CNN to air Alex Gibney's 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' this Sunday CNN has launched a microsite advertising its upcoming broadcast of "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine," the controversial Alex Gibney documentary about Apple's iconic co-founder.
Samsung launches 6-inch, all-metal, super-thin Galaxy A9, in China | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Evan Blass Like the rest of the A handsets, Galaxy A9 is a metal and glass design, running Android 5.1 Lollipop (with a Marshmallow upgrade likely to arrive in a timely manner). At 7.4mm thin, the A9 features a full HD (1080p) Super AMOLED display, 3GB RAM / 32GB storage, and a 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 652 SoC, all powered by a massive, albeit non-removable, 4,000mAh battery.Marvy!
'Blank’s Rule': To predict the future, 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy | VentureBeat | Business | by steveblank, Steve Blank Yet in 1961 LOR was a completely insane idea. We hadn’t even put a man into orbit, let alone figured out how to rendezvous and dock in earth orbit, and some crazy guy was suggesting we do this around the moon. If it didn’t succeed, the astronauts might die orbiting the moon. However, Houbolt wasn’t some crank, he was a member of the Lunar Mission Steering Group studying space rendezvous. Since he was only a mid-level manager, he presented his findings to the internal task forces and the experts dismissed this idea the first time they heard it. Then they dismissed it the second, fifth, and 20th time.Yes!
WhatsApp will take on FaceTime with video calling feature Having added voice calling at no extra cost earlier this year, WhatsApp is now reportedly looking to introduce FaceTime-style video calls, according to a new report.It ain't a standard if it only works on one platform. Sorry, I can't call you, you don't have an Apple device.
Microsoft acquires Ray Ozzie's team communication startup Talko, will integrate tech into Skype | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Jordan Novet Part of Talko’s appeal was that former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie was at the helm. Ozzie himself invested in the startup, as did Greylock Partners, Kapor Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz.It's a mixture of Mozart and Bach, I call it mach!
The app brings together talk, texting, and conferencing. It’s been available on iOS and Android.
Powa Technologies enters China with UnionPay joint venture - Business Insider British payments startup Powa Technologies has signed a 10-year deal with China's state-owned payments company to bring its mobile payment app to the country.This is where US foreign policy intersects high technology. To understand it, read about the UK's involvement in the Asian Infrastructure Bank.
Cult of Android - Evernote is killing Skitch, Clearly and its Pebble app Evernote’s efforts to streamline its business will see it chop a number of apps from its lineup, including the popular annotation app Skitch. Clearly, a browser extension for Google Chrome, is also getting the boot — as is Evernote’s Pebble app.I love it when companies that have an initial first success realize how difficult it is to replicate success in the apps market over and over again.
Apple assigns App Store oversight to Phil Schiller in apparent nod to developer issues Apple's decision to split its App Stores out of Eddy Cue's iTunes and iCloud oversight and instead assign them to Phil Schiller, its head of worldwide marketing, appears to based on an effort to differentiate platform management of developers' interactive apps from the reselling of static content from media holders, and to handle each appropriately.Help us, Obi-Phil, you're our only hope.
Apple rolls out revamped Mac in Business webpage with focus on success stories Apple launched a redesigned Mac in Business webpage on Wednesday to better target its growing presence in enterprise, highlighting corporate success stories, a special section detailing its partnership with IBM and reworked marketing literature focusing on individual productivity apps.Guarded yay! Yay.
If you'd bought Apple stock instead of an Apple III, you'd be a millionaire In December 1980, Apple’s newest computer was an Apple III, with a starting price tag of $4340. Today, you’d be lucky to get that much for it — despite the relative rarity of that particular model.While you're at it, you should travel back in time and invent plastic.
Apple’s official IPO anniversary is actually tomorrow, December 12. At the time, the Wall Street Journal noted that, “Not since Eve has an Apple posed such a temptation.” It wasn’t wrong. The company’s public offering turned out to be the biggest since the Ford Motor Company in 1956.
Steve Jobs, just 25 years old at the time, ended the day valued at $217 million.
Cook says Apple won't race Google to bottom of education market, calls Chromebooks 'test machines' At an Hour of Code educational coding session in New York on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company is interested in building powerful, meaningful products for students and teachers, not inexpensive "test machines" like Google's Chromebook.Not sure that I'm a fan of Chromebooks, either, but at least on a Chromebook you can write code that powers a Chromebook (Javascript, Chrome extensions, etc). On an iPad, if you want to learn how to write apps for it, you need a Mac. Nothing wrong with that, but I think that means the iPad is not really a machine for launching new coders into the next era. I think the Raspberry PI is the Apple ][ of this generation. I suppose you could write an Apache Cordova application on an iPad. Also, MAD LOGO is interesting.
Twitter's Periscope claims App of the Year in Apple's 2015 App Store picks Periscope, the Twitter-owned live streaming app, was chosen as the overall favorite among Apple editors. Close behind were Lightricks' Enlight photo editor, and Robinhood, an app for free stock trading.Still think twitter is going down? I think not!
In Steve Jobs biopic sweepstakes, Ashton Kutcher is surprising box office winner over Aaron Sorkin | VentureBeat | Business | by Chris O'Brien Perhaps only someone like Steve Jobs could inspire two people as different as Ashton “Dude, where’s my car?” Kutcher and Aaron “blablahblahblahmeister” Sorkin to create separate biopics within only four years of his passing.I think Kutcher was a fairly realistic "Jobs" I believe Kutcher dropped out of engineering school to become an actor.
Coding is the next level of literacy, says Apple software boss | Cult of Mac Teaching your kids how to code is pretty much as important as teaching them to write, according to Apple’s senior VP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, in an interview promoting the company’s Hour of Code project.And that's why we have Raspberry PI, which is the Apple ][+ of the next generation.
Trump's dream: Bring Apple manufacturing back to U.S. Trump made the comments during an interview to promote his new book, Crippled America. “We think of Apple as an American company,” Trump said. “But they make their product in China. And they have offices here, but China makes more money with Apple than we do, if you think about it.”Trump does have some intelligent thoughts. Not necessarily good for business, but with the right tax breaks...
Epson unveils world’s first in-office paper recycling system | Ars Technica Printer giant Epson has developed an in-office paper recycling machine. Called the PaperLab, you put waste paper in, and then new, bright white printer paper comes out. Epson says this process is more efficient than sending paper to an off-site recycling plant, and it's also much more secure: the PaperLab, which breaks paper down into its constituent fibres before building them back up into new sheets, is one of the most secure paper shredders that money can buy.I'd say the wow factor here eclipses any iOS or Android device released in recent memory.
Cult of Android - Android users defect to iPhone 6s at unprecedented rate Apple’s iPhone family becomes even more successful every year, and the latest models aren’t just a hit with faithful fans. According to new research, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are attracting Android switchers at an unprecedented rate.I got a free MotoG in my new digs and I don't miss the iPhone at all.
TSMC may assume full control of 'A10' chip manufacturing for Apple's 'iPhone 7' in 2016 With next year's anticipated "A10" processor expected to power the next-generation iPhone, TSMC will likely gain complete control of Apple's processor manufacturing orders, according to a new report.Samsung and Apple, frenemies forever!
Microsoft delivers an unexpected gift to Apple Store employees | Cult of Mac Microsoft’s rivalry with Apple heated up this year when the company opened a flagship store on Fifth Ave in New York that looks a lot like an Apple Store. In the spirit of Christmas though, the company is calling for peace, and to show they mean it, they sent their employees caroling to the Fifth Ave Apple StorAwww. Office is always the biggest selling application, eventually.
