Because Apple only managed to sell a record five million iPhone 5s over the weekend – not as many as Wall Street bulls thought – and admittedly can’t keep up with demand, it’s perceived as having component issues blamed on its new thinner, lighter, bigger in-cell touch screen, which combines the display and the touch sensor into a single part. The dingus is made by LG Display. Apple also pulled in Sharp but the Japanese company, hobbled by defects, couldn’t get the product out before the iPhone launch according to Barclays, which thinks it will have 10 million in-cell panels available this quarter.
Apple filed papers with the Federal Circuit Tuesday to head off Samsung’s request for the appeals court tell District Court Judge Lucy Koh to lift the injunction on its Galaxy Tab 10.1. Samsung’s trying to get the remand ahead of Judge Koh overruling the jury and finding that Samsung infringes Apple’s D'889 tablet design patent on which the injunction is based. Samsung originally said enjoining the tablet wouldn’t have a significant impact on its business because it was near the end of its life then wanted its statements redacted but Judge Koh left them in the record. Apple’s counting on those statements coming home to roost.
Google appears to be perfectly happy to let Apple dangle in the wind and not rush to take advantage of complaints about its newfangled maps program by putting an iOS 6-compatible Google Maps application on the market. The Verge, however, claims Google was blindsided when Apple unilaterally announced in June that it would drop Google Maps from its widgets because their Google Maps arrangement had more than a year left to run. The announcement forced Google to scramble to develop an iOS 6 app and it won’t be able to ship anything for several months. The Verge says Apple felt the Google Maps for iOS that it bundled was falling years behind the Android program, missing popular items like turn-by-turn navigation. Apple’s new maps have that missing ingredient.
Although Apple quickly fixed their delete test page that caused problems with user's wifi connections on their new iPhone 5s, that is not the real issue. There is still a huge issue with iOS 6 and possibly iPhone 5 hardware. The forums are buzzing with users having issues and returning phones. Apple is currently silent on the issue. I have the same problems. iOS 6 causes iPad 2 wifi issues. The signal has a very short range, the speeds are slow, and the connection constantly drops.
Apple put out a statement Monday morning saying it sold over five million iPhone 5s since Friday. It’s not as many as the eight or 10 million Wall Street has been talking about, which may be why the stock is down 2% pre-market. The company said the “incredible” demand for the phone “exceeded the initial supply and while the majority of pre-orders have been shipped to customers, many are scheduled to be shipped in October.” It had CEO Tim Cook say that “stores continue to receive iPhone 5 shipments regularly and customers can continue to order online and receive an estimated delivery date. We appreciate everyone’s patience and are working hard to build enough iPhone 5s for everyone.”
Apple wants the judge who presided over its case against Samsung for egregious copying to tack another $707 million in damages onto the jury’s $1.05 billion verdict and really, really wants a permanent injunction on Korean products that infringe its patents, including Samsung’s new flagship Galaxy S III phone.
According to the smart money at the Linley Group and AnandTech Apple developed the A6 ARM chip it’s using in the iPhone 5 – something it’s not talking about –and it’s probably having the widget made by Samsung on its 32nm process, which may account for why it’s 22% smaller and doubtlessly cheaper than the A5. If the dingus has 2x the performance of the A5 like Apple says it’s probably got two custom CPU cores (unless it’s three) clocking roughly 1.2GHz, less than it might to save power. Linley says a month after Apple bought low-power processor start-up PA Semi for $278 million in April of 2008 it cut a secret deal with ARM for a rare instruction set architecture license so it could develop its own ARM-compatible CPUs.
District Court Judge Lucy Koh, responsible for the Apple-Samsung trial, refused Monday evening to lift the three-month-old preliminary injunction forbidding Samsung to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US. She said she didn’t have jurisdiction and bounced the issue to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit but told the appeals court that Samsung’s motion raises “substantial issues” that must be addressed and anticipated the appeal court kicking the question back to her.
Today will be a very interesting day for those companies that quite rightly have supported the iOS platform in their Enterprise... September 19 is the day that Apple will release iOS 6 to the iPhone and iPad user base. Apple have a great upgrade process, that over the last few versions have allowed updates to be downloaded and applied OTA (over the air), easily by the device user. So the upgrade is only a click away and for some users it is far too tempting! Ask yourself, "Are we ready?". For companies that either embrace consumerization via BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) or support CYOD (Chose Your Own Device) which is akin to Corporate Controlled Consumeriszation, today could be a day where some apps may not work quite the way they should. This is NOT very common, but if gone unchecked, could stop your mobile strategy in its tracks, costing time, money and lost opportunities.
My wife and I are going to do something we have never done before. We are going to get up early on Friday morning and drive to our local (everything is local in Boise) Apple store so we can report on the silly crowds standing in line to get the new iPhone 5. If by chance we happen to end up in the store and our iPhones get upgraded C'est la vie. The things we do for our readers... Ever since Apple announced the new iPhone 5, each time I open my iPhone there are apps that need updated. This reminded me of the impact hardware and operating system updates have on enterprises. In the old days (four years ago), Microsoft would rarely update their mobile OS, and when they did you would have many months of advanced notice. Today, all you have are rumors up to the very day of the announcement. This can cause problems for custom built native applications in the enterprise.
