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    VirnetX Tells Jury Apple Should Pay $532 Million Over Patents




    Apple Inc. owes $532 million for using patented VirnetX Holding Corp. technology for secure communications, a lawyer for VirnetX told a federal jury in Texas Monday.
    “Apple hasn’t played fair. They have taken Virnetx’s intellectual property without permission,” VirnetX lawyer Brad Caldwell of Caldwell Cassady told the jury in Tyler, Texas.
    VirnetX had previously won a $368.2 million verdict against Apple. An appeals court threw out the damage award and ordered a new trial on some of the infringement claims. This case is a retrial on those issues plus some newer generations of Apple products.
    “Apple believes in fairness and protecting intellectual property,” said Apple’s lawyer, Greg Arovas of Kirkland & Ellis. “VirnetX keeps moving the boundary, asking for more and more and more.”
    The dispute is over secure networks, known as virtual private networks, through which a website owner can interact with customers or an employee can work at home and access company files. Apple’s FaceTime video-calling feature also is accused of infringing VirnetX patents.
    The trial, expected to last through next week, will focus on whether Apple is using the technology through FaceTime, the iMessage system to send messages to other Apple users and its newer operating systems. Its VPN on Demand service was already found to infringe VirnetX patents.
    In addition to the infringement findings, damages will have to be calculated based on the value that the VirnetX inventions contributed to the features.
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    Apple was precluded from making some arguments questioning the validity of VirnetX patents because they were already addressed in the first trial. The company also dropped other arguments.
    VirnetX has struggled to commercialize its own products and relies on patent licensing for revenue. In December, Microsoft Corp. paid $23 million to end claims that its Skype Internet telephone service infringed the patents.
    While Arovas didn’t suggest a number to the jury, he spoke of a 2010 settlement Microsoft Corp. reached, in which it paid VirnetX $200 million. When calculated on a per-unit basis, that figure worked out to be less than a tenth of what VirnetX is seeking against Apple, he said.
    The case is VirnetX Inc. v. Apple Inc., 12cv855, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler).
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    Apple Recalls Certain Mac And iOS Device Wall Adapters Due To Risk Of Electric Shock

    We guess it’s a bad month for power adapters in the world of tech. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a recall program to replace defective power cords on the first three generations of its Surface Pro tablets due to a fire risk. Now, Apple is joining the fray by recalling certain power adapters that shipped with a number of Mac and iOS devices around the world.
    Included in the recall are wall adapters that shipped with Apple notebooks and portable devices, along with the Apple World Travel Adapter Kit. And while Microsoft said that it received no reports of injuries related to Surface Pro power adapters, Apple indicates that there were 12 incidents worldwide where customers received an electrical shock from defective, broken two prong power adapters.
    According to Apple, the affected AC wall adapters were designed to be used in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Argentina and Brazil and were shipped in a multitude of products from 2003 through 2015.

    For its part, Apple says, “Customer safety is always Apple's top priority, and we have voluntarily decided to exchange affected wall plug adapters with a new, redesigned adapter, free of charge.”
    To receive a free replacement power adapter, you must first locate the device serial number of your iPhone, iPod, or Mac to determine if you’re affected by the recall. If your device is a part of the recall program, it is recommended that you visit an Apple Store or an Authorized Apple Service Provider to receive a replacement. If you don’t have an Apple brick and mortar store nearby, you can contact Apple Support directly.
    Luckily, customers that purchased devices in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States aren’t affected by this recall.


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    Apple Files Patent For New Hover Gesture Display Technology

    Apple brought a lot of display variations in the past couple of years, ranging from multi-touch to 3D Touch panels. Moreover, it’s no brainer that Apple files a lot of patents, regardless of the company’s attempts to implement it right away. Similarly, the Cupertino camp has filed a new patent for a display that deems to recognize hovering fingers for unique gesture. Most probably the application by hovering actions would be unique as well.

