The folks behind the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, now dubbed “jOBS,” which stars Ashton Kutcher as the late CEO, released a presser this evening to announce the production’s June start date for filming. They also confirmed shooting will begin in the “historic garage” where Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple. The film’s early scenes will even feature Jobs’ Los Altos home where he grew up to maintain “accuracy and authenticity” during the movie-making process.

Ken Segall, the author of “Insanely Simple,” took to his blog recently to discuss the Kutcher biopic that now boasts authentic roots, and he compared it to another movie in the works by Sony, which is based on Walter Isaacson’s biography, features a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, and has Wozniak signed-on as an advisor.

“Apparently, there are two ways to make a Steve Jobs movie,” explained Segall. “You can do a low-budget indie film using director Joshua Michael Stern (who?) and first-time screenwriter Matt Whitely, and give it an appropriately cheesy name like [original name was 'Steve Jobs: Get Inspired', but it is now  'jOBS']. Or you can pay Isaacson a million bucks for the rights to his book, and prepare to pay far bigger bucks for everything that follows. Which is what Sony Pictures has done, bless their little hearts.”

Segall proposed the Sony flick should start with the “glory of Macintosh,” and then move to Jobs being annexed from Apple. It should at that point illustrate the NeXT phase, but appropriately lead into where Jobs cannot live without Apple—nor can it live without him. The bulk of the movie would then show a “chess game,” where Jobs entices Apple to buy NeXT, only to win the confidence of the board, turn CEO of Apple again, and reclaim his rightful place in life. The ending, of course, should pan to a”world of possibilities.”

Whether or not Sony heeds to Segall’s insightful recommendation, it is obvious that the film starring Kutcher is taking a personal and anecdotal side, where as the Sony production is spending big bucks to reiterate Isaacson’s widely popular biography. It will be interesting to see how this war of cinema plays out on the big screen.

The press release is below with a link to the biopic’s new website:

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• Ashton Kutcher Stars in Title Role
• LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – The film chronicling the life of Steve Jobs, the Apple Inc. co-founder and charismatic master of innovation, begins principal photography in June and in keeping with the project’s commitment to accuracy and authenticity, will film early scenes in the actual Los Altos home where Jobs grew up and in the historic garage where he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple.
• Titled jOBS, the biopic stars Ashton Kutcher as the iconic Silicon Valley visionary, and will shed new light on Steve Jobs’ most defining and personal moments, motivations, and the people that drove him. The film covers Jobs from his early years as an impressionable youth and wayward hippie, through his initial successes and infamous ousting, to his storybook return and ultimate triumphs as a man who set out to change the world and did just that.
• Executive producer Mark Hulme and Five Star Feature Films launched the production immediately following Jobs’ retirement in August 2011. Screenwriter Matt Whiteley, while penning the script, utilized a team of expert researchers based on months of exhaustive research and interviews with Steve Jobs’ friends, colleagues, and mentors to develop the most truthful and gripping picture of Jobs’ life.
• From director Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote, Neverwas), and Oscar winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter (Titanic), jOBS details the major moments and defining characters that influenced Steve Jobs on a daily basis from 1971 through 2000.
• jOBS chronicles the 30 most defining years of Steve Jobs’ life, as seen through his, colleagues’, and friends’ eyes. Dark, honest, and uncompromising, jOBS plunges into the depths of his character, creating an intense dialogue-driven story that is as much a sweeping epic as it is an immensely personal portrait of Steve Jobs’ life.
• A rousing narrative of this business and tech icon, jOBS pulls no punches and does not speculate, telling only the candid and captivating account of the life of Steven Paul Jobs.
• The film is represented by Creative Artists Agency.
• jOBS will be released in late fall 2012. For more information go to www.thejobsmovie.com.

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The march of technology amazes me. Yeah, I'm an old guy, but it still surprises me when I realize that the amount of storage that used to fill a data center can now fit in my pocket. G-Technology's G-Drive mobile (made by Hitachi, US$199.99 MSRP for 1 TB) is the perfect example of mass storage in a small, silent box. Read on for a review of this mobile companion and a chance to win one!

