May 23 2013
As you know, a devastating tornado hit the town of Moore, Oklahoma last Monday. We here at AppleScoop.com would like to ask our readers if they could donate just $10.00 directly to the American Red Cross to help in the relief efforts.
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May 23 2013
“What will be remembered about Nocera’s latest Apple column is that he called Tim Cook a liar — accusing him of telling, under oath, a ‘whopper’ and a ‘flat-out lie,’ Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Nocera implies, but doesn’t actually say, that he makes those charges after watching Cook’s testimony,” P.E.D. reports. “I watched Cook’s testimony — twice. I find it hard to believe that Nocera saw any of it. And having read the documents and news articles
he cites, I believe that on the points with which he has factual disagreements with Cook, he’s provably wrong.”
Read more in the full article here.
May 23 2013
“Apple, Inc’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is fast approaching, and while Apple CEO Tim Cook has allued to having no new hardware arriving until this fall, software will be the big focus for Apple’s annual developers event,” Mark Reschke writes for T-GAAP.
“A new version of Apple’s mobile iOS and desktop OS X software is going to be shown, but perhaps more important than these fundamental pieces of Apple’s ecosystem is iCloud,” Reschke writes. “The future of computing, how we access and manipulate data is rapidly moving to server-side solutions, or “cloud” architecture, and Apple has been falling behind its competition at a rapid rate.”
Reschke writes, ” The most woeful experience iCloud has delivered is to Apple developers. Apple’s iCloud “just works” system for developers is called Core Data Syncing, allowing developers to deliver push solutions within their own applications to multiple devices, is flat out broken. The bugs and/or broken API’s developers have have to work with (or work around), have driven many to the brink, and the lack of support Apple support to fix problems has pushed many to simply give up. Since it’s launch in 2011, Apple has done little to fix Core Data’s issues. If ever there was a time to address iCloud’s inept abilities for developers, WWDC would be the venue.”
Read more in the full article here.
May 21 2013
Editor’s Note:
With WWDC 2013 weeks away, the rumor mill will be gearing up with “Reports” and “Rumors” of what Apple will introduce during its annual WWDC Keynote. We report these rumors and reports for the benefit of our readers.
According to 9to5Mac.com, Apple may be adding new social services to its new iOS 7 operating system. It is said that the company was in talks with Flickr and Vimeo and will now be adding them to the new OS:
“Both Flickr and Vimeo will now also be integrated deeply into the new operating system, so users will be able to sign into the respective networks via iOS 7′s built-in Settings application. Like with iOS’s Facebook and Twitter ties, Apple customers will be able to log-in one time into each social network and have full sharing access.”
May 21 2013
Mid Tuesday Eastern, Microsoft announced a new addition to its XBox game platform lineup – The XBox One.
The third generation of XBox includes an all new architecture, a way to utilize a Windows computer in combination with the console, and ways to respond to the user’s voice and gesture commands by introducing a built-in Kinect feature.
The new console includes a updated XBox logo, 8GB RAM, USB 3.0, WiFi Direct, Blu-Ray Player, and a native 64-bit architecture.
Unfortunately, old XBox games will not work with the new machine. But Microsoft did say it will continue to support the XBox 360 after the new one hits the streets. No word on price or availability.
May 21 2013
In response to the devastating tornado that hit Okalhoma City on Monday, U.S. wireless carrier AT&T announced it will be waiving all overage charges for those affected through June 30.
This includes voice, data, and text messaging.
May 20 2013
AT&T has announced that all mobile video chat applications, including Apple’s FaceTime, will work over its cellular network by the end of this year.
No word on a specific date.
May 19 2013
“Last week, Bang With Friends proudly announced Android and iPhone versions of its controversial and super popular dating app, but now Apple has pulled the app from its app store,” Julie Bort reports for Business Insider.
“We’d guess the reason is that BWF is a brutally honest way to go about dating,” Bort reports. “The app helps you find a Facebook friend to hook up with.”
Bort reports, “BWF grew wildly with almost no promotion. It now has more than 900,000 members after just 90 days and has matched 200,000 couples, its founders say. It also raised about $1 million from investors.”
Read more in the full article here.
May 19 2013
As reported by AppleInsider.com, Apple’s resellers are seeing limited supplies of the company’s MacBook Air, hinting that an upgraded model may make an appearance during next month’s WWDC:
“The popular 13-inch MacBook Air with a 1.8-gigahertz processor and 256-gigabyte solid-state drive is currently out of stock at resellers Amazon, B&H, MacConnection, and MacMall. In addition, J&R is currently advertising that the thin-and-light notebook is only available for purchase in its brick-and-mortar stores.
In fact, the only reseller on AppleInsider’s Mac Price Guide that is currently advertising available inventory of that 13-inch MacBook Air configuration is Best Buy.
Constrained availability of existing models is often one of the first signs of an impending product refresh, as Apple draws down inventory in anticipation of the release of new hardware. Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, scheduled for June 10 through 14, would be an opportune time for the company to introduce newly updated MacBook Airs.
Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities indicated last month that Apple apparently plans to introduce new MacBook Airs featuring Intel’s next-generation Haswell processors at WWDC. The new ultraportable notebooks are expected to go on sale before the end of June.”
To read the actual report, click here.
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