Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Apple TV Does Run iOS

September 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Last night, it became clear that Apple’s new AppleTV is running on iOS. This news leaked as Apple put iOS 4.1 on their servers for the ‘AppleTV2,1’ device.

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EU Plans to End Antitrust Case Apple

September 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Following the recent policy changes for iOS developers, it seems like the EU is planning to end the antitrust investigation it was planning against Apple.

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Apple Acquires Polar Rose

September 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to the Swedish media, Apple has bought mobile app developer Polar Rose. Polar Rose is well known for its facial recognition apps that it released on Android.

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Developers Can Block Apple’s Airplay Service

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

As Apple introduced Airplay, the streaming media service, some developers are stressed out as the service is not covered in the license agreement they have with the composer. There’s a workaround for that.

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iPad Goes on Sale in South America and China

September 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | 1 Comment »

Just before the weekend, Apple launched the iPad in China and South America. In Beijing, one consumer stood in line for 60 hours to make sure he would buy the first unit.

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Apple Starts Clearing Unused Names

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

In the App Store, every app has to have a unique title. As a result, many developers have registered titles that sounds good, but haven’t used them for any app yet. Apple has started to take action to free those titles up.

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Adobe Restarts Flash for iOS Development

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With Apple changing their policy in regards to third party app development tools, Adobe has announced the company is delighted to restart development of Flash for the iOS platform.

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Apple Relaxes Rules of Development

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Probably to avoid any Legal problems, Apple has started to relax their review guidelines. As a result, developers are now allowed to use any tool for developing iOS apps (inc. Flash CS 5) as long as the games don’t download code.

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Asymco: iPod Touch Represents 37.7% of iOS devices

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Market researcher Asymco has calculated that at least one out of three iOS devices is not connected over 3G. Asymco calculated this based on Apple’s own statistics.

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Apple’s Stats

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

As usual, Apple kicked off its iPod event with several statistics in regards to their products. Untill now, Apple shipped over 120 million iPods, iPhones and iPads.

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