    Hover Gestures Filed By Apple In New Patent

    The patent has been published by the United States Patents and Trademark Office this week by the name of ”Proximity and multi-touch sensor detection and demodulation”. It describes the method by which the proximity sensing hardware can be used to recognize the fingers hovering above the display panel.
    According to Apple, the combination of photobodies and infrared LEDs with capacitive sensors can detect or recognize the nearness of fingers with the display. This will be registered to the display by the light bouncing off the fingers. The deviating light bouncing off the fingers can also help the panel to differentiate between an individual’s finger or even the entire palm.

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    It’s not like the hovering gesture technology is unknown in the mobile world. Many other smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung have already implemented it in its Galaxy S lineup. Nonetheless, we don’t even know when might Apple implement it because the company is reported to file a lot of patents and not all of them are implemented spontaneously.
    Apple’s plan for the technology is to implement it in its future products, including the iPhone and other devices running iOS. Moreover, the company also has plans to implement the technology in Macs. The hover gesture technology can be used to interact with different elements on the screen including virtual buttons. For instance, hovering your palm over the display can allow your iOS device to switch apps, while the hovering finger swipe could allow you to flip pages in specific apps and so on.
    As we have mentioned earlier, the patent only reveals what the company is interested in. It does not necessarily mean that Apple might include this specific feature in the forthcoming iPhone or any other iOS device.
    This is it for now, folks. What do you think about this patent? Do you think the existence of hover gesture technology might be a little confusing alongside 3D Touch or multi-touch? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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    Apple defeated by British justice



    Welsh underdog proved IWatch was fragile

    The fruity cargo cult Apple cult has suddenly found itself having a taste of reality when a Welsh bloke successfully sued Apple and forced the company to change a misleading Apple Watch product description.

    Gareth Cross, from Aberystwyth, bought an Apple Watch Sport in July, but discovered a crack in the display just 10 days later. His missus had bought it for him because the fruity cargo cult insisted it was impact resistant.
    He told the court that he noticed a tiny 4-5mm crack on the screen just 10 days after buying it. He had not been doing much strenuous, just sitting around watching TV. When he got to work the hairline crack had got bigger so he called Apple to get it repaired.
    Apple told him that watch was not covered by the warranty, despite the firm's official product description having claimed that the smartwatch is also scratch-resistant.
    He took the case to a small claims court for breach of the Sale of Goods Act. In the UK this court basically handles cases without lawyers getting involved.
    The Aberystwyth court ruled that Apple must refund the cost of the watch and pay an additional £429 in costs.
    The firm has since changed the product description to remove the claim that it is resistant to impact, too.
    What is jolly strange is that Cross does not appear to have learnt his lesson. Despite being stiffed so badly by Apple that he had to go to court he still wants an iWatch. He said that he may wait until the next model is out.
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    Apple bought the company that exposed its flawed firmware


    What do you do when researchers create a worm that infects your company's firmware? If you're Apple, you buy the researchers. Last August, news broke of a exploit named "Thunderstrike 2." Delivered by a simple link, the worm could silently modify a Mac's firmware, meaning that even an OS reinstall wouldn't remove it. Thankfully, the researchers responsibly informed Apple of the issue, and the company had mostly solved this particular problem before it went public.





    All was quiet after the researchers' announcement, and for good reason: Apple purchased their security firm -- LegbaCore -- just two months after news of Thunderstrike 2 broke. According to the company's founder Xeno Kovah, the team is going to be working on "low-level security" at Apple, which we'll take as shorthand for making sure that OS X's firmware is less susceptible to attacks in the future.



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    New Apple Patent Shows A Pressure-Sensitive Touch ID For iOS Devices


    Apple’s hot addition in its latest iPhone lineup is the 3D Touch that serves as a new interactive layer in the display. The introduction of 3D Touch added a new control layer that varies according to the amount of pressure you apply to the display. According to a new patent filed by Apple, the company plans to extend their technology to the Touch ID or Home button of their iOS devices. The inclusion would further open new dimensions by which you can do more than you can now.

