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Why Apple Created the App Store (Video)
May 11th
The App Store has quickly become one of the hallmarks of the iOS experience. Since it was launched in 2008, it has spread like a virus, and now has well over 600,000 apps (600k as of April 25). As such, it’s worth noting why Apple launched the App Store in the first place.
Here’s what Steve Jobs had to say about it in 2008!
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Why Apple Created the App Store (Video)
May 11th
The App Store has quickly become one of the hallmarks of the iOS experience. Since it was launched in 2008, it has spread like a virus, and now has well over 600,000 apps (600k as of April 25). As such, it’s worth noting why Apple launched the App Store in the first place.
Here’s what Steve Jobs had to say about it in 2008!
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Apple Number One Smartphone Vendor In Japan With 7.25 Million iPhones Sold
May 11th
Not only is Apple big in China, it’s also very big in Japan if the latest figures from Japanese company MM Research are to be believed. Translated by Macotakara, they reveal that 7.25 million iPhones were sold in Japan alone in 2011, with the total smartphone sales for the country estimated at 24.17 million.
Thos figures mean that Apple has a 17% market share, giving them the number one spot as a smartphone maker and second spot for all phones. That’s pretty impressive you think about how many people still own old Nokia handsets or non-smartphone Samsung handsets.
One thing Apple doesn’t have in Japan however is platform domination, with Android having a 69% user base compared to Apple 30%, even though it is like that pretty much everywhere due to Android’s fragmentation and how many different devices it runs on.
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Apple Offers $16m for Chinese iPad Trademark, Proview Wants $400m
May 11th
Apple has been reported to be in serious negotiations with Proview for the Chinese trademark rights to the iPad name. Now, comes a report that Apple has offered $16 million for the name, but Proview is holding out for $400 million. That’s how much Proview needs just to keep their sinking boat afloat.
Proview desperately needs a huge payout from Apple to prevent the company from entering liquidation. Its creditors include eight Chinese banks, in addition to Fubon Insurance, a Taiwanese company which has already moved to reclaim debts of $8.68 million.
The battle for the iPad name goes back to 2010, but it was back in the spotlight this year after Apple contested a decision that said Proview was the legal holder of the “iPad” trademark in China. This was despite Apple purchasing rights to the name via a shell company.
Proview indicated an interest in settling with Apple earlier this year, while at the same time, company chairman Yang Rongshan warned that Apple must “properly” compensate the company if it wished to gain legal rights to the trademark.
The case has been on hold while Proview fended off a liquidation request from one of its creditors at the beginning of the month. Now, it appears that Proview is pinning its hopes for survival on a large cash payout from Apple.
Apple launched its latest iPad tablet in March, and is currently expanding into other markets. The company has not yet launched the device in China, as it is believed to want to end the trademark fight before doing so.
Unless Tim Cook is willing to whip out Apple’s checkbook and write a $400 million check, it looks like this dispute will continue for awhile longer.
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Quick Brightness: One touch brightness app
May 11th
If you’re like me, you probably wish that iOS had widgets. (Widgets have been on my iOS wishlist for a long time)
There are a couple of things that would be convenient to do with one touch, like toggling Bluetooth on and off for example. The problem is that doing so requires the use of private/undocumented Apple APIs — which is forbidden by Apple’s developer agreement (and which is why Apple pulled Bluetooth OnOff from the App Store).
If you’ve ever wanted to quickly change your iPhone or iPad’s brightness setting without traversing the Settings app, I’ve got the app for you.
Atominx, Inc.’s Quick Brightness app (free, App Store) does just that. You simply set low and high brightness settings within the app, set QBright to “Switch the Brightness and Exit” from within Settings app and you’re done. Touch the app icon and it switches between your high and low brightness settings and returns you to the home screen.
The only problem is that unlike Bluetooth OnOff, Quick Brightness doesn’t hold its setting across a device lock. So there’s that. But it’s still much quicker than switching your brightness the old fashioned way.
I’m not sure if Quick Brightness uses private APIs (it was only approved on the App Store today), but a similar free app (Quick Bright) has been on the App Store since January 2012, so I’m assuming that it doesn’t. Curiously, Quick Bright is open source (via the MIT License) with full source available and a fork of DCRoundSwitch library, but Quick Brightness (which looks like a clone of Quick Bright) lists no such credits in its description.
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