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There had been some a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/27/apple-testing-an-arm-a5-powered-macbook-air/"interesting/a a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/06/apple-to-move-from-intel-to-arm-processors-in-future-laptops/"claims/a last year that Apple had been actively testing an ARM (A5) based MacBook Air. The ARM processor is the same one that is used in the iPhone and iPad. An ARM-based MacBook Air, however, would raise a number of questions about what kind of device it might actually be. Would it run OS X, or iOS? Would it be closer to a Mac or an iOS device? One of the main advantages of using an ARM processor would be a reduction in power-requirements, but with a corresponding drop in computing power. Using ARM, however, would abandon binary compatibility with existing Mac OS X applications. br/ br/ centerimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/05/1392481298.jpg"/center br/ a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57371409-64/ipad-like-macbook-air-now-unlikely-was-it-even-necessary/"CNet reports/a on a research note from Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner who was able to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer on Thursday. Gardner addresses this question in his note with the following:blockquote"Tim Cook reiterated his view that rapid innovation on the iOS platform (and mobile OS platforms in general) will significantly broaden the use case for tablets, eventually pushing annual tablet volumes above those of traditional PCs. We have wondered whether Apple might offer an ARM-based version of MacBook Air at some point; we walked away from this meeting with the impression that Apple feels iPad satisfies--or will soon satisfy--the needs of those who might have been interested in such a product."/blockquoteBased on his conversations with the Apple executives, it seems Gardner believes that the iPad will evolve to meet any needs that might be met with an ARM-based MacBook air. br/ br/ Rumors have suggested that the iPad will likely be getting a significant upgrade in the near future, with a faster processor, improved graphics capabilities and the long rumored Retina display. Of course, Cook is unlikely to divulge specific product plans at analyst meetings, but a complete Apple transition to ARM processors seemed an unlikely prospect regardless. br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/apple-releases-ibooks-2-0-1-to-address-issue-with-textbooks-not-opening/"Apple Releases iBooks 2.0.1 to Address Issue with Textbooks Not Opening/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IHIZldjHrj2zAT8KPmrRJ4GofAw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IHIZldjHrj2zAT8KPmrRJ4GofAw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IHIZldjHrj2zAT8KPmrRJ4GofAw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/IHIZldjHrj2zAT8KPmrRJ4GofAw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=KCiHljuNfmM:xFVb7CApsNw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=KCiHljuNfmM:xFVb7CApsNw:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=KCiHljuNfmM:xFVb7CApsNw:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/KCiHljuNfmM" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/photo.jpg" alt="" title="photo" width="250" class="alignright size-full wp-image-335629" /In October, ATT a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/29/att-to-throttle-unlimited-data-plan-customers-starting-in-october/"announced/a that they would start throttling data usage amongst mobile Unlimited Data Plan users. While ATT no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan. Those iPhone users have been able to retain these Unlimited plans, even though ATT has since moved to a A href="http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/02/atandt-announces-iphone-tethering-and-new-smartphone-data-plans/"tiered/a data plan structure. br/ br/ When ATT announced their plan to start throttling users, the company said that they would only be throttling the top 5% of users. a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/30/att-begins-warning-high-volume-data-users-of-upcoming-throttling/"Early reports/a of affected users had pointed to 10GB-12GB per month users as the initially affected. br/ br/ It seems that ceiling has decreased significantly over the past few months, at least for some regions. a href="http://www.johncozen.com/2012/02/att-throttling-unlimited-plans-after-2gb-data/"John Cozen/a reports that he received his top 5% data usage warning after reaching only 2.1GB of data for January. blockquoteI received a message during my last billing cycle, warning I was in the top 5% of my region and would experience reduced data speeds next time I reach that level of data use. I immediately checked my data usage on the ATT iOS app. br/ br/ 2.1 GB. Less than I expected considering ATT offers a 3GB plan for #36;30 a month. The same amount I’ve paid for the unlimited data plan since signing up with them many years ago. ATT no longer offers an unlimited data plan, anyone still on it has been grandfathered in./blockquoteCozen contacted ATT to make sure it wasn't a mistake, and after several back and forth exchanges, it seems clear that it wasn't a mistake. The ATT representatives seemed to confirm that 2.1GB did fall in the 5% range and the only option to avoid throttling was to move to a tiered plan. br/ br/ Cozen was understandably upset since ATT even offers an unthrottled 3GB plan for the same price he is paying at #36;30 month. br/ br/ ATT's top 5% measurement seems to be region-specific, as some users are continuing to see higher than 2GB usage without throttling.