The iPad: designed by Apple, assembled in China...and now divorced from its own name after falling on the losing side of a patent lawsuit brought against a company located in southern China.
The Apple patent war is going to get a little nastier. We’ve all heard about the patent wars between Apple and Samsung, but Apple now owns the “slide to unlock” patent, available on smartphones almost everywhere.
Look out, your next iOS device may do away with that fussy charging cable and cradle. In its place? A pair of earbuds. Yep, I said earbuds. Those things you stick in your ears to listen to music, or maybe use to lasso a pen off your desk if you’re lazy (as well as adept at [...]
Apple’s design philosophy of ardent minimalism has now made its way into a couple of Mac products, such as the buttonless Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse. Now Patently Apple has come across another filing with the US Patent & Trademark Office for a keyless, glass-based keyboard submitted by the Cupertino-based company some time last week.
Another day, another patent, this one from Apple for a very curious sort of keyboard that might be easier to type on because it’ll know in advance which keys your fingertips want to hit.
There’s a lot to be said for the ease of one-click checkout systems, but Amazon, Apple and PayPal may learn to regret their early adoption thanks to lawsuits brought against all three companies by a little-known Washington software company called Cordance Corp.
Jailbreaking might now be legal but that doesn’t mean Apple isn’t giving up on thwarting our freedom to do so.
