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- Study shows size of iOS apps have increased 16% in last six months
- The BlackBerry stigma: folks no longer wield BlackBerries with pride
- Ostium adds a screen splitting effect to Notification Center
- Apple granted patent for NFC alternative
- Foxconn admits to hiring teens to do the work
- How the Surface was engineered
- Panasonic reportedly looking to find its way into Apple’s supply chain for the iPad
- Poll: where should the iPad mini start at?
- Email from Phil Schiller explains lack of ambient light sensor in 5th gen iPod touch
- Apple confirms October 23 iPad mini event: “We’ve got a little more to show you”
| Study shows size of iOS apps have increased 16% in last six months Posted: 16 Oct 2012 04:44 PM PDT
According to a new report from the marketing research firm ABI Research, the average size of an iOS app measured 23 megabytes in September, an increase of more than 16% in the last six months. The increase, it says, can be contributed to number of factors, including the release of the Retina display iPad back in March, and the recent bump in the over-the-air App Store download limit to 50 megabytes….(...) "Study shows size of iOS apps have increased 16% in last six months" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| The BlackBerry stigma: folks no longer wield BlackBerries with pride Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:45 PM PDT
It’s just sad that such a great company can become so disillusioned and lost in time. Apparently, as reported by The New York Times, BlackBerry devices have become a magnet for mockery and derision from iPhone and Android owners. Worse, people apparently suffer from shame and public humiliation because their BlackBerry cannot do cool things like iPhones and Android devices. Now, I use both the iPhone and an Android device and it never even crossed my mind to judge someone by their smartphone, even if that’s apparently how some bosses behave these days. As a result, people are becoming increasingly wary pulling their BlackBerries in meetings (I’m not making this up). Remember, stylish (and mostly black) BlackBerry phones with their clickety-clack keyboards used to be a status symbol of the high-powered and the elite. What a difference a few years make…(...) "The BlackBerry stigma: folks no longer wield BlackBerries with pride" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Ostium adds a screen splitting effect to Notification Center Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:21 PM PDT
Ostium is a new jailbreak tweak that adds a screen splitting animation to Notification Center. The tweak works with a two finger pinch gesture, along with the more traditional slide from status bar gesture. At first it appeared that the developer was only going to release Ostium for iPad, but iPod touch and iPhone support were added late in the game. I can definitely see the two finger pinch being more suited for the iPad’s larger screen, but as you’ll see, it works reasonable well on the small screen too.(...) "Ostium adds a screen splitting effect to Notification Center" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Apple granted patent for NFC alternative Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:49 PM PDT
This year’s roundup of iPhone rumors, like many years before it, included chatter that the iPhone 5 would finally receive NFC technology. But as we found out in September, those reports were once again unfounded. Despite the fact that several Android handsets support the wireless connection, Apple has yet to add it to its mobile products. But according to a newly granted patent, it may be working on some kind of alternative…(...) "Apple granted patent for NFC alternative" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Foxconn admits to hiring teens to do the work Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT
Foxconn is the world’s largest contract manufacturer and Apple’s favorite contractor. Its sweatshops in China are under a constant barrage of criticism regarding labor conditions. Apple and Foxconn have been working to cut long hours and increase wages (twice), but when you have to deal with a workforce of approximately one million individuals, it’s virtually impossible to deal with individual abuses that may occur. Except, of course, that Foxconn has a pattern of underage labor and other serious workplace violations. Also, being the world’s biggest manufacturer doesn’t help because the media tends to zero in on Foxconn and Apple to make an example. The following story underscores how the two parties have not done nearly enough to prevent workplace abuses…(...) "Foxconn admits to hiring teens to do the work" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| How the Surface was engineered Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:12 PM PDT Following up on today’s Surface price list, pre-orders and a pretty nice commercial, Microsoft has also posted another interesting thingie which I think highlights how the engineering team went about designing Microsoft’s iPad contender. Make no mistake about it: with the Surface, the Windows maker has raised the water line on its platform's functionality. This tablet’s here to stay. It is at any rate refreshing to have a fresh approach to the tablet other than the boring iOS-Android duopoly. Microsoft also has a few other promo clips for the Surface, all included past the fold…(...) "How the Surface was engineered" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Panasonic reportedly looking to find its way into Apple’s supply chain for the iPad Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:56 AM PDT
