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Bad Apple: You’re a Fool if You Believe the iPhone Ads

Dec 02, 2008 - 8:36 PM - by AppleChic

There has been a recent storm of lawsuits against Apple by dissatisfied iPhone 3G owners who say that the advertisements that claim the iPhone is "twice as fast for half the price" are misleading. Apple has responded to one such lawsuit with a 9 page legal statement that claims their ads are truthful, but one paragraph basically says in legal speak that anyone who fully believes their ads is a fool.

The response is to the lawsuit filed by William Gillis, a 70 year old San Diego resident, who says he was mislead by untruthful advertisements when he decided to purchase an iPhone. The legal speak in question that Apple responded with is as follows:

"Plaintiff's claims, and those of the purported class, are barred by the fact that the alleged deceptive statements were such that no reasonable person in Plaintiff's position could have reasonably relied on or misunderstood Apple's statements as claims of fact."

Gillis’ lawsuit is one of many that claim Apple has misled the... [Read More]

54 Replies | 2,582 Views

Apple Considering Liquid Cooled MacBooks

Dec 02, 2008 - 7:51 PM - by AppleChic

A 12 page patent request that was filed last May and just published this week reveals that Apple is once again looking into the use of liquid coolants to transport heat in its notebook computer designs. Apple has used this controversial technique before several years ago on its line of dual processor Power Mac G5s, but only for a brief time period.

Apple says that substantial increases in the performance abilities of electronic devices have made it difficult to maintain acceptable internal and external operational temperatures. Apple explains, "Portable devices, such as laptop computers, cellular telephones, and personal digital assistants have additional design constraints which make it even harder to manage thermal load." Apple also made a particular note of how the decreasing weights of their product lines have made it hard to maintain acceptable temperatures.

Apple’s proposed solution is as follows:

"This heat pipe may contain a liquid coolant that has a density... [Read More]

4 Replies | 417 Views

Rumors of a 32GB iPhone

Dec 02, 2008 - 9:52 AM - by AppleChic

The Macworld Expo is scheduled to take place in San Francisco from January 5th to 9th, 2009 and is the most likely venue for Apple's next product announcements. While there are several rumors circulating about what new products will be announced and which existing products will be updated, one rumor indicates that Apple may unveil a 32GB iPhone at the MacWorld Expo.

Although this rumor is largely unsubstantiated, certain events coupled with the right timing have caused some to think this rumor could be true. The largest iPhone (16GB) currently only has half the memory of the largest iPod Touch (32GB) because the iPhone can only contain a single NAND Flash chip while the iPod Touch can house two. The extra space in the iPhone is consumed by necessary communications hardware. However, back in August Toshiba announced that they would mass produce the 32GB chips in the 4th quarter of 2008. These 32GB chips could possibly be used in a future iPhone model. Also, Intel interestingly... [Read More]

28 Replies | 2,766 Views

Send Free Text Messages Through Email with SMS Touch

Dec 02, 2008 - 12:02 AM - by AppleChic

The maker of the landscape typing app for iPhone, TouchType, has created a new app, SMS Touch that allows users to send unlimited text messages and then of course not... [Read More]

48 Replies | 5,493 Views

iPhone DOOMed (finally)

Nov 30, 2008 - 3:42 AM - by cash7c3

iPhone DOOM has been in the works for over a year now with more or less success. For all of you that have been waiting for this for the last year it seems that the game is finally being refined into a more solid and playable version!

Steven Troughton-Smith of iphonedoom and Zodttd of Zodttd.com have been collaborating over the last few weeks to push out a playable iPhone DOOM! While it isn't perfect yet this version has controls that are quite a bit more usable than the previous public versions and the game's performance is quite good.... [Read More]

33 Replies | 4,907 Views

iPhone Dev Team boots Linux on iPhone!

Nov 29, 2008 - 10:18 AM - by AppleChic

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60 Replies | 6,305 Views

MCleaner 1.6 - Hang up on Idiots Immediately

Nov 26, 2008 - 7:12 PM - by poetic_folly

MCleaner is one of those nifty jailbreak apps which are actually useful. The app blocks unwanted callers (even texts from them), and recently posted an update which adds a feature where the caller gets an immediate answer and hangup - so they can't even leave you a voicemail. Heh.

MCleaner has been around for a while, and runs on quite a few phones (check their site for a full list).

Its available on the iPhone via Cydia (and runs a steep $11.99, actually - up to you if that's something you want to block or accept

) with a 15 day trial.

37 Replies | 2,505 Views

QuickTime Update allows for SD iTunes playback over DisplayPort

Nov 26, 2008 - 8:08 AM - by AppleChic

Last night Apple released a new QuickTime update that allows standard definition iTunes movies to play over the new MacBooks' DisplayPort and onto older displays.

This somewhat addresses a highly publically criticized issue about how the new portables would not play legitimately purchased movies on external displays without HDCP support. However, as of now, the update is only for unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros as well as second-revision MacBook Airs.

This update should allow for the inclusion of any display that attaches through the VGA adapter and should also allow playback from DVI-equipped displays that don’t have built in HDCP encryption. HD isn't affected as of yet since TV shows usually don’t require the use of copy protection formats.

This change makes Apple a bit more in keeping with the typical practices of other movie stores and the movie disc industry as a... [Read More]

2 Replies | 450 Views

You MAY NOT Sync Without iTunes

Nov 26, 2008 - 2:41 AM - by cash7c3

Some people don't like iTunes. Some other people decided to start discussing how to sync music to their libraries on the iPhone and iPod Touch without iTunes. Some more folks at Apple decided that iTunes must be the only option and shut down development discussion for syncing without iTunes.

Users over at Bluwiki were having discussions on a few pages about how to sync media onto the iPhone and iPod Touch from sources other than iTunes. According to the Apple lawyers these discussions violated the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which is in place to stop the writing of code and sharing of information that could potentially be used to bypass copyright protection (funny that Apple is getting rid of DRM at the same time).

From Apple to Bluwiki (click ... [Read More]

32 Replies | 4,188 Views

Apple & Major Labels Already Reached DRM-Free Agreement?

Nov 26, 2008 - 2:00 AM - by cash7c3

Last week we posted about rumors that Apple had entered talks with the remaining labels that are still requiring that their music is DRM protected when sold via iTunes. It now appears that Apple may have already finalized talks with the three remaining labels with DRM music on iTunes.

According to distorted-loop tracks from the three hold out labels (Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony BMG) have started appearing as iTunes Plus DRM-free upgrades in the iTunes store. Rakim’s "The 18th Letter/The Book of Life" is available in iTunes as an upgrade to iTunes Plus. This album is via Universal which as of last week was one of the three remaining labels that only offered DRM music in iTunes. Another example that was pointed out by a MacRumors user is the "St. Elsewhere" by Gnarls Barkley album which is also available for upgrade along with many other albums from Warner Music Group.

We could be on the initial wave of the... [Read More]

8 Replies | 668 Views

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