Digitimes is reporting of new Apple products again this week. This time, we’re hearing about a brand new, even lighter 11.6-inch Macbook Air which is set to launch by the second half of 2010, together with a new iPod Touch powered by a 3MP camera. Not 5. These rumor makers better take a decision about the new iPod Touch camera.
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Digitimes: New 11.6-inch Macbook Air Coming This Year
Genius Bar to be Revamped
The Genius Bar consists of Apple’s most techie employees, those that can solve everything from a fried motherboard to bad hard drives and corrupted data. But these can-do-anything super men and women will be asked to do more, in hopes of making the customer support experience more efficient than ever.
Microsoft on iPhone 4: It’s Apple’s Vista
Not again. If there’s such a thing as a backhanded insult, Microsoft certainly pulled it off. Microsoft’s chief operating offcier labels the iPhone 4 as ‘Vista,’ poking fun at Apple in the process.
“One of the things I want to make sure you know today is that you’re going to be able to use a Windows Phone 7 and not have to worry about how you’re holding it to make a phone call,” Turner said, referring to the Microsoft mobile operating system set to debut on smartphones this fall.
Tough talk for a product that hasn’t even been released yet.
[via Computerworld]
iFixit Wants to Confirm the Existence of a Silent Recall
It’s questionable whether Apple is silently recalling iPhones, yet iFixit is adamant to find out. Apple PR won’t confirm or deny the issue, so they’d like readers to confirm their problems via decoding the serial number and testing the impedance of the metal frame. They’d like to narrow down a particular manufacturing week in which the new changes took place – you can find all the information necessary to take on the task at the source link below.
[via iFixit]
Ostrich: A Twitter Client for Safari
We’re still waiting for Tweetie 2.0 for Mac to be announced (though we’ve heard something new is going on this week) yet a lot of developers haven’t given up on developing and refining their own unofficial Twitter clients. And since Apple released Safari 5 with the possibility to install extensions on it, it was just a matter of time until someone developed a “full-featured” Twitter client for it.
Meet Ostrich.
Can ColorWare Improve iPhone 4 Reception with Rainbow Coating?
An iPhone 4 Recall Will Cost Apple $1.5 Billion
If Apple were to recall the iPhone 4 (it’s likely they won’t), how much would it cost America’s most expensive company? Estimated at 1.5 Billion dollars, a recall which would be an incredibly expensive venture that Cupertino isn’t interested in perusing. Though if Apple doesn’t act on the iPhone 4 issues, the company is prospected to lose $900 Million anyway, possibly losing up to $200 Million each week the issue isn’t resolved. A cost effective solution could be to distribute free bumpers to customers; Apple sells the bumpers at $30 a pop, but it would only cost Apple $1 per iPhone to distribute free bumpers to customers as a patch according to Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi.
[via AppleInsider (Recall and Loss Estimates) and TUAW]
Apple Purchases Online Mapping Company, Poly9
The Android comes with free Google Maps Navigation. iPhone owners will often downplay this feature of Android handsets, but for me it’s the definitive feature that has kept me from using an iPhone handset for my daily needs. Google Maps Navigation is super convenient to have, and I’m looking forward to when Apple releases a similar, competitive product of its own (if they ever will that is). As Apple’s and Google’s relationship dissolves in the smart-phone market, they may be looking to absolve themselves of Google’s services at some point down the road. Mainly their Maps feature.
Apple Confirms Their Attack on China
The next big market for Apple is Asia, specifically the Chinese market. We’ve already seen their brand new Shanghai store (it looks grand), and Apple has confirmed that a total of 25 outlets are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011. This is in line with earlier reports, and it’s just another drop in the bucket for the $40 Billion dollar company.
[via Macnn]