Somebody could contact you pretending to be your bank (if the number the bank uses is known) and ask for some secret info.
Legal Fights
Let's face it: nobody wants to waste money in court if they dont have to. These patents, ideas, were invented by Kodak, so there's no pride or maternal instinct involved. They just want to use them without getting lawsuits.
Gossip Land
À la iPhone 4S
A new iPhone or iPad that Apple would announce next month would have been in EVT prototype production back in April or so, and DVT prototype production this summer. Decisions like adding a new type of sensor have to be made relatively far in advance.
Makes sense. On a device this small, you hold it from the back, like I do with the nexus 7. The bezel will still be bigger at the top and bottom cause nobody has palms that big.
These iPad mini drawings, originally posted at ThinkiOS, were initially sketchy looking to us. Mainly because of the sourcing, but also because they appeared conveniently after the first iPad mini case moldings.
However, as you can see, these drawings completely match up with what we reported today.
Dumb News
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