Apple’s strategy of a “walled garden” now seems to be inspected by U.S. antitrust authorities. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department are overhauling Apple’s latest license change for the iPhone OS SDK 4.0. Although the process is at a preliminary stage, the interest of antitrust authorities show [...]
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[iPhone] U.S. Antitrust Authorities Overhauling iPhone OS SDK Licence 4.0
May 4th, 2010 
J. ΞPSTΞÏN 
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April 30th, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN On Wall Street Journal Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen yesterday nite answered to Steve Jobs latest attack. Jobs had released an open letter yesterday morning. The bottom line of Jobs’ letter is: Adobe Flash is something from the past, as it is not open, it is not energy efficient and it does not unleash the full [...]
Posted in News Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash, Apple, beta, Flash, Interview, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 4.0 Beta, iPhone OS, iPod Touch, iPodTouch, Jailbreak, Mac, Mac OS X, Open Letter, osx, Shantanu Narayen, Snow Leopard, Steve Jobs, Tiger, Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com No Comments »[iPhone] No Flash But Lego? Now Adobe Strikes Back…
February 4th, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Apple now has confirmed to be no fan of Adobe Flash. It is too buggy and not open standard and this and that. And foremost: it is no Apple technology ;-) Well, erm… Aswell as the iPhone the iPad is gonna show those nice and tiny Lego bricks instead of Adobe Flash based content. Bringing [...]
[iPad] Apple Places iPad in Grammy Awards
February 1st, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN American actor Stephen Colbert pulled an unreleased Apple iPad yesterday at the Grammy Awards to read the list of nominees. Colbert said “I’m sorry where’s the list. Oh, I know! It’s on my iPad. Jay-z, did you not get one of these in your gift bag? Am I cooler than you?“ This product placement seems [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Celebrities, Celebrity, Colbert, Grammy Awards, iPad, Jay-Z, JayZ, Muzaq-Production, Stephen, Steve Jobs, Steven, Steven Colbert No Comments »[e-Biz] The Slate Tablets Are Coming
January 11th, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Tablet PCs seem to be the next big thing. After Apple’s smartphone revolution with their iPhone, it seems the next big market revolution might be the Tablet PCs. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft introduced one of the Tablet PCs – a prototype of the HP Slate – last week on the CES 2010. In his presentation [...]
Posted in News Tags: 2010, Amazon, Apple, Apple Tablet, C E S, CEO, CES 2010, CES2010, Consumer Electrics Show, Consumer Electronics Show, Dell, HP Slate, iPhone, iSlate, Jon Rubinstein, Kindle, Las Vegas, Microsoft, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Slate, Steve Ballmer, Steve Bezos, Steve Jobs, Tablet, Tablet Mac, Tablet PC, Touchscreen, Windows 7 1 Comment »[iPhone] AT&T To Lose iPhone Exclusivity?
December 1st, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN The last weeks are full of rumors if AT&T will prolong their exclusive contracts with Apple. Rumors say the original contracts are gonna expire in the middle of 2010. Thus allowing Apple to negotiate with different carriers like Verizon or T-Mobile. T-Mobile is currently the exclusive partner for Apple in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and [...]
[Pre] Palm Allows Distribution of WebOS Apps outside App Catalog
October 6th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN In contrast to Apple’ AppStore, Palm today announced, they will also allow distribution of Palm Pre applications outside of Palm’s App Catalog. The WebOS developer program will officially start in december 2009 for an annual fee of 100US$. The annual fee does not apply for open source applications, as they will be taken into the [...]
Posted in News Tags: App Catalog, App Store, AppCatalog, AppStore, iPhone, Jon Rubinstein, Palm, Palm Pre, Steve Jobs No Comments »[Pre] Palm Pre to Ship with Adobe Flash Soon (Upd.)
October 5th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Adobe released a video yesterday featuring the Palm Pre running Adobe Flash. Adrian Ludwig from Adobe Labs shows websites running with Flash Player 10.1 beta on the semi-official iPhone challenger Palm Pre. In their official press statement Adobe say “A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows® Mobile, [...]
Posted in News Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash 10.1, Adrian Ludwig, Apple, Developer Beta, Flash Support, GPU optimzied, iPhone, Jon Rubinstein, no Flash, Palm, Palm Pre, Public Beta, Steve Jobs, WebOS, webOS 1.1.0, WebOS 1.2.1 2 Comments »[News] Steve Jobs back in Business
July 1st, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN We’re almost sure, you read it already all over the net: Steve Jobs is back in his office. Rumors say he was transplanted a liver about two months ago and he is in good health condition. Our comment Does all these news affect anything? Currently it seems no. Apple’s presentations can also be run by [...]
Posted in News Tags: 10.6, 2009, Apple, iPhone 3GS2, iPhone OS 3.0, Jon Rubinstein, leopard, Mac Book Super Pro, Palm, Palm Pre, Scott Forstall, Snow Leopard, Steve Jobs, WWDC, WWDC 2009, WWDC comprehension No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone Lite exclusively on Verizon Wireless?
April 28th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Businessweek.com reports that there are rumors about an iPhone Lite and an Apple Media Pad. Both could be distributed exclusively by Verizon Wireless. One or both of the devices could be introduced in this summer. Businessweek writes they were talking to someone who got his hands on a prototype of the iPhone Lite already. Moreover [...]
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