There's not much too say in terms of the design of the G-Drive mobile -- it's a slim metallic box 5 inches long, a little over 3 inches wide, and about 3/4 of an inch high. There's no power port; the G-Drive is bus-powered by either FireWire (400/800) or USB 2.0. The device comes with cables for each connection. A single white LED on the front of the drive indicates when it is powered up and in use.

On the inside, there's a 5400 RPM 1 TB drive with an 8 MB cache. For speed, I'd much rather see a 7200 RPM drive, but that would most likely drive up both the cost and power requirements of the drive. However, as you'll see with the benchmarks, this is still a pretty fast drive despite the slower rotation speed of the disk.

The G-Drive mobile also comes in 500 MB ($149.99 MSRP) and 750 MB ($159.99) versions, although I'm at a loss why someone wouldn't want to double their capacity for just fifty bucks more. I found the drive to run a bit hot -- I had placed my iPhone on top of the drive at one point, and when I answered a call I wondered why the phone was so hot...

As with other drives of this ilk, the G-Drive mobile is almost completely silent.

TUAW uses a standard industry benchmark to compare the I/O capabilities of disks and arrays. The benchmark uses the AJA System Test, which simulates reading and writing video. The specific test I used was the Disk Read/Write test, also known as the DiskWhackTest, set at a video frame size of 720 x 486 8-bit and a file size of 128 MB.

The drive read speeds were surprisingly fast in our benchmarks, matching almost every FireWire drive that we've tested (only one is shown below for space considerations). When it came to USB 2.0 read speeds, the G-Drive mobile was slightly faster than the competition across the board. Write speeds were slower for the G-Drive when connected via FireWire 800, while almost identical to other drives with a USB 2.0 connection.

If you're the owner of a MacBook Pro and have an available FireWire 800 port, or have a FireWire-equipped desktop Mac you'd like to back up while keeping a lot of available desk space, then the G-Drive mobile will fill your requirements. Those who only have USB 2.0 ports on their Macs should spend their money on less expensive USB-only drives that offer read/write speeds in the same range as the G-Drive mobile.

Thanks to G-Technology and TUAW, you now have a chance to win one of these sweet little drives. Just fill out the entry form below (only one entry per person, please) and we'll pick a random winner next week. Here are the rules for the giveaway:

• Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
• To enter, fill out the form below completely and click or tap the Submit button.
• The entry must be made before May 20, 2012 11:59PM Eastern Daylight Time.
• You may enter only once.
• One winner will be selected and will receive a G-Technology G-Drive mobile valued at $199.99.
• Click Here for complete Official Rules.

G-Technology G-Drive mobile: Rugged, pocket-sized, and fast originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 18 May 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A few of the most noteworthy apps in the iOS ecosystem either landed on the App Store recently or received much-welcomed updates, such as the launch of Mule Radio, CNNMoney, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II, and LA Clippers, or performance enhancements for Official UEFA EURO 2012 and The Daily.

Check out the full slate of notables below.

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Mule Radio: The free iPhone app released yesterday and unveiled a network of syndicated podcasts from well-known Apple enthusiasts, including Daring Fireball’s John Gruber. New episodes automatically stream to the smartphone. Other shows include “Let’s Make Mistakes” with Mike Monteiro and Katie Gillum and “Hour of Pour” with Jessie Char and Jason Permenter, as well as a slew of other programs that mix “design, culture, and all manner of excitements and screw-ups in between.” It currently has a 4.5-star rating based on 23 reviews as of press time.

CNNMoney: The free iPad app released today and allows users to “tap into the dynamic world of business and finance,” while streaming real-time changes to stocks with a built-in Watchlist and instant alerts. Business news and market analysis aggregate with the personalized news feed, which features exclusive business and finance video that lets users interact with the stories most important to them. It currently has a 5-star rating based on seven reviews as of press time.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II: This iOS app released yesterday with a $6.99 price tag, and it is compatible with both the iPhone and iPad. It follows the events of Episode 1 and features a “new and improved” engine with upgraded physics and Retina display. The app also highlights collaborative play and iOS-specific integration with Game Center connectivity, Cloud-enabled saves, and accelerometer support. It currently has a 4.5-star rating based on 192 reviews as of press time.