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/apple-releases-ibooks-2-0-1-to-address-issue-with-textbooks-not-opening/"Apple Releases iBooks 2.0.1 to Address Issue with Textbooks Not Opening/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/H9JM5Dbk62GVTkf2IM-BzxoWA50/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/H9JM5Dbk62GVTkf2IM-BzxoWA50/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/H9JM5Dbk62GVTkf2IM-BzxoWA50/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/H9JM5Dbk62GVTkf2IM-BzxoWA50/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=YWYHxlMUebY:S0yUg8MqGv8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=YWYHxlMUebY:S0yUg8MqGv8:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=YWYHxlMUebY:S0yUg8MqGv8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/YWYHxlMUebY" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/update.jpg" alt="" title="update" width="250" height="250" class="alignright size-full wp-image-335620" /After a couple of issues with some software updates, Apple has made some quiet revisions to address the problems. br/ br/ The first was a a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/snow-leopard-security-update-kills-powerpc-apps-using-rosetta/"Snow Leopard security update/a which inadvertently caused problems with Apple's PowerPC emulation layer Rosetta. a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/165216/2012/02/apple_revises_snow_leopard_security_update.html"Macworld notes/a that Apple has since released Security Update 2012-001, version 1.1 for Snow Leopard. The new version seems to fix the PowerPC crashing issues described with the original update. br/ br/ Meanwhile, the crashing/CUI errors a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/os-x-10-7-3-update-issues-fixable-in-many-cases-with-combo-version/"with 10.7.3 Delta updater/a has also been addressed by Apple. a href="http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/04/apple-removes-standard-mac-os-x-10-7-3-download-due-to-bugs-offers-combined-download-instead/"9to5Mac/a notes that Apple has responded by pulling the Delta update altogether, leaving the Combo updater alone. br/ br/ The different between the Delta and Combo updaters is normally just download size alone. The Delta updater is a smaller download since it just includes the changes, while the Combo updater includes everything and weighs in at 1.3GB. The Combo updater should be available at a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484?viewlocale=nulllocale=null"this support page/a for direct download, but the page is presently not working. The a href="http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1484/en_US/MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.dmg"direct download (1.3GB)/a link is still working at this time.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/apple-releases-ibooks-2-0-1-to-address-issue-with-textbooks-not-opening/"Apple Releases iBooks 2.0.1 to Address Issue with Textbooks Not Opening/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kNZ2-q59ci3PjPZnjqGSjox2vhk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kNZ2-q59ci3PjPZnjqGSjox2vhk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kNZ2-q59ci3PjPZnjqGSjox2vhk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kNZ2-q59ci3PjPZnjqGSjox2vhk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=f29QzQ_iNqg:aKKMpreJROk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=f29QzQ_iNqg:aKKMpreJROk:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=f29QzQ_iNqg:aKKMpreJROk:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/f29QzQ_iNqg" height="1" width="1"/

Some a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/06/itunes-in-the-cloud-with-itunes-match-24-99year-matches-ripped-tunes-offers-them-in-the-cloud/"iTunes Match/a users are encountering difficulties when attempting to download songs they have previously uploaded to iTunes Match. Matched songs appear unaffected for most users. Threads on both the a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1318695"MacRumors Forums/a and the a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3706391"Apple Support Communities/a detail the issues. