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In good news for both Apple and Carphone Warehouse, Financial Times is reporting that Carphone’s shares rose on FTSE 100 past Friday despite most of the other shares ending the day in negative.
Carphone Warehouse is of course one of two UK Apple iPhone distributors, and its shares rise is attributed due to traders’ belief that the device has been “selling like hot cakes” over the Christmas — although the official sales stats were not released as of yet.
Financial Times is quoting Steve Clayton, analyst at Mirabaud Securities, who stated that there was “fantastic consumer response” to the iPhone, while noting that it’s a “sufficiently innovative product to be assured of selling well, especially in an exclusivity situation“.
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The three-year court battle between popular rumor site Think Secret and Apple has concluded. Sadly, the end result is that Think Secret will no longer be published.Speaking by phone Wednesday morning Nick Ciarelli, Think Secret's publisher, refused to say whether he was angry or not that Apple is forcing him to shut down his website. All he would say is that he was "very satisfied" with the settlement. "It's great," he said, "it's great to put this behind us. It's great that we got a settlement that satisfies both parties." It's possible the settlement may prevent him from reporting on Apple ever again, although Ciarelli, 22, wouldn’t specify whether this was true.For a time, Think Secret was one of the most successful of half-a-dozen Apple rumor sites. The site reported a string of high-profile scoops, consistently revealing details of Apple's product plans all through the mid-2000s. But the site also got many things wrong, and missed several important products.Apple brought a civil lawsuit after Think Secret published details of an unreleased music product codenamed "Asteroid" in January 2005. Specifically, the company went after Think Secret for "posting Apple trade secrets and encouraging and inducing persons to provide product information in breach of agreements," the lawsuit said. Ciarelli did say he was "looking for other opportunities," but that journalism was still one of his main interests"It continues to remain a strong interest of mine," he said. "And I think I'll continue to follow that path."Ciarelli, who is majoring in social studies at Harvard and will graduate in June, also wouldn’t say how he feels about Apple. "I didn’t enjoy being sued, he said. "I've always been an enthusiastic fan of Apple's products. I was before they sued me, and I was after they sued me. That hasn't changed."Apple never talks about unreleased products, a situation that has sparked a cottage industry of web sites trading in speculation about Apple's future product plans.It's widely believed that Apple's ultimate goal wasn't to get the site closed down, but rather to hunt down mole(s) feeding Think Secret information."I'm not going to speculate on that," Ciarelli said. "I'm not going to weigh in on the company's motivations."Think Secret, which launched in 1999, tried to have the lawsuit dismissed calling it "an affront to the First Amendment, and an attempt to use Apple's economic power to intimidate small journalists...." The case, and a similar lawsuit against Apple Insider and PowerPage.org, attracted the legal assistance from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, and became a cause célèbre amongst journalists. Even while the Apple lawsuit was active, Think Secret continued to post news and software screenshots, in spite of threatening legal letters from Apple. Ciarelli says he actually has a stack of cease-and-desist letter, although they are not framed.Think Secret was one of the few websites to publish galleries of unofficial screenshots of Leopard before the operating system was released. Ciarelli said Think Secret received cease and desist letters from Apple's lawyers, but refused to pull the pictures down for some time. When it comes to screenshots, Apple rumor websites typically comply with these cease and desist letters because Apple has a strong copyright claim on images of its products or software, which can’t be published without the company's permission. In fact, a cease and desist letter from Apple is widely regarded as confirmation of a picture or screenshot's accuracy. If Apple forces a site to remove it: it was likely true.While the Leopard galleries could be viewed on the site for several months, they have since been removed without explanation. Apple and Ciarelli's lawyer, Terry Gross, didn't immediately respond to our request for comment.
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It seems like David Lynch, the director of classic Dune, Mulholland Dr. and many other movies (full filmography), really doesn’t like viewing movies on the iPhone, and like all of them creative movie business folks that are passionate about showbiz he had to do something about it.
So while some of the same people gave iPhone the American Film Institute awards for 2007, Mr Lynch decided make a fairly amusing video against it.
Which you can see below (note: it contains some improper language that might be NSFW and is probably not appropriate for children, and could certainly get you fired if you work with children).
Thanks: Cult of Mac
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Scosche Industries, a manufacturer of accessories for handheld devices, has announced that it will present a line of new iPhone and iPod cases at the CES 2008.
According to the company the Scosche IPC4 clear polycarbonate case for the iPhone has integrated kickstands and features co-molded rubber corners for shock protection. The kickstand enables easy widescreen viewing and the case also includes rubber traction cleats that protect both the iPhone and case from scratches.
