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Apple News: Mysterious Steve Jobs Emails Hang Over Apple Trial The late Steve Jobs took center stage Monday in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks. A federal court attempted to plumb the meaning of a series of unsent emails Jobs addressed to Eddy Cue, an Apple senior vice president assigned with negotiating ebook contracts with major publishers in late 2009 and early 2010 before the launch…

Apple News: Why Apple Inc. Can’t Be Forgiven for iOS 7 “Can’t innovate anymore, my ass!” That was a remark made by senior vice president Phil Schiller during Apple Inc.’s keynote presentation at this week’s WWDC conference. It came immediately after a sneak peek at the future Mac Pro desktop computer, which boasts a volume one-eighth the size of the current design, one that has remained largely unchanged for seven…

Apple News: The Apple e-book trial: About that dinner on January 20, 2010 In its effort to prove that Apple “knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of e-books” – to use the judge’s own words – the Department of Justice has spent an inordinate amount of time cross-examining witnesses in the Apple e-book trial about a dinner that took place in Manhattan on the evening of…

Apple News: One reason Apple is hard to beat As an example of Apple’s success in this area, let’s look at one particular product. I chose the 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina because it seems, at first blush, uncharacteristically pedestrian and unrefined for an Apple product. But for me it was a lesson in seeing through the seemingly unremarkable appearance. When I first saw the Retina Pro 13 at an Apple…

Apple News: The DOJ’s last best chance in the Apple e-book case has passed The Department of Justice spent a little over three hours Thursday cross-examining Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue – the alleged “ringmaster” of an illegal conspiracy to raise the price of e-books – and when it was over it wasn’t clear whether they’d let their last best chance slip through their fingers or whether they never…