New Redesigned 13 And 15-Inch MacBook Air Models To Debut At WWDC 2016 | Redmond Pie Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), which is held annually in San Francisco, California, always manages to bring a whole heap of new goodies. The opening keynote of the conference historically has a particular tone to it with Steve Jobs, and now Tim Cook, choosing to focus on core elements of the business and how it’s performing. According a number of new reports, WWDC 2016 could also see a revamped MacBook Air introduced that would eventually find itself on physical and digital shelves during the third quarter of 2016.Well, I guess that means I don't have to go to WWDC.
How Microsoft Spent $91 Billion in 12 Months | Fox Business Microsoft's fortunes may be ebbing, but it still generates a ridiculous amount of money. Over the last 12 months, it earned $91 billion in revenue, ranking 26th among S&P 500 companies. What does the 40-year-old company do with all this money? The slideshow below provides an answer.It ain't over until the fat lady sings.
My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9 for their (and your) amusement | Ars Technica For about $75, I was able to pick up an 800MHz model with 512MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive. It worked but included a non-working battery, no power adapter, and a wonky power jack. For $8.86, I picked up a new power jack (happily, it was separate from the main logic board in those days), and another $15 got me a used genuine Apple adapter (third-party substitutes are widely available for a few dollars less, but I am terrified of cheap off-brand chargers). That brought my total to a little under $100.Adventures in old-timey usage of one of the very best laptops ever made. Mine still works perfectly, although it boots in to Jaguar, not OS9.
The making of Raspberry Pi Zero - The Magpi MagazineThe Magpi Magazine The MagPi talks to Eben Upton and Mike Stimson about why the Raspberry Pi Zero exists, and how it was madeThe very disruptive technology with a safe, cute name.
Teardown reveals Apple Smart Keyboard is not repairable -- but super durable | Cult of Mac The new teardown from iFixit reveals how Apple made the Keyboard/Smart Cover super durable by encapsulating the entire product in some high tech fabric that should make it last much longer than a normal keyboard, which is good because it is also impossible to repair.Hopefully it's like a Titanium PowerBook and will last forever.
Lumia 950 review: Windows Phone finally has a new flagship—will anyone care? | Ars Technica This is the kind of thing that would probably matter more if there were an abundance of games for the platform; something that might equally provide the impetus to make the drivers better. As it is, I don't know if it's ever a problem. There wasn't anything I did on the phone that showed off this weak 3D performance, but these metrics are certainly not what I'd hope to see.Don't look at the bench. Don't look at the bench.
Former NASA official: NASA must shed “socialist” approach to space exploration | Ars Technica At the same time, Musk has said repeatedly that his ultimate aim with SpaceX is to land humans—perhaps even himself—on Mars. NASA also has a program to land humans on Mars. And just as NASA is building a heavy lift rocket to begin to accomplish this, so is SpaceX. Only its Falcon Heavy rocket will likely cost about one-tenth as much to launch as NASA’s Space Launch System; it will begin flying two years sooner as well.That's a lot of cheese they got from mining the moon.
First look: DJI Osmo 4K steadicam with iPhone connectivity & control DJI has begun shipping its anticipated 4K steadicam dubbed Osmo, featuring a three-axis stabilizer and dedicated iPhone clamp, allowing for super-smooth high-resolution footage in a compact and convenient package.Pretty sure STEADICAM is a trademark. As neat as the Osmo is, it's not a steadicam.
At NeXT, Steve Jobs was "obsessed" with returning to Apple Jurvetson then went on to say he thought Jobs was nuts for thinking the company that fired him would ever buy NeXT and bring him back. But, of course, that’s exactly what happened.Even if he didn't design the Apple I or ][, he had a special somethin-something.
Mining (And Learning) With The 21 Bitcoin Computer | TechCrunch Essentially a Raspberry Pi connected with a custom bitcoin-mining ASIC and a heatsink, the computer is one of the most interesting MVPs in modern memory.Don't mind if I do.
I suppose we can ask Walter Isaacson what SWEET16 is and whether Jobs designed it. APPLE ][ FOREVER! Apple more or less controls popular media through yellow journalism. I mean, what major media outlet wants to be excluded from a fall special event? Exactly. Which is why we're hearing about this from a blogger.Woz: Jobs didn't design Apple computers - Business Insider Steve Jobs played no role at all in any of my designs of the Apple I and Apple II computer and printer interfaces and serial interfaces and floppy disks and stuff that I made to enhance the computers. He did not know technology. He’d never designed anything as a hardware engineer, and he didn’t know software.
Wozniak: I don’t like being trapped in Apple's ecosystem Finally, Wozniak said that he likes to keep his options open when it comes to his tech devices, by using a wide range of products — despite the fact that this means it’s a bit harder to integrate devices. “I don’t like being in the Apple ecosystem,” he said. “I don’t like being trapped. I like being independent.”Most of the major platform success have been driven by openness. That would include Unix, which is the underpinnings of all Mac and iOS devices. Without the openness of unix and GNU, I don't think we would have iOS or Mac OS X.
Former Apple designers say the company has lost 'the fundamental principles of good design' | The Verge Worse, other companies have followed in Apple’s path, equating design with appearance while forgetting the fundamental principles of good design. As a result, programmers rush to code without understanding the people who will use the products. Designers focus entirely on making it all look pretty.Don Norman is the first and last word on good design. Long live the king!
iPad Pro Diary: The iOS ecosystem is much deeper than I knew | Cult of Mac As I say in the video, a keyboard is essential to making the iPad a computer replacement. But I’m also discovering the joys of doing things with multitouch instead of a trackpad and keyboard. I’m discovering how rich and powerful it all is. It’s a better way to work — easy, intuitive and fun.Once you add the keyboard, it's not really an iPad anymore, is it? It's an iMac running iOS on ARM. Without a stand or a mouse.
I'm not sure you can even call OS X an operating system. I have 16-bit, pre-protected mode Win16 code written in 1989 that, as of 2012 was still running on Windows XP and Vista. Hadn't tried it on Windows 7 or 8, but as long as WOW (Windows-on-Windows) is working, does a fine job of illustrating why Windows rules the desktop.Heads up: Unity mac store rejection Unity Deprecated API Usage - QuickTime | Unity Community
So, I will fix this code to use the non-deprecated AVFoundation framework for 4.5. The question for us to find out, is if this fix will go back to 4.3.2 (as it is not a trivial change), or if we'd rather chose a faster fix by temporarily disabling webcam support in OS X standalones to fix this. Does anyone critically need web cam support in OS X standalone?
Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92 - The New York Times Michael J. Flynn, a computer scientist at Stanford University and former colleague of Dr. Amdahl’s at IBM, said the 360 series “set the design philosophy for computers for the next 50 years, and to this day it’s still out there, which is incredible.”This is what enterprise computing looks like: the same instruction set for 50 years, backwards compatible and stable. Every hour of software development invested is captured and retained.
“This same instruction set,” he added, “is still bringing in billions of dollars for IBM.”
Dr. Amdahl is remembered at IBM as an intellectual leader who could get different strong-minded groups to reach agreement on technical issues.
