LTA 33: May 2016
Joining Bart for this month are Chuck Joiner from Mac Voices, Allister Jenks, and Gazmaz from the My Mac Podcast. The show starts with a quick look at some notable numbers that were released in May, followed by a look at some Apple-related legal stories. The four main stories for the month are: Tim Cook’s visit to India and China, CurrentC gets postponed again, Google’s IO Conference, and Microsoft’s streamlining of their phone business. The show finishes with a quick rundown of some other shorter stories that made the news in May.
Notable Numbers
- Apple tops JD Power Tablet Customer Satisfaction Survey - www.jdpower.com/...
- Despite calling for a boycott of Apple, Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure reports shows he has at least $1.1M of Apple Stock - www.imore.com/...
Legal Latest
- Apple being sued by Patent holding company because the iPhone can make calls! (no, it's not April 1st, the US patent system really is that broken) - www.macobserver.com/...
- VirtneX, who won a $626M patent suit against Apple over FaceTime & iMessage, requests those services be shut down - arstechnica.com/... & www.macobserver.com/...
- Apple makes ground in its fight against a $533M verdict against it in favour of Smartflash - two patents at the centre of the case have been rules invalid - www.bloomberg.com/... & www.imore.com/...
Main Stories
- Tim Cook Goes to India & China
- Apple announce software lab to be opened in Bengaluru - www.reuters.com/...
- Tim meets with Indian Cellphone Carriers - www.imore.com/...
- Apple opens Maps Development centre in Hyderabad, will create 4,000 jobs - www.imore.com/... & www.apple.com/...
- In interview with Indian media, Tim Cook says Apple are in India for the next 1,000 years - www.thehindu.com/...
- Tim Cook meets with Indian Prime Minister Modi - www.mercurynews.com/...
- Apple release update to GarageBand with new Chinese instruments, Tim Cook jams with Chinese musician JJ Lin - www.macobserver.com/...
- Apple failed to get waiver on India's 30% local sourcing rule - www.livemint.com/...
- Apple might be able to get around this with a franchise strategy - www.bloomberg.com/...
- In a meeting with Tim Cook, Chinese regulators stress the importance of security - www.reuters.com/...
- Apple invests $1Bn in Didi - China's answer to Uber - www.macobserver.com/...
- MCX postpones CurrentC, lays off 30 employees - social.techcrunch.com/...
- John Gruber translates the MCX press release from PR into English - daringfireball.net/...
- Google IO - tidbits.com/...
- Google Now becomes Google Assistant
- Google Home announced (Amazon Echo competitor)
- Allo - a new cross-platform messaging app what has Google Assistant listening in by default (slated for simultaneous release on iOS & Android)
- Duo - a new cross-platform FaceTime competitor (slated for simultaneous release on iOS & Android)
- Microsoft Streamlines Phone business - www.prnewswire.com/... & www.macobserver.com/...
- Pulling out of consumer smartphone business to focus on enterprise
- Cutting 1,850 jobs in the process
Quick stories
- Apple teams up with SAP - www.reuters.com/...
- Support for Burr Feinstein encryption bill evaporates - bill is seen as dead - www.macobserver.com/... & www.reuters.com/...
- WWDC keynote set for 10am PT on June 13 - www.imore.com/...
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