Tag: Troubleshooting

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Rage Against Patent Troll.

On Friday May 13th, 2011 some iOS App Developers revealed that they are being sued by Lodsys for In-App Purchases and Upgrade Links. This lawsuit baffles many developers since Developers are using API in iOS SDK provided by Apple for In-App Purchasing. Lodsys so far is suing the Developers, but not Apple.

Adam C. Engst provided a great analysis on the matter.

It’s entirely unclear why Lodsys has chosen this approach — their lawyers have undoubtedly read the iOS Developer Program License Agreement and know that the iOS developers can’t settle. And they’ve chosen such small targets that there’s no way they could even cover their legal fees with what they could squeeze out. The only strategy that makes sense is that by targeting small developers, they put additional pressure on Apple to settle quickly.

Apple should respond to this lawsuit even though it is not yet directed at them.

In the meantime, this is what the iPad think about Lodsys:

That makes a lot of sense.

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Apple Developer Friday: Mac OS X 10.6.8 beta and Lion Developer Preview 3.

Numbers of Apple-centric site really know the art of ignoring acronyms and abbreviations. Apparently Mac OS X 10.6.8 beta and Lion Developer Preview 3 are now available for Apple Developers who agreed to the NDA.

Solely based on the postings by fine sites such as AppleInsider, MacNN, MacRumors, TUAW and 9 to 5 Mac; I now know that Apple is seeding Mac OS X 10.6.8 beta and Lion Developer Preview 3. I wonder why John Gruber of Daring Fireball doesn’t know anything about it; instead he is selling his own swag. How dare he!

Anyway, I’m going back to my MacBook Pro Core Duo.

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Apple and Proprietary SATA Hard-Drive Power Connector.

Apple’s proprietary SATA Hard-Drive Power Connector in the 2011 iMac is something new. Apple may have caught vendors like Other World Computing off guard, but it is not unanticipated. Since the introduction of iMac G5 with built-in iSight camera in 2005, it has been a daunting task to replace the hard-drive on this all-in-one computer.

Having a thermal sensor on the hard-drive itself is nice. Would this become an industry standard? Apple does not act alone, at least one hard-drive manufacturer is in on it.

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Windows 7 Experience Index on 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro Core i7.

I finished installing Windows 7 on 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro Core i7 through Boot Camp early this morning. Why you asked? Because there’s a specific audio software that would run on Windows. I tried using virtualization within Mac OS X but it performed so poorly. I did upgrade the RAM to 8GB.

Anyway, here’s the Experience Index:

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Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 and iOS 4.2.8 to address issues with Location Data.

Following the Apple Q&A on Location Data, iOS 4.3.3 and iOS 4.2.8 are now available for download.

This Update contains changes to the iOS crowd-sourced location database cache including:

  • Reduces the size of the cache
  • No longer backs up the cache to iTunes
  • Deletes the cache entirely when Location Servcies is turned off.

iOS 4.3.3 (8E41) is available for:

  • iPad (iPad1,1)
  • iPad 2 (iPad2,1 | iPad 2,2 | iPad2,3)
  • iPhone 3GS (iPhone2,1)
  • iPhone 4 GSM (iPhone3,1)
  • iPod touch 2nd Generation (iPod2,1)
  • iPod touch 3rd Generation (iPod3,1)
  • iPod touch 4th Generation (iPod4,1)

iOS 4.2.8 (8J2) is available for:

  • iPhone 4 CDMA (iPhone 3,3)

The iOS update can be obtained primarily through iTunes.

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Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 for Nexus One.

I had the Nexus One off most of Tuesday evening. I turned it on 20 minutes ago and saw the update notification.

I was hoping for some new features for the Nexus One, unfortunately those new features are available only for Nexus S.

Speaking of which, I am using numbers of phones on AT&T network including an iPhone and Nexus One. I was thinking about getting a Nexus S and found out that there’s one that is compatible with AT&T network.