Tag: Apple

Apple claims Android has roots at Apple

Before you go all crazy and accuse me of fanboyism or Apple being ridiculous (or both), go read the piece from Florian Mueller. In one of Apple’s filing against HTC, it says that when Andy Rubin worked at Apple in the 90s, his superiors were the ones who came up with a patent that Rubin later used to create Android, which means he may have been a contributor to the patent that Apple owns. If the ITC judge holds up Apple’s argument, this clearly will not bode well for Android.

Rubin worked at Apple long before the iPhone – even long before the iPod. If Apple had just claimed without particularity that Android started at Apple, most people would dismiss such an allegation as complete nonsense. But Apple now asserts – in a filing with the ITC, which means Apple has a legal obligation to make truthful representations of fact – that Rubin’s superiors at Apple were the inventors of that realtime API patent and he worked for them at the very time they made that invention. He worked as a low-level engineer while the inventors were senior people. It’s possible that he then contributed to the implementation of the claimed invention.

Apple claims Android has roots at Apple

Would personal computers have gained GUIs without Jobs? Sure, but not as early. It took Microsoft 10 years to come up with a decent GUI, and that was with the example of the Mac staring them in the face. How likely is it that non-Apple smartphones would look and behave the way they do now if the iPhone hadn’t come out in ’07? And we’re still waiting for good tablets other than the iPad.

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In a sense, you’re using a Steve Jobs product whether it has an Apple logo or not

@drdrang

*sigh* not again

Apple lost another prototype iPhone. Yes. In a bar. Again.

*sigh* not again

parislemon:

Apple’s vision for the future of computing versus Microsoft’s vision for the future of computing.

Any questions?

Comex to start an internship at Apple

It’s been really, really fun, but it’s also been a while and I’ve been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple.

Nicholas Allegra, creator of JailbreakMe, a teenager who impressed the heck out of experienced web security researchers Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, joins Apple.

Comex to start an internship at Apple

david:

Quoting Steve Jobs

In the public’s eye, Cook has become the Riker to Jobs’ Picard—and people generally like Riker.

Jacqui Cheng writing about Tim Cook’s first company letter as CEO of Apple.

Waitaminute… Captain Cook?

Here it is, as promised. Now it’s actually 2008 calendars, up from 2004.

Zombie iCal Calendars

Ever since Apple opened the beta version of Mail and iCal on MobileMe last year, my list of calendars in iCal (Calendars, not calendar entries) has been piling up. 

I’ve got to the point of having more than 2000 calendars in iCal and that was causing the app on the Mac as well as on MobileMe to take such a long time in opening. 

The MobileMe calendar actually would give up after several minutes and I haven’t even bothered to open iCal ever since. If I need to input anything into the calendar I would use the one on my iPhone instead and made sure it doesn’t sync with iTunes whenever I sync the iPhone.

I let my MobileMe account lapse last March and figured that would be the end of it. Having ignored iCal for months, I thought I might try Lion’s calendar for a change, completely forgetting that I have more than 2000 calendars, so it took a while to open and left me wondering until it finally opened and showed me my monster list.

I figured, okay, let’s find the proper calendars, export them to import back later and nuke the bastards so I can start iCal from fresh. Having gone through that, I opened iCal and found myself looking at a calendar app with no entries. Oh joy!. 

A few minutes later, I saw that the proper calendars were already loading. Hmm, that was strange but okay, saves me from having to import them. Note that my Mac was online during all this.

After having added one new calendar and a handful of entries, the app began to slow down and wouldn’t quit unless I force quit it. And then I decided to head down to home/Library/Calendars/ where I found 2004 folders of calendars appearing out of nowhere. ZOMG ZOMBIE CALENDARS!! THEY’RE BACK FROM THE DEAD!

I realized I had lost three subscribed calendars in the process but there I was looking at 2004 calendars. Where had they come from? Can’t be MobileMe, my account is gone. So then I proceed to remove all the calendars directly from the Finder for the second time. It’s been about 30 minutes and the zombie calendars haven’t made their way back yet. We’ll see later on.

Since I no longer have access to MobileMe, I can’t see whether I can do anything on the server side from MobileMe to stop this form happening again.

It also seems that old appointments and invitations from the calendars were being resent. All the way back from 2006. How do I know this? I’ve been getting failed delivery messages of those invitations in my Gmail inbox. Why Gmail? Not sure. I thought it should have been on my mac.com address, which would have bounced.

So far I haven’t seen the zombies returning again yet but if they do, I’ll make sure to grab a screenshot and post it here.

Enhance your calm.