Tag: news

  • Kindle Fire dragged into Apple’s "app store" suit against Amazon

    Apple has set its sights on the Kindle Fire as part of the company’s trademark lawsuit against Amazon. In an amended complaint filed this week, Apple argued that Amazon began altering its own “Appstore” marketing when it introduced the Kindle Fire in September, and Apple sees the move as an attempt to conflate consumer expectations…

  • Why Apple rejected AMD’s Llano in the MacBook Air

    Apple’s MacBook Air may have come close to shipping with AMD’s “Llano” integrated CPU and GPU processors this past summer. According to unnamed sources speaking to SemiAccurate, Apple had Llano-based MacBook Air prototypes “on the verge of production” but ultimately decided on Intel’s ultra-low voltage Sandy Bridge processors instead. Assuming it’s true that Apple was…

  • Week in Apple: Steve Jobs bio review, iTunes Match, and iOS 5.0.1

    Why did Steve Jobs cry so much? What’s the deal with the iOS 5.0.1 update? How does iTunes Match work? How did Siri’s protocol get reverse-engineered? These questions and more were all answered in our most popular Apple posts of the week. If you need to catch up, you’re in the right place.  Why Steve…