Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

The Electronic Frontier Foundation took a critical stance against Apple on Tuesday, when the digital rights advocacy group posted in its entirety the confidential license agreement to which all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch developers must agree.

Over the last past years, we have already been reporting about the tension between Apple and its APR (Apple Premium Resellers). They have been supporting Apple during the crisis ranging from mid-90 to 2002, and they did not really benefit from the "re-birth" of Apple. Cupertino has been reducing margins of APR years after years, [...]

A Trojan horse (Windows) was detected in the software accompanying a USB Energizer DUO charger of batteries. It opens a port on the affected PC that makes it possible to be able to reach it easily from outside. Even though it is impossible not to throw the stone at the company that did not make any [...]

If though the iPad seems to have production problems at the moment, it would be expected that 600.000 to 1 million units will be produced monthly. This represents enormous quantities of flash memory chip for the models: 16,32 or 64 GB.However this market already is very constrained because of the iPhone and others iPod which absorbs a [...]

Apple’s share prices have begun climbing back since Feb. 23, closing Tuesday at $208.85. It’s not yet quite clear why — it could be the imminent shipping of the iPod or the shareholders’ meeting Feb. 25, among other things. Still, investors should take what they can get. They’ll have to — Cupertino isn’t about to [...]

Third party accessory companies have profited immensely from Apple’s iPod and iPhone lines of products, and now they are preparing for next month’s launch of the iPad with an assortment of products, including cases, chargers and more.

If DRMS (Digital Rights Management) are not used anymore on online music stores, they are still heavily adopted for online video offers, and will most likely be present also for all eBooks from the iBook.this is reported by the LA Times. DRMs to be used will be Apple FairPlay, with their knowns limitations. This will of [...]

Silicon Alley Insider reports on new data from market research firm NPD relayed by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster showing strong Mac and iPod sales for Apple’s March quarter so far, well ahead of most analysts’ expectations. NPD’s numbers show M…

With the quick development of smartphone, among them the iPhone, ARM have seen its market growing at a record pace, pushing them to develop products with higher performance levels and new features. The iPad is also powered by a ARM-architecture and will contribute to the success of this architecture.  According to different sources, it seems quite [...]

At the time of the launching of the iTunes Stores, Apple arrived at the practically virgin market with the sale of online music with the enormous force of million of iPod already out there. Steve Jobs thus could with a relative ease succeed in imposing to the Majors Producers a single price for the music, [...]

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