It was a lot of 'yeah, yeah, we were expecting that' at the Apple Event today... leaving many of us to wonder why they didn't just do a soft launch. Brand-loyal Apple fans will be glad to see that the iPad Air 2 is a little thinner (at 6.1mm) and finally features the fingerprint ID sensor that has been present in the last 2 iterations of the iPhone. Other updates for the … [Read more...] about Apple Announces Modest Updates to iPad Air and iPad Mini
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: How Does He Really Feel About Android?
Anybody who watched the keynote from WWDC 2014 yesterday has a pretty clear sense of how Tim Cook (and Apple) feels about Android. Of course, given that they are in direct competition with each other it should come as no surprise. Keeping in mind that it is Apple's developer conference and it was Cook's stage (and therefore he is entitled to make a certain number of … [Read more...] about Apple CEO Tim Cook: How Does He Really Feel About Android?
eBook Review: Haunted Empire by Yukari Iwatani Kane
Verdict: 3 Stars I expected a lot from Haunted Empire, and I did get a lot of information. It just wasn't the stuff I thought I would read about. Where was the controversy? Where was the speculation about Apple's downfall? Basically, where was the information that CEO Tim Cook took issue with? There was a lot of background information, and I will say that the beginning of … [Read more...] about eBook Review: Haunted Empire by Yukari Iwatani Kane
Apple Only Remaining Defendant in Anti-Trust Suit, CEO Might Testify
It took long enough, but the key players in the US Department of Justice lawsuit involving Apple and five of the original Big Six publishers have dwindled down to one. While Penguin, Simon&Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan have all settled out of court in the original anti-trust lawsuit that alleged the publishers and Apple conspired to fix prices on ebooks … [Read more...] about Apple Only Remaining Defendant in Anti-Trust Suit, CEO Might Testify
E-Readers, PCs Facing the Heat from Tablet PCs
Amazon had lit the Kindle Fire with the hopes of blazing into the booming tablet market. While it has been largely successful (the second largest selling tablet after the iPad and the best selling Android tablet so far), an unlikely victim of the raging Amazon Fire has been its very own stable mate, the Kindle Touch. In fact, Amazon is already reported to have scaled down on it … [Read more...] about E-Readers, PCs Facing the Heat from Tablet PCs