looking back, we’re incredibly fortunate to have had such a great run and such strong support from our fans,” a statement on Bungie’s website read
February 8, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Tags: apple, apple-retail, blows-the-doors, credit-suisse, entry, ipad, iphone, opinion, pricing, retail, sales, shope-as-saying, street, street-journal
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Filed under: Hardware , Retail Looks like they might. That’s the opinion of a note out last night from Credit Suisse quoting meetings with Apple executives. The Wall Street Journal this morning quotes Senior Analyst Bill Shope as saying “While it remains to be seen how much traction the iPad gets initially, management noted that it will remain nimble (pricing could change if the company is not attracting as many customers as anticipated).” This is a similar situation to the original iPhone launch in 2007, where the original price quickly dropped US $200 from the original $599 retail.
February 8, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Tags: apple, apple-retail, blows-the-doors, credit-suisse, entry, ipad, iphone, pricing, retail, sales, shope-as-saying, street, street-journal
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Filed under: Hardware , Retail Looks like they might. That’s the opinion of a note out last night from Credit Suisse quoting meetings with Apple executives. The Wall Street Journal this morning quotes Senior Analyst Bill Shope as saying “While it remains to be seen how much traction the iPad gets initially, management noted that it will remain nimble (pricing could change if the company is not attracting as many customers as anticipated).” This is a similar situation to the original iPhone launch in 2007, where the original price quickly dropped US $200 from the original $599 retail
February 8, 2010 - 7:40 pm
Tags: among-the-first, apple, else-supported, iphone, iphone apps, ipod, left-image500, nothing-else, pdf, peripherals, photos, posts-tagged, power, sd card
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Remember all those clever iPhone peripherals that we were supposed to see with firmware 3.0? Well ZoomIt is among the first. It’s an SD card reader for the iPhone and iPod touch
Last week, we learned that Apple would be
revamping some US retail stores, including a new iPod touch-based point-of-sale (POS) system. A new scanner accessory allows Apple to replace the old Windows CE-based sales handhelds.