Apple has traditionally used Samsung displays in products and lately has begun sourcing portable screens from other suppliers, namely LG Display, Japan Display and Sharp. If a new business report out of Japan is correct, Panasonic will exit the TV biz to focus on churning out displays for portable electronics, with a strong focus on Apple’s iPad. It actually makes sense. Due to price wars eating into the already razor-thin margins, LCD TV sets have become a highly unprofitable affair for Japan’s consumer electronics makers – just ask Sharp. Perhaps having sensed that Foxconn and Apple grew tired of saving Sharp and coping with yield issues plaguing its cutting-edge display plant in Osaka, Panasonic is now thought to have already sent sample LCD panels to Cupertino and Apple “seems to be satisfied”…(...) "Panasonic reportedly looking to find its way into Apple’s supply chain for the iPad" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Poll: where should the iPad mini start at? Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:09 AM PDT
With Apple and Microsoft both teasing their upcoming tablet launches earlier this morning and Microsoft finally announcing price points for its iPad contender, we are beginning to wonder just how competitive price-wise the iPad mini is going to be against other products, seven-inchers in particular. Apple has economies of scale playing to its favor which it readily exploited to deliver the original iPad, billing it as a “magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price” at then unheard-of $499. A lot has changed since 2010. Nowadays, for half the price one can get a perfectly capable seven-inch Nexus 7 tablet from Google with sixteen gigabytes of storage ($199 for the eight gig version). It doesn’t run your App Store apps, lacks the iPad’s build quality and skimps on certain hardware features, but otherwise is a pretty decent tablet. And with Android Jelly Bean running on Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor, Google’s tablet certainly is no slouch. There’s also the new Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon (it sells at cost). With those inexpensive devices rapidly picking up steam and catching up on the iPad, no wonder Apple had to respond. Now, the third-generation 9.7-inch iPad begins at $499 and goes all the way up to $839 for the flagship 64GB model with 4G LTE networking. The company also kept the previous-generation iPad 2 with 16 gigabytes of storage and WiFi-only networking at a reduced price of $399, a hundred bucks cheaper than before. Which brings us to today’s poll: where should a small-factor iPad start at?(...) "Poll: where should the iPad mini start at?" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Email from Phil Schiller explains lack of ambient light sensor in 5th gen iPod touch Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:32 AM PDT
Yesterday we emphasized the lack of an ambient light sensor in the 5th generation iPod touch after initially highlighting the omission in our iPod touch 5th gen review. Now a reader claims to have emailed Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, and received a response explaining the drop of the sensor. The reason for the omission? It’s just too thin.(...) "Email from Phil Schiller explains lack of ambient light sensor in 5th gen iPod touch" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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| Apple confirms October 23 iPad mini event: “We’ve got a little more to show you” Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:02 AM PDT
Forbes called for an October 10 iPad mini media event and missed, forcing author Philip Elmer-DeWitt to apologize, writing “I don’t know what I was doing in the rumor business in the first place”. Then, John Paczkowski of the Wall Street Journal-owned AllThingsD blog set another date for the elusive iPad mini announcement. Paczkowski, who is rarely wrong about these things, said Apple would hold a media event to announce the smaller iPad at an intimate Cupertino Town Hall presser next Tuesday, October 23 (and Reuters concurs). Spoiling Microsoft’s Surface party, Apple just issued invites to select members of the press. A departure from past events, this one will be held next Tuesday, October 23 in San Jose’s California Theatre rather than San Francisco or at Apple’s Cupertino campus. The event is scheduled to take place at 10am Pacific and iDownloadBlog will provide around the clock coverage to keep you updated with everything related to Apple’s announcements. The invitation graphics leaves little room for doubt: Apple is about to unveil a smaller, inexpensive iPad, as suggested by its tagline which reads “We’ve got a little more to show you”. If I wanted to be cynical, I’d say that a product everyone has virtually known about for months ends up being the biggest tech story of the day. Hey, this is Apple…(...) "Apple confirms October 23 iPad mini event: “We’ve got a little more to show you”" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com.
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