LA Clippers: The free iPhone app released today and boasts the “official App of the Los Angeles Clippers” tagline. Fans can access the latest news, schedules, pictures, scores, and other important Clippers content while on the go. Options for buying game tickets and interacting with other fans are also included in the sports app.  Oh, and it is accessible in English, German, Northern Sami, and Spanish. It currently does not have a star rating as of press time.

Official UEFA EURO 2012:  The free iPhone app updated to Version 2.0 today and now features the ability to locate UEFO EEURO 2012 stadiums. It also provides an option to follow each game coupled with live commentary. The official app essentially keeps fans up-to-date during the 14th UEFA European Football Championship, which occurs June 8 to July 1, 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, with news articles, personalized alerts, stats, photo and video galleries, and match highlights. The improved app also added various performance improvements. It currently has a 5-star rating based on seven reviews as of press time.

The Daily: The free iPad app updated to Version 1.27 today and added a slew of bug fixes for crashes and halted loading screens, increased Newsstand reliability, and disabled alerts for slow connection downloads. The Daily is the first magazine-like publication created for the iPad, and it recently became Retina optimized for the new iPad. It features seven sections, over 100 pages of content, 360-degrees graphics, and interactive elements. An in-app subscription is available for 99 cents a week or $39.99 a year, and it has a 2.5-star rating based on 332 reviews as of press time.

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It's been almost four years since Apple debuted its App Store platform for iOS (and then the Mac), and MacStories has an in-depth look back at that time. In just four short years, Apple has gone from saying that all we'd need on iOS are web apps, to a millions of dollars a year industry that supports almost half a million jobs. Needless to say, that's phenomenal growth.

But what's most interesting about the growth of the App Store is how the apps themselves have changed. MacStories writes about that initial push -- in those early days, the quality of the software was very low, and there were a lot of "speculators," for lack of a better term: Developers who just released quick and dirty apps (honestly, fart apps is what most of them were) to try and make a little bit of money. App branding, too, has come a long way. In the early days it was all about search and gaming the system, and these days, there are more ways to find good apps than ever.

At the same time, it's also harder for developers to make their mark in an increasingly crowded market. Apple's own success may be its biggest problem. The App Store has grown in a huge way over the past four years, and that may make it harder for both developers and Apple to figure out how to best run it going forward.

MacStories looks at four years of the App Store originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 18 May 2012 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world.

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Daily Update for May 18, 2012 originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 18 May 2012 15:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The battle over the nano-SIM standard is heating up with Apple on one side and a group that includes Nokia, Motorola and RIM on the other. In the latest series of developments reported by The Verge, Motorola and RIM are countering Apple's nano-SIM proposal with a revised design of their own. This newest design is a compromise which includes elements from both their design and Apple's. It's about "80 percent Apple and 20 percent RIM / Motorola" writes Chris Ziegler for The Verge.

We should hear more about the nano-SIM standard when the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) meets at the end of this month in Osaka, Japan.

Motorola, RIM offer Apple a nano-SIM compromise originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Cuatro años han pasado desde que Steve Jobs anunciara el lanzamiento de la primera tienda de aplicaciones móviles de la historia. Una keynote llena de sorpresas, como el primer iPhone que se distribuyó a nivel mundial, el 3G. Cuatro años desde que Apple inventará un mercado que ha sido considerado uno de los más importantes del mundo, generando cientos de ideas y empresas de desarrollo que se han convertido en verdaderas máquinas de generar dinero. Cuatro años que nos ofrecen unas cifras impresionantes empezando por sus 600.000 aplicaciones.