Apple's iPad Pro & powerful A9X CPU pose threat to Intel, Cowen says A look at the GPU shows a similar story: The A9X outperformed all Apple laptops that use integrated Intel graphics, registering a three-to-four-times improvement in frame rate of the 12-inch MacBook with Retina display. The iPad Pro processor also posted an improvement of as much as 40 percent over the Intel Iris 5200 integrated graphics featured on the 15-inch MacBook Pro.Now all we need is an installer for OSX on the iPad Pro and I'll be a happy camper. I never was a fan of Intel integrated graphics. I personally believe Steve Jobs would never have shipped a Pro MacBook without a real GPU.
iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS | Ars TechnicaHow good is the iPad Pro and its accessories? How is iOS 9 different on a larger screen, and what does the internal hardware do to earn that “Pro” label? What lessons can Apple learn from Microsoft, which has already iterated on this same basic idea a whole bunch of times? And most importantly, when can an iPad replace a computer (if it can at all)?Finally, a computer that you need to replace every 18 months! The ultimate wall street cure for those pesky long upgrade cycles for well-built Macintosh computers.
Tim Cook hints at new health product, touts iPad Pro as PC replacement in interview "Yes, the iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people," Cook said. "They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones."I guess Tim is building the latest releases of iOS and Mac OS X on his iPad Pro, a platform that makes sharing files between apps as easy as gouging your eyes out with forks.
Canabalt creator wants you to strategize through an adorable wasteland | Cult of Mac Overland is an upcoming 3D survival tactics game from the creator of Canabalt, Adam Saltzman. Its beautiful, chillingly-chromatic art style has me itching to play it, as does the cool way the team has created an approachable rogue-like set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland without dumbing it down.Less is more. Again.
Programmatic TV ad buying might take off rapidly, some experts say | VentureBeat | Marketing | by Mark Sullivan Programmatic advertising — in which exchanges match ads with predefined audiences — has become dominant in web advertising, and the approach is now migrating to TV.The future is here.
Rumor claims new electric car maker Faraday Future is front for Apple The company only began operating out of a former Nissan research facility in California last year, but already has over 400 workers, and is aiming to have 500 by the end of 2015, the New York Post said. Some of the staff include the head designer of the BMW i8, a SpaceX battery specialist, and a former interior designer for Ferrari. Others have resumes with employers like Facebook, Google, Ford, General Motors, and Volvo.Rumours, rumors, roomers.
Why I skipped the iPad Pro and bought the iPad Mini 4 instead | Cult of Mac The iPad Pro is the Apple tablet of my dreams.The Pro is a hefty thang.
I’ve been lusting after Apple’s crazy-big iPad since the first whispers of the device echoed around the rumor mill a few years ago. When Apple finally unveiled the device at the September keynote I was beyond stoked to fork over more than $1,000 for an iPad big enough to host Thanksgiving dinner on.
Lytro dives into virtual reality filmmaking with debut of its Immerge video camera | VentureBeat | Business | by Ken Yeung Since its debut in 2006, Lytro has produced devices that leverage light-field technology, which captures information about the direction and intensity of light rays. Today, the company is applying this technology to the world of virtual reality with the unveiling of the Lytro Immerge, a cinematic camera for professional videographers.So much nonsense in the trades, can be hard to see real innovation. HINT: No mobile advertising and no use of the word "unicorn".
Apple earns record $51.5B revenue on sales of 48M iPhones, 5.7M Macs Overall revenue was up 22 percent year over year, compared to $42.1 billion in revenue and $8.5 billion net profit during the same period a year ago. Apple was also propelled by record sales of 5.7 million Macs, up 3 percent year over year.Yay Mac! Seriously I could care less about iOS but love that good Mac news.
Bing profitable, but Microsoft revenue down 12 percent as shift to cloud continues | Ars Technica Microsoft posted revenue of $20.4 billion in the first quarter of its 2016 financial year, down 12 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Operating income was $5.8 billion, down 1 percent, and net income was $4.6 billion, up 2 percent. Earnings per share were $0.57, a six percent increase.Nothing's better than a cloud word processor when you have an important document to finish and some problems with internet connectivity. I like Google Docs, I do, for small and simple tasks.
Tim Cook posing at the Great Wall this week highlights Apple's growing need for China | VentureBeat | Business | by Michael de Waal-Montgomery Apple chief executive Tim Cook shared a snap of his visit to the Great Wall of China Wednesday — on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, where he maintains an active account.And Canada says Chimo.
Ballmer: Saving Apple in 1997 was 'craziest thing' Microsoft ever did | Cult of Mac After saying Amazon is not a great place to work, the conversation drifted to Apple and Ballmer actually admitted that "they’ve done a great job."Always exciting to read Zune in the same article as Apple.
Coming from the guy who laughed off the iPhone because he thought the Zune was killer, that’s a hell of a compliment.
Steve Ballmer: People don't want to work at Amazon, the only real competition for Apple is Microsoft | VentureBeat | Marketing | by Emil Protalinski Steve Ballmer may no longer be CEO at Microsoft, but his love for the company he led for 14 years lives on. Indeed, after being in the news just last week for revealing he owns 4 percent of Twitter, Ballmer is now making headlines for his comments regarding Amazon and Apple.Reading user comments (could they be the report from the field?) sounds like Google is winning the talent war, which is probably the only war that will matter in 10 years.
How Japanese tea culture influenced Steve Jobs and Apple A recent post on asia-centric blog Matcha Tea investigates the sway Japanese culture had over Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, and how that country's meditations on aesthetic beauty, mindfulness and life influenced what has become one of the world's largest companies.And raking sand into patterns of insight.
Launch this sleek, stealthy drone from the palm of your hand [Deals] | Cult of Mac We’ve all got a jones for drones, but not all of us have the space or cash to hang up a 5-foot-wide quad-copter in our garage. The SKEYE Nano, now available in a Batwing-worthy shade of black, solves both problems, small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and at $39.99 it’s cheap enough to keep cash in your pocket.So many college students are going to be busted on campus by the new eye in the sky.
Dyson acquires Sakti3 for $90M to help commercialize 'breakthrough' solid-state battery tech | VentureBeat | Business | by Paul Sawers Sakti3’s solid-state batteries are still based on lithium, similar to the batteries you find in your phone, except they contain solid lithium electrodes rather than flammable liquid. This means they have a higher energy density — more power in less space.Tiiiight!
Meet the radical who wants the iPad banned! | Cult of Mac Kyle Wiens thinks the iPad should be banned. It’s a "highly immoral" product, he says, because it can’t be opened and repaired when the battery dies. It’s a throwaway device, and he wants governments to prohibit it.Love this guy's web site: I've used it for many, many self-repairs of older Macs.
"It’s not designed to be long-lasting," said Wiens, who is the co-founder and CEO of iFixit. "It’s like selling a car that has to be replaced when the tires wear out."
Wiens is the Bernie Sanders of the electronics industry. He doesn’t just want reform — he wants revolution!
The rise and fall of AMD: A company on the ropes | Ars Technica It also didn't help that, just as Intel was churning out its best products in years, AMD was trying to swallow another company whole.A terrific read. One just never knows what's going on from the marketing facade.
Very first Apple computer hits auction block at mind-blowing price | Cult of Mac Some of the most important scientific instruments of the past 700 years are hitting the auction block later this month, but one of the newest creations in the lot — one of the very first computers created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — is expect to fetch the highest bid.Yes, but the question is, can I use it to play LODERUNNER?
Apple loses patent lawsuit to University of Wisconsin, faces $862M in damages | VentureBeat | Business | by Reuters NEW YORK (By Andrew Chung, Reuters) – Apple Inc could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury on Tuesday found the iPhone maker used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm without permission in chips found in many of its most popular devices.Well, I hope Apple just pays up. It's the least they could do for the campus that gave the world The Onion.
