Apple has announced that they will swap out any iPad with a failed battery for a brand new Apple tablet for just a $99 fee, perhaps hoping to silence critics of possible battery problems in its newest mobile system.
For months already rumors have circulated that relations between the two companies are strained. Now a new report quoting a lot unnamed people has added gasoline to the mix, and the hubris is really beginning to fly. Â Steve Jobs has declared war against searchzilla and it’s gonna get ugly (i.e. extremely entertaining).
The massive 30 room, 17,250 square foot monument to industrial excess and environmental degradation is mold, rot and critter infested and hasn’t been occupied for decade. Now, barring action by an appellate court, its historic elements will be preserved and a new 5,000-square-foot, environmentally friendly home for the Apple CEO and his family will rise in its place.
It is now possible to pre-order your iPad from the Apple Web site, allowing you to be among the first of what Apple hopes are many millions of happy Apple tablet computer owners this year and next.
Fire up Software Update because Apple’s got an important download for you. This maintenance release of the company’s popular WebKit-based browser offers important feature tweaks and fixes, including improved third-party plug-in stability (i.e. Flash) improvements.
Consumer Reports has named Apple number one in computer technical support, besting everyone else in that crowded field for working with users to solve problems on their laptop and desktop computer systems.
Apple is seemingly on a systematic campaign to make changes in the often inscrutable policies which govern its App Store, probably in order to do so before the iPad makes its debut in a very few weeks.
No one’s ever happy to see marketplace battles transported into the courtroom. Still, there’s plenty of backstory here and quite a bit of it’s unflattering for Jonathan Schwartz, the last man to helm the one-time tech powerhouse.
The Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad maker is hardly alone in ignoring the committee — Facebook, Twitter, Hewlett Packard and McAfee also chose to sit it out. However, the committee’s chairman is up in arms over the snub and is threatening legislation with or without cooperation from top tech firms.
In what is almost certainly a surprising development to most people, even avid Apple-watchers, the number of books available in the Apple App Store has now exceeded the number of games there.
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