It seems that some provisions in the Apple deal with book publishers for the iPad will work to keep prices down, especially on the most popular books, such as those from the New York Times best seller list.
Publishers say that they require more information about users than Apple usually divulges. Apple’s stance on user privacy may threaten the marriage between the iPad and the publishers of books, magazines and newspapers.
Speech-to-text wizard Nuance Communications has acquired MacSpeech, the leading provider of speech recognition solutions for Apple computers, in order to extend it’s reach into the Mac realm.
A number of cellular system operators have decided to gang up on Apple as a new way to fight the leader in the cell phone app wars, joining forces to go up against Apple and the App Store.
Few services have been as good for Apple as iTunes, and iTunes is about to be very good indeed for the lucky downloader of the 10 billionth song from iTunes, awarding that music fan a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
Veritable barrages of words have flown both ways in the battle of opinions between Adobe and Apple regarding Flash, whether or not iPhone users need it and whether or not Apple will allow it.
Market research firm iSuppli has released their cost estimate of the new Apple iPad line, saying that the 32GB Wi-Fi plus 3G model, which retails for $729, will cost approximately $287 to build.
According to the reports of two major market analyst firms, Apple’s share of the burgeoning smartphone marketplace has reached 25 percent of the U.S. market for the first time, primarily at the expense of RIM / Blackberry and Palm.
Apple has warned developers of apps for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that they should not use the location based services of these devices to serve local ads to any of their mobile platforms.
Adobe is not taking Steve Jobs’ complaints about about their Flash product lying down, and has issued a number of statements trying to clarify their position in the latest Adobe-Apple war of words.
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