Let’s be honest. The earbuds Apple bundles with its iPod and iPhone range are horrible.
TechRadar has spoken to Three to ask how it has managed to dramatically undercut its competitors when it comes to iPad data. Three’s data offering of 10GB for £15 per month is much cheaper than competitors, with the same amount costing £25 on Orange and only 5GB for the £25 on Vodafone. Marc Allera, sales and marketing director for Three, said the price difference was down to the network set up: “Our network is a pure 3G network, set up for mobile internet, so we can ensure we give our customers the best value. “Mobile data is seen by the big guys as a substitute for declining voice revenue, maybe that’s why they’re keeping [the cost] higher.” Data slide Allera pointed to dramatic slide in mobile data costs that have happened in the last ten years as proof that customers are increasingly turning to 3G networks to access the internet.
So Steve Jobs finally posted the reasoning for his decision to kill Flash , in any form, on the iPhone/iPad platform. Some of what he says makes sense.
Most people know about Steve Jobs’ famous reality distortion field, but you don’t see it in action that often – so hurrah, then, for the latest Steve-O-Gram , in which he invents a whole new tech history and imagines a world of apps that doesn’t actually exist. Okay, it’s not quite that bad, but it’s not far off it. Jobs’ essay makes some perfectly accurate points about Flash, expresses some convincing arguments for Jobs’ antipathy towards the technology, and wraps them in some of the most unbelievable guff we’ve seen in ages. In Steve’s world Adobe dumped the creative market for the corporate one
The rumoured acquisition of ARM by Apple looks like a story grounded in fantasy after comments from the chip designer’s CEO. Speaking exclusively to TechRadar, Warren East, CEO of ARM, said that any such acquisition would make no sense when ARM is valued at £3 billion. “[A potential acquisition by Apple] would make no sense