-An Apple Retail 10th anniversary poster describes in typical Apple grammar and philosophy what the company has learned from operating a retail chain, according to ifoAppleStore. The 24x36 poster appears in the back-of-house of Apple's retail stores.
In 1,812 words and 125 sentences, the company admits its mistakes (ministores), celebrates its customers, reveals trivia (500,000 mosaic tiles at the Opéra store), recalls international lessons learned (Japanese superheroes don’t wear capes), and concludes that its employees are at "the center of all."
The poster is reportedly called "We've Learned a Lot" and there are many, many more interesting tidbits you can discover by reading the transcript here.
In 1,812 words and 125 sentences, the company admits its mistakes (ministores), celebrates its customers, reveals trivia (500,000 mosaic tiles at the Opéra store), recalls international lessons learned (Japanese superheroes don’t wear capes), and concludes that its employees are at "the center of all."
The poster is reportedly called "We've Learned a Lot" and there are many, many more interesting tidbits you can discover by reading the transcript here.
-Doug Bowman has managed to snap a picture of a WWDC 2011 banner that shows the new iCloud, lion os & ios5 icons. He was also able to snap some pictures.
The banner was being put up at San Francisco's Moscone Center in preparation for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference WWDC next week.
The banner was being put up at San Francisco's Moscone Center in preparation for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference WWDC next week.
-I haven't yet tried Infinite Walls (free), but it seems like a great idea. The app lets you search Google Images for photos of subjects that interest you. The app automatically resizes the files for use as wallpapers on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, automatically detecting which device you're using. In-app purchases let you add more features, such as a vault where you can store images and have access to them without an Internet connection.
-Although iCloud has yet to be released, analysts are already saying that it could put the final nail in Blackberry’s coffin, eliminating the last advantage RIM has over Apple in the smartphone market: the BlackBerry Push Service.
Shaw Wu, an analyst with Sterne Agee, says Apple's iCloud will cause 'collateral damage' for rival handset maker Research in Motion (RIM).
AppleInsider relays the report in which Wu says that iCloud will "change the game".
"While iCloud doesn't replicate all of RIM's push network, the ability for iCloud to offload data center processing and traffic from carriers is attractive," Wu wrote. "And it looks like AAPL will likely offer some base service for free."
Wu believes iCloud will impact both RIM's forward service revenue and gross margin because carrier payments are estimated to have a high gross margin of 85 percent to 87 percent.
Shaw Wu, an analyst with Sterne Agee, says Apple's iCloud will cause 'collateral damage' for rival handset maker Research in Motion (RIM).
AppleInsider relays the report in which Wu says that iCloud will "change the game".
"While iCloud doesn't replicate all of RIM's push network, the ability for iCloud to offload data center processing and traffic from carriers is attractive," Wu wrote. "And it looks like AAPL will likely offer some base service for free."
Wu believes iCloud will impact both RIM's forward service revenue and gross margin because carrier payments are estimated to have a high gross margin of 85 percent to 87 percent.
-iAndroid is a new iOS application for jailbroken devices that simulates the Android operating system experience on the iPhone or iPod touch. While it’s still very far from completion, the project is taking shape. This App can be launched from the home screen, just like any other iOS application. It simply replicates Android’s user experience inside a standard iOS application.
f you’re an iOS 4.x user and want to try this simulator for yourself, you can get it from on Cydia. Sadly, iAndroid is not available for iOS 3.x users, just 4.0 users.
f you’re an iOS 4.x user and want to try this simulator for yourself, you can get it from on Cydia. Sadly, iAndroid is not available for iOS 3.x users, just 4.0 users.
-Apple has unveiled patents infrared system for iOS devices to prevent illegal image and video capturing.
The system proposed calls for an image processing circuitry electrically coupled to the phone’s camera, designed to “determine whether each image detected by the camera includes an infrared signal with encoded data”, per Apple’s patent application. This led Patently Apple to speculate that such an infrared system on future iOS devices might act “as a tour guide or retail assistant”. It is more likely, however, that it will be used to prevent illegal image and video capturing. Apple’s invention is pretty simple yet very effective. In a nutshell, if an absence of an infrared signal has been determined in data encoded within the captured image, the system would simply route the image to the screen, letting you save it to the camera roll. Likewise, trying to snap a scene nearby an infrared signal which beams a disable command would block the record function. The invention entitled “Systems and Methods for Receiving Infrared Data With a Camera Designed to Detect Images Based on Visible Light” can be found in the USPTO database under the classification number 20110128384. Apple credits engineers Victor Tiscareno, Kevin Johnson and Cindy Lawrence with coming up with this idea.
The system proposed calls for an image processing circuitry electrically coupled to the phone’s camera, designed to “determine whether each image detected by the camera includes an infrared signal with encoded data”, per Apple’s patent application. This led Patently Apple to speculate that such an infrared system on future iOS devices might act “as a tour guide or retail assistant”. It is more likely, however, that it will be used to prevent illegal image and video capturing. Apple’s invention is pretty simple yet very effective. In a nutshell, if an absence of an infrared signal has been determined in data encoded within the captured image, the system would simply route the image to the screen, letting you save it to the camera roll. Likewise, trying to snap a scene nearby an infrared signal which beams a disable command would block the record function. The invention entitled “Systems and Methods for Receiving Infrared Data With a Camera Designed to Detect Images Based on Visible Light” can be found in the USPTO database under the classification number 20110128384. Apple credits engineers Victor Tiscareno, Kevin Johnson and Cindy Lawrence with coming up with this idea.
-Peter Hajas the developer behind the famous MobileNotifier cydia app, is now an employee at Apple, according to rumors.
Rumors that this might be case began after Hajas announced that he would cease working on MobileNotifier but couldn't say why. Hajas also ended his post with 'stay hungry and stay foolish', the same words that Steve Jobs used to end his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address.
Rumors that this might be case began after Hajas announced that he would cease working on MobileNotifier but couldn't say why. Hajas also ended his post with 'stay hungry and stay foolish', the same words that Steve Jobs used to end his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address.
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