    Pressure-Sensitive Touch ID Will Open More Control Opportunities

    The patent was filed with the USPTO under the title ‘Force-Sensitive Fingerprint Sensing Input’. The patent declares a new method by which Apple’s 3D Touch-like internals will be fitted under the Touch ID. Currently, the Touch ID of Apple’s iOS devices is fitted with a highly accurate fingerprint scanner which is covered by a thin wafer of sapphire. The Touch ID components are housed in a capacitive sensing ring that starts a scan operation which it is touched.
    Touch ID of Apple’s current iOS devices serves quite a handful of purposes, ranging from unlocking the device to making payments using Apple Pay. Moreover, it also triggers multi-tasking via a double-click and can be further used to access the Home screen. However, the future of Touch ID might have even more controls for us, igniting various functions at various occasions. For instance, the pressure-sensitive Touch ID can be used to launch the camera app as a shortcut or assigning shortcuts to other apps. There can be many other functions nestled in the pressure-sensitive Touch ID.
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    Apple’s plan to implement the pressure-sensitive Touch ID will be pretty similar to 3D Touch. The company proposes using a capacitance sensor underneath the Touch ID button, which will ultimately register pressure the same way as Apple’s 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. User’s operation will be registered after the electrodes between its surface are narrowed together, highlighting that a force has been applied to the Touch ID.
    The pressure-sensitive Touch ID could enable quite a handful of new gestures on various iOS devices. It could also be true that Apple is planning on eliminating the Home button and integrating Touch ID within the display. Hence, the force applied to the Touch ID could ultimately react the same way as the Home button.
    However, nothing can be said for sure at this point, since it’s just one of the many patents that Apple files every now and then. What are your thoughts on the matter? When do you think will Apple implement the pressure-sensitive Touch ID on its iOS devices? Share your thoughts in the comments.



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    Mossberg blasts Apple’s poor software



    Times are a changing in the Tame Apple Press

    It seems that key members of the Tame Apple Press are starting to have epiphanies lately about how bad Apple really is and are starting to turn on the cult for failing to meet their expectations and spin.

    Walt Mossberg who regularly used to cheer Apple has suddenly launched a damning attack on the outfit’s software.
    To put this into some perspective when he worked for the Wall Street Journal, Mossberg was one of the few trusted to review Apple gear in advance because he would only say good things. , and other pro-Apple reviewers like him, were a key part the outfit’s rise to fame. When credible names like the Journal say a product is good you might think there is some truth behind it. There wasn’t of course, it was just Mossberg who could not write a bad thing about Apple. In his list of top ten tech products of all time half of them were Apple products. Obviously when you have a lot to chose from getting Apple into the top five is a proble, he even had to mention Apple’s Newton Message Pad.
    In his rant, Mossberg appears to have suddenly realised that Apple software is suddenly a pile of poo. He has not reached the point where he realised that it has always been like that and that he has to accept some responsibility for it, but some epiphanies start slow.
    Mossberg said that standards have been poor “for a while now” and Jobs’ Mob was even being outclassed by Microsoft.
    “In the last couple of years, however, I’ve noticed a gradual degradation in the quality and reliability of Apple’s core apps, on both the mobile iOS operating system and its Mac OS X platform. It’s almost as if the tech giant has taken its eye off the ball when it comes to these core software products, while it pursues big new dreams, like smartwatches and cars.”
    Mossberg slammed the built-in Mail app on the iPhone, a critical piece of software for many Apple users. He dismissed it was "slow and unreliable” and will not play nicely with Gmail,
    Mossberg wrote:
    “Apple claims this is an issue beyond its control, or the control of any other email app vendor, because Gmail uses nonstandard technology that gives a speed advantage to the search giant's own apps and sites.”
    It doesn’t of course but saying that is much easier than getting off your cash mountain and writing decent code.
    Mossberg said that in email Microsoft Outlook for the iPhone is better than anything Apple has and works fine on with Gmail. In fact it is what you expect to see from Apple's built-in app.
    He said that he now dreaded opening iTunes. It is bloated, complex, and sluggish and has become even worse since the recent integration of the new Apple Music streaming service. Just the other day,
    “I tried to sync two iPads to it (a rare event) and it took forever for the program to recognize them. On my three Macs, which were built from 2013–2015, iTunes is just too slow at almost every task.”
    We wonder of Mossberg is going to remain on Apple’s review and Christmas Card list.
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    Apple to pay $625 million over infringing Messenger patents

