Apple : Surprise! Apple appeals guilty verdict over ebook price fixing |
| Surprise! Apple appeals guilty verdict over ebook price fixing Posted:  Apple and publisher Simon & Schuster are appealing the decisions in a case that found Apple guilty of conspiring with S&S and other publishers to raise the price of ebooks. As part of the verdict the Department of Justice proposed several measures to prevent Apple from fixing prices in the future, including different rules for ebook apps on iOS, restrictions on what publishers Apple can enter into contracts with, and an third party monitor - paid for by Apple - to make sure Apple follows the rules. When the DOJ came forward with that plan Apple called it "a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple's business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm." But even before that Apple announced it would appeal the ruling, accusing Amazon of being the real villain. Crying foulApple followed through on Thursday by filing a notice of the appeal with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The company reportedly has through early 2014 to file its formal arguments, though. In a previous letter to the judge that oversaw the case, though, Apple already laid out what some of those arguments could be. In that letter Apple questioned the credibility of certain witnesses for Google and Amazon and bemoaned the fact that certain "internal business deliberations" within Amazon were disregarded during the trial. Let's talk about thisOddly Simon & Schuster will also appeal. Like the other publishers named in the case, it settled up with the DOJ relatively early. But S&S is only appealing a Sept. 6 injunction that extended the amount of time that it and four other publishers will be required to allow Apple to discount their ebooks. That same injunction also prevents Simon & Schuster from negotiating new contracts with Apple for three years. The publisher previously made similar arguments to Apple's, essentially saying that the severe punishments don't match the crime. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice in August expressed something that resembles disappointment over Apple's refusal to accept the consequences of its perceived actions. |
| Updated: New Mac Pro release date, news and features Posted:  During its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, Apple unveiled the long-awaited new Mac Pro desktop, complete with a drastic and stylish redesign. Of course, style isn't everything, and the Mac Pro packs a lot of punch into its diminutive cylindrical frame, which Apple claimed would provide "breakthrough performance" at one-eighth the size of current Mac Pros desktops.
Let's take a closer look at just what makes the new Mac Pro a desktop worth getting excited about. New Mac Pro release dateIt's been a while since Apple's dropped a desktop this revolutionary on consumers, and we can't wait to see what the Mac Pro is actually capable when we get our hands on one. The exact release date of the new Mac Pro isn't clear, but OS X Mavericks should be coming out in October, so who's to say that we won't be getting the new Mac Pro at the same time, possibly alongside Intell Haswell Core i5 and i7-powered MacBook Pros. Mac Pro specificationsApple wasn't squeamish about breaking the Mac Pro open to give everyone a glimpse at the innards powering the 9.9-inch desktop. The Mac Pro brings the noise with Intel Xeon E5 processors (check out this older-gen Xeon E5 review), which in turn are capable of supporting up to 12 core configurations to deliver two times the floating point performance. Coupled with a pair of AMD FirePro workstation-class GPUs, the new Mac Pro is more than ready to handle up to seven teraflops of computations, and delivers speeds more than two times faster than current generation Mac Pros.
More impressively, Apple is including 1,866MHz DDR3 RAM in the revamped Mac Pro, which gives it the ability to deliver up to 60GBps of memory bandwidth. With that kind of power, the Mac Pro is a filmmaker's dream, as it's able to render full-resolution 4K video, while also working out rendering effects on the side. All of this hardware is built around a unified thermal core, which will give the Mac Pro the advantage of distributing that thermal capacity across all the processors evenly. Mac Pro Thunderbolt and moreA desktop wouldn't be any good without a plethora of ports, and the Mac Pro has them in spades. There are six Thunderbolt 2 ports, each capable of supporting six daisy-chained devices, meaning you could have up to 36 different external devices hooked up to the Mac Pro with ease.
Add in the fact Thunderbolt 2 allows for up to 20GBs of bandwidth to each plugged device, and you've got yourself outstanding external performance almost unheard of to this point. Even if you don't have a wealth of Thunderbolt 2-compatible external hard drives or displays, the Mac Pro's ports are completely backwards compatible with existing Thunderbolt connections, meaning you won't have to upgrade every last device you already have.
After all we've seen so far, we're inclined to believe Apple when it calls the Mac Pro "the most radical Mac yet." For a roundup of all the biggest WWDC 2013 keynote highlights, check out the video below: |
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