Ha llovido mucho desde que Steve Jobs se acercase al escenario para presentar la App Store en Julio del 2008. Desde su versión original, se ha mantenido intacta su esencia, añadiendo unas pocas funcionalidades gracias a iCloud, como el historial de compra. Fue la primera tienda de aplicaciones para smartphone en el mundo, pese a que Blackberry llevaba algunos años funcionando antes de la salida del iPhone, no lanzo Blackberry app World hasta el 2009, un año después. Con un crecimiento nunca visto hasta el momento, ha generado unas cifras de vértigo:

• 25 mil millones de descargas realizadas (Marzo 2012)
• 600.000 aplicaciones en el catálogo de iPhone/iPod Touch
• 200.000 aplicaciones en el catálogo de iPad
• Una media de 8 aplicaciones nuevas al día

Este último dato es muy interesante. ¿Cuántas empresas de desarrolladores había hace 4 años? Apple no solo creó una plataforma de venta de aplicaciones, creó un sector por completo. Transformó los procesos productivos y la forma de entender la venta de “programas”. En la actualidad, junto al sector energético, la producción de aplicaciones es uno de los negocios más rentables existentes (si consigues generar el éxito suficiente). Sino que se lo digan a Rovio, creador de Angry Birds.

Viendo las cifras, solo queda pensar cuánto podremos esperar de esta plataforma en los próximos cuatro años. ¿Cambiará Apple de estándar, incluirá alguna novedad o conservará intacta la fórmula? Habrá que esperar hasta el 2018.

Photo Stream fue una de las funcionalidades estrella que llegaron con iOS 5. Sin embargo siempre he dicho que la manera en la que está implementado en OS X me parece muy deficiente y bastante por debajo de la manera en la que está en Windows, curiosamente. En OS X dependemos de abrir iPhoto o Aperture para poder acceder al Photo Stream y mucha de las veces nos ensucia la biblioteca llenándola de fotos que no queremos o que no nos interesa tener catalogadas.

En Windows funciona como una carpeta más dentro del sistema más que está permanentemente sincronizada, al estilo Dropbox, y nos permite acceder a los archivos en cualquier momento sin tener que depender de ningún programa. Gracias a este pequeño truco y a la magia de las carpetas personalizadas del Finder podemos llevar la misma funcionalidad al Mac y acceder a Photo Stream desde una carpeta de OS X.

Desde cualquier carpeta del Finder tenemos que presionar Command+Shift+G, abrir el menú de Ir a la carpeta y copiar el siguiente código:

~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/

Una vez en la ventana del Finder en la esquina superior derecha en el cuadro de búsqueda sólo tenemos que acotar la búsqueda a las imágenes dentro de las carpetas que nos aparezcan. Para ello sólo tenemos que introducir la palabra “Imagen” y automáticamente se nos acotarán los resultados a este tipo de archivos. Una vez completado este paso sólo hay que darle a guardar la búsqueda, escoger el destino y guardarla con un nombre apropiado como “Photo Stream”. Desde ese momento podremos acceder a nuestro Photo Stream en cualquier momento sin necesidad de abrir ni iPhoto ni Aperture.

Following a number regional U.S. carriers that launched the iPhone this month, Oklahoma-based Pioneer Cellular today announced availability of the iPhone 4S. The carrier covers a large section of Northwest Oklahoma, and it will launch the device in-store at select locations today, followed by other locations on May 29, June 4, June 11, and June 18. Click the image to the right for a full list of cities and dates.

The carrier has not announced pricing or iPhone- specific plans for the device, but it currently has data plans starting at $30 for other smartphones. Earlier this month, regional carriers in Kentucky, Kansas, and California launched the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, with some prices starting at $149 for the 4S and $49 for the iPhone 4. In April, five other small carriers added the iPhone.

Puerto Rico-based no-contract carrier Open Mobile now also offers the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 at a number of its stores. Pricing is available below:

• Sprint to give $100 toward iPhone 4S during trade-in promo (9to5mac.com)
• Bluegrass Cellular & Golden State Cellular launching iPhone 4S for $149, iPhone 4 for $49 starting May 18 (9to5mac.com)
• World’s largest carrier China Mobile in talks with Apple to carry the iPhone (9to5mac.com)
• T-Mobile TV ad compares iPhone 4S on AT&T to its 4G network (9to5mac.com)
• How apps will benefit from a 4-inch iPhone (9to5mac.com)
• Target discounting iPhone 4S to $149, iPhone 4 to $49 – in store only (9to5mac.com)

Apple has announced some details on the 2012 iTunes Festival in London. This 30-day music event will take place at The Roundhouse and feature free performances by Usher, Emeli Sandé, Jack White, Norah Jones and One Direction among others.