    Apple has found itself on the wrong end of a patent infringement suit, with a US judge ordering the company to shell out $625 million over infringing patents with the iMessage and FaceTime services/apps. A jury ruled in favor of a company known as VirnetX, finding Apple guilty of infringing on communications protocol patents with FaceTime, iMessage and Apple’s VPN feature for iOS.
    This is the second time that VirnetX has sued Apple over these specific patents. The company already won $368 million from Apple back in 2012 but after an initial two years of fighting its case, Apple managed to get the ruling thrown out in 2014.

    Now, VirtnetX is back for more and this time, it managed to win a bigger sum of money in court. For those who don’t know, VirtnetX is essentially seen as a patent troll, the sort of company that buys up patents just to sue other companies later without ever creating a product or putting the patents to use.
    VirtnetX has also successfully sued Microsoft in the past. Right now, it is not known if Apple plans to fight this ruling as it did back in 2012 so this case could drag on for another couple of years.
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    Tim Cook Promises More Cross Platform Apple Services, Revenue Rebound For Waning iPad

    To outsiders looking in, it might seem as though Apple devices sell themselves. That isn't really the case, and if you pay attention to Apple's quarterly earnings reports, you'll notice that no matter how well the company performs, its stock price drops at the slightest hint that a particular product line or service isn't performing at peak levels. At present, it's the iPad line that has investors concerned, though Apple CEO Tim Cook believes a turnaround is ahead.

    Cook and a few other company bigwigs recently held a town hall meeting at Apple's headquarters to discuss the company's Q1 earnings and future plans. One of the topics raised was that of declining iPad revenue growth. Despite a slowdown in the tablet market as a whole—not just iPads, but all tablets—Cook expects to see positive revenue growth for its iPad line by the end of the 2016. Part of the reason is because its iPad Pro is off to a promising start, and the other is that Apple will introduce another iPad model this year—iPad Air 3, perhaps?—which tends to reinvigorate sales, even if just temporarily.


    Taking a page from Microsoft, Cook also talked about expanding its cross-platform efforts. Apple already does this in limited capacity—Apple Music is available on Android, for example, which Cook described as a sort of test. Apparently encouraged by the results, Cook will pursue more porting efforts, though he didn't say for which services.

    The 900-pound gorilla in the room is Apple's dependence on the iPhone. Some two-thirds of its revenue comes from iPhone sales, and with the smartphone sector becoming increasingly competitive, that could be cause for concern. Not for Cook, though.

    Cook referred to the iPhone as the "greatest business of the future." He believes that the iPhone will remain relevant and a major part of Apple's business for decades to come, especially as 4G LTE markets expand into emerging markets where it's not already available.

    Only time will tell if he's right. For now, Apple will have to be content where it sits, which is as the second most valuable company in the world.

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    Apple’s security takes another hit



    Revolving door gatekeeper
    While the fruity cargo cult Apple is busy bricking users for the crime of not using its genii to fix its overpriced toys, its reputation as being super secure is taking another battering.

