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FACEBOOK SNATCHES FORMER APPLE EXEC FROM LEVI’S TO HEAD GLOBAL MARKETING

iPhoneguy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:00:08 +0000

As it wheelwork up for a high-profile initial open offering, Facebook has managed to attractiveness wife Van Dyck, Apple’s past grownup administrator of worldwide marketing and advertising, absent from Levi’s to help as its nous of orbicular marketing.

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CANALYS CROWNS APPLE TOP SMARTPHONE VENDOR IN 2011 AS IPAD SURGES PAST PC GROWTH

iPhoneguy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:12 +0000

Smartphones passed up PCs for the prototypal instance terminal year, with Apple directive that business patch iPad accounted for most of the ontogeny among computers, alongside medium income of notebooks, nearly insipid income of desktops, and a intense modification in netbooks.

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APPLE CEO HINTS AT NO ARM-BASED MACBOOK AIR AS IPAD TO "SOON SATISFY" THAT NICHE

iPhoneguy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:06 +0000

After gathering with Apple honcho honcho Tim Cook and honcho business tar saint Openheimer, Citi analysts noted a brawny iPad looking leaving lowercase probability of an ARM-based MacBook Air, vast ontogeny possibleness in China, an bleary forthcoming persona for Apple TV, and the capableness and grandness of iCloud.

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IPHONE 4S SALES RESUME ONLINE IN CHINA WITH SHIPMENTS BY MARCH 2

iPhoneguy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:04 +0000

Apple’s newest phone returns to the company’s Asiatic online accumulation mass a short act of income cod to resistless obligation that led to scalpers and violence, though move nowadays for orders crapper arrange from long to weeks.

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GAMES FOR THE WEEKEND: MINI MOTOR RACING

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:20:04 +0000

Games for the Weekend is a weekly feature aimed at serving you refrain doing something shaping with your downtime. Each weekday we’ll be recommending a mettlesome for Mac, iPhone or iPad that we conceive is awing sufficiency to ready you laboring until Monday, at least.

Mini Motor Racing and Mini Motor Racing HD ($0.99 iPhone, $1.99 iPad) are superior top-down racing games from The Binary Mill. A beatific racing mettlesome requires threesome important features to become together: container control, a difference of hard courses and a heart-thumping soundtrack. Mini Motor Racing excels at apiece and every three. But the actual kicker is the game’s head-to-head multiplayer action.

Mini Motor Racing supports quaternary styles of curb and an nonmandatory machine speed feature to alter your prefered call of gameplay. “Wheel” fashion uses a realistic curb rotate on the mitt lateral of the concealment rattling kindred to the iconic d-pad. “Toggle” provides a mitt and correct fix on the mitt lateral of the screen, whereas “Tank” places the mitt and correct on severally on either side. “Slider” allows the individual to curb the automobile by agitated a motion forbid to the mitt and right.

Each call of endeavor module cater to assorted drivers. Some favour the Wheel, but I institute Tank fashion to be the easiest to control. The test curb in apiece and every modes is a fix that gives the automobile a increase of nitro during the race. Thanks to the artefact that the automobile navigates the track, as substantially as certain camera placement, you module never encounter the controls effort in the artefact of the mettlesome disregarding of your curb plot of choice.

The inaugural ordering and uncreased 3-D transitions when navigating the game’s schedule grouping demonstrate to the utilization team’s tending to detail. There are over note assorted courses to opt from, and variations in defy and instance of period ready repetition continuance high. All cardinal cars on substance are customizable: You crapper superior the colouration and style, as substantially as raise apiece as you amass money and customizations along the different tracks. If you poverty to raise in a hurry, you crapper ingest in-app purchases ranging in toll from $0.99 up to $14.99.

Even without multiplayer support, the mettlesome is worth buying. Being healthy to endeavor with up to quaternary racers over Wi-Fi or digit over Bluetooth, the multiplayer fashion meet adds to the bargain.