Facebook Confirms 'Reactions' Feature For Expressing Emotions Beyond 'Like' | Redmond Pie The world’s largest social network Facebook has confirmed that a new feature called “Reactions” is officially being put through test in order to see how users interact with it. Users of Facebook have long wanted a “Dislike” button to be made available on the social network.We are ready to expand our collective one word vocabulary.
Lumia 950 / 950 XL Vs iPhone 6s / 6s Plus [Specs Comparison] | Redmond Pie The last few weeks may seem like they have been all iPhone and Nexus announcements or releases, but Microsoft got in on the act earlier this week by announcing two flagship smartphones of its very own. The much-rumored Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL are now very real.Possibly a little disconcerting.
Amazon launches AWS Mobile Hub for testing, running, and monitoring iOS and Android apps | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Jordan Novet Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the introduction of the AWS Mobile Hub, a service for building, testing, deploying, and then monitoring iOS and Android apps. The tool is live now in beta, and it’s free in the sense that you only pay for the services that the Mobile Hub uses, including AWS compute and storage services.Amazon may be kind of nuts, but at least they envision useful new services and not weirdly random dot com hype factories that do nothing useful. Believe me, this is very useful.
DJI launches Osmo, an iPhone-connected 4K steadicam for $650 The DJI Osmo uses the company's three-axis gimbal stabilization technology found on other devices, like its Phantom drones, to eliminate the shake found on traditional handheld cameras, like a GoPro. DJI says its new product, priced at $649, makes it easier than ever to get super-smooth cinematic shots on the go.This is really cool.
iPhone 6s Camera Vs Nikon D750 DSLR Video Quality Test | Redmond Pie The iPhone’s current standing in the mobile photography ladder aside, owing to the ever-improving quality of the device’s camera, critics and photography enthusiasts have also taken it upon themselves to compare its relatively recent iterations of the product line to professional photography and videography equipment. However, most who own a DSLR camera and understand its modular nature would likely scoff at the very idea of comparing one to an iPhone camera, even if it is that which comes packed with the latest generation – most, but not all.I think this is kind of exciting except that the features that the DSLR has that the iPhone doesn't might get very expensive in the long run. But what do I know?
'Steve Jobs' review: Finally, a great film about Apple's fiery genius | VentureBeat | Media | by Fletcher Babb It’s not easy to make a good movie about Steve Jobs. (Sorry, Ashton Kutcher. You tried.) But, finally, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin have given us Steve Jobs, a movie that distills Steve’s huge, complicated persona into a tightly wound backstage thriller.I like how it looks like the Windows Logo reflected in his glasses.
Steve Jobs’ co-workers share fondest memories of Apple co-founder | Cult of Mac It turned out to be an incredibly good lesson and it set the tone for the Mac group. The electric light had been invented and Thomas Edison wanted to have not just a burning bulb, but a beautiful thing. He convinced Tiffany, and artist, to make lamps. Tiffany used glass and chemistry and metallurgy to build art that was very useful to control light.Bud Tribble is the man!
Windows 10 adoption passes Windows 8.1 on Steam | GamesBeat | Games | by Emil Protalinski Valve updated its Hardware & Software Survey today for September 2015, and there’s more good news for Microsoft. Windows’ overall share slipped slightly on Steam, but Windows 10 adoption has managed to pass Windows 8.1 in just two months.STEAM's the thing, for sure. Personally, I think Windows 10 is great!
Jobs' widow tried to block the release of Steve Jobs movie niversal Pictures chairman Donna Langley is standing by the finished movie and says the studio is, “enormously proud of it.” Apparently, Laurene Powell Jobs was offered an advance screening of Steve Jobs so long as she didn’t publicly discuss it, but she turned it down.It is a little soon, don't you think?
Amazon gives Apple TV and Google Chromecast the finger | Cult of Mac The most popular online retailer in the world, Amazon, is using its e-commerce powers to put the hurt on Apple and Google’s streaming devices in order to prop-up the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV stick.Amazon Prime streaming TV works better than any of the other services I've tried. I don't think it needs propping up at all. In fact, some of the other services should think about using Amazon's content delivery network because it's clearly in a class all it's own. Without the network, H.264 is basically useless for streaming. Unless you like that buffering screen.
Google launches Android Studio 1.4 with Nexus 5X and 6P emulators, Firebase integration, theme editor | VentureBeat | Dev | by Jordan Novet Google today said that it has pushed version 1.4 of its Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE) into the stable release channel. This release comes with several new tools to accelerate the development of Android apps.Rhymes with poodle hamdroyed.
Video shows MAME emulator in action on Apple's tvOS A video posted to the Web on Monday shows a Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator running on Apple's tvOS, allowing developer Kevin Smith to play a number of old-school arcade titles with a paired Bluetooth gaming controller.Sometimes the small things are the most exciting.
Top iOS ad blocker Crystal lets advertisers pay to bypass restrictions The policy stems from a deal Crystal developer Dean Murphy forged with Adblock Pro creator Eyeo, the Wall Street Journal said. Eyeo does maintain an "acceptable ads" standard limiting intrusiveness, but over 70 companies, such as Google and Microsoft, have reportedly paid to skip past filters. Users can enable full ad blocking by disabling the "acceptable ads" option.Extortion is now a business model! It's the modern equivalent of Knucky Thompson now appearing in your virtual neighborhood.
Samsung’s 950 Pro M.2 SSD pairs NVMe with V-NAND for eye-popping performance | Ars Technica The Samsung 950 Pro SSD—the follow up to the legendary Samsung 850 Pro SSD—has been unveiled by the company at its annual SSD summit in Seoul, Korea. The 950 Pro will be available at retail in October, with MSRPs of $199.99 (probably ~£150) for the 256GB version, and $349.99 (~£280) for the 512GB version. UK pricing is yet to be confirmed.Music to my ears!
Apple's Tim Cook to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping during US tour Apple CEO Tim Cook will be among numerous corporate leaders meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday during his first visit to the United States, amid concerns about a troubled Chinese economy and the possibility of a flashpoint over cybersecurity issues.After all, Apple's gross revenues are greater than the GDP of many countries.
Apple created a mysterious new emoji and no one knows why | Cult of Mac A mysterious new emoji has been added by Apple to iOS 9.1 and OS X El Capitan, but unlike the other emoji supported by Apple, this weird new pictogram wasn’t created by the Unicode Authority, and no one knows why it exists.In case you want to be apprised of the very latest emojii news. Oh, those crazy Japanese!
Some clever marketing to be sure.Vogue snaps 12MP images, 4K video at New York Fashion Week using Apple's new iPhone 6S Plus
With the ability to capture 12 megapixel images and 4K video, the new iPhone 6s models greatly enhance the detail of iPhone photographs. The new phones' camera hardware is also faster.
Second 'Steve Jobs' Trailer Premieres - Release Set for October 9 | MacTrast The film – directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by noted writer Aaron Sorkin – premiered last week at the Telluride Film Festival, and will also be featured at the New York Film Festival on October 3. The film’s wide theatrical release is set for October 9th.Ramp up to the too soon movie. An interesting biopic might be that of K&R who created C & UNIX, without which there would be no Linux, Apple etc.
[Video] ‘Steve Jobs’: Kate Winslet Discusses Making Of At TIFF 2015 | Deadline the secret sauce that sets Steve Jobs apart from the Ashton Kutcher rendition of Jobs, is the Apple computer pioneer’s working relationship with his head of marketing, Joanna Hoffman, a feisty Polish Armenian woman who was unafraid to speak her mind to Jobs and keep the acerbic genius in check. Winslet caught wind of the role while sitting in the hair and makeup chair on the set of Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.Secretly saucy.
