It's Christmas, the time when families come together, friends drink too much together and people go to Apple Stores to buy iPads, iPod touches and if you're really lucky, an iPhone.
Samsung has released another ad in their series of The Next Big Thing ads in which they specifically target Apple’s iPhone and iPhone enthusiasts.
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!
We're coming up to the end of 2011, and everyone is writing their 'top apps of the year' lists, and Apple is no different. Under the heading of 'App Store Rewind 2011' Apple has listed the apps it thinks have caused a stir during 2011, with both apps and games getting shown off. As well as announcing the company's favorite apps, Apple has also released new charts showing which apps were downloaded the most through 2011, as well as which grossed the most money. Interesting reading, if you like that sort of thing.
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.
It's that time of year again, when we all spend way too much money on rubbish nobody really wants and then eat more food than any human being should.
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.
Siri is undoubtedly the standout feature of Apple's iPhone 4S. So much so, that we're fairly sure that the feature is selling iPhone 4S handsets on its own, just because it makes for a hell of a demo inside an Apple Store.
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.
