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Magic Mouse has Captured Over 10 Percent Market Share

December 29th, 2009

MagicMouseIn October this year, along with new iMacs, Apple introduced Magic Mouse, the world’s first mouse with a multi- touch surface, like the one you see on iPhones and MacBooks. Magic Mouse’s predecessor, Mighty Mouse, never became any success and many have complained about the scroll ball, but Magic Mouse is completely different, and after just 8 weeks on the market, it has captured over 10 pct. market share, and Apple is now the third best selling mouse manufacturer, behind Microsoft and Logitech.

Though Apple is in third place, their superiors on the mouse market are far ahead, and Apple will by no chance catch up with them as yet, but Apple has felt the demand on Magic Mouse and here at AppleLunch we have actually experienced that it was impossible to purchase Magic Mouse anywhere in Aarhus, Denmark. Premium Reseller “humac” told that they haven’t had any Magic Mouses since November, and were not expecting to have any before late January, so if you want a Magic Mouse, and you live outside America, we recommend you to buy it from Apple Online Store.

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Apple Countersues Nokia

December 12th, 2009

NokiaLogoOctober 22nd, you could read that Nokia sued Apple, claiming Apple was infringing 10 patents owned by Nokia, including GSM, UMTS and WLAN standards. Yesterday Apple responded with a countersuit claiming that Nokia is infringing 13 Apple patents.

Apple’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Bruce Sewell commented in a public announcement: “Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours”

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New iPhone Spotted

November 30th, 2009

iphone_3gsiPhone developer Pandav have been in the media’s spotlight for some time lately, because they claim to have spotted usage records for an unreleased iPhone in their app’s analytics.

The analytic tool used to spot the new iPhone is PinchMedia and it allows you to break down customers usage and it also allows you to see what specific device that is being used to run your applications and every devices have their own identification number assigned by Apple, and in this case the device identification number spotted was “iPhone3,1” and it doesn’t match up with any shipping iPhones.

The newest iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, has the identification number “iPhone2,1” and was also spotted in statistics and logs more than half a year before its announcement. The application that disclosed the existence of the next coming iPhone was iBart, a public transportation guide for the San Francisco train system.

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South Koreans Want iPhone, But Is iPhone Good Enough?

November 28th, 2009
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Will iPhone pass the test against LG and Samsung?

Today, iPhone was released in South Korea which is one of the toughest countries to make a breakthrough in, and only the fewest of cell phones manufacturers can make money in South Korea. Despite that, Apple has received many pre-orders on the iPhone.

53,000 iPhone pre-orders has been reported according to AP Business, and that makes the iPhone release in South Korea much more popular than the Chinese iPhone launch, but the iPhone lacks on some areas. The South Koreans are very sophisticated mobile phone users, and with the local manufacturers Samsung and LG it will be hard to work its way through for the iPhone. Samsung and LG offer features that allow users to watch local TV on their iPhones, and yet there is no such feature on the iPhone and that will make it difficult, since it is a very popular service among South Koreans.

Only the future can tell if iPhone will be a success in South Korea, and the launch in South Korea can easily be seen iPhone’s ‘exam’ on the consumer market.

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Apple Announces Special One-Day Shopping Event

November 24th, 2009

Over the past several years, Apple has arranged a one-day shopping event with reduced prices at several products, and this year is no exception. Apple invites you to this year’s one-day shopping event which, as usually, takes place the day after Thanksgiving, which is historically one of the busiest shopping days and it is this Friday, November 27th only, and several Apple Stores are said to be open at 6am on that day. The reduced prices counts also Apple Online Store as you can see below.

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Apple hasn’t announced how much the prices are reduced, but Boy Genius Report has posted a supposed leak of the products that Apple will reduce the price on and it contains among other iMac ($101 off), MacBook Pro ($51-$101 off), iPod Nano ($11 off), and iPod Touch ($21-$41 off). The sale also includes Apple TV, iWork, Nike + iPod, Apple Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard and many other products including a lot of iPhone accessories. You can see below, what prices we can expect if Boy Genius Report has reliable sources.

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Boot Camp Drivers Update Released

November 21st, 2009

Apple has updated the drivers for Boot Camp so the most updated version is now 2.2. Boot Camp is used to install Windows on your Mac, so that you can boot your Mac in Windows instead of Mac OS X, and can only be used on Intel-based Mac.

The newest update addresses some issues with the Apple trackpad, and it also includes support for the new Magic Mouse. To get the new update, Boot Camp 2.1 must be installed and also if you are running Windows Vista, you need Windows Vista Service Pack 2, before running the update.

You can get the update here.

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Apple Sued Over Lack of MMS on iPhones

November 18th, 2009

Few weeks ago, Finish phone company Nokia sued Apple over patent infringement and now another sue against Apple has been issued. This time, a group of consumers are unsatisfied with the iPhone 3G S, claiming the commercials are misleading and therefore suing both Apple and AT&T.

In the commercials, Apple promises full MMS compatibility and with that possibility to send and receive videos, photos and sounds. That is, according to the sue, not true to what the iPhone 3G S can, although AT&T and Apple have promised to recondition the lack of MMS.

Late September, AT&T activated the MMS function for their iPhone customers, but apparently it didn’t succeed without failures.

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Apple Launches Online ‘iTunes Preview’ Content

November 14th, 2009

Without any official statements, Apple quietly deployed a web-based “iTunes Preview”, which allows users to browse iTunes Store’s offerings, even if they have not installed iTunes. When Apple released iTunes 9 in September, they made it possible to share iTunes’ offerings on Facebook and Twitter, but when the link to the iTunes Store content was clicked, nothing happened unless iTunes was installed on the clicker’s device. With the new web-based iTunes Store Preview, people without iTunes can browse iTunes Store content, but they still can’t listen to song samples, nor purchase content.

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Currently, only music content is available in the web-based iTunes Store preview, and since no official announcements has been, it is unclear if an extension will come to Apps or Movies.

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First early information of the next generation iPhone?

November 6th, 2009

Finally the first small parts of information about the next generation iPhone has been rumored, this time from several sources which have been pretty reliable in the past.

The new iPhone, which should traditionally arrive around Summer next year (2010), is now rumored to contain a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip, allowing the iPhone to communicate through radio over short distances. Apple has earlier filed several patents for the technology, and activity indicate that the company is indeed investigating it, and maybe even already implementing RFID in the next generation iPhone.

Stay put for more news, and enjoy your lunch!

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