Posted by Greg Mills
HTC, reeling from the first actual finding that Android infringes upon the Apple iOS has seen its stock slide. HTC announced it intends to buy back as many as 20,000,000 shares of its stock to support the value.
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Posted by Greg Mills
The recent US International Trade Commission finding isn’t the end of the war between Apple’s iOS platform and the Android platform, but drawing first blood may be significant. Had the ruling been related to something trivial like the shape of buttons, for example, HTC could have simply gone to round buttons instead of square buttons.
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Posted by Greg Mills
Apple has won an important victory over the Android platform, which may have a giant effect in the smart phone market. The US International Trade Commission has just issued it’s ruling on a complaint Apple filed against HTC.
The patents found to have been violated are so foundational, the Android platform may crumble. See futher information in the news blog http://www.macnews.com/2011/07/16/gregs-bite-android-platform-deep-trouble
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Posted by Greg Mills
Apple has posted an update to the iOS to defeat the recently disclosed PDF vulnerability. The update is 4.3.4 and can be downloaded through hooking up the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to a computer running iTunes, clicking on the device found in the left grey column and then clicking update.
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Posted by Greg Mills
Mexican Restaurants serve hot taco chips with salsa. Apple can’t do that, serving “hot chips” in iPhone or iPad could result in very short life spans for such devices. Warranty and product recall nightmares must be avoided at all costs. Apple has a pretty good reputation for sturdy products and shaking out product quality problems early.
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