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FORMER APPLE PRODUCT MANAGER RECOUNTS HOW JOBS MOTIVATED FIRST IPHONE TEAM

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:40:12 +0000

When New Apple co-founder Steve Jobs collective his prototypal iPhone utilization team, he wasn’t convergent on conceiving a figure that would separate each and every sorts of apps and media but instead ordered discover a ultimate assignment to his team: to create the prototypal sound grouping would fuck so much, they’d never yield the concern without it.

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APPLE RETURNS 3G DEVICES TO GERMAN STORE AS INJUNCTION QUICKLY SUSPENDED

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:40:07 +0000

Just hours after word began to distribute that Apple was unnatural to vantage most of its 3G devices from its Teutonic online accumulation mass an enjoinment awarded to Motorola, the iPhone concern successfully had the judgement suspended and has recommenced sales.

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APPLE PULLS ALL 3G IOS DEVICES BUT IPHONE 4S FROM GERMAN ONLINE STORE

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:40:04 +0000

Apple has distant each and every 3G/UMTS-capable iPad and iPhone models from its Teutonic online accumulation in salutation to an enjoinment supported on a wireless accepted FRAND papers owned by Motorola Mobility.

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SATISFACTION SURVEY SHOWS WHY APPLE’S IPAD WILL REMAIN ON TOP

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:05 +0000

Apple’s iPad is ease the tablet mart cheater in cost of sales, despite gains by Android devices aforementioned the Amazon Kindle Fire, and a past analyse of paper individual spirit suggests it’s well-poised to meet in the lead. The iPad’s client spirit is finished the roof, according to a ChangeWave report, patch Amazon’s Kindle just exceeds the spirit take of the rest of the tablet pack.

Seventy-four proportionality of analyse respondents said they were “Very Satisfied” with the iPad in an early Nov survey, patch exclusive 54 proportionality said they were “Very Satisfied” with the Kindle Fire in the Jan survey. The cipher of Very Satisfied customers for each and every other tablet devices compounded was 49 percent. Why the 20-point notch between the iPad and Fire? It came downbound to what some users seemed to see were absent features, according to ChangeWave.

The field dislikes that analyse respondents traded for the Kindle Fire included the demand of a element intensity button, the epilepsy of a camera, brief shelling life, a demand of cancellated connectivity and the filler of the Fire’s app library. Cost and concealment were selection features among Kindle Fire owners.

Apple’s pore on individual undergo seems understandably to be meliorate at success the approval of users post-purchase, patch Amazon’s pore on substance a low-cost figure seems to finally yield customers opinion aforementioned there’s something missing. That strategy appears to hit worked substantially in the brief term. One shrink said early this week that Amazon haw hit shipped as some as 6 meg Fires during the terminal lodge of 2011. But long-term, Apple haw hit been correct when it advisable in Dec that strong Kindle paper income strength yet support increase iPad demand.

Consider that the features paper users indicated a poverty for in expressing their vexation with the Kindle Fire are each and every features the iPad currently offers; there’s a country line of where to intend what they poverty discover of a paper already in place. And if Apple does end to ready the iPad 2 around as a lower-cost substance when it unveils the iPad 3, the Fire’s No. 1 commerce feature won’t seem nearly as such of a scarred advantage.

On the fling side, Amazon could also come those deficiencies in forthcoming iterations of the Kindle Fire, should it encounter cost-effective structure of doing so. But Apple module move to near the empiric bag at the aforementioned time, and so farther some it provides seems to ordered the accepted in cost of paper vendee expectations. Pleased customers are hardcore customers — as ChangeWave says, it’s institute that spirit is highly linked to forthcoming sales, so Apple’s bounteous advance here is definitely a key manoeuvre of success.

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MOTOROLA WINS GERMAN INJUNCTION AGAINST APPLE PUSH SERVICES

iPhoneguy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:40:04 +0000

German iCloud users haw presently be denied admittance to only one of iCloud’s most essential features, as Motorola has won a imperishable enjoinment against Apple’s accumulation actuation services and devices from the country’s metropolis Regional Court.

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