    For those who came in late, Apple pretended for years it had good security on the basis that no one could be bothered hacking one of its gizmos to steal someone’s Coldplay collection. Lately however the company has been taking a battering after hackers started hitting the company hard and holes in its security became glaringly obvious.
    In this case it is Apple’s rather fast and footloose attitude to certificates. A developer certificate was signed to Maksim Noskov and it has been used for nearly two years to carry out attacks on Apple gear. The Gatekeeper software that is supposed to stop it sees the malware as being signed with a legitimate Apple developer certificate.
    Apple has known about it for ages it just has never bothered revoking the certificate. After all that would mean admitting that it should have done it two years ago.
    Johannes Ullrich, dean of research of the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Centre finally had enough and publicly disclosed the campaign.
    Apparently the malware based around the certificate was distributed using click-bait links on Facebook, below. He was served a pop-up warning that his Adobe Flash Player was out of date. Ullrich was using a clean default install of OS X 10.11 in a virtual machine, and Flash was not installed on the image.
    If the user clicks on the download button in the popup, the scareware is installed as well as a legitimate and current version of Flash Player.
    This is not the first time that Apple’s Gatekeeper has been shown to be letting dodgy software through. Researcher Patrick Wardle has also demonstrated some Gatekeeper bypasses that don’t require a certificate that have been partially addressed by Apple.
    Ullrich said Apple’s XProtect, built-in antimalware protection on OS X, did not work either. This is not a surprise as detection rates on VirusTotal were normally pretty low.
    Once the installer installs the malware they are told to start a scan of their computer for problems. The scan shows logos from security companies that the tool has been verified.
    The scan returns a number of viruses, Trojans etc., that need to be addressed, and offers the user the chance to buy a cleaning tool.
    The malicious ad likely does browser fingerprinting in order to target OS X users the adverts did not off similar pop-ups on a Windows image.
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    Error 53: Lawyers Taking a Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple’s “Reckless Policy”

    Apple confirmed last week that it was permanently disabling iPhones that have been repaired by unauthorized retailers. The company came under a lot of heat from its users after acknowledging to this “security measure.” Adding to this pressure, lawyers in the United States and United Kingdom are hoping to bring a class action against Apple on behalf of victims whose expensive, high-end smartphones “have been rendered worthless by an Apple software upgrade.”

    Lawyers to take action against Apple over Error 53:

    The reports started pouring in the last week when various users had to deal with an Error 53. It was later discovered that replacing the Home button from an unauthorized retailer would prompt this error code, bricking or locking the device completely. Apple is notorious for taking security of its entire ecosystem very seriously. This sometimes goes beyond what users can stomach as losing a $600+ smartphone after a software update came quite a surprise to many. For many users, their devices were working fine for weeks or months after they had got their devices repaired, before the software update disabled them permanently.
    An Apple spokesperson said that the technology giant took the steps in order to safeguard its users against any security risks,
    We protect fingerprint data using a secure enclave, which is uniquely paired to the touch ID sensor. When iPhone is serviced by an authorised Apple service provider or Apple retail store for changes that affect the touch ID sensor, the pairing is re-validated. This check ensures the device and the iOS features related to touch ID remain secure. Without this unique pairing, a malicious touch ID sensor could be substituted, thereby gaining access to the secure enclave. When iOS detects that the pairing fails, touch ID, including Apple Pay, is disabled so the device remains secure.
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    According to the Guardian, PVCA, an American law firm wants to bring a class action lawsuit against Apple. Calling out for iPhone customers affected by the issue, the law firm believes that Apple is violating consumer laws by forcing its customers to use Apple-authorized repair services, and disabling phones if users fail to follow these “unannounced rules.”
    We believe that Apple may be intentionally forcing users to use their repair services, which cost much more than most third party repair shops. Where you could get your screen replaced by a neighborhood repair facility for $50-80, Apple charges $129 or more. There is incentive for Apple to keep end users from finding alternative methods to fix their products.
    Richard Colbey, a London-based barrister also commented that it was likely that Apple is breaching basic consumer laws in the UK, potentially committing an offence under the Criminal Damage Act 1971. The law states, “A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence.”
    It is yet to be seen if Apple would retract on this matter. If not, it seems very likely that the tech giant would be fighting multiple legal battles globally.
    Earlier, iPhone 4s Owners Accuse Apple of Financially Benefiting from iOS 9 Slowing Their Devices


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    Hackers are reportedly offering Apple's European HQ staff up to $23,000 for their login credentials