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/f1307386644-500x333.jpg" alt="" title="f1307386644" width="500" height="333" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-335609" /blockquoteI keep getting the "error = -2114" and "Please check that the connection to the network is active and try again." It then moves to the next download and most times is succsesful. I am getting this error in the last few hours and to about 10-20% of my downloads./blockquoteThe Verge a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/3/2768797/uploaded-itunes-match-music-unavailable-streaming-download"confirms that the issue/a occurs in both iTunes 10.5.2 and 10.5.3, and on both Snow Leopard and Lion. br/ br/ There has been no word from Apple about the outage and the iCloud a href="http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/"System Status page/a does not reflect any current issues. br/ br/ This isn't the first issue that Apple has run into with iTunes Match in recent days. Apple is reportedly a href="http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/02/apple-working-on-fix-for-itunes-match-bug-that-matches-explicit-songs-as-clean/"investigating a problem/a with songs with explicit lyrics being converted from "explicit" to "clean" after being matched.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/apple-releases-ibooks-2-0-1-to-address-issue-with-textbooks-not-opening/"Apple Releases iBooks 2.0.1 to Address Issue with Textbooks Not Opening/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NV54mwV2R95EZtywhgKaFuSsyY4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NV54mwV2R95EZtywhgKaFuSsyY4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NV54mwV2R95EZtywhgKaFuSsyY4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NV54mwV2R95EZtywhgKaFuSsyY4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=wDeejR9S2Qk:ZWcgPQ1tgE4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=wDeejR9S2Qk:ZWcgPQ1tgE4:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=wDeejR9S2Qk:ZWcgPQ1tgE4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/wDeejR9S2Qk" height="1" width="1"/

Several Apple TV users have a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1318755"reported/a a new addition to the menus of their devices, with the new option bringing Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows in their libraries. Curiously, early reports noted that rather than carrying a correct menu title, the movie option carried the name "ATV.Menu.MOVIE.GeniusItem", suggesting that the new feature may have appeared prematurely. Apple seems to have fixed the issue, however, with the menu option now showing properly as "Genius". br/ br/ centerimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/apple_tv_genius_option_combined.jpg" br/ iImproperly-displayed (left, a href="https://twitter.com/#!/cthielen/status/165245710613225472/photo/1"via @cthielen/a) and properly-displayed Genius option for Movies on Apple TV/i/center br/ Despite the strange display of the menu option, the feature does appear to have been functional since its initial appearance yesterday, with users being able to access Genius recommendations for their content. br/ br/ centerimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/apple_tv_genius_page.jpg" br/ iGenius movie recommendations on Apple TV (via a href="https://twitter.com/#!/benfurneaux"@benfurneaux/a)/i/center br/ Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows have been offered for some time in iTunes itself through the iTunes Sidebar, but those recommendations have not been available on the second-generation Apple TV. Genius recommendations are also available through the iTunes app on iOS devices.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/apple-releases-ibooks-2-0-1-to-address-issue-with-textbooks-not-opening/"Apple Releases iBooks 2.0.1 to Address Issue with Textbooks Not Opening/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EV4BBtKgfOgOdbrkiq-QYtVF8SQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EV4BBtKgfOgOdbrkiq-QYtVF8SQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EV4BBtKgfOgOdbrkiq-QYtVF8SQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/EV4BBtKgfOgOdbrkiq-QYtVF8SQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=RRkmQK_V-Yg:bFuiJlfMYQs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=RRkmQK_V-Yg:bFuiJlfMYQs:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=RRkmQK_V-Yg:bFuiJlfMYQs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/RRkmQK_V-Yg" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/ibooks_author_icon-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="ibooks_author_icon" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-335588" /Following Apple's release of a href="http://appshopper.com/mac/productivity/ibooks-author"iBooks Author/a last month to support creation of iBooks Textbooks, significant a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/19/a-closer-look-at-ibooks-author-textbooks-and-exclusivity/"controversy/a arose regarding the software's licensing, which specified that the output from the software could only be sold via the iBookstore and not any other marketplace. br/ br/ Some confusion had resulted from Apple's language, with some believing that Apple was claiming rights to all content used in the production of the iBooks Textbooks, perhaps attempting to exclude books from being published in any other form. br/ br/ Apple has now addressed the issue by releasing an update to iBooks Author that includes a modified licensing