The week started off slow because of the holiday, but the dam broke on the 2nd and we hit the ground running. Speaking of New Year’s, Apple had another calendar bug: this time related to automating the Do Not Disturb feature. Rumors surfaced of early signs for iOS 7 and the next iPhone. We saw the rumor war play out over Apple buying mapping company Waze; the rumor appeared, then another rumor said that Waze wanted nearly a billion for their company, and then finally the entire thing was revealed to be overblown. App piracy became a big issue again, as there are new services that allow for piracy even on non-jailbroken devices. The iRadio rumor is back in time for CES, so in addition to seeing people release products competing with an imaginary Apple TV, we’ll see comments about an imaginary Apple streaming music service. This week also marked the first time Mountain Lion took a majority of OS X web traffic.
Here’s this week’s rundown:
Monday
- iPad Mini More Popular In China Than First Thought
- Hackulous Closes Its Doors, Says Goodbye To Installous And AppSync
Tuesday
- The New Year Causes Issues With iOS Do Not Disturb Mode
- iPhone 6, iOS 7 Show Up In Developer Logs
- Apple To Break Into Japanese Ebook Market This Month
Wednesday
- Apple Granted Original iPad, Smart Cover Patents
- Goodbye Samsung, Hello TSMC For A6X Chip Production
- Apple Applies For New Stylus Patent
- Apple Found Guilty Of Copyright Infringement In China
- Book Review: Game Design Secrets By Wagner James Au
- Intel Seeing Delays In Developing Internet-Based TV Service, Go Figure
- Babak Parviz Reveals Progress And Future Of Google Glass In New Interview
- Samsung Forced By Judge To Reveal Sales Numbers In Apple Case
Thursday
- Do Not Disturb Broken Until January 8th
- App Piracy Is Back And Easier Than Ever
- Apple Testing New Touch-On-Display Technology For Next iPhone?
- Power Tipping In Apple’s Favor, China Mobile Starting To “Need” The iPhone
- EXCLUSIVE: Do-Not-Disturb-Gate Sparks Imaginary Outrage Among Tech Press
- Microsoft Only Surviving Because Customers Don’t Know Other Alternatives, Says Forbes
- iPad Case Takes 100,000 Foot Tumble, Survives
Friday