The French, forever thumbing their noses at the MPAA. And why not.VLC media player app will be coming to the new Apple TV | iMore
You can add another app that's being made for the new Apple TV set-top box. The VideoLAN team is working to develop their popular, and free, VLC media player app so it will work on tvOS.
Qualcomm Makes A Bid To Lead Drone Revolution With New Chip - Forbes Now Qualcomm is searching for new devices for its silicon. One promising bet: drones. On Thursday, Qualcomm made it known just how serious it is about drones, when it introduced Snapdragon Flight — a “system-on-a-chip” built specifically for flying robots.This will be an exciting market segment until someone flies a drone into the turbo engine of a Boeing 767.
Dell's next XPS 12 looks like a Microsoft Surface rival Wondering why Dell is cool with selling Microsoft's Surface Pro when it doesn't have a direct equivalent right now? This might be why. Giga claims to have leaked details of a reborn XPS 12 that would ditch the convertible laptop design in favor of the Surface's tablet-plus-keyboard combo, right down to the kickstand.Let's get this party started. Competition is so great for consumers.
Hands-on with the iPad Pro, its keyboard, and its pencil | Ars Technica Apple's iPad Pro is pretty much what you'd expect: an iPad Air grabbed by the corners and stretched.Did I say stretched? I meant streeeached!
The new tablet uses the same basic design cues as the iPad Mini and iPad Air before it—chamfered metal edge, thin but not exceptionally narrow bezels, volume buttons with no mute switch, Home button with TouchID. Everything is just expanded.
How Apple Pencil stacks up against Wacom Cintiq The Apple Pencil, which Apple showed the world during Wednesday’s big product showcase, has a much narrower body and tip, allowing the stylus to not obscure the drawing itself. I would also argue it provides more freedom of drawing motion.Here you go, quoters of Steve Jobs. Steve was disparaging the Palm Pilot not the Apple Pencil.
Apple seeds first iOS 9.1 beta to developers, adds new taco, burrito & unicorn emojis: "Some of the new emojis include a crab, lion, taco, burrito, unicorn, racecar, and satellite, as well as medals and prayer beads."Nothing says news like Unicorn emojii.
For whoever said digital would never be as good as film.Canon unveils 250-megapixel prototype DSLR camera sensor | Ars Technica
Canon has created a 250-megapixel CMOS camera sensor. The sensor, which is APS-H size (29×20mm), packs a resolution of 19580×12600. By comparison, the highest-resolution commercial DSLR camera—the Canon 5DS and 5DS R—has an image sensor with "just" 50.6 megapixels, on a much larger full-frame (36×24mm) sensor.
Woz wowed by accuracy of new Steve Jobs moviePromising news from Woz.
According to Jobs’ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the film is pretty darned accurate. In fact, Woz says that there were times watching the movie when he just about forgot he was watching actors on-screen rather than the real people involved.
Controversial Steve Jobs documentary hits theaters todayWot?
Titled Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, the feature-length documentary is directed by Oscar winner Alex Gibney, who has previously made docs exploring the dark side of Enron and the Church of Scientology.
How this 14-year-old tech entrepreneur scored an hour interview with Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak | Business Insider IndiaThe reality.
2. The first computer-like machine he ever built was in 8th grade for a science fair. It ran a program that "makes you never lose at tic-tac-toe ... It had about 100 transistors and about 100 diodes. No one at school had ever seen a transistor, it was that advanced."
Danny Boyle's 'Steve Jobs' to make early showing at this weekend's Telluride festivalMmmmm. The fiction.
Although its official debut isn't scheduled until October, Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs biopic will make an early showing at this weekend's Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.
Android Wear Arrives On iPhone, iOS App Released [Download] | Redmond Pie: "It’s now official. Google has just announced official support for using Android Wear smartwatches on iPhone running iOS 8.2 or later."Groovy, baby!
Microsoft Snip For Windows Lets You Take Screenshots With Audio Or Digital Ink Annotations | Redmond PieI think I wrote my first screen capture for Win32 in 1993. What goes around comes around!
When installed, Snip sits as an easily accessible widget at the top of the display. The team behind the product has clearly put thought into the fact that those who regularly capture and look to share screenshots will generally want to do so quickly with minimal fuss and intrusion.
Inside Google's master plan for faster, sharper streaming video - CNET: "Google has been trying to improve the situation with technology called VP9 that compresses the video data so they can move across networks faster. And with a successor called VP10 due in a couple of years, it's promising an even bigger boost to image quality -- not just sharper images, but also richer color and a better ability to span from bright highlights to dark shadows."To my eye, it looks like Amazon Prime Video on Android and YouTube (all platforms) are the only cloud networks that are really serving quality video streams. I didn't test Netflix or Hulu but I did test HBOGO on iPad.
Tinder releases its list of most 'right-swiped' colleges | Cult of Mac
Colleges and universities bend over backwards to earn accreditation and good reviews. It’s good for recruiting.
Amazon to forego future phone development following Fire Phone failure
While the company has not ruled out producing another mobile phone, development of a next-generation device has been extended "indefinitely," according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing sources, the paper says that dozens of Fire Phone engineers have been let go in what is said to be the first round of layoffs in the history of Amazon's hardware division.
Google launches Twitch clone YouTube Gaming with companion iOS, Android apps
Although it incorporates all of the on-demand game content already on YouTube, the new platform places a stronger emphasis on live streams. Visiting the main website will show a list of active channels, and in fact automatically begin playing live videos (on mute) from a rotating carousel.
Actor reveals unique rehearsal process for Steve Jobs movie: "Stuhlbarg — who plays Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original engineers on the Macintosh team — revealed in a recent interview that instead of shooting one scene at a time, the cast would rehearse an entire act for two weeks, film it, then start rehearsing the next act for two weeks."Steve Jobs, the movie.
Former Apple and Samsung employee dishes dirt on rivals' innovation | Cult of Mac: "For more dirt on the differences between working at Apple and Samsung, head over to MarketingMag for Lenior’s full interview."Look over there: dirt!
Scan your own 3D characters into Minecraft with Intel RealSense camera | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi
Mark Day, chief executive of VoidAlpha, has created Minescan, an app that allows you to scan a physical object into Minecraft. You can scan in a character like an octopus or squirrel, and the app will convert it into voxel style, or blocky graphics. You can then insert the digitized character into the Minecraft game.
Microsoft confirms elimination of Nokia's Salo phone unit, up to 2,300 jobs
The month prior, former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop — sometimes blamed for the company's misfortunes and takeover — exited Microsoft himself as the tech giant unified its OS and device divisions under a new leader.
Rumored Apple Watch bands will bring more sensors to your wrist | Cult of Mac: "The Apple Watch is already one of the best fitness wearables on the market, but a new rumor claims Apple is looking to bring even more fitness sensors to your wrist by creating special Apple Watch bands that will take advantage of the device’s hidden port."Aha. This is an "a-ha" moment.
Here are all the Macs compatible with Boot Camp 6 and Windows 10 | iMore: "Apple has released Boot Camp 6, an update to the company's dual-booting assistant that let's the Mac run the latest and greatest Microsoft has to offer: Windows 10. Boot Camp 6 will support Windows 10 on Mac hardware going back all the way to 2012, which is a lot."You asked for it, you got it, Kiyooka.
