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Brier Dudley, Seattle Times
Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel and senior vice president, welcomed Apple's lawsuit as the opening salvo in a bigger effort to sort out who owns the technology used in smartphones and start collecting a standard set of royalties. License holders have been talking about this behind the scenes for some time, and Apple brought it out in the open, he said.
Peter Kafka, Wall Street Journal
One of the most interesting things about Apple’s App Store is that it is a level playing field, or at least it’s supposed to be. That said, it certainly helps to be one of the big guys.
AppleInsider
An estimated one in five iPhone developers are companies founded specifically to create applications for the iPhone, according to the latest Flurry Smartphone Industry Pulse survey. That represents the second-largest category of developers behind only preexisting online companies, including giants like Google, Facebook and eBay. Those established brands take up 22 percent of the iPhone developer share.
Seth Weintraub, Computerworld
Richard DeVaul's Linkedin status changed last month from Founder & President at AWare Technologies to Senior Prototype Engineer at Apple, Inc. This is a significant hire for Apple and one that shows the company is looking far ahead into the future of mobile computing.
Serenity Caldwell, Macworld
Mike Elgan, Computerworld
The truth is that people don’t buy consumer electronics for the quantity of features. They buy it for the quality of experience.
Doug McLean, TidBITS
Busy people take notice: the latest version of Cultured Code's popular task manager Things is now available and comes with a big functionality boost. Version 1.3 brings a new Mixed Projects feature, enabling users to work with projects that have active, inactive, and scheduled to-dos all at once, something that wasn't previously possible.
Ramu Nagappan, Macworld
The MacBundles has put a new spin on the now well established software bundling promotion. In addition to offering the usual “batch of a dozen software titles for $50,” the MacBundles has created a BYOB (Build Your Own Bundle) option that lets you customize the package.
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Three weeks ago the hard drive in my MacBook Pro went bad. So far as I can tell, I didn’t lose a single byte of data. Here’s how.
Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Blog
While the rest of the world iterates on existing solutions to known problems, Apple discovers and solves problems we didn’t even know we had.
The Business Insider
Apple and Google were alleged to have had a no-poaching pact for years . Now that they're enemies pitched in an Android versus iPhone battle, it appears that agreement is over.
Dan Ablan, Macworld
While most 3D programs on the market play nicely with Adobe’s industry standard apps, none have thus far created an integrated system that removes the guesswork for its users. That’s the strength of Strata Design 3D CX 6.1.
Erica Ogg, CNET News
Applications meant for the iPhone may look similar to their iPad brethren, but they present new challenges to the people creating them.
Nic Fildes, The Times
Britain’s second-largest residential broadband provider is preparing to switch its entire workforce to Apple laptops.
Apple has been a minor player in the enterprise market and does not make a priority of selling directly to corporate customers, outside the education and media sectors. But with more workers using Apple’s computers at home and downloading business applications and checking e-mails on their iPhones, the pressure on companies to switch to Apple’s products for work purposes is growing.
Olga Kharif, BusinessWeek
Demand for digital book applications on Apple devices gives developers and publishers fresh ways to make money—a mixed blessing for Amazon.
Joe Wilcox, Beta News
Apple's initial goals have little to do with protecting intellectual property as much as scaring away competitors.
Brad Stone, New York Times
So moving our music into the cloud and piping it to any device, on demand, should be easy, right?
Brad Stone and Miguel Helft, New York Times
While the discord between Apple and Google is in part philosophical and involves enormous financial stakes, the battle also has deeply personal overtones and echoes the ego-fueled fisticuffs that have long characterized technology industry feuds.
At the heart of their dispute is a sense of betrayal: Mr. Jobs believes that Google violated the alliance between the companies by producing cellphones that physically, technologically and spiritually resembled the iPhone. In short, he feels that his former friends at Google picked his pocket.
Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal
Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives. That figure equals about 10% of the company's global work force.
Paul Suarez, PC World
According to a recently-posted FAQ, Apple will replace your iPad if it "requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge," for $99 and a $6.95 shipping fee.
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