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This week’s episode of America’s second-best podcast features discussion regarding Macworld/iWorld, the evolution and future of cameras and camera makers, and Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partners.
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New York Times Goes Deeper on Chinese Apple Factory Working Conditions
Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, reporting for the New York Times:
“Apple never cared about anything other than increasing product quality and decreasing production cost,” said Li Mingqi, who until April worked in management at Foxconn Technology, one of Apple’s most important manufacturing partners. Mr. Li, who is suing Foxconn over his dismissal, helped manage the [...]
Why Macs Cost More Than PCs
Andrew Richardson takes Matt Richman’s numbers and goes further:
If the average selling price of a Mac runs about $710 more than a
PC (ASP of a Mac – ASP of an HP machine), and about $320 of that
is profit, then the remaining $390 must be those higher costs.
Apple’s computing hardware, and the software development behind
OS X, [...]
Technicolor pulls out of YouView partnership
Manufacturer withdraws from venture
It’s only been in bed with YouView for a month and a half, but French manufacturer and broadcast technology giant Technicolor has pulled out of the venture with, currently, no public explanation as to why.
The split was first rumoured by sources close to industry site Broadband TV News, and has been quickly [...]
White iPhone 4 still on for spring… even though spring is almost over
iPhone 5, though, is another matter
Apple is still, defiantly, claiming that the white iPhone 4 is coming in spring, even though it has slipped more often than employees in a banana peeling factory. Oh, and regardless of the fact that spring is rapidly coming to an end.
It ties in with new information coming from different [...]
iPhone 5 summer delay looking likely
Coming with iOS 5 as well as an ipad 3 in the Autumn?
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Back on Monday when Apple released the details of 2011’s WWDC event we at Pocket-lint ran a story stating that the Cupertino giant [...]
Kinect sales now up to 2.5 million
5 million target well within reach now
26 days, 2.5 million units sold.
That’s the impressive start that Microsoft has had with its motion sensor Kinect system, according to official information just released.
“We are thrilled about the consumer response to Kinect, and are working hard with our retail and manufacturing partners to expedite production and [...]
