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Apple Surpasses 50 Billion App Store Downloads
Pentagon Clears Apple Devices For Military Networks
Apple devices have (finally) joined BlackBerry and Android on the list of devices approved for official use on secure United States military networks according to Bloomberg.
The Pentagon cleared both the iPad and the iPhone for general use as long as the devices run on iOS 6. Apple is now the only U.S. based device maker with a military approval.
Apple Launches Countdown to 50 Billion App Downloads
The App Store is about to reach the 50 billion download mark. To celebrate, Apple is going to give the person who downloads the 50,000,000,000th app $10,000 in iTunes credit.
The App Store for iOS devices launched in July 2008 and offers over 800,000 apps today.
Apple Rejects Massive iPhone Shipment From Foxconn
Apple reportedly rejected a massive shipment of as many as 8,000,000 iPhone units made at one of Foxconn’s facilities due to “quality issues”. It’s unclear at this point what prompted the decision but if the report is true it could cost Foxconn as much as $1.6 billion.
This could be a potentially huge supply issue for Apple. And they don’t exactly need any more bad iPhone 5 publicity given how much crap the phone caught following launch.
Facebook Hires Disgraced Apple Maps Project Lead
Facebook reportedly just hired Richard Williamson, the guy who was fired from Apple over the whole Apple Maps debacle. It appears to be part of Facebook’s new mobile push, which makes sense considering that Williamson was one of the original iPhone team members.
I wonder if they’re going to try to bring Facebook Home to iOS after all?
Posted in Gadgets
Google to Release Second-Gen Nexus 7 In July
Reuters is reporting that Google plans to launch a Snapdragon-powered Nexus 7 tablet in July. Asustek is manufacturing eight million of the devices. They’ll be specced and priced to compete with the Kindle Fire HD and the iPad Mini in the “budget tablet” market.
I’m looking forward to seeing the hardware specs on this thing – especially the display.
Posted in Gadgets
Apple Working On Official iOS Gamepad
PocketGamer is reporting that Apple reps told several mobile developers at GDC 2013 that the company is developing an “official” Apple brand iOS gamepad.
An official reveal is expected at Apple’s next major iPad press event later this year.
Apple Considering Digital Secondhand Market?
Apple just published a patent on a process by which consumers could eventually swap or sell their digital movies, music, books, and games. Read that again. Apple published it.
I need to go lie down for a bit. Even as an Apple fan this was the last thing I expected.
Judge Reduces Order Against Samsung
Judge Lucy Koh has given Samsung a huge break on the damages it was ordered to pay to Apple last summer. The total bill has been reduced from $1.05 billion to $598.9 million.
As for a reason, Koh found that the jury had made an error when calculating the timeframe of when to award damages. And given the size of the discount it was one hell of a big mistake.