Tickets will be distributed via lottery, and fans in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and the Netherlands can vie for a seat. Apple will stream performances to computers running iTunes and iPhones, iPod touches and iPads with the iTunes Festival app installed. The fun starts on September 1 and runs for the whole month.

Apple's iTunes Festival scheduled for September originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 18 May 2012 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Los rumores de un Mac con pantalla Retina llevan bastante tiempo circulando entre los medios especializados pero en la última semana se han visto revitalizados por un persistente soplo de aire fresco cuando Bloomberg, ABC News o Los Angeles Times entre otros se han lanzado a proclamar su inminente lanzamiento.

Así, mientras que todo el mundo da por hecho que la principal novedad de los nuevos MacBook Pro e iMac será la llegada de las pantallas Retina de alta resolución y mayor densidad de píxeles, nosotros hemos decidido ir un poco más lejos y lanzarnos a la búsqueda de algunas pruebas que den sustento a los rumores vertidos por las clásicas “fuentes anónimas cercanas a la manzana”.

Este mismo martes la gente de Hardmac hizo un interesante descubrimiento en la beta de Mountain Lion al encontrar la referencia más clara hasta la fecha de un Mac con pantalla retina (dos para ser exactos):

Esta imagen igual os suena a chino, pero lo cierto es que detalla los parámetros de configuración de la resolución para monitores externos cuando esta no viene indicada por el fabricante. La cosa no tendría mayor importancia de no ser por estas dos líneas: 3840×2400 internal 16×10 1920×1200 y 3360×2100 internal 16×10 1680×1050 que pueden traducirse por algo así como “esta es la definición de una pantalla interna de 3840×2400 píxeles de resolución para que ofrezca una salida de 1920×1200 píxeles”. Que la pantalla interna de este futuro iMac o Macbook Pro cuente con cuatro veces más resolución que la externa apunta al característico aumento en la densidad de píxeles de las pantallas Retina.

En el mismo archivo también se describe un modo de compatibilidad para juegos que trabajaría a una resolución inferior (como los mencionados 1920×1200 píxeles) para escalar las imágenes justo antes de mostrarlas en pantalla, haciendo posible que los juegos funcionen de forma fluida multiplicando cada píxel por cuatro ofreciendo la misma densidad actual y evitando que nuestra tarjeta gráfica salga ardiendo.

Y si no me creéis, pulsad sobre la imagen que tenéis arriba con una comparativa entre el nuevo icono de Automator de Mac OS X 10.7.4 y el de las versiones anteriores. Exacto, tal y como descubrieron la semana pasada los chicos de AppleInsider, la última actualización de OS X cuenta con algunos iconos como algunas aplicaciones como TextEdit o Automator con iconos de 1024 × 1024 píxeles de resolución, el doble de resolución horizontal y vertical de los clásicos de 512 × 512 píxeles.

Ayer mismo saló a la luz una nueva patente de Apple referente al diseño de interfaces de usuario que complementa a otras ya presentadas por la compañía en enero de este año y tiempo atrás en 2004. La patente trata acerca de la especificación de elementos de la interfaz de usuario “de forma independiente a los procedimientos y las altas resoluciones de pantalla” que puedan utilizarse y consiste en almacenar los atributos de un elemento para varias resoluciones en un archivo “receta” que permite que el sistema operativo y sus aplicaciones puedan verse con el mismo tamaño independientemente de la resolución de la pantalla en la que se muestren.

Los que hayáis tenido un iPhone 3G o 3GS y dieseis el salto al iPhone 4 o 4S sabéis de lo que estoy hablando. Dos resoluciones diferentes pero exactamente el mismo tamaño de iconos, barras y demás elementos de la interfaz del sistema y sus aplicaciones. Apple apunta en el texto de la patente dos formas típicas de conseguir esto: ampliando o reduciendo las imágenes; pero las descarta frente a su sistema a causa de las inconsistencias en el ancho de las líneas que definen el borden de los objetos. “Si los bordes se ven borrosos o mal definidos, todo el diseño de la interfaz gráfica puede peligrar”.

