Apple : Apple's Mountain Lion passes 3 million mark, most successful release ever |
- Apple's Mountain Lion passes 3 million mark, most successful release ever
- Apple's Twitter investment is not to be, say sources
- Apple and Samsung's patent case goes to court today
| Apple's Mountain Lion passes 3 million mark, most successful release ever Posted:  Apple's OS X Mountain Lion has raced past the three million downloads landmark, making it officially the most successful release in the company's history. The price point of £13.99 meant that the upgrade was more or less a no brainer for those with the equipment that was enabled for the new version of the OS. This has been reflected in the huge uptake, with TechRadar's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review offering praise for its Notification Center, AirPlay Mirroring and Messages App. Success"Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing. Mountain Lion is far from perfect, with niggles including the iCloud file system and the lack of colour in the Finder's sidebar, but the critical acclaim suggests that the huge Apple fan base is by and large happy. Increased Facebook integration is yet to arrive for Mountain Lion, but Apple reiterated that the feature "will be available in an upcoming software update". |
| Apple's Twitter investment is not to be, say sources Posted:  Apple had been considering a 'strategic investment' in Twitter but negotiations apparently ended with no deal. The first of the rumoured talks actually took place over a year ago, according to Bloomberg's sources, presumably around the time Apple was heavily integrating Twitter into iOS and Mountain Lion. The cosy chats between the two companies ended without any cheque signing because both were happy with the aforementioned integration. No diceLast week the New York Times reported that a more recent discussion also took place, according to its source, with Apple looking to pump a significant number of millions into Twitter, hiking the social network's value up to $10 billion (£6 billion). The reason for Apple's interest in Twitter is down to its lack of an in-house social network – Google has Google+, Facebook has Facebook, even Amazon has user reviews and marketplaces, while Apple doesn't really have any of these. Twitter is the only social network to be heavily integrated into Mac OS X Mountain Lion, allowing users to post status updates and share media without opening a separate app. Facebook, meanwhile, is still absent from the desktop software and only made it into iOS 6 after Twitter had made itself at home in iOS 5. |
| Apple and Samsung's patent case goes to court today Posted:  Today a jury will hear the opening statements for the Apple/Samsung patent case in a California court. The case has been going on for over a year now, and is one of the biggest intellectual property infringement cases ever. The outcome could be costly for both companies, and could even see some devices banned from sale. So to say there's a lot riding on it would be an understatement. Back when it all beganIt all started with a lawsuit from Apple in April last year. It accused Samsung of "slavishly copying" its iPhone and iPad, and now has to convince a jury that that was the case. It's so far succeeded in having the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Nexus banned from sale in the US, though we'll have to wait and see if they're upheld. Samsung countersued in retaliation, and now the two actions have been combined. Business partnersThe Korean company is arguing Apple's devices would have been impossible to make without its technology (Samsung actually provides parts for the iPhone, which doesn't seem to have stopped the two companies going for each other's jugulars). The trial is expected to last four weeks, so we're in for the long haul on this one. It's already unearthed some interesting prototype designs from Apple, in which Sony seems to have played a big inspiration for an unseen handset. An early design of the iPad was also revealed, in which it had a kickstand for propping it up. We'll have to wait and see if the two companies are still in business together in four weeks. Let battle commence. |
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