Apple's sapphire maker grows the world's biggest sapphire crystal: "In its place, the Russian company Monocrystal was given the contract for building sapphire glass for the Apple Watch, which has helped drive the company’s revenue to $87 million annually. True, that’s a drop in the ocean compared to giants like Foxconn, but it’s still enough to firmly put it out in the lead when it comes to operating profit for sapphire makers."Never underestimate the value of being best at a manufacturing process in its infancy. Go Russia! If you know the whole story of GT, I think it begs the question: which is the corrupt country?
Pink iPhone 6s revealed in new leaked images: "Photos showing a supposed pink iPhone 6s have popped up on Chinese social media — and the positive response from users has been enormous."Think pink.
Cult of Android - Google Hangouts' slick update is all about the browser | Cult of Android: "‘We are launching another way to use Hangouts today,’ writes Google’s Jordanna Chord on Google Plus. ‘From our new site you’ll be able to take advantage of the best of Hangouts in the browser, along with an inspiring image to get you through the day.’"It's like a miracle of modern JavaScript.
Europe, it’s time we built our own Silicon Valley | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, The Next Web: "Back in 2013, I was one of nine entrepreneurs who contributed to the European Startup Manifesto. With Dutch politician Neelie Kroes at the helm, Niklas Zennström (Skype, Kazaa), Daniel Ek (Spotify), myself, and six others tried to boil down the solution to Europe’s startup problems into a simple, 22-point action plan for managing and powering growth across the continent. Our action plan includes directives to help startups stretch across borders, make it easier for them to hire and fire, increase venture capital investments, and keep our best entrepreneurial brains from being lured overseas."I think Europe already has two Silicon Valleys. One is called Cambridge, England and the other is called Germany.
iRobot's robotic lawn mower gets U.S. regulatory approval | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Reuters: "The Bedford, Massachusetts-based company, known for its robot vacuum cleaner Roomba, has designed a robot lawn mower that would wirelessly connect with stakes in the ground operating as signal beacons, rising above the ground by as much as 24 inches (61 cm)."This is a great horror movie waiting to happen. No offense nerds.
Ingress developer Niantic Labs is no longer a Google company following Alphabet shakeup | GamesBeat | Games | by Jeff Grubb
Niantic Labs, which is the developer responsible for creating the massively multiplayer geocaching game Ingress, is now its own, independent company, according to a post on Google+ (via Tech Crunch). Ingress is a game where people use their smartphone’s positioning system to faux-hack real places around the world.
Recut television trailer shows more of Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs: "Also shown are co-stars Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, and Kate Winslet. Rogen plays Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley, and Winslet portrays ex-Mac marketing chief Joanna Hoffman."Fasswunder. Too soon?
Microsoft releases preview of tools to convert iOS apps to Windows 10 as open source | iMore: "code name 'Project Islandwood', will allow iOS developers to quickly convert their apps to ones that can run natively on Windows 10."The holy grail commeth in our general direction early it seems...
Steve Jobs to be focus of upcoming opera set to debut in 2017: "A U.S. opera company in Santa Fe on Wednesday announced plans for an upcoming production centering on Steve Jobs, adding to a growing number of books, movies and documentaries focusing on the life and times of the late Apple cofounder. "With comedy like this, who needs Jon Stewart?
IBM's bulk buy of 200,000 Macs isn’t enough for Tim Cook | Cult of Mac: "IBM became Apple’s largest corporate customer this year when it agreed to buy 50,000 MacBooks from Apple, but according IBM’s chief information officer Jeff Smith, the company will more likely end up purchasing between 150,000 to 200,000 Macs when all is said and done."Irony. Especially in light of the 1984 commercial.
This toaster is actually an iPhone charging station in disguise | Cult of Mac: "Keeping enough iPhone cables around the house to your entire family’s devices charged can result in some unsightly blogs of tangled cables. Most charging stations look horrible, or too nerdy to keep in open sight, but the Foaster is hoping the solve that problem by disguising an iPhone charging station in the shape of one of the most ubiquitous kitchen appliances."The real question is: does it handle the English Muffin form factor?
Intel and Micron Announce New Memory Breakthrough - 1,000 Times Faster Than Current NAND Storage | MacTrast: "3D XPoint is also said to be 1,000 times more durable, giving it a much longer lifespan that the tech used in current NAND storage. Each 3D XPoint die is currently able to store only 128GB of data, although the capacity will increase in later versions."Exciting news a la Moore's law!
Amazon's AWS Device Farm will let developers test iOS apps from August 4 | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Paul Sawers: "Amazon has announced that AWS Device Farm, a service that lets developers test apps on Android and Fire OS devices that live on Amazon’s data centers, will soon support iOS too."Fascinating, Fred.
3D-printed clothing collection took student 2,000 hours to produce: "Peleg, a 27-year-old recent graduate from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel, decided to create her entire collection using a 3D printer.The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
She knew barely anything about the technology but wanted to see if it was possible to create entire garments."
Trailer debuts for Steve Jobs documentary derided by Apple exec as 'mean-spirited': "Theh upcoming documentary from Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films was shared with Mashable. Gibney won an Academy Award for his 2007 film 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' and recently earned acclaim for the HBO documentary 'Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.'"That other Steve Jobs movie...
Asus Zenfone 2E now available via AT&T GoPhone for $119.99 | 9to5Google
Asus today announced that it is releasing a budget-focused device to AT&T’s prepaid GoPhone service today dubbed the Zenfone 2E. The device is very similar to the Zenfone 2, but less powerful and aimed at the budget-conscious customer.
Sales of Apple's iOS devices now equal total Windows PC sales
The new milestone for Apple was noted this week by analyst Benedict Evans, culled from data provided by Gartner, Apple, and a16z. It shows that while annual Windows PC sales have fluctuated around the 300 million mark since 2008, iOS devices have continued their meteoric rise.
Apple seeing more people switch from Android to iPhone than ever before | iMore: "Apple has been tracking the number of new iPhone customers who switched from Android for a while now. As part of the Q3 2015 conference call, Apple's CEO Tim Cook revealed that this quarter saw the highest number of Android switchers ever."This is fine news but to have 20% of the market when the leader is 80% is to be expected. Hey, I still believe MacOS X could crush windows on the desktop. Why am I alone in this quixotic vision?
Here's how the new iPod touch camera compares to Apple's best! | iMore: "Much like 2012 when Leanna Lofte shot our iPod touch 5 vs. iPhone 5 camera tests things played out as expected. The iPod touch 6 is clearly better than the iPod touch 5, about the same as the iPad Air 2, and just behind the iPhone 6."Handy and sold me!
New iPod touch vs. iPhone 5s: Apple's latest iPod packs surprising power: "The verdict: This one is really going to depend on your personal needs. If you live in a town with plenty of free Wi-Fi, you might be able to get by on an iPod touch, but most users on the go will simply need the connectivity of an iPhone 5s. If you're planning to use the device mostly at home, faster 802.11ac on the iPod touch is a great benefit. It's a toss-up."I've always preferred the pod.
Apple said to be producing music videos in-house for Apple Music artists | iMore: "Apple may be producing some music videos in-house for Apple Music artists, according to a new report from Pitchfork. It is said that Apple itself was behind the new music videos from several artists already. Drake's 'Energy', Eminem's 'Phenomenal', and Pharrell's 'Freedom' are all being reported as Apple created. "If only we could get the same effort to defeat Windows on the desktop. I'm talking about the Mac, yes.
How-To: Go beyond OS X Photos + make amazing wall art from your Mac’s pictures (Part 1) | 9to5Mac: "I wanted to see what the best options were for large-format photography, so I reached out to a collection of excellent art print services to see how digital photos would look on metal, glass, and canvas — materials Photos doesn’t offer."Art for you, too.
