Creator of iPod Quits Apple
A major shuffle in the management at Apple Inc saw Tony Fadell, the creator of the wildly popular iPod, leaving the company with his wife to devote more time to their young family.
Fadell has been credited with being the first to envision the iPod and at the time of leaving he was serving as the Senior Vice President of the company’s iPod division. Fadell quit the full-time position after seven years with Apple Inc but he will continue to stay on as the personal advisor to company CEO Steve Jobs.
Fadell’s exit comes at a time when the iPod stands at a critical juncture facing competition from new entrants in the market for portable digital media players. Still, next generation devices from Apple like the iPod Nano and iPod Touch consistently outsell their nearest competitors by huge margins all over the world.
Fadell will be replaced by Mark Papermaster who will head the iPod and iPhone divisions and report directly to Steve Jobs. Papermaster arrives at Apple after a long 25-year stint at IBM where he was closely associated with the development of several crucial projects. This has led to IBM accusing Papermaster of compromising company secrets to a competitor and even suing him for breach of non-compete agreement.
To compete with Apple’s dominant iTunes service Best Buy Company plans to buy Napster for $121 million
On Monday, specialty retailer of consumer electronics, home office products, entertainment software, appliances and related services -The Best Buy Company revealed it intention to purchase digital music service Napster for $121 million with an aim to compete with Apple’s overriding iTunes service and its iPod music players.
Both Best Buy and Napster have their own importance and significance in their work area but none of them has gone up to confront Apple. Apple possesses over 70 percent of the digital music market in the United States.
According to Best Buy and Napster it is better to work together in spit of competing with each other to win a good market place. The planned acquisition comprises Napster’s 700,000 subscribers, its Web-based customer service and mobile capabilities.
Monday Best Buy said it would pay $2.65 a share for Napster, nearly double its closing price on Friday.
Napster, Inc offers digital music, and interactive music services that enable fans to sample, listen to, subscribe to and purchase from a diverse online music catalog utilizing secure and legal platform. Shares of Los Angeles based Napster went up $1.17, or 86 percent, to $2.53. To attain new customers over an array of devices Richfield, Minn. based Best Buy intends to use Napster’s capabilities.
Apple working to create new ARM processor for the next-generation iPhone
The senior manager of Apple’s chip team Wei-han Lien, surprisingly dished out the morsel on LinkedIn saying about the creation of an ARM processor for the next-generation iPhone.
This statement could verify the expectations that were estimated since April when Apple attained chip start-up PA Semiconductor for about $300 million.
Apple confirmed that it acquired the company for its talent as PA Semi had compiled an all-star cast of chip engineers, with Lien. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs stated in an interview in June that PA Semi team would work on crafting spanking new processors for potential iPhones and iPods though type of processor was not clear.
According to many analysts Apple declines to confirm whether the company uses ARM processors made by Samsung - which are very common in the mobile device industry- in the iPhone.
Apple could craft a processor that meets the specific needs of the iPhone and iPod by developing its own ARM alternative.
Fred Weber, the former chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices and current chief executive of memory specialist Metaram stated that they could set software accelerators on there or possibly do something like a graphics engine.
Can Your iPhone Fart?
If you are one those who paid $500 last year or a couple of hundred bucks this year for an iPod that has mobile phone capabilities and lets you surf the web and a whole load of features! I have a question can it fart!
Well, your iphone can show you your way around the traffic, wake you up in the morning, or organise your schedule, but no it cant pass some gas virtually!
It couldnt until Sam (the developer who doesn’t like to reveal his last name) came to the rescue and created an app called Pull My Finger. Sam’s fart idea didnt pass by as smooth as he would have wanted. He was discomfited when he got the note from the iPhone team that said, “We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod touch user community, and will not be published to the App Store.”
Sam complained that he had spent “tens of minutes developing this application” and had his reasoning to why Apple rejected the app:
“The fact that it was rejected is a curiosity. As many people have pointed out on YouTube and other deeply philosophical forums, there seems to be a disconnect between Apple’s message of allowing vulgarity in the iTunes store but not in the App Store,” Sam continued. “Also, the message of ‘limited appeal’ to the iPhone community doesn’t seem true. Our personal opinion is that some app reviewer at Apple is scared that Steve will be sitting at dinner, and will hear some awful sounds coming out of an iPhone at a nearby table. And that he will have the reviewer’s head on a skewer for allowing it to happen”.
Hillarious! Well it is not impossible that Apple had concerns about iPhone not being very pleasant at the wrong times. Just as a little treat i got this video off youtube for all you cyberzest readers:
The iTunes app store is a new industry
The iTunes app store was one of its kind on the internet when Apple opened it in July. But in the next 6 months the idea is set to be adopted by several companies. Google has announced that it has plans to expand into the market, while T-mobile, Microsoft and Symbian are expected to follow. Developers will be able to sell downloadable applications that will make mobile phones more useful and entertaining.
The appeal of an online app store is evident. 60 million apps have been downloaded from the iTunes app store. The store had an average of $1 million in sales everyday for the first month.
The app store is increasingly worrying for Microsoft in particular since the iPhone buzz is starting to dig into Microsoft market share in the Mobile Phone operating system market. Microsoft is expected to launch the Skymarket where it will sell apps for its operating system, Windows Mobile 7, which is expected to be released in 2009. Google will be doing so a little earlier as their Mobile operating system Andriod is anticipated to arrive later on this year, for which it will open the Android Marketplace. Which I think will be a significant blow to Apple since the andriod will be capable of operating on a range devices and therefore its app store will have a much larger market.
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