Category: Apple iPhone

Apple Fights Jailbreaking, Celebrates App Store

Monday, 17 January 2011 12:17 Written by Chris 0 Comments

According to a recently aired report by NBC in the United States, Apple has requested that the U.S. Copyright Office help them to more effectively fight copyright infringement in the form of jailbreaking techniques used on their mobile devices. Jailbreaking, referring to various methods used to allow the installation of unapproved apps on a device, is a method used by some to bypass restrictions put in place by Apple; despite NBC’s confusion, this does not include unlocking a device for use on other networks, which is perfectly legal.

In related news, Apple’s popular App Store, the online marketplace serving apps, both free and paid, to the company’s mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, is nearing the 10 billion downloads milestone. As it did when the App Store reached the 1 billion mark in April 2009, Apple will reward the 10 billionth downloader with a $10,000 App Store gift card. The official number of downloads now sits at about 9.8 billion.

Apple Disables Jailbreak Detection

Monday, 13 December 2010 10:22 Written by Chris 0 Comments

Web sites around the net reported over the weekend that Apple has, without fanfare, quietly disabled the jailbreak detection API in the latest release of iOS 4.2.

A bane to savvy iPhone users, this API has previously been used by developers to allow an app to detect whether or not a device had had its OS modified, or jailbroken, to allow for the installation of non-Apple Store apps that can take advantage of root-level processes.

Whether Apple will reintroduce this API for developers remains to be seen.

Costco Stops Apple Sales

Friday, 10 December 2010 12:17 Written by Chris 0 Comments

Chief financial officer of Costco Richard Galanti has confirmed that his company has reached a mutual agreement with Apple to cease the sales of Apple products.

Galanti made the statement during a conference call yesterday, saying that his company and Apple “agreed to wind down” according to a report by The Seattle Times. Costco had carried only iTunes gift cards and the popular iPad tablet; the decision was allegedly made in part due to Apple’s apparent reluctance to allow Costco to sell iPad devices online.

Skyfire App for iPhone Sells Out

Thursday, 04 November 2010 12:25 Written by Chris 0 Comments

Skyfire, an iPhone application that has become a favorite of mobile web surfers, has officially “sold out” according to the company behind it.

Skyfire announced last night that it had officially withdrawn the Skyfire app from Apple’s iTunes App Store due to an overloading of their servers. Used to transcode Flash content, not playable on Apple devices, into HTML5, the app gives iPhone users the ability to view content not officially supported by Apple as per Steve Jobs’ ongoing battle with Adobe. That transcoding is a server-heavy process, meaning that Skyfire will need to add the technology necessary to support its fast-growing user-base.

No re-release date was offered by the official announcement did say that a new “batch” of apps would be available again soon, indicating that the company plans to continue to play catch-up, at least for the near-future.

HTC, Apple Continue Legal Battle

Friday, 27 August 2010 11:46 Written by Chris 0 Comments

HTC has filed a counterclaim against Apple following the iPhone-maker’s original patent infringement lawsuit with the District Court of Delaware in the United States.

Defendants admit that some of the asserted patents purport to cover generally various software and/or hardware technologies that could be used in mobile communication devices and/or other products. Defendants otherwise lack knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations.

HTC counterclaim

Apple’s original suit was filed in April 2010, outlining infringements on 20 separate patents held by the company. HTC attempted to have another court halt imports and sales of Apple mobile devices the following month, setting the stage for a showdown between two of the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturers.

Apple has yet to respond to HTC’s latest claim.

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