The leader of China Mobile, the major ( and larger) competitor to China Unicom, the current lone distributor of the iPhone in China, has announced that it plans to make a deal with Apple to distribute the iPhone and the iPad template computer.
Simplify, the company that authored mainly mobile music software, has pulled its apps from the Apple App Store, is not accepting new customers and has said that they are taking their company in a new direction.
This is a pivotal point in the life of the iPhone OS. There are any number of directions in which the little workhorse of an operating system could go, given all that is now being asked of it.
There is a different take on the constant rhetoric surrounding this and that iPhone-killer this week, in which a respected smartphone analyst predicts that it is not the iPhone that will be killed, or even badly injured.
A recent patent application by Apple shows that the Cupertino electronics giant has some interest in providing a simulated graphic combination lock for use in locking and unlocking the iPhone.
It would appear as if the Chinese government has rethought the concept of Wi-Fi on the Chinese version of the iPhone, and that Wi-Fi will be available in China on the Apple handset sooner than later.
There are a number of headlines today about Apple losing their way in the smartphone marketplace share battle, but a look at the numbers, and how you parse them, makes a difference in how it all sounds.
It probably will not happen quickly, but an iPhone app for the uber-popular Netflix service is being considered by the movie-rental and streaming giant, a move that could complete the Netflix hat trick.
A nationally known financial analyst has predicted that there will be new iPhones models in June, and goes even further, saying that the prices are going to go down on at least some models at the same time.
With the release of the Apple iPad tablet computer just a few weeks away, it makes sense to ask if the iPad can duplicate the level of success of the iPhone and iPad Touch, which have been wildly popular since their release.
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