agreement to clarify that Apple claims rights only to the .ibooks document format itself, with authors being free to distribute their content in non-.ibooks formats however they wish. br/ br/ One key clarification comes in the "important note" included at the beginning of the license agreement. Previously, the note read:blockquoteIf you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a “Work”), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple./blockquoteApple has now clarified the note to read:blockquoteIf you want to charge a fee for a work that includes files in the .ibooks format generated using iBooks Author, you may only sell or distribute such work through Apple, and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple. This restriction does not apply to the content of such works when distributed in a form that does not include files in the .ibooks format./blockquoteA second clarification comes in section 2B, which addresses distribution of works created using iBooks Author. Subsection (ii) previously read:blockquote[I]f your Work is provided for a fee (including as part of any subscription-based product or service), you may only distribute the Work through Apple and such distribution is subject to the following limitations and conditions: (a) you will be required to enter into a separate written agreement with Apple (or an Apple affiliate or subsidiary) before any commercial distribution of your Work may take place; and (b) Apple may determine for any reason and in its sole discretion not to select your Work for distribution./blockquoteWith the updated terms, Apple has reworded this section and added bold text addressing ownership of the original content:blockquote[I]f the work is provided for a fee (including as part of any subscription-based product or service) and includes files in the .ibooks format generated using iBooks Author, the work may only be distributed through Apple, and such distribution will be subject to a separate written agreement with Apple (or an Apple affiliate or subsidiary); bprovided, however, that this restriction will not apply to the content of the work when distributed in a form that does not include files in the .ibooks format generated using iBooks Author/b. You retain all your rights in the content of your works, and you may distribute such content by any means when it does not include files in the .ibooks format generated by iBooks Author./blockquoteiBooks Author 1.0.1 with the updated license agreement is a free download from the Mac App Store, but weighs in at the application's full size of roughly 140 MB.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/apple-releases-ibooks-2-0-1-to-address-issue-with-textbooks-not-opening/"Apple Releases iBooks 2.0.1 to Address Issue with Textbooks Not Opening/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JQmzNO0CzcWKpDsXsNXhkMkdu7o/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JQmzNO0CzcWKpDsXsNXhkMkdu7o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JQmzNO0CzcWKpDsXsNXhkMkdu7o/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/JQmzNO0CzcWKpDsXsNXhkMkdu7o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Q8iQFnQO9Dw:_2RB4OfpBLU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Q8iQFnQO9Dw:_2RB4OfpBLU:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Q8iQFnQO9Dw:_2RB4OfpBLU:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/Q8iQFnQO9Dw" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/asymco_q411_mobile_phone_profits.jpg" alt="" title="asymco_q411_mobile_phone_profits" width="560" height="363" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335582" / br/ iasymco/i's Horace Dediu has released his a href="http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/03/first-apples-rank-in-mobile-phone-profitability-and-revenues/"latest calculations/a of revenue and profits in the global mobile phone industry, finding that Apple has increased its share of the top vendors' profits to 75%. Samsung followed in second place with 16% of industry profits while no other vendor accounted for more than 4% of profits.blockquoteApple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share. br/ br/ Apple and Samsung combined for about 91% of profits with RIM third at 3.7%, HTC fourth at 3.0% and Nokia last at 1.8% of a #36;15 billion total for the quarter./blockquoteDediu's analysis covers eight top mobile phone vendors: Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Research in Motion, HTC, LG, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson. While the numbers do not include a few major players such as China's ZTE for which public numbers are not available, his analysis does provide a relatively solid picture of the industry. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/asymco_q411_iphone_share.jpg" alt="" title="asymco_q411_iphone_share" width="560" height="313" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335581" / br/ According to Dediu's numbers, Apple has held the top spot in profits for 13 quarters in row since overtaking Nokia, and now dominates the industry with its 75% share of profits. Apple succeeds by generating high profitability on high-end devices, enabling it to take the majority of profits while still controlling less than 10% of unit sales.