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As noted by Fortune, J.D Power and Associates has ranked the iPhone as the phone with the highest customer satisfaction rate. The iPhone 4 got a score of 800 or out of 1000 beating number 2, LG with their score of 731.

Oh, Apparently the iPhone’s battery life is the worst…compared to… say, the HTC EVO?

Apple constantly invents and reinvents, files patents and attempts to weave its advances into new generations of device to amuse and amaze the Apple faithful, today in AAPL Patent watch we present you with a new technology which could spearhead Apple’s move to take a big slice out of the digital photography market and another which basically just makes iPod nanos even more nano.
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COMPUTERWORLD: No sooner do we learn Apple is manufacturing CDMA iPhones for launch in 2011 than Verizon’s CEO makes statements which suggest it won’t sell the iPhone next year. Don’t US customers deserve a little more clarity on the future availability — or otherwise — of Apple’s must-have mobile in the US?

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I look at this thing, and as bad as it is, I can’t help but wonder if you can Hackintosh it.  Ctrl-Alt-Del FTL via Giz.
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Look I’ve been bleating on ad infinitum about how your iPhone will one day be your wallet — now over at the real world, New Yorkers may soon pay for their travel fares with a flick of their iDevice.

Visa has just launched a new pilot scheme in which New Yorkers can pay for subway, bus and train fares with their iPhone.
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There’s a furiously healthy grey market in the iPhone in China — we wonder how it works? Turns out it is quite complicated, involving early morning queues at US Apple Stores, backstreet sales deals at stores in Chinatown, unlocking, shipping and later sale in China, where the devices actually get made.
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Independent artists are finally making their long, slow progress onto Apple’s social network for music, Ping.

Ping, which launched after months of development without support from Facebook and with limited involvement of the labels, was originally castigated for offering a major label bias.
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Forbes reports that Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is now worth $6.9 Billion topping Steve Jobs’ 2010 networth of $6.1 Billion. Interestingly enough, Jobs’ $6.1 Billion is one billion more than he had in 2009, meaning he netted a billion bucks in one year.  Not bad for the guy who made the Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

At least you can trust Jobs with your personal info, kinda.

To gauge the author’s knowledge, check out this statement: “It’s speculated that the Facebook phone with run on Google’s Android operating system, currently offered by Verizon (Apple has a deal with rival AT&T).” – Clearly someone familiar with the mobile landscape in the US.

Apple’s attempt at 99-cent TV show rentals is off to a choppy start, with NBC Universal chief exec Jeff Zucker saying his network ain’t about to follow Fox and Walt Disney to rent movies via the service.
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Hey we’re just hearing this from the BBC so it must be true, but it looks like some of those iPhone apps out there aimed at kids may sometimes manage to fool children into making in-game purchases using a grown-up’s credit card. We also have Apple’s response to this.

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Intel’s optical connectivity standard Light Peak may not be a huge success once the company begins offering it to PC makers, but as a technology it could open the door to future furiously fast optical interconnects extending all across the gamut of the consumer and the professional/server markets, an engineer from an unnamed “top-tier” PC company said today.
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The whole ‘kids wiping their identities when they turn 18 thing ‘ was a joke!

(anyone find an international/Flashless version? Hit us in the comments)
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COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s on track to deliver the iPhone on US carriers other than AT&T early next year, the latest reports claim, but at least one analyst suggests iPhone sales growth may have slowed down (while setting new records). And perhaps the iPad really is ‘magical’.

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The age of future motoring is scurrying fast toward us, and it looks like the iPhone could be coming along for the ride, at least according to Mercedes and BMW, who showcased a pair of eScooters at the Paris motorshow this week, both of which use the iPhone as the sole driver interface.
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Apple’s recent move to allow applications developed using Adobe’s Flash Packager for iPhone tool for CS5 has had some effect, but only a “muted” one, claimed Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen during that company’s Q3 financial call.
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Apple creates amazing devices, sometimes you can’t help yourself and feel compelled to simply touch them, to feel their delicate electromagnetic chemistry shimmer under the contact with your skin. Almost like they’re alive.

No, this isn’t now, silly, but it sure will be a hallmark of Apple’s products of the future,
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Speaking of the change-everything iPad as I seem to from time-to-time AT&T has some interesting wit and repartee for us — alleging there’s already over half a million iPads on its US 3G network — meanwhile the survey results are in and the iPad is (I can feel blushes in Cupertino) the highest-scoring product a leading consumer satisfaction index has ever tracked.
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Here’s news for all you socialites out there — it appears Apple and Facebook chatted for over a year before the launch of Ping, and the talks gave us … nothing.

Recall when Apple boss Steve Jobs says Facebook demanded “onerous” terms?
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The below chart is so telling, showing as it does Apple’s slice of mobile industry profits in comparison to its actual sliver of a slice of the mobile industry itself.

With this in mind, Canaccord Genuity today began offering coverage of AAPL stock, citing a buy rating and rather stonkingly high $356 per share price.

The analysts have astutely spotted that not only can Apple create innovative products, it also knows how to make money selling them.

Via: Apple 2.0 @ Fortune

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COMPUTERWORLD: Apple’s Steve Jobs was excited at the Star Trek-like use of video in a FaceTime chat with Jony Ive when announcing iPhone 4 — but take a look at Apple’s recent purchases and a ride on the Apple rumor mill and you can’t help but see the jigsaw pieces falling into place that mean the science fiction future is here.

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Adobe today updated its Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements for Mac and PC.  Adobe is touting ‘magic’ in this upgrade saying:

“The Photoshop brand has been creating groundbreaking imaging magic for 20 years, and Photoshop Elements has been making that magic accessible to mere mortals for nearly a decade. The Content Aware Fill technology introduced with Photoshop CS5 is one of our most exciting innovations ever, so we’re thrilled to be able to make it accessible to photo and video enthusiasts in this latest Elements release.”

Content Aware Fill is a pretty awesome technology.

Abobe is offering a $20 rebate on each bring the price down to $80 each or buy both together for $150-$30 rebate = $120.

For an additional $50 Adobe offers a plus package which gives users 20GB of online space to share their media.

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