A Palo Alto company is trying to sue anonymous Yelp trolls for millions of dollars | VentureBeat | Business | by Cale Guthrie Weissman, Business Insider: "The lawsuit names eight ‘causes of libel,’ meaning phony Yelp reviews. And for each one Link claims it has ‘suffered loss of its reparation and injury to its business all to its general damage in the sum of $1,000,000.’ Each defendant, as of now, is being named by the screen name used for the Yelp reviews."The shape of things to come.
Trent Reznor Shares his Thoughts on Apple Music: 'The Experience is What Matters' - Mac Rumors: "Reznor compared his experience working with Apple to his experience working at Beats Music before the acquisition, calling Apple a 'respectful, collaborative environment' with ideas that fit into his own thoughts on music."I remember Reznor best for creating his breakthrough album on an Atari ST. Long live Atari!
Full trailer for 'Steve Jobs' film shows Apple co-founder's successes and struggles: "The full two-and-a-half-minute trailer for the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic was released by Universal Pictures on Wednesday, giving a closer look at how the film will feature high-stakes drama from the Apple co-founder's personal and professional lives."This looks entertaining. For possibly the wrong reasons.
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 Mobile preview with flashlight quick action, animated GIF support in Photos app | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Jordan Novet: "... phone’s flash operate as a flashlight, and the Photos app now supports animated GIFs on phones with at least 1GB of RAM"I think it's hilarious when GIF89 support is touted as "news". The 89 in GIF89 is 1989.
OLED FlexiPhones are coming, but not for a few years | Cult of Mac: "The idea that Apple might make an OLED smartphone to rival the models Samsung and LG have been showing off since 2013 isn’t too unrealistic, particularly since the company started using OLED displays for the Apple Watch."Back to the future!
Video shows Apple Watch running Mac OS 7.5.5 via emulator: "A developer was able to start up the nearly 20-year-old Mac OS 7.5.5 (née System 7) onto his Apple Watch running the latest WatchOS 2 update, exemplifying the extent to which computing has evolved over the past two decades."My kinda app!
Apple will now pay artists during Apple Music’s free trial | Cult of Mac: "Apple has changed its mind on the decision not to pay streaming music royalties to artists and labels during the three-month trial period of Apple Music.Somebody needs a little Swiftamine.
Yesterday, Taylor Swift penned an open letter to the company arguing that, ‘We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.’
Swift publicly pulled her best-selling ‘1989’ album from the service in protest."
Sony’s new 4K Android TVs now available to preorder starting at $2500 | 9to5Google: "The new Sony 4K Android TV (X900C) set for release on July 19 is available to preorder today for $2,500 for the 55-inch model and $3,999 for the 65-inch model."Pretty cool to say the least.
Nest unveils security camera, second-gen Protect smoke detector and updated app: "The Cam is based heavily on technology gained Nest's acquisition of Dropcam. Like the Dropcam Pro, Cam shoots video — now up to 1080p — with a wide 130-degree field of view and includes night vision support, while a microphone and speaker allow users to both talk and listen through the device. "Everything in the internet of things should have an API. A REST API, or a client side SDK for Android, iOS, Mac and Windows. Etc.
YouTube launches Newswire and related initiatives to verify news video and promote human rights | 9to5Google: "Recognizing the high-profile role that ‘citizen journalist’ video can play in news stories, YouTube has announced YouTube Newswire, a curated feed of eyewitness videos which have been confirmed as genuine."This could be very interesting.
Apple hiring editing team to curate content for iOS 9's News app: "Apple is searching for people to 'identify and deliver the best in breaking national, global, and local news,' the listing says. Editors will ultimately be helping to guide the content in the News stream, for instance by managing categories according to expertise, producing newsletters, and coordinating with publishers and newsrooms."As traditional news outlets are beleaguered by criticisms of advertisers affecting editorial policy, maybe this is a good thing.
Apple posts 'Backstage' parody sketch from WWDC 2015: "The video, appropriately titled 'Backstage,' aired at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday just before CEO Tim Cook took the stage, amounting to a cold open sequence seen on TV shows like Saturday Night Live. "Tim Cookalikes.
iPod's disappearance from top of Apple website signals further slide into obscurity: "The iPod's place in Apple's website main menu has been taken up by Apple Music, which was announced during Monday's WWDC keynote. In the company's current product lineup, the menu space is otherwise reserved for hardware, including the Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch."Gone but not forgotten, old friend!
Phil Schiller explains 16GB iPhones, MacBooks with one USB port, design vs. battery life | Cult of Mac: "Why does the latest iPhone still ship with just 16GB of storage as standard? Why does the new MacBook have only one USB port? Why does Apple make devices thinner and thinner rather than adding bigger batteries?"Do tell, Mr. Lovable Bear.
Apple introduces Metal for Mac, promises huge leap in graphics performance: "At WWDC on Monday, Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi announced Metal for Mac, which combines the power of OpenCL and graphics crunching capability of OpenGL into a unified API that reduces draw rendering times by 50 percent."I had a hard time finding any actual developer announcements during the keynote, but this is a favorite.
Apple unveils iOS 9 with smarter Siri, public transit in Maps, iPad split-screen multitasking: "Apple's next-generation mobile operating system, iOS 9, will focus on enhanced system intelligence, numerous improvements to built-in apps, new iPad-specific capabilities, and much more, it was announced at WWDC on Monday."So let's be absolutely clear that the only reason iOS 8 is on my iPad 2 is because there is no way to remove it. Unless there is some major improvement in iOS 9, my iPad 2 is effectively a technological brick that will never, ever be used again for anything useful. Put that in your adoption rate statistics toaster and see what pops up.
What to expect from Apple's WWDC 2015 keynote: iOS 9, OS X 10.11, new Apple TV, more [u]: "In addition, the first HomeKit compatible smart home appliances began to hit the market this week, with support for devices running iOS 8.1 or later. Expect HomeKit accessories to be in the limelight at the WWDC 2015 keynote."HomeKit could prove interesting if they bothered to support the Mac.
Periscope for iPhone now lets you find streams by location | 9to5Mac: "Twitter’s live video streaming app Periscope is out with a big update today adding a key promised feature. Periscope for iPhone version 1.1 now lets you find live streams around the world based on location using a new map view from the global tab. "I'd say this is the killer app for breaking news.
Stephen Colbert still loves Apple in first Late Show teaser | Cult of Mac: "Notorious Apple fanboy Stephen Colbert is taking over The Late Show from David Letterman in September, and while he’s not bringing his ultra-conservative persona, his love of Apple products is still burning bright."Never knew he was a fan.
Google I/O 2015 sets a low bar for Apple's WWDC to leap
From all the breathless coverage detailing Google's I/O 2015 conference announcements, you might not have noticed that virtually all of what Google had to show this year were things Apple had already introduced over the past year (or long ago).
Google’s Project Tango tablet now available to everyone for $512 via the Google Store | 9to5Google
Google’s Project Tango initiative was originally introduced last year alongside a tablet with “advanced vision capabilities.” Until today, the tablet had only been available with an invite, but now the device is listed on the Google Store for anyone to purchase (via Android Police). Google dropped the price of the tablet for invitees to $512 earlier this year and that’s also the price for which the device is available on the Play Store.
Android M allows Android TV developers to create channels of continuous content, users to format USB drives as internal | 9to5Google
We’ve already done a roundup of the core changes coming in the next big release of Android, simply called “M,” so you should check that out. But we haven’t yet covered what additions and changes Android M brings to Google’s Internet TV platform, Android TV.