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/apple-releases-ibooks-2-0-1-to-address-issue-with-textbooks-not-opening/"Apple Releases iBooks 2.0.1 to Address Issue with Textbooks Not Opening/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PWAXNBEo8Grby_m2t9UAyBAn5Yk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PWAXNBEo8Grby_m2t9UAyBAn5Yk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PWAXNBEo8Grby_m2t9UAyBAn5Yk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PWAXNBEo8Grby_m2t9UAyBAn5Yk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=ZaPzC8AE9JU:rK1mIryDQYo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=ZaPzC8AE9JU:rK1mIryDQYo:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=ZaPzC8AE9JU:rK1mIryDQYo:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/ZaPzC8AE9JU" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/07/snow_leopard_box.jpg" alt="" title="snow_leopard_box" width="149" height="175" class="alignright size-full wp-image-318906" /While the odd a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/os-x-10-7-3-update-issues-fixable-in-many-cases-with-combo-version/""CUI Error"/a experienced by some users after upgrading to OS X 10.7.3 earlier this week has garnered a fair amount of attention, it appears that a security update released for Mac OS X Snow Leopard at the same time is also causing major issues for users who rely on older PowerPC applications that run under Apple's Rosetta framework. br/ br/ Security Update 2012-001 was a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-releases-os-x-10-7-3-with-new-language-support-and-bug-fixes/"released alongside OS X 10.7.3/a on Wednesday in order to bring some of the security fixes found in OS X 10.7.3 to users still running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. But as noted in several discussions at Apple's forums (a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3703894"1/a, a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3706294"2/a, a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3704759"3/a) and elsewhere, users are experiencing a variety of problems with Rosetta apps following the update, including repeated crashes when trying to use any commands from the applications' main dropdown menus. br/ br/ Users are reporting a significant number of applications being affected by the issue, including Microsoft Office X and 2004, older versions of Adobe Photoshop, Quicken, Filemaker 7, and various other applications that had been written to run on PowerPC chips used in Apple's older machines. br/ br/ With Apple's transition to Intel, the company developed the Rosetta framework to allow those applications to continue to function on new hardware. Apple has discontinued Rosetta in OS X Lion, but it was still included as an optional install in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and a number of users have continued to use PowerPC applications on those systems either because they do not wish to upgrade or because newer versions are simply not available. br/ br/ As a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3706348"noted in the Apple discussion forums/a, one user has worked to a href="http://www.educate-it.org/content.php?130-Rosetta-Issue-after-Security-Update-2012-001"create a patch/a to address the issue, but the patch does not yet appear to work for all Rosetta applications.blockquoteThis is a band-aid and is only recommended in emergency situations. Apple is currently working on a fix, but until that happens, we are stuck with reverse-engineering their update. I hope this helps those in distress from this update./blockquoteThose who have spoken to Apple customer service about the issue have received varying responses, from notes that the company doesn't yet know what the problem is to claims that there is no issue and that Rosetta support has simply been discontinued, with the latter being unlikely to be true given that the change occurred with a minor security update.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5RNJ7LykGMjN68Nby9NuzBTV-l4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5RNJ7LykGMjN68Nby9NuzBTV-l4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5RNJ7LykGMjN68Nby9NuzBTV-l4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/5RNJ7LykGMjN68Nby9NuzBTV-l4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Z-Vd6zWKrvY:5rw-ikUYvKc:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Z-Vd6zWKrvY:5rw-ikUYvKc:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Z-Vd6zWKrvY:5rw-ikUYvKc:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/Z-Vd6zWKrvY" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-03/motorola-mobility-wins-injunction-against-apple-valid-in-germany.html"iBloomberg/i reports/a that Apple has removed all non-iPhone 4S devices with 3G technology from its German online store following a win by Motorola in the ongoing patent dispute between the two companies. The devices, which include the 3G iPad 2, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS, remain