Apple said Monday that iPhone 5 pre-orders topped two million units in 24 hours, which is more than double the record set by the previous iPhone 4S model. The announcement pushed Apple stock to within a hair’s breath of $700, which was where it started going when it became apparent that Apple’s initial supply was sold out within an hour last week pushing some deliveries into October. Apple says most pre-orders will be delivered on Friday, September 21. AT&T also reported record orders through the weekend but offered no numbers. Pictures put out by Bloomberg show people starting to camp out in front of Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York ahead of the device going on sale at 8am on Friday.
Apple pushed over $700 on the Nasdaq Monday after-hours, adding a buck and change to its closing price of $699.78. Perhaps it was analyst speculation that Apple could sell eight million iPhone 5s this weekend after the device becomes available in the stores and stick a finger in the eye of market-leader Samsung, which has been convicted of swiping Apple technology.
Samsung Friday lost a patent infringement case it brought against Apple at the International Trade Commission, the US agency with the power to issue product bans. The judge said the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod touch don’t infringe four patents Samsung claims they do including two standards-essential patents (SEPs).
A German regional court Thursday cleared the way for Apple to file for a permanent injunction barring the sale of products in Germany put out by Google satellite Motorola Mobility. It was found guilty of infringing Apple’s “rubber-banding” patent in its Android tablets and smartphones. The feature lets a page on a mobile device bounce back after a user has swiped the bottom of the screen. It’s only a month since a California jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple over a billion dollars because its Android devices infringe Apple IP. There is a “blue glow” workaround for the rubber band but it’s not very effective and FOSS Patents says the “injunction spells further degradation of the Android user experience.” Apple will have to post a €25 million ($31.5 million) bond to get the injunction enforced. For another €10 million it can insist that Motorola destroy any infringing widgetry. Still another €10 million will buy it a product recall. And there the little matter of damages for past infringement.
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Apple has reportedly cut the number of memory chips it has on order for its new iPhone from Samsung, its biggest supplier and the biggest reason it’s in court all the time trying to stop the Korean company from ripping off its iPhone and iPad widgetry. Everybody’s been wondering when this would start happening.
Samsung Electronics could be a major player if it launched its own mobile operating system in a big way, according to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. “There’s a potential elephant in the room with Samsung,” McAdam said at an investor conference today. While Google Android and Apple’s iOS continue to dominate the market, the carriers are [...]
The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) Thursday said it was investigating a complaint made by Apple that Samsung is abusing its dominance in third-generation wireless technology. The investigation mirrors a similar one opened in January by the European Commission, which is also investigating Motorola Mobility for the same thing. Both companies are demanding egregiously high fees from Apple to license the standards-essential patents they pledged to offer on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
Apple Tuesday sent out invitations to what is assumed to be its thinner-than-ever iPhone 5 announcement on Wednesday September 12. The event will start at 10am Pacific time at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Folks who track Apple product announcements like they were expecting the second coming have given up on the notion that Apple will unveil iPhone 5 and the purported iPad mini at the same time. iPhone 5 is now expected to be a solo act with the iPad mini given its own stage in sometime October. That way the attention will be undiluted. Googlerola has a mobile announcement set for Wednesday September 5 to be followed by Nokia and Amazon.
Om nom nom… That sound you hear is Apple’s iPad cannibalizing sales of personal computers. Fortune reports that Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf says that there is now “definitive evidence” that the iPad is gobbling up customers who in years past would have purchased PCs. Wolf’s evidence is that Mac shipments to schools in Q3 2012 fell by 0.1% while overall PC sales to schools dropped nearly 13.9%, even as Apple sold more than 1 million iPads to schools over the same period.
In their first tussle in Japan, a Tokyo Court Friday found that Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets don’t infringe a synchronizing patent held by Apple that lets media players share music and videos with PCs. It dismissed Apple’s suit. It’s unclear if Apple will appeal. It’s got 30 days.
Apple Friday added four of Samsung’s prized widgets to the infringement suit it filed in California District Court in February. The additions include the Galaxy S III and the Verizon version of the S III, the Korea company’s brand new flagship phone that sold more than 10 million units in its first two months on the market. It’s Samsung’s fastest-selling model ever, increasing its lead over Apple.
Apple may have to wait until December 6 to see if it gets any gratification from the jury decision last week that Samsung copied its technology in its phones, which it wants enjoined. The delay is supposed to have something to do with the flood of post-trial filings the judge is expecting from both sides, but it certainly takes the teeth out of the victory as the product grow increasingly dated. “Having considered the scope of Apple’s preliminary injunction request, the additional post-trial motions that the parties have already filed and will file, and the substantial overlap between the analysis required for Apple’s preliminary injunction motion and the parties’ various other post-trial motions, the court believes consolidation of the briefing and hearing on the post-trial motions is appropriate,” the judge said.
It has been widely reported that Apple’s next-generation iPhone will include near field communication capabilities, and a Chinese blog on Monday published the first images that showed the alleged NFC chip integrated into the phone’s internal components. After an in-depth analysis, however, AnandTech has concluded that NFC in the next iPhone is “highly unlikely” and [...]