Additional iPhone cases will come in following varieties:
• IPC4BK -black polycarbonate case with kickstand
• IPC4W -white polycarbonate case with kickstand
• IPCC - clear polycarbonate case
• IPSCC2 - clear polycarbonate case and silicone skin
• IPS - clear silicone skin
• IPS2 - clear and black 2 pack skin
• IPS35 - clear silicone skin and 3.5mm cable
For more info visit www.scosche.com or just visit Scosche’s booth at the CES.
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It's very difficult to say what's the best mobile device in a given year, because different people have different needs and desires. The ideal device for me might be repulsive to you, and vice-versa. But most of the computer publications try to make a call anyway. If you read the end-of-year reviews online, you'll probably conclude that the best mobile product of the year was the iPhone. It was cited by the
Washington Post,
Wired,
Business Week, and
Tech Republic (which strangely listed it as a business technology product, alongside Salesforce.com and LinkedIn).
Other mobile products getting mentions from major publications included the
Nokia n95,
iPod Touch,
Razr 2, and
Blackberry 8800. Amazon's Kindle was the only one that showed up on both best-of and worst-of lists. The best-ofs generally liked the wireless features and screen, while the worst-ofs disliked the closed business model and "eye-poking" industrial design.
I don't agree with any of those choices.
Since people have different needs, I think the best product of the year ought to be the one that best meets needs the needs of
a particular group of users. It should be utterly compelling to its own audience. There are several questions to ask:
How efficient is it? Since people use mobile devices on the go, it should do just what the user needs, without any confusion or unneeded features. But there can't be any critical features missing, either.
How well does it trade off size vs. power? Because it's carried on your person, where size and weight are at a premium, it should balance tiny size with reasonable battery life.
How does it look? Because it's effectively a part of your wardrobe, it must look great (or whatever the target customer thinks of as great).
By that standard, I think the best mobile device of 2007 -- in fact, one of the best mobile products of all time -- was the third generation iPod Nano.
Don't get me wrong, iPhone fans. The iPhone is a very interesting and provocative device. There are some beautiful features in the user interface, and I love the turmoil it's causing in the industry. Several years from now we may look back on it and call it the most
influential mobile device of its time. But that doesn't mean it's the best product.
To me, the iPhone is more an intriguing statement of direction than a completed product at this point. The lack of 3G is a huge compromise, and Apple obviously didn't think through the third party application thing. If you want a slow mobile browser that also plays music and videos and doubles as a somewhat awkward phone, then the iPhone is great. But for all of the cool highlights in the iPhone, I don't think it's enough to crush the phone industry in its current version. Future versions, maybe. We'll shortlist the iPhone III for product of the year in 2010.
The n95 is also a remarkable product in its own way, and I know it inspires a lot of technolust, especially in Europe. But in my opinion, it's just the latest Swiss Army Knife of the mobile world. Next year there will be another one from Nokia or Samsung or somebody else that has an even higher-resolution camera or maybe an electric toothpick or something, and people will be fawning all over that one. Like a lot of Japanese consumer electronics products, it's not a marvelous product as much as it is a marvelously ingenious bag of features.
By contrast, in third generation Nano is not just the latest model from Apple, it's an elegant culmination of the design work they've been doing for years.
The Nano doesn't look all that great in photographs. It's wider than its predecessor, which produced some criticism when it was announced (Engadget nicknamed it "fatty," which is asinine when you see it in person). In real life, the Nano's shape is compelling. It's much thinner than you'd expect from the pictures -- shockingly thin for something that has a color screen and plays videos. With its heavily rounded corners and brightly colored case, it feels a bit like a high tech chocolate wafer. You're almost tempted to take a bite out of it.
Physically, the Nano is almost all user interface -- the screen and thumbwheel take up the entire front of the device. Until we get flexible screens, the Nano is about as small as you can possibly make a device with its features. This is the endpoint, a form factor that's going to be with us for a while.
The biggest surprise to me about the Nano is the usability of video on it. When it was announced, I thought video was a throwaway feature -- who would ever want to watch video on a screen that small? But the reality is that when you're sitting down, you'll hold a Nano about 18 inches (45 cm) away from your face. At that distance, the screen is about the same apparent size as a 20-inch television (50 cm) at the other side of the living room. It's not like watching a flat panel monster screen, but it's very usable.
I'm not sure yet how much video will be used on the device, or what sorts of video, but that's a general question about mobile video rather than anything specific about the Nano. What I've observed so far is teenage girls using the Nano to watch music videos together, commenting on how cute the drummer is.
And that's just another sign that Apple made a great design for its target audience.
The new Nano doesn't have Bluetooth built into it, or Wi-Fi, or a camera, or a phone, or a hard drive. That probably accounts for why the technophiles online have been so dismissive of it (
link). But to me, it's an almost perfect balance of functionality and art. Come back in ten or twenty years and I think you'll find it in design museums, when most of today's mobile devices will be long-forgotten and mildly embarrassing.
What do you think? Do you agree with my choice? If not, what do you think was the best mobile device of 2007?
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