Today, at Google’s Mobile Revolution conference in Tokyo, Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt made an attack on Apple and its litigious way. He said that Apple’s lawsuits against Android are a result of their lack of innovation with the iPhone and jealousy because of Android’s success.
Apple has brought about same changes in the pricing of all applications in its iTunes and the mac app store. Prices are reported to have gone up by as high as 20% for some apps.
According to a survey conducted by Retrevo, a third of the iPhone 4 owners believe that their phone supports 4G wireless technology.
Mobile app store GetJar is the latest recipient of a cease and desist letter from Apple for using the words “app store”. However, GetJar said that they are not going to “Cease & Desist”.
Concern have been raised about the boundaries of the US Patriot Act. Some have been suggesting that the Act requires them US based companies to give user data to the US government, if asked for it, regardless of the location of the server.
Apple just releases iOS 5 beta 2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices for Developers. iOS 5 Build 9A5248d is available now in the Dev Center for registered iOS developers.