CNET is reporting that iPhone users are complaining that battery life has been significantly worse on new iOS5 devices. Apple had originally been silent on the issue, but is now saying that battery issues are due to features in iOS5 rather than hardware issues with handsets, and has promised a software fix to remedy the situation. Apple's initial lack of comment reminds us of the antenna issue last year, although in this instance they seemed to move to a response quicker.
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In 1973 a group of engineers at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Complex (PARC) developed the Alto, the first computer to use a mouse-driven GUI and use the desktop and document metaphor in organizing files. Xerox was uninterested in moving forward with an untested design, and the Alto was a white elephant that never made it out of PARC. However, Steve Jobs saw the Alto in 1979 and was highly enthusiastic about the GUI model of computing. He went back to Apple and put together the Lisa project, with an aim to developing an Apple PC with a GUI. The Lisa was envisioned as being a high-end business machine that would be used for spreadsheets, document editing, and project management. Lisa was released in January 1983 and priced at $9,995 – much higher in price than PC’s that IBM was beginning to sell and that were beginning to dominate the business market.
Steve Jobs’ foray into the world of technology began when he joined Hewlett Packard as a summer employee while still in high school in 1972. At HP Jobs met Steve Wozniak and there began the friendship that would lead to Apple Computer and all its innovations. Jobs briefly attended college in Portland Oregon, and a calligraphy course he took there influenced the Macintosh’s later options for multiple typefaces and proportional fonts.
This week Steve Jobs lost his battle with cancer and passed away at the age of 55. His death came as a shock to me. I knew that he stepped down from leadership at Apple because he felt he could no longer participate on a daily basis, but my assumption was that Jobs was going to go on to enjoy a retirement and consult with Apple’s leadership over the next couple of years. The fact that Jobs only stepped down when death appeared imminent seems to illustrate the passion that he had for the company he helped found.
Steve Jobs, the visionary who co-founded Apple Computers, brought GUI interfaces to home computers, and revolutionized the portable music and cellular phone industries, has passed away at the age of 56.
This is a tremendous loss to the technology world. It would seem facile to try to sum up Jobs' career and impact in a few short sentences. We had planned a retrospective of Jobs' career following his departure from Apple in late August, but hope to provide one in the coming weeks.
Color me whelmed.
In spite of anticipation of an Apple announcement today of the iPhone 5, reporters left Cupertino today with news about the iPhone 4S.
The 4S has some nice updates - a dual-core processor; dual (GSM/CDMA) antennas; an 8-megapixel camera; screen mirroring, and Siri voice control. iOS5 will also offer some nice cloud sync services. However, there do not appear to be any home runs in this latest announcement - no 4G speeds, no improved screen display, no major battery life upgrade.
At this point, with some of the high-end Android phones out there, the iPhone 4S is in the middle of the pack, rather than out in front.
Apple is going to announce its next line of phones. While most people have been watching the patent fight between Apple and Samsung, Apple has been working on something new for us, but what amounts to one of Steve Jobs old visions...
Wired reports that Apple has removed the satirical game Phone Story from its App Store, supposedly for violating several of the iOS rules for app creation, but more likely because it shows the seedy side of what goes into the manufacturing of everyone's favorite gadget.
cNet is reporting that a former Samsung manager testified during the insider trading trial of Global Research executive Joel Fleishman that he leaked information about the iPad approximately a month before the device was released. Following the leak Samsung lost a contract to supply the iPad with its LCD screens.
I wonder if the leak and subsequent cancellation of the supply contract is why Apple and Samsung have been viciously attacking each other in the courts over the Galaxy II.
Via CNET, we heard about a Cult of Mac story about an Apple Store customer who was given an Apple Store's Time Machine backup drive after his Mac was serviced.
Apparently the customer's hard drive had failed and a new hard drive was installed. When they picked up their Mac they were given a separate hard drive, which presumably was the old hard drive from their computer. When the customer got home, they decided to try to mount the old drive via a USB enclosure to see if any files could be salvaged and discovered that the drive contained, not his files, but Time Machine backups of internal documents dating from late 2009 through May 2011.
Cult of Mac was originally approached by the customer with an offer to purchase the hard drive; however, they did the right thing and refused, instructing the customer to return the drive to the store from whence it came. Good for them.
image (c) The Cult of Mac
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