Cue dramatic music: "It's patent watch time here at Redmond Pie headquarters folks, and boy have we got a story for you today. Today's drama from the courtroom comes courtesy of Apple, Motorola and a German Judge". If you'll excise the overly dramatic opening for a moment, the latest round of legal mumbo jumbo is actually quite an interesting one, and it's a very important one if you were thinking of buying an Apple iPhone or iPad in Germany any time soon.
The Samsung-Apple lawsuit in Australia has finally come to an end, folks, and it’s a pretty bittersweet ending, to be sure. Details after the jump!
Far from being content with one new product hitting the market, consumers are almost instantly looking for what's next, what can be improved, and when it's going to arrive.
The war between Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone is far from over. There have many battles, many accusations and many lawsuits fought and won all over the world between the pair. The lawsuits mostly involve patent infringements and accusations that each company is copying the other's designs.
We’ve heard Apple’s next venture into a new product would be into the TV market. Steve Jobs said he finally cracked whatever was holding the company back from diving in. That’s really as much as we know so far. It doesn’t mean we can’t speculate, though.
We all know that Apple has struggled with knock-off devices for a long, long time. Fake iPods first began appearing in China long before the iPhone and iPad were announced, or even thought of. Now though, even the touch-screen loveliness of Apple's flagship products find themselves being copied and sold on the black market.
Any iPhone owner that is a heavy multitasker will no doubt admit that the way Apple's smartphone handles accessing and restoring apps that are running in the background is not really the best. Double-pressing that already overused Home button in order to open up the multitasking tray may work, but it isn't ideal, and we have gone through a few iPhones because of broken Home buttons.
Oh well, the calm didn't last long did it? We're just a couple of months since the iPhone 4S was released to an expectant public, and we are already beginning with the iPhone 5 rumors, and some of them are just plain crazy.
In an interview with Sunday MIDDAY, a local TV program in India, Wozniak shared some pretty interesting thoughts on the success of Apple and the modern smartphones of today.
When I was a teenager I used to work at the electronics department at the local Sears store in my neighborhood mall. Now, before you start making fun of me, I’d like to say that I learned a lot about electronics and technology while working there.
