Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’
Just a quick thought concerning Apple’s current lawsuit against the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC over alleged patent infringement relating to touch-screen smart-phone technologies: basically, what happens if Apple win? Of course HTC will pay damages, some sort of agreement will be reached etc, but what about the wider implications?
It seems clear to anyone who has been inside a mobile phone shop since the launch of the iPhone that there are a great number of quite similar devices out there, from a variety of manufacturers. If HTC are guilty of infringing patents then probably so too are a number of other manufacturers (though perhaps HTC provides a good example of a much smaller and weaker company out of which to make an example…
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After the weeks of hype, excitement and speculation, we now finally know just what the Apple tablet computer will look like, cost, and do – and what it will be called (the iPad). However, perhaps unsurprisingly after all the ridiculous build-up, it has not lived up to the expectations of many bloggers, with the general consensus being that it is somewhat of a larger iPhone.
Well I suppose it’s only inevitable that the actual thing can’t live up to such overblown fantastical expectations, and while many in the ‘blogosphere’ contemplate a ‘failure’ for Apple, I must say that I’m more inclined to side with Stephen Fry on this one when he highlights that a similar response has met most of Apple’s recent launches (including the iPhone) –…
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The iPhone possesses a seemingly neverending ability to permeate into most spheres of daily existence, offering us a range of services in situations where previously we struggled without our beloved apps – and also in plenty of situations where we were previously perfectly fine without the shiny little touchscreen deity…
However, as good as the iPhone is, one must surely feel that it is important that it does not provide the answer for every tricky, confusing, or annoying problem or situation in our lives. I’m talking especially about the new surge in health related apps, some of which threaten to assume far too much significance in people’s health decisions and education.
There’s no doubt that some of the more minor apps are…
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Last week it emerged that Apple has followed in the footsteps of Google in ‘following the locals laws’ of countries in which they operate. In this instance they mean removing all Dalai Lama themed apps from its Chinese app store (the Dalai Lama is classed as a dangerous dissident in China – and is therefore removed from all online media). On the face of it, Apple’s decision is hardly surprising from a company which knows (as does any other operating in this territory) that this is the cost of business in this market. Unfortunately it will certainly continue to be so while companies acquiesce to participating in the apparatus of control that is censorship in China.
Is it too much to expect a company to…
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While reading a recent Techcrunch piece on Blipr (free iPhone app that enables messaging with other iPhone users), I couldn’t help but fear for the fate of the humble text message as we know it. If we can safely assume that handsets like iPhones are the future (surely in four or five years time they’ll be as everyday as colour screens on mobiles are now), then it’s only a matter of time before everyone has a mobile device with extensive app options for messaging via the internet connection of their device, rather than using more expensive SMS options.
Whatsmore, even if the cost of using the SMS format falls – it still seems unlikely that it could compete with the much cheaper cost…
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