Apple possibly building its own chips for iPhone and iPod
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Apple seems to be putting the pieces together to begin building its own chips for the iPhone and iPod. With its new IBM hire, and the acquisition of PA Semi, it’s become quite clear what Apple has its [...]










In an announcement that comes as no suprise, Apple’s said no to letting Opera put its popular mobile browser on the iPhone. This is, after all, the company who can’t stand to have App Store apps that compete with anything Apple makes.
Low incomes aren’t deterring iPhone buyers, with more low wage earners defecting to the iPhone camp. The data on the increase of lower-income U.S. consumers buying iPhones comes from surveys by research [...]

It was bound to happen sooner or later, and so it has. One iPhone application developer is suing another one because the former claims the latter copied the idea, and cost him a fortune in lost sales. The apps in question are iBeer and iPint, both virtual beers available as an App Store download for people who feel the need to always have a pint in their hands, even if they’re nowhere near a bar.
The EU is pushing new regulations to make Apple have iPhone batteries easily replaceable. Such regulations would also apply to the company’s other best selling consumer device, the iPod.
While email doesn’t take up a commanding presence on the iPhone 3G, the first-generation iPhone is a different story- especially those sporting only 4GB of disk space. With the amount of music, photos, videos, etc. we load on our iPhones, conserving disk space in any way is more beneficial than you might think. Email is the perfect starting point to conserving the ever-so-precious storage space.
At Adobe’s recent “Flash On The Beach” event, a senior exec. finally confirmed that a team at Adobe was “currently developing a Flash player for the iPhone.” Before you get to excited, it’s still up to Apple whether the player will actually make its way into a future firmware update, given the many reasons Apple might not want it in the first place.


