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Today, it is officially iPad 2 day!
As you might have guessed, this is one of those stories that we have to report on, simply because we are a tech blog. I’m sure that most of you already know that Steve Jobs made the big announcement that the iPad 2 is on its way. Hit the jump to see what you haven’t heard.
Apple knew about iPhone 4 Antenna Issue 2 Years Ago: Is this the Reason for Papermaster’s Release?
When well this whole antenna affair die down? Being an opportune chance to damage Apple’s reputation, those conspiracy theorists out there were bound to say that Apple knew about it all along and went along with its release anyway. Then there was the leaked ‘job advert’ asking for antenna engineers a day before the iPhone’s release, then Apple said all the smartphones have the same problem and now there’s rumours Apple have known about the problem for a whopping two … [visit site to read more]
Samsung joins the crowd, rejects Apple’s Omnia 2 antenna claims
RIM and Nokia aren’t the only ones saying “WTF Steve!?” after last Friday’s press conference attempted to draw the competition into the Antennagate saga. Samsung has issued its own choice reaction about supposed problems with the Omnia 2, though this one is somewhat less sternly worded than the others:
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Apple discussed Verizon switch ‘at least half a dozen times,’ and other stories about its AT&T relationship
“An iPhone, an iPhone, my carrier’s reputation for an iPhone.” Grab a cup of coffee and get yourself comfortable, fans of behind-the-scenes industry drama. Wired has published an exhaustive and fascinating expose on the “loveless celebrity marriage” that is Apple and AT&T — all from sources familiar with the matters but who cannot (or will not) be named, of course. In other words, don’t take this as gospel, but frankly, none of this sounds too crazy or outside the realm of what we’ve already surmised ourselves. In brief, the two companies have been contentious towards one another since just after the iPhone was unveiled. For AT&T’s part, the carrier was reportedly taken aback when its requests (delivered by Senior VP Kris Rinne) to restrict YouTube’s bandwidth usage (or make it WiFi-only) while the network infrastructure was built up fell on deaf ears in Cupertino. Word has it Apple also refused to allow its devices to be used in campaigns to combat Verizon’s Map for That ads: “It was [effective] because of AT&T’s network. We would have been letting them use the iPhone to put lipstick on a pig,” remarked one anonymous Apple exec.
Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Warned About Antenna Design
According to financial publication Bloomberg, Steve Jobs was warned about the new antenna design as long as last year.
Reminder: we’re live from Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference tomorrow, 10AM PT / 1PM ET!
Apple’s been pretty vague about what’s going to go down tomorrow at the press conference it’s holding in Cupertino, but we’re going to be there live, covering whatever it is they have in store for us. We have a feeling it’ll have at least something to do with that antenna issue you may or may not have heard about, so strap yourself into your seat, grab an orange soda, and keep it parked right at Engadget for the best, up-to-the-minute live coverage on the internet.
Apple in Hot Water After Deleting Complaints From Their Forum
It would seem that Apple can’t do anything right – according to Engadget they have taken to deleting comments from Consumer Reports after they failed to recommend the phone until the antenna issue is solved.
Google’s Larry Page: Steve Jobs is ‘rewriting history’ by saying Android came after the iPhone
Steve Jobs might have thought he was lightly playing down reports that the Apple / Google rivalry had dramatically changed when he said “they decided to compete with us — we didn’t go into the search business” at D8, but it appears that his phrasing didn’t sit so well with Larry Page, who told Reuters yesterday that Jobs was doing a “little bit of rewriting history,” and that the “characterization of us entering [the phone market] after is not really reasonable.” Page, who was being interviewed alongside Eric Schmidt, also said that Google had been working on Android for “a very long time” and that the goal was always to develop phones with solid browsers to fill a market void.
Lenovo’s Liu Chuanzhi: ‘we are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China’
We’re guessing that Lenovo chairman Liu Chaunzhi didn’t intend spark a slew of sensational headlines when he spoke briefly with the Financial Times this week, but he did make a few statements that are hard to ignore (yet easily misinterpreted). The standout is that he reportedly said Lenovo is “lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China,” and that if “Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.” Of course, what’s easily lost following the “bad temper” bit is that Chaunzhi is actually sort of praising Apple (albeit in a roundabout way), and he even later goes on to describe Jobs as “a genius,” and the exception to his rule that a manager “needs to be the string on which he puts one pearl after another” — he says Jobs is instead “a big pearl.” For its part, while Apple hasn’t commented on Chaunzhi’s comments directly, it did point out that it’s opening a new store in Shanghai this Saturday, and that it’s on track to have 25 stores in the country by the end of next year. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jobs E-Mails “Are Real” Claims Boy Genius Report
So Apple made a rather embarrassing statement last Friday outlining what they had found out about the supposed iPhone 4G antenna problems – in the statement the admitted an incorrect algorithm was the cause of the antenna issue.
Lenovo chairman: Steve Jobs “doesn’t care about China”
Lenovo chairman Liu Chuanzhi has described Steve Jobs as “a big pearl”, and said that his company is “lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.” Apple products have the same halo effect in the Chinese market as elsewhere, but limited official availability has so-far minimized the impact smartphones like the iPhone 4 have had on rival devices. That limitation has given Lenovo a pass on their limited app selection, Chuanzhi said.
Unofficial Flash Workaround Coming to Jailbroken iPads
If you have taken your iPad to the dark side then you’ll be happy to hear that the enterprising Comex has started building a workaround to put Flash onto Apple’s iPad tablet.
Steve Jobs emails ‘are real’ claims Boy Genius Report, says Apple PR lied to press
Earlier this week we reported on a story that had been doing the rounds — another Steve Jobs email thread with an irate customer. Like many other stories about Jobs’ emails to customers, this yarn centered around a user disappointed with his iPhone 4′s service, and Steve’s flippant responses. The first time we saw the story crop up, we were suspicious of its validity (and frankly, newsworthiness), and we became even more suspicious after AppleInsider ran an article claiming that the source of the supposed emails had been shopping the tale for cash (Engadget was not contacted by the source). We did eventually cover the story, but only after Apple itself responded to the tale, claiming — first to Fortune and then to us — that the emails were false, and the exchange had not happened. That struck us as particularly newsworthy, because in all our years of reporting on Steve Jobs’ wild personal emails (of which there are many, many examples), we’d never heard Apple refute that the emails were coming from him.
