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Apple faces new enemy as Nintendo plans war

Avatar for Seth Weintraub May 7 2010 - 2:05 pm PT
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War has (almost) been declared..

No, not between Apple and your choice of:

  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Nokia
  • Adobe
  • Verizon
  • US DoJ
  • Sony
  • Or anyone else you fancy naming (see poll here), but an all new enemy is waiting in the wings…

Nintendo

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president, has reportedly told his senior executives recently to regard the battle with Sony as a victory already achieved and to look to Apple, and its iPhone and iPad devices, as the “enemy of the future”, the Times Online tells us.

Nintendo is attempting to seize back the market it feels it helped develop with its mobile devices, and is plotting to “unleash the full force of its development and marketing artillery against Apple”.

Meanwhile, Apple

Chart: iPad price by country comparisons

Avatar for Seth Weintraub May 7 2010 - 9:07 am PT
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Apple’s customers outside of the US have been told the iPad ships at the end of the month. Some prices have been announced and European prices have been leaked. Here’s how all the prices compare if converted into the same currency at today’s currency exchange rates. Here’s the dollar price between countries. Bear in mind these include different levels of sales tax (0%-9%), which doesn’t feature in US prices.

Perhaps that’s why there is eBay.

Apple may change the iPhone deal to avoid FTC investigation

Avatar for 9to5 Staff May 4 2010 - 3:52 am PT
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Apple may avoid any possible antitrust investigation on behalf of US regulators by making a change in the terms of the iPhone 4.0 SDK, industry insiders suggested late last night.

Regulators are unlikely to investigate the company if it finds some way of letting developers use other tools to write apps for the platform.

As we reported citing the NY Post yesterday, both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department Of Justice (DOJ) are currently negotiating to decide under whose jurisdiction this case might lie. Neither party has issued comment at this time.

Adobe has allegedly complained at Apple

Apple confirms (over) one million iPads sold so far

Avatar for 9to5 Staff May 3 2010 - 7:51 am PT
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Surprising? Not especially. Apple today confirmed it has sold over one million iPads since the product launched last month – it sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3.

Available only in the US while Apple deals with what it has called higher than expected demand, the sales record naturally spun further eloquence from Apple

Is H.264 going to be a 'bag of hurt' down the road?

Avatar for Seth Weintraub May 2 2010 - 2:33 pm PT
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Steve Jobs recently responded to a customer’s email on video codecs by saying that the Ogg Theora Open Source format was about to be attacked by a pool of patent holders.  Some disagree very strongly with this, saying that the statement is FUD.

Whether or not that is the case, are we, as Apple users, entirely happy with H.264 licensing terms?  In a lengthy post entitled ‘Why Our Civilization’s Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA’, Eugenia Loli-Queru presents a very scary future where the patent holders can flip a switch and pretty much require us to pay them every time we record, edit or play back our videos. 

Ed Bott at ZDNet has a pretty informed take on the whole thing, saying that in the end, it is in everyone’s best interests to keep H.264 free for casual users.

 

Opinion, some notes on Adobe, Apple, the iPhone OS and Flash

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Apr 30 2010 - 12:18 pm PT
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Yet more insights into the Apple v Adobe battle for a portable multimedia standard have come to light, not least knowledge that the poor performance of Flash on powerful modern smartphones reflects what may yet emerge to be an executive-level blunder on the part of Adobe.

Wired tells us that back when the iPhone was introduced in 2007, Adobe failed to take the Apple product seriously. Instead of focusing its Flash for Mobile teams around development for increasingly powerful devices, it cast its vote toward the so-called

Adobe CS5 now shipping

Avatar for Seth Weintraub Apr 30 2010 - 5:27 am PT
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Adobe is now shipping/offering downloads of its CS5 suite of products.   Photoshop CS5, Flash Professional CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, Premier Pro CS5 and Dreamweaver CS5 have all been updated with 30-day free trials as well.

Besides ordering directly from Adobe, Amazon offers the suites and individual programs at significantly reduced prices, but don’t ship until next month.  For instance, students and teachers can save up to 80% on CS5 products here.

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