    While social engineering is becoming an increasingly popular way for hackers to trick people into revealing their login credentials (as was the case with the government data breach reported earlier today), another method that cybercriminals use to gain access to companies' systems is to simply offer employees money in exchange for their details.
    Business Insider UK reports that this was the situation faced by several workers at Apple's European Headquarters in Cork, Ireland. "You'd be surprised how many people get on to us, just random Apple employees," the anonymous employee said. "You get emails offering you thousands [of euros] to get a password to get access to Apple.
    "I could sell my Apple ID login information online for €20,000 ($23,000) tomorrow. That’s how much people are trying."
    A different Apple employee said that hackers targeted those workers who weren’t considered ‘lifers.’
    "They look for someone who has jumped diagonally into a junior managerial position, so not a lifer working their way up, and not a lifer who has been there a long time.” The employee added that the company had introduced the ‘Grow your own’ scheme, where it creates its own managers, to combat the problem.
    It’s unclear what these groups or individuals offering the money are specifically trying to access, but the information held on Apple’s internal systems would doubtlessly prove to be very valuable in the wrong hands.
    For its part, Apple has said it is “very, very careful” when it comes to security, and there have been no reports of any its employees illicitly accepting money for their login credentials.
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    Apple takes its eye off the ball: Why Apple fans are really coming to hate Apple software





    There always have been two great virtues in Apple's policy of keeping the development of hardware and core software in-house: their seamless integration with each other and their quality.
    Lately, however, these virtues have started to disappear. The last few weeks have seen an explosion of discontent with the quality of the core apps of Apple's iPhones, iPads and Mac computers -- not only its OS X and iOS operating systems, but programs and services such as iTunes, Music, iCloud and Photos. Not only do the programs work poorly for many users, but they don't link Apple devices together as reliably as they should. These complaints aren't coming merely from users but several widely followed tech commentators who used to fit reliably in the category of Apple fans.
    Walt Mossberg, for one. As a technology reviewer at the Wall Street Journal and subsequently co-founder of the tech news site Re/code, Mossberg consistently rallied in favor of Apple products. Steve Jobs reportedly once slammed a problem-plagued rollout of a new service by shouting, "Mossberg, our friend, is no longer writing good things about us."
    But just last week, Mossberg pointed to "a gradual degradation in the quality and reliability of Apple’s core apps." He fingered iTunes for the desktop ("I dread opening the thing"), and the Mail, Photos, and iCloud programs. Not even Mossberg could get a cogent response from Apple, which told him: "We have dedicated software teams across multiple platforms. The effort is as strong there as it has ever been."


