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Take this with a grain of salt for the time being. A Gizmodo reader detailed a recent iPhone 4 replacement that seems to be… different. It has a slightly different stainless steel edge than the launch model, and doesn’t drop calls.
So yeah, I’m skeptical. If Apple was replacing models, I imagine the Internet would explode.
Microsoft has been in the tablet business for years. Well, supposedly anyway. I’ve never seen one on the streets, but of the two users who actually used one, they say Microsoft made an okay product. But after events full of promised Windows tablets, the Courier, and some HP Slate thing that’s gone nowhere, Microsoft is left wondering how the hell to advance. It boggles my mind that after ten years of research, they have nothing to show for it but a standard Windows OS slapped onto a sheet of plastic.
We’ve mentioned before that AdMob was still existent in the App Store. Now AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui confirms that Apple hasn’t been enforcing their new policies.
CNET reports:
“They haven’t been enforcing (the new regulations) yet. We’re very appreciate of that.” Were Apple to actually enforce those terms, “it would mean we could not run ads on the iPhone at all,” Hamoui said, explaining that without the analytical data, AdMob couldn’t even track who had clicked on their customer’s ads. Advertisers won’t buy ads when they can’t even tell how many people had clicked on that ad, he said.
“The really rich pretty ads they’re doing are making advertisers and agencies think about what mobile means,” Hamoui said. “Anybody getting advertisers interested in mobile is a good thing. It’s not at all a zero-sum game.”
[via CNET]
Apple has just started sending out emails to remind Mac OS X developers that they can now submit Safari Extensions to Apple to be featured in the upcoming Extension gallery.
Apple shares are at stake as the iPhone 4 reception issue gains momentum among news outlets and various tech blogs. As the public demands answers, Apple dropped 4% from their 50-day average price of $256.26 to $246.43. Although Apple did recover a bit at $250 as the Nasdaq gained 1.7 percent.
An electromagnetic engineer has stepped in to challenge Consumer Report’s testing method as they deemed the iPhone 4 unfit for consumer use.
The Antenna issue is getting a bit out of hand, and while we didn’t explicitly cover Consumer Reports’ redacted statement in which they cannot recommend the iPhone 4 to consumers, Apple may be forced to recall their handset because of it. Cult of Mac recently spoke to quite a few PR Experts who are not only astounded at the “crisis,” but are placing bets that Apple will be forced to recall the iPhone 4 as the antenna issue is hardware related (and cannot be fixed by software).
VentureBeat MobileBeat 2010: AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan is blasted with questions from VB Editor in Chief Matt Marshall concerning AT&T and their network. The response ties in with what Jobs said D8, “… when they start to fix them, get worse before they get better…and if you believe that, things should be getting a lot better real soon.”
VentureBeat reports,
It’s a little bit of everything, Donovan replied. With a flood of new chipsets, phones, and applications, the traditional device testing and rollout methods have “broken down.” In addition, AT&T recently faced a shortage of the components needed to improve its network.
“I’ll tell you the things it’s not been,” Donovan said. “It’s not been capital, it’s not been conviction and commitment.” AT&T “will move heaven and Earth” to meet its customers’ growing data needs, he said.
I’d be impressed if AT&T could actually move the heavens to improve reception.
[VentureBeat via 9 to 5 Mac]
Do you guys remember Symbian? Does anybody remember Symbian? We usually associate Symbian as the famed OS of Nokia phones, but I’m beginning to associate it with “non-existent.”