En serio, ¿soy yo? ¿o es una auténtico sinsentido que el nuevo iPad tenga más resolución que un MacBook pro o un iMac? En esta comparativa gráfica podéis ver como el iPad con su pequeña pantalla de 9,7 pulgadas deja por los suelos incluso al MacBook Pro de 17 pulgadas y logra competir de tú a tú (superando en resolución vertical, aunque no horizontal) al iMac de 27 pulgadas. ¡Es de locos!

Algunas marcas como Toshiba o Viewsonic han comercializado en el pasado monitores con resoluciones nativas de hasta 3840×2400 píxeles aunque su precio siempre ha sido prohibitivo incluso para los profesionales más sobrados y hasta no hace demasiado, utilizarlos implicaba añadir una buena suma para una tarjeta gráfica igualmente bien dotada. El tiempo pasa y los astros finalmente se alinean dando lugar a la oportuna combinación de elementos como el abaratamiento de los paneles (aunque no tanto como para evitar un aumento en el precio de estos futuros Macs) y el aumento de potencia de las tarjetas.

Y hablando de tarjetas, ¿recordáis la tarjeta gráfica que supuestamente montarán los nuevos MacBook Pro? ABC News asegura que será una Nvidia GeForce GT 650M, la cual muy oportunamente es capaz soportar resoluciones de hasta 3840 × 2160 píxeles. Muy conveniente, ¿verdad?

En Applesfera | Los nuevos iMac y MacBook Pro con Ivy Bridge se dejan ver en Geekbench

All the little fishies
in bottom of the sea
wish that they were swimming
in my G5 Mac PC

Or for the geekier devs among you: Joy to NSFishies in the G5 PC, @selector(joy:) to you and me...

Video of the case conversion follows for your delectation.

[via Gizmodo]

G5 Mac "Pro" (sic) receives Macquarium treatment originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 18 May 2012 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Update: Russian speaking reader Ilya Kuchinskiy informed us that Izvestia is indeed a respected news source, but like we anticipated, the translation is erroneous. Literally it means “Skolkovo has some plans find investors and has invited to come and work in skolkovo. They have some talks to work but there is no plans to open Apple center in Russia, it is like thay just send invitation and google, facebook, apple just thinking, that’s it

According to a translated report from Russian publication Izvestia (via MacRumors), Apple is one of a handful of tech companies, including Google and Facebook, in talks to open a research facility at the Skolkovo Innovation center near Moscow, Russia. We will have to take this report for what it is; we are skeptical given a long line of rumors this week that came mostly from poorly translated reports that were all later debunked. First, we heard rumors about Apple acquiring German TV manufacturer Loewe, which was debunked later, and then China Daily misquoted Foxconn’s Terry Gou. Finally, Apple allegedly ordered “huge” numbers of flexible displays from Samsung for the next iPhone—debunked. We are hoping for a follow-up from an additional source. If you are in the area, hit us on tips@9to5mac.com.

• Debunked: Apple is not acquiring Loewe, Foxconn CEO denies iTV rumors, Digitimes is “wrong most of the time” (9to5mac.com)
• Rumor: Foxconn exec says ‘iTV’ preparations are underway (9to5mac.com)

La demanda fue presentada esta semana en los EE.UU ante el Tribunal del Distrito de California por el demandante Danyelle Comer . La presentación expresa su descontento con la transición de Apple del servicio de pago de MobileMe a iCloud.

“A lo largo de la migración, Apple no pudo asegurar de manera adecuada que las características empleadas por los usuarios de MobileMe  fuera accesible, incluido el acceso a sus cuentas de correo electrónico por las que los clientes pagan cuotas adicionales”, dice la denuncia. “Como resultado, muchos usuarios de MobileMe han sufrido daños por la imposibilidad de acceder a sus cuentas de correo.”

En la demanda se expone que Apple debería haber estado mejor preparada para llevar a cabo la transición de dicho servicio, todo ellos sin causar ningún prejuicio a los usuarios que pagan su cuota correspondiente, ha habido usuarios que además de no poder acceder a sus cuentas han perdido datos debido a la corrupción de los mismos, algunos de los afectados han llegado a contratar soporte técnico externo para poder solucionar los problemas causados.