    Veteran Apple-watchers John Gruber and Jim Dalrymple have joined the chorus. General tech consumer sites such as Engadget have taken notice that Apple has been pushing new apps that consumers don't want or use, while its traditional programs have yielded to better offerings by non-Apple developers. "Raise your hand if you have a folder on your iPhone full of native Apple apps you never use ... yup, that's a lot of you," Engadget's Nathan Ingraham wrote last week. "Now raise your hand if you use iCloud Mail, iCloud Drive or the default iOS Notes or Reminders apps instead of third-party options like Gmail, Dropbox, Wunderlist, Evernote and so on. Not nearly as many of you are raising your hand this time."
    It’s proper to mention here that I live in a fully Apple-ized household equipped with one iMac desktop, three MacBook Air laptops, two iPhones, and two iPads. Obviously I find plenty to admire about the company’s products, but plenty of flaws, too.
    My biggest personal complaint involves Preview, a program that comes with every iMac and MacBook for reading and annotating PDFs and other page and image files. A lot of my research depends on PDFs, so Preview's excellent features for highlighting and annotating them make it a must-use. But Preview crashes all the time. It commonly freezes or shuts down, sometimes taking the entire computer with it, when asked to render pages that Adobe Acrobat reader, the leading third-party PDF program, handles with ease.
    Preview users have been pleading with Apple for years on the company's user forums to fix Previews's propensity for crashing. But Apple has failed to do so, or even to acknowledge the complaints, over three or four successive releases of new operating systems.
    That's not even to mention the company's habit of releasing operating system upgrades brimming with bugs that require several patch releases to correct.
    These criticisms aren't new. A surge in complaints appears pretty much every year at about this time. One Apple blogger published a full page of links to software complaints -- in 2014! -- and followed up with another full page a year later.
    Conjectures about why Apple can't get its software act together abound. The most common is that the company has become so trapped in its cycle of annual hardware upgrades -- a new iPhone had better appear every September, or else -- that it's simply incapable of keeping its software maintained. Programmer Marco Arment, in a widely-read comment last year, speculated that "the rapid decline of Apple’s software is a sign that marketing is too high a priority at Apple today: having major new releases every year is clearly impossible for the engineering teams to keep up with while maintaining quality. ... They’re doing too much, with unrealistic deadlines."
    Others wonder if Apple isn't running into the same problem that bedeviled its arch-rival Microsoft for years: It's building new functions on top of an outdated core, rather than scrapping the core and rebuilding from scratch. This process turned Microsoft Windows into a barnacled monstrosity, and the same thing could be happening with OS X and iOS.
    Programming veterans know that turning out glitch-free software can be the most onerous task in any organization. IBM project manager Frederick Brooks showed in his classic 1975 book, "The Mythical Man-Month," that adding manpower to a software project only slowed it down, and the search for a "silver bullet" to improve software productivity was fruitless.
    That episode with Steve Jobs and the disappointing software release may be a good illustration. His target was MobileMe, an app designed to allow users of Apple desktops and mobile devices to communicate with one another. That was 2008. MobileMe was the precursor to iCloud, which Apple still hasn't gotten right, eight years later.
    Yet other companies are getting right what Apple's getting wrong. In the past, few users would contemplate scrapping a native Apple program for a third-party alternative. Now, as Engadget observed, these are common. What's worse, Microsoft, against which Apple always measured its software's elegance and seamlessness, has shed its old shortcomings -- its Windows 10, released last year, garnered almost universal raves.
    It's doubtful that Apple's millions of devoted users, locked into its interoperable ecosystem of Macs, iPhones, and iPads, will think about abandoning the company any time soon. But new phone, tablet, and laptop customers may be taking a closer look at alternatives, including Google Android-powered units as well as Microsoft devices, than they might have only a couple of years ago.
    The risk for Apple is that, hounded into keeping its hardware products secure at the top of the consumer pyramid, its reputation is changing from a company whose software "just works" (as Steve Jobs used to declare) to one that just doesn't give a damn.
    Noticia:
    http://www.latimes.com/business/hilt...08-column.html
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    Apple A10 Is Going To Be Manufactured By A Single Company; Can You Guess Which One?

    There is still some time for iPhone 7 to be unveiled, but Apple wants to make sure that its A10 SoC happens to be flawless when working in tandem with the company’s mobile platform. However, this time, there is only one company that is going to get the contract for mass production of the chipset; can you guess which one is going to rake in all the revenue?

    TSMC Beats Samsung To Receive All 100 Percent A10 Orders From Apple

    We had already reported that A10 was going to be manufactured on the 10nm FinFET node, but with the skirmish going on between Samsung and TSMC, it was hard to tell which company was going to receive all 100 percent of orders from Apple. Turns out the lucky company is none other than TSMC, putting Samsung in a terrible position, despite receiving all those contracts from companies like Qualcomm.
    TSMC should definitely be a stock that investors should look into since the potential deal will most likely be bringing in over $300 million in sales in 2016 and reach $1 billion during 2017. Analysts Steven Pelayo and Lionel Lin initially spoke out against TSMC, concerned that thanks to variables such as a slowing smartphone market, lofty customer concentrations, insourcing and competition, the semiconductor manufacturing firm might not be able to generate substantial revenue. However, now, the analysts have predicted that TSMC may generate between USD 2.2-2.5bn in A10 revenue.

