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Apple responds to Maps criticism

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While Maps has worked well for me so far, not everyone has been so lucky. Complaints starting coming in today about various problems with the new app. Apple vows to make it better. “Customers around the world are upgrading to … Continued

iOS 6 release causes huge Web traffic spike

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This massive increase in traffic was then sustained throughout most of the day, and actually escalated as people got home from work in the evening. This resulted in traffic from Apple’s servers yesterday being over 9 times their average traffic levels.

I can’t even begin to imagine how much traffic and data Apple pushed yesterday.

iOS 6 features you may not know about

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Chad Williams put together a nice list of lesser known features from iOS 6. Sometimes the coolest things aren’t always the most talked about.

American Airlines gives flight attendants a Galaxy Note

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A more personalized inflight experience will become a reality later this year as American Airlines flight attendants begin using the sleek, new Samsung Galaxy Note® as part of American’s innovative tablet program designed to put invaluable customer data at their fingertips.

So American hates its flight attendants then?

[Via BGR]

iOS 6

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Apple released iOS 6 this today. You can plug your iPhone into iTunes and click “Check for Update” or go to Settings > General > Software Update on your iPhone.

Oh Google

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Google’s Andy Rubin talking to Aliyun OS’s John Spelich:

So there’s really no disputing that Aliyun is based on the Android platform and takes advantage of all the hard work that’s gone into that platform by the OHA.

You mean like how you stole iOS and built Android? Never good when that happens Andy.

[Via Electronista]

A Kindle at every price

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512 Pixels:

In preparing for tomorrow’s podcast, I decided to type up a list of Amazon’s pricing for the Kindles. Here’s the complete list.

I won’t steal the pertinent information from the site (others will though) but before you click through, take a guess at how many price points Amazon has for the Kindle and then guess how many Apple has for the iPad. It’s hard not to imagine that Amazon is creating their own “Paralysis of Choice“. Thanks to Matthew Panzarino for the link.

BlueToad was the source of Apple device IDs leaked last week

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. BlueToad:

A little more than a week ago, BlueToad was the victim of a criminal cyber attack, which resulted in the theft of Apple UDIDs from our systems. Shortly thereafter, an unknown group posted these UDIDs on the Internet.We sincerely apologize to our partners, clients, publishers, employees and users of our apps. We take information security very seriously and have great respect and appreciation for the public’s concern surrounding app and information privacy.BlueToad believes the risk that the stolen data can be used to harm app users is very low.

Well….that’s embarrassing.

Apples and Orange: the Kindle Fire HD

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TUAW:

…last week…Amazon introduced its new, larger HD (Kindle Fire). With low-cost, built-in LTE, and a $50/year data plan that gives users 250 MB of data per month, it provides a budget alternative to the iPad.No matter how you look at it, the Fire is a bargain.

Agreed but the line “I’ve used the Kindle Fire for a year now. It’s fine. The Android-based OS isn’t particularly horrible” is certainly damning with faint praise.

Rip-off

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People have been comparing the similarities between Apple products and older Braun products. However, there are big differences between that and what Samsung has done. […]

Samsung investigated for antitrust violations

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South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Thursday it has launched an investigation into whether Samsung is abusing its dominant position in the wireless market to disadvantage Apple.

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Samsung.

Apple product names

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Interested article from Marko Savic on how Apple names its products.

Nokia Windows 8 tablet

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“We have not announced any tablets, but I think the opportunity is very clear,” Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told ABC News. “People today increasingly are looking for a common digital experience between their smartphone and tablet, with a PC, and with their gaming platform, and so there’s clearly an opportunity across there. This is something that we’re looking at very closely.”

Not a huge surprise, really. Maybe a bigger surprise that it’s not more of a priority.

Apple says it did not provide data to FBI

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Apple on Wednesday responded to a weird story earlier this week that UDID information was stolen by hackers from an FBI computer. Apple contacted The Loop with some additional information. […]

FBI denial

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a denial of responsibility regarding the leak of more than 1,000,000 iOS UDID numbers last night.

Mid-sized tablets

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After using his Nexus 7, David Chartier wonders why the 7-inch product category even exists.

Apple adds Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note to amended complaint

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Apple on Friday filed an amended complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, adding two versions each of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note to its original claims of patent infringement against a number of Samsung smartphones and tablets.

This is a different complaint than the lawsuit Apple just won.

That’s exactly what Samsung did

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Charles Babcock:

What a patent and legal system should aim to prevent is theft by copying, such as stealing the technology of a competitor’s product, or creating such a conscious, copycat duplication that one product can be confused with another, thus letting the profits of an originator be taken by an imitator. Samsung did not do this.

Did Charles not see the same trial the rest of us saw? That is exactly what Samsung did. Documents from Samsung’s own executives proved that’s what they did and the jury said that’s what Samsung did.

Apple, Google meet to discuss patents

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Eric Slivka for Mac Rumors:

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page have been participating in active discussions to address patent issues relating to the two companies, “keeping the lines of communication open” as patent battles between Apple on one side and Google and its Android hardware partners on the other side continue to rage.

I would love to be in that room.

Amazon bullshit

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Today, Amazon announced that Kindle Fire is sold out, and that in just nine months, Kindle Fire has captured 22% of tablet sales in the U.S.

The mainstream press is jumping all over this pile of shit like it’s real news.

First, if a company announces that it sold out of one of its best selling products, it stopped production. Which means Amazon issued a press release saying it stopped production of the Kindle Fire. OF COURSE YOU’RE GOING TO SELL OUT!

Second, how can Amazon claim it has 22 percent market share when it has yet to share any sales numbers. Amazon will not say how many Kindle Fire tablets it actually sold.

TiVo Stream ships Sept. 6

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TiVo is releasing its Stream transcoding box for iOS devices in the first week of September.