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• Richard Townhill, senior director of applications marketing at Apple, said the features were added after the company received feedback from its users.
   
   "We listened to the pros and have taken their top feature requests and put them in this update,
• Media Stems Export

  • Still missing the multi cam support. Pretty much the only high-profile called for feature still to come.
    
    You got to think Apple was already working on this by the time they released? Then why not wait?
• Rich XML Support
• Projects and Events on Xsan: Create and edit your Final Cut Pro X projects and Events on Xsan. Ideal for multi-user workflows, you can import media through Final Cut Pro X and place it directly on the SAN.
• Custom Starting Timecode:
• Full-screen view in Lion:
• One-step Transitions on Connected Clips
• GPU-accelerated export
• two new features coming in "early 2012:" multicam editing and broadcast-quality video monitoring.
• Camera Import SDK: Camera manufacturers can use the Camera Import SDK to write plug-ins for importing media
• a new free trial of the software is now available from the official Final Cut Pro X site. Users must enter their name and e-mail address and to be allowed to try the software for 30 days.

  • Apple forced to circumvent their own directives. I suppose this is a special case.
    
    Again, I still see FCP and it's new pricing as a product that will gives it's fruits in 5 years or so. As new companies go for the more attractive, gentle learning curve and of course: Price!
• Apple also issued an update for Compressor on Tuesday,

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• Normal people do not understand what CPU architectures or binary instruction sets are. There is going to be confusion here either way. But everyone is going to be able to understand the difference between old-style Windows desktop apps and new-style Metro apps. Just look at them.

    

  • Apple had rosetta to help users with the transition. Microsoft has no emulation solution, plus, they are not transitioning but having both at the same time. 
    
    How do you expect users to differentiate. 
• Microsoft promises that even on Intel machines which support classic Windows software, if you don’t launch the Windows desktop, none of that code even loads, and you’ll get the performance benefits of Metro’s non-legacy design.

  • Apple gets something that nobody else seems to get.  Let's call it the self-inflicting-pain factor. Like if you deliberately decide to jailbreak you're phone for more functionality and freedom. You would think that being able to change colour schemes, the overhaul layout of apps, convenient buttons everywhere and so on is a great idea. But after a while you get really unhappy with the experience you're getting from using the phone because it is no longer uniform, consistent and fluid, the very things that Apple works so hard to achieve. You have now lost the P-factor and would rather give up that extra freedom to have that sensation back. 
    
    Windows 8 tablet users will fall into the same trap. They will want to open the desktop to do something that cannot be done on Metro and eventually find  themselves in a messy environment. 
• But developers are human and thus have a natural tendency toward the path of least resistance.

  • And think about the solutions developers came up with on iOS because they did not have flash. For example livesports apps, bbc iplayer, BBC news, YouTube, etc. 
    
    It is waaaaaay better than the web version. 
    
    That's why Microsoft should not allow the classic desktop on an ARM version of windows 8
• • Btw, I have now used windows 8 on a desktop. Don't give me the "learning curve" stupidity. If you change a product to be more intuitive, then that should show automatically. Metro on a desktop is bad bad bad. 

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• • This week HP sacked more than 500 people from the webOS team. 
    I think they need to make up their mind, decide what they wanna be. But for as long as they send the "indecisive" message (that includes CEO and products), neither users or companies are gonna give them much credit. 
• A year ago, Oracle's chief executive told the Wall Street Journal he was "speechless" that HP had appointed Apotheker, writing that "HP had several good internal candidates […] but instead they pick a guy who was recently fired because he did such a bad job of running SAP."
• Ellison also took a shot at HP's board, noting "none of the HP board members own much HP stock so they have little to lose. But the HP employees, customers, partners and shareholders will suffer. “
• HP's chairman Ray Lane announced that the company's appointment of Whitman was "fortunate," saying, "we are at a critical moment and we need renewed leadership to successfully implement our strategy and take advantage of the market opportunities ahead.

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• Associated Press reports
• "We'll be pursuing our rights for this in a more aggressive way from now on," Lee Younghee, head of global marketing for mobile communications, said Friday in an interview.
• "We've been quite respectful and also passive in a way"
• Dutch site Webwereld.nl reports [Google translation] that Samsung has filed suit against Apple in The Hague, requesting a ban on sales of Apple's 3G-enabled iOS devices in the Netherlands. The suit explicitly names the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, and original iPad, but does not limit its claims to the listed devices. 
    
   Apple argues that the patents in question are so basic to wireless telecommunications technology that they should be subject to FRAND

  • It's a bit like a "james" got caught by "steve" copying on exam., who then told the teacher. James in he's defence is saying that steve is using his pen to do the exam.
    
    Also bear in mind that all the other kids use james's pens to do their exams

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• "senior executive" at the company and was reported to The Korea Times.
• "Just after the arrival of the iPhone 5 here, Samsung plans to take Apple to court here for its violation of Samsung's wireless technology related patents,"
• "For as long as Apple does not drop mobile telecommunications functions, it would be impossible for it to sell its i-branded products without using our patents. We will stick to a strong stance against Apple during the lingering legal fights."

  • So they asked the courts to grant them access to Apple's iPhone 5 documentation. That was declined. 
    If they really thought these basic wireless patents were enough or even valid, then they wouldn't be doing this.
• The report from The Korea Times also briefly cites unspecified "officials" who claim that the iPhone 5 will include near-field communication (NFC) technology.

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• all-time high of over $410 per share. The jump has pushed Apple's market capitalization to $380 billion, giving the company an approximately $25 billion cushion over second-place Exxon Mobil in the rankings of most valuable companies.
• Since that time nearly four weeks ago, Apple's stock is up 15% and is now higher than it had ever been under Jobs.