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    If they included the residual A9 series silicon, finger print sensors, and now integrated fan-out (InFO) chip packaging, then the estimated revenue generated by TSMC will increase to more than $4.6 billion USD in 2016 from approximately $3.7 billion USD this year. However, we are still not entirely sure that Apple is going to commit to tapping just TSMC for producing 100 percent of orders for the company’s A10 SoC. 2016 is yet to commence, so it seems pretty unlikely that the California based tech company is drastically going to come to a conclusion this soon.

    We believe that Samsung is still going to produce chips for A10, but in a much smaller capacity, since Apple obviously needs to fill the void just in case TSMC does not fulfill its end of the bargain. However, such a lucrative offer like this will obviously force TSMC to be on the top of its game. With A10, you can expect much better performance and energy efficiency from iPhone 7, which is rumored to come with a larger battery capacity and maximum internal storage. Additionally, it is also expected that the handset is going to be incorporated with a dual-lens camera, but we will keep you posted on the latest happenings concerning the next-gen iPhones.


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    Kim Jong-un signs up country to Apple cult



    Breaks first rule of cult on day one
    It appears that the fruity cargo cult Apple has bagged itself a high profile convert, the north Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.


    Unfortunately for Apple, Kim Jon-un understands only some of the aspects of the Apple religion and not others.
    Kim has understood the concept that stealing other people’s ideas and pretending you invented it is the way forward so he has ordered his Linux based Red Star OS to be redesigned to look more like Apple’s Mac OS X.
    But he has also broken the other major rule of the Apple cargo cult which is that what ever product is sold needs to make a lot of money for Apple. It is unlikely that Apple’s patent lawyers would last very long in North Korea before they found themselves before an anti-aircraft gun firing squad.
    But Apple should feel flattered that its OS approach fits into Kim’s approach. After all they have a lot in common. Both are paranoid autocratic institutions dedicated to brainwashing their followers into a locked in universe where nothing works but no one admits it.
    Interestingly enough both operating systems have software which mucks around with the time. The software uses a calendar which counts years from the birth of Kim Il-Sung, making 2014 the 103rd year. Apple software has problems with leap years. Both regimes also tend to brick those who do not do what they are told, although Kim's method of bricking those who do not do what they are told is a little more lethal.
    Apps are packaged using a Mac-like folder structure as well, with ‘contents’ and ‘resources’ folders within the application folder.
    Versions 2.0 and 3.0 of Red Star both use a modified version of the open source KDE interface, the older software had a different look and feel more akin to other Linux distributions such as Debian. To run the current version of the OS a minimum of a Pentium III 800MHz with 256MB of RAM is required, along with 3GB of hard disk space.
    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been shown to be a fan of Apple computers in the past, having been pictured last year working at a desk with an iMac.
    Apple complies with trade embargoes that forbid the sale of products to the country so it is not clear how he got his paws on it. We cannot imagine he would queue up with the rest of the fanboys.
    Noticia:
    http://www.fudzilla.com/news/39942-k...-to-apple-cult
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    Apple faces lawsuit over 3D Touch feature

    Apple was just recently ordered to pay out $625 million to a company over patent infringement and now it looks like the company is about to get hit with another lawsuit, this time over its 3D Touch technology, which can be found in the new Macbook trackpads, the Apple Watch and the iPhone 6.
    A company called Immersion currently holds 2100 patents worldwide relating to haptic feedback and it looks like it may have caught Apple out.

    This information comes from Apple Insider, which points out that Immersion’s complaint alleges that the iPhone 6 and 6S infringe on its own patents for a ‘haptic feedback system with stored effects’, as well as another patent for ‘method and apparatus for providing tactile sensations’.
    “While we are pleased to see others in the industry recognise the value of haptics and adopt it in their products, it is important for us to protect our business against infringement of our intellectual property in order to preserve the ecosystem we have built and the investments that we have made in continuing to advance haptic experiences”, the company said.
    Right now we don’t know how much money Immersion is looking to get out of Apple during this lawsuit and Apple has yet to comment on its latest legal battle.
    Noticia:
    http://www.kitguru.net/apple/matthew...touch-feature/
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