available from Apple's physical stores and other resellers in the country. br/ br/ centerimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/iphone_4_3gs_unavailable_germany.jpg" br/ iiPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS removed from Apple's German online store/i/center br/ The removal is related to enforcement of a a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/09/motorola-wins-preliminary-injunction-could-bar-sales-of-iphone-and-3g-ipad-in-europe/"December injunction/a focused on a Motorola patent on 3G GPRS technology.blockquote“While some iPad and iPhone models are not available through Apple’s online store in Germany right now, customers should have no problem finding them at one of our retail stores or an authorized reseller,” [Apple spokesman Alan] Hely said./blockquoteBeyond the 3G issue, Motorola has also won an injunction against Apple related to its a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/18/apple-claims-potential-injunction-against-icloud-could-result-in-2-7-billion-loss/"iCloud services/a. Motorola has yet to seek enforcement of that ban, but could do so if it elected to post a #36;132 million bond to help cover penalties if it ultimately loses the case on appeal. br/ br/ centerimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/ipad_2_3g_unavailable_germany.jpg" br/ iiPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G models removed from Apple's German online store/i/center br/ Apple is appealing both decisions, but has apparently agreed to remove the numerous 3G devices from its German online store while the process remains ongoing. br/ br/ bUpdate/b: a href="http://www.slashgear.com/apple-sales-injunction-suspended-german-ipadiphone-sales-resume-03211975/"iSlashGear/i reports/a that Apple has issued a statement claiming that the 3G GPRS injunction has already been suspended and that the affected iPhone and iPad devices will return to the German online store "shortly".blockquoteApple has been granted a suspension of the German injunction against 3G-enabled iOS devices, with the iPad WiFi + 3G, iPhone 4 and other gadgets back on sale through the company’s online store. ”All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple’s online store in Germany shortly” the company told us in a statement. “Apple appealed this ruling because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ago.”/blockquotebUpdate 2/b: The affected devices are now available again in the German online store.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZE8gr4zJJlcy_2km1J2HbPt5pgw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZE8gr4zJJlcy_2km1J2HbPt5pgw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZE8gr4zJJlcy_2km1J2HbPt5pgw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZE8gr4zJJlcy_2km1J2HbPt5pgw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=1RQjV1oKCXg:WWxd1RnVajI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=1RQjV1oKCXg:WWxd1RnVajI:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=1RQjV1oKCXg:WWxd1RnVajI:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/1RQjV1oKCXg" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/browett-150x224-1.jpg" alt="" title="browett-150x224-1" width="150" height="224" class="alignright size-full wp-image-335552" /Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this week explained that new Apple's new Senior Vice President of Retail, John Browett, a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/tim-cook-on-new-retail-chief-john-browett-the-best-by-far/"was hired not to "bring Dixons to Apple"/a, but instead "to bring Apple to an even higher level of customer service and satisfaction." In the initial press release announcing the hire, Cook a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/apple-announces-john-browett-as-senior-vice-president-of-retail/"went even further/a, saying that "John shares that commitment [to customer service] like no one else we’ve met." br/ br/ Showcasing part of John Browett's dedication to customer service, emMacRumors/em reader Paul Harmer passed along this story of a run-in he had with Browett in the UK: br/ blockquoteJust a quick note about John Browett - br/ br/ About a year ago I was with a friend in our local branch of PC World (part of the Dixons group) looking at plasma TVs. We were assisted by a really charming and knowledgable assistant, who I must admit appeared slightly better-dressed and older than most in the store. He must have spent at least 30 minutes with us, explaining the pros and cons of LCD vs plasma, and the best deals available. An excellent impression. br/ br/ Turns out it was John Browett making one of his regular store visits, but we had to prise this out of him. br/ br/ Hope he does well, genuinely impressive bloke, and this ties in with your comment about his passion for customer service. He means it! br/ br/ Paul/blockquoteIn another example of how Browett may be a better fit for Apple than previously realized, Mr. Harmer emailed Dixons Group to share the story of his experience and received an email back from CEO John Browett himself: br/ blockquoteDear Paul, br/ br/ Thank you for