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Apple News: Why Is Apple The Bad Guy For Defeating This Patent Troll? Back in 2010, Apple was seemingly randomly sued by an eccentric 70-year-old crank who claimed to have “come up with the idea” of the smartphone. That lawsuit has now come to trial, and the crank has lost, but what’s confusing is how torn the jury seems to have been by the decision, even going so far as…

Apple News: Will Apple’s free iWork for iOS impact Microsoft? Apple introduced the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c during a media event earlier this week, but those weren’t the only big announcements of the afternoon. The Cupertino company also announced that it is making its iWork suite—which includes Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes—absolutely free for its new iOS device users. The free iWork offer also includes other applications such as…

Apple News: Reality Absorption Field: Apple’s cloud comeback Look closely at the moves of the three main consumer operating system vendors. Each has become infatuated toward expanding into a new area from its strength among the landscape of hardware, software and service. For Microsoft, which has long been strong in software and has gained strength in services, its clearly tablets (as a broader hardware beachhead), or at least in defending…

Apple News: How Apple’s App Store Changed Business at Its Core In raw numbers, the Apple App Store’s reach is undeniable, with more than 50 billion downloads and about 900,000 apps in total. Though the stats are impressive, what matters more is the transformative influence the App Store has had in the business world, affecting everything from the logic of pricing to startup culture itself. Even as Apple got people…

Apple News: Apple was right, widgets just ain’t cool Without a doubt, one of the biggest differences between iOS and Android is its fundamental handling of information. Google decided to allow widgets onto a phone’s Home screen so that, theoretically, users would have the information they need right at their fingertips. Apple, on the other hand, has doggedly stuck to its guns. Read full story => iDownloadBlog Technology News: The…