Google I/O kicks off tomorrow morning, but we took an early tour [Gallery] | 9to5Google
I’ve already grabbed my badge and checked in for Google I/O 2015, so I thought I would grab a few shots to give you a little bit of an idea of what the atmosphere is like.
Apple's iPhone 6s could add 12MP Sony camera with RGBW subpixels - report
The next-generation iPhone will reportedly sport a camera with a 12-megapixel Sony sensor that makes use of the firm's RGBW technology to help with low-light photography.
Google says that larger-screened devices are helping the mobile ad business | 9to5Google: "‘As phones get bigger the space issue becomes less challenging,’ he said, pulling his Nexus 6 smartphone out to show its six-inch display. ‘This is essentially a tablet. People’s ability to navigate sites and fill out forms and such goes up tremendously."This seems at once entirely obvious and entirely logical.
Google reportedly ready to launch Android-based ‘Brillo’ OS for the Internet of Things | 9to5Google
According to a report this morning from The Information, Google is working on new software built specifically for lower memory devices like smart home products. While current versions of Android are aimed at devices with at least 512 megabytes of memory, this new spinoff of the Android operating system, codenamed “Brillo,” is aimed at low-powered devices with as little as 32 or 64 megabytes of RAM…
Apple tops tech rivals in sales, profits & assets for first time in Forbes Global 2000: "Based on figures available by April 6 — notably excluding the company's record March quarter — Apple managed $200 billion in sales, a net profit of $45 billion, and $260 billion in assets, according to Forbes's latest annual Global 2000 rankings. The company's next closest competitor was Samsung, which achieved $195 billion in sales, $22 billion in net profit, and $210 billion in assets. "I fully expect Russia to invade Apple just for the munchies.
First 'Steve Jobs' teaser trailer shows Michael Fassbender as late tech guru
Universal Studios released the first teaser trailer for Danny Boyle's highly anticipated Steve Jobs biopic on Sunday, offering a glimpse at what to expect from the film and Michael Fassbender, who plays the late Apple cofounder.
These old Apple devices are about to become obsolete | Cult of Mac: "If you own and still use something on these lists, it doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to get one it repaired if you take it someplace that knows its way around an Apple product. But if the fixer doesn’t have the parts they need, they won’t be able to get them."One of my favorite Macs is on the list.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell is still gaming's showman at 72 | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi: "In 1972, Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari with Ted Dabney. The company went on to launch seminal video games such as Pong and Breakout that defined a generation of gamers. Almost 43 years later, he’s still the spokesman and showman of video games."Inspiration!
Apple considering 'major' expansion of Ireland manufacturing - report
If Apple moves forward, the new expansion would build into a Cork County Council land bank which for 20 years has served as a Traveller halting site, according to Independent.ie. The company could be ready to almost double its factory space, although it's reportedly weighing that against a smaller expansion.
Apple cash reserves greater than those held by most US industries combined: "The $178 billion in cash reserves Apple held at the end of 2014 was more than aggregate of every other non-financial U.S. industry sector, excluding the technology and medical industries, according to a Moody's Investors Service study released on Thursday."You'd think with all those resources they could make the Mac dominant. Hmmm. Here's hoping! I'm ready with Xcode.
Apple details new 'AppleBot' web crawler used by Siri and Spotlight
One web developer spotted Apple's crawler last November, after seeing numerous hits from a crawler in the 17.0.0.0/8 block. That block is assigned to Apple, one of just a handful of companies that control an entire A block.
WSJ: Google was going to build Periscope/Meerkat years ago, but didn’t have the resources | 9to5Google: "Google-owned YouTube had a chance to beat Twitter’s Periscope and its biggest competitor, Meerkat, to market by somewhere in the ballpark of 8 years, but decided against the move due to the fact that a large portion of the company’s resources were engaged in fending off a Viacom lawsuit and creating the Content ID copyright detection system."VIACOM working overtime to eventually destroy VIACOM!
Microsoft brings Visual Studio Code, .NET Core preview to Mac: "The newly released software lets users develop code in .NET, JavaScript, and a number of other frameworks and languages. Microsoft described the app as 'incredibly lightweight,' but with features such as Git version tracking and full IntelliSense support. IntelliSense attempts to automatically detect problems like bad syntax or spelling mistakes."Would be interested to know if they dogfooded this or used Xamarin to port it.
Apple Watch found to be compliant with Qi wireless charging standard
AppleInsider reader Albert C. Lee reached out on Friday to share his video, where he shows the Apple Watch magnetic charger being used with the Moto 360. This would seem to confirm that Apple's charger is Qi-compatible, despite the fact that Apple has not been announced as a supporter of the Qi standard.
Final Cut creator Randy Ubillos leaves Apple after 20 years: "Ubillos started out at Adobe, where he worked on the first three versions of its Premier software. He later jumped ship to Macromedia where he helped to create KeyGrip, a pro video editing program based on Apple's QuickTime.So long and thanks for all the fish!
KeyGrip was later renamed Final Cut, though Macromedia could not release it due to licensing issues. Apple eventually purchased the Final Cut team and software outright, and saw its development through.
In addition to Final Cut, Ubillos was also responsible for the creation of both iMovie and Aperture during his time at Apple."
WhatsApp Messenger adds free VoIP calling, new sharing extension, more | 9to5Mac: "The latest version of WhatsApp for iPhone adds a new voice calling feature that allows you to talk to any WhatsApp user around the world for free. "I think the telcos had it coming.
Apple buys multi-lens, DSLR-quality camera tech with $20M purchase of LinX Imaging: "Word of the acquisition was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, and Apple confirmed that the company had in fact been bought. Prior to the deal being closed, the two companies were said to be discussion an acquisition price of around $20 million."Cool!
Google: Net Neutrality doesn’t move the needle for consumers, enabling competition is key | 9to5Google: "No consumers are seeing higher speeds than before the order was passed; no consumers are paying less for their Internet services than what they were paying for; no consumers are seeing higher volume caps that they had before; and no consumers have additional choice of providers than they had before."We're just waiting for that fiber to pass through our neighborhood.
Apple's Swift takes crown of most-loved language among developers: "Some 78 percent of programmers currently working with Swift were eager to continue developing with it, according to Stack Overflow's 2015 Developer Survey. The data was collected from over 26,000 Stack Overflow visitors in 157 countries, though not all of those respondents were Swift users."Or, Swift developers are more likely to take surveys so they can highly rate their use of Swift. Gimme a break! C89 forever!
The Apple Watch Edition try on experience [1st hand account & Gallery] | 9to5Mac: "So I go to the Apple store here in Berlin thinking I made an appointment to see the Sport and Apple Watch editions. When I get there, they check me in and tell me to wait in the line. When my turn comes a really nice Apple employee asks me which models of the Edition I would like to see."Eye watch.
Apple Watch’s sapphire display undergoes rigorous scratch testing, comes out just fine | 9to5Mac: "UK-based electronics repair site iPhonefixed has gotten its hands on one of the sapphire crystal displays to be used in the mid-range and high-end Apple Watch models and put it through a bevy of quick scratch tests to see how it would fare."It's from the future!
Video: 15 minutes of the new 12-inch MacBook being handled in Ukraine | 9to5Mac
Ahead of its April 10th launch, the new 12-inch MacBook is continuing its world early hands-on tour. The computer already surfaced with detailed unboxing footage and hands-on photos in Vietnam, and now a Ukraine-based YouTube channel has posted a 15 minute long video of the new MacBook being handled.