• Executives from both Acer Taiwan and Compal Electronics have turned to Intel and asked the chipmaker to aid them in achieving pricing below $1,000

  • There is an obvious advantage  of supply chains and great component agreements that Apple enjoys. But this idea that you pay for the make when you buy an apple computer is stupid. 
    A laptop is not CPU speed and memory. Try and create sod thing with the overall quality of a mac and you see where the price tag comes from. 
    Difference between a cheap pen and a Parker. 

• VR-Zone notes
• Not only can the MFX engine display up to 4096 x 4096 pixels on a single monitor, but it can also handle video processing for 4K QuadHD video as well.

  • Apple of corse will be the first one of the hardware makers with adopt this.
    Finally!! I feel like everything hardware-wise has come leaps and bounds in the last 10 years or so. Everything but resolution.
• Ivy Bridge is Intel's next generation processor that also integrates a much improved graphics processing unit (GPU).

  • Apple would much rather have one instead of two GPUs. This would solve it.

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• sources said that the October 4 date has been selected by the company to showcase the iPhone 5. Sources added that the plan is now to make the new device available for purchase within a few weeks after the announcement.
• he’s never quarterbacked an Apple product announcement before, Cook

• J.P. Morgan revealed on Monday
• iPhone to have a thinner and lighter form factor, and to also include both CDMA and GSM radios for a "world mode" handset, though no support for 4G long-term evolution. The so-called "iPhone 5" is expected to have a larger Retina display with a "significant" but not "radically different" change in physical design.
• The new iPhone 5 stands to be based on the iPad 2's A5 processor or a newer A6 version," he said. "We also expect 1GB of RAM to increase memory access times.
• increased battery life due to advancement in battery technologies, the printed circuit board (PCB), the touch screen, and LCD power consumption metrics."
• "A second device (4-plus) based on the current iPhone 4 but with some minor improvements could target the midrange and focus on China,"

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• The latest next-generation iPhone components were leaked to Indian iPhone repair site iRepair.in and shared with AppleInsider.

  • A few cabling changes but that's pretty much it.
• Otterbox case for a next-generation handset, labeled "iPhone 4S," were leaked on Thursday by iPhone hacker "Chronic." The case itself is not shown, but the back of the packaging appears to show the volume buttons on the right side of the device, above the SIM card slot. He also claimed that Otterbox has produced 3 million cases for its initial run for the "iPhone 4S."

• Investment research firm UBS
• Android as a whole has a planned retention rate of about 55% according to the survey, indicating that while many current users of Android handsets are planning to switch manufacturers, a fair number of them do intend to stay with Android.

  • Maybe they think that the OS will get better with better hardware. Opps!
• But 31% of surveyed Android users report intending to switch to the iPhone for their next device, with over 50% of the total "switchers" planning to move to Apple from another manufacturer as only about 10% of switchers are moving away from Apple.

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• secure application stores credit card information so that a chip in the NFC-enabled smartphone can connect the device to an NFC reader in a store
• In addition to Citi Mastercard credit cards, customers will be able to use a Google Prepaid Card to pay for their purchases.

  • Will also carry vouchers and loyalty cards. Will hopefully expand to other card types like Visa. 
    
    Only available in 3 phones and 2 places. It's finally here though. 
    
    Will Apple do it this year? Will this be a unified service and app agnostic. I sure hope so. 

• The game developer announced the release of its September 2011 UDK Beta, the free edition of its Unreal Engine 3, earlier this week.
• includes multi-display support for iOS, via either HDMI cable or Apple's AirPlay standard
• Infinity Blade

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• • I can't believe Adobe is still pouring that much money into flash. Air is a bit different, as it is used for off the web experiences.
• Dozens of new features in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 allow developers to deliver a new class of gaming

  • promising "console-quality 2D and 3D games" 
    Funnily enough they used Machinarium to promote this new release
• Dozens of new features in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 allow developers to deliver a new class of gaming and premium video experiences
• AIR 3 is also bringing improvements to video streaming, offering the ability to stream full frame rate HD video within AIR applications for iOS via H.264 encoding.

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• It comes less than a week after the last beta of Mac OS X 10.7.2 was supplied for testing.

  • which is normally a sign that things are getting ready for release. probably Oct 4th
    This will solve a lo of memory problems. I am looking forward to this.
• The new beta comes the same day that Apple has warned developers it will reset all iCloud data. The reset is being done in preparation for the launch of the new free service.

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• Microsoft asks developers to distribute two different versions of their apps: the existing 7.0 version for existing phones, and a second 7.5 version for new phones and devices that can install the update once it becomes available
• Once a 7.5 version app is published in the App Hub market, developers won't be able to fix bugs or add features to their existing 7.0 version. However, existing phone users also won't be able to run the new 7.5 version, as each major build of Windows Phone is tied to a matching app version.
• Similarly, a single iOS app can run on iOS 3, iOS 4 or iOS 5, and can also adapt to running on an iPhone or take full advantage of iPad features, if the developer chooses to add an iPad optimized binary to the package.

  • So it is really up to developers to make versions of their apps (some to sun on lower capacity hardware) available on the one package.

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• As noted by AllThingsD and This is my next, Amazon has just sent out invitations for a media event scheduled for next Wednesday, September 28th. The invitation is silent on what the topic of the event will be

• A survey commissioned by a security app developer that polled parents in the U.K.
• The study focused on primary-school children (ages 5-10) and found that one in 10 kids under the age of 10 years old already owns their own iPhone. One in 20 have their own iPad, and one in 10 children in the survey had a social networking account -- despite the age limit of MySpace and Facebook being 13.

  • NOT A CHANCE! this study must have been conducted in Kensington

  • NOT A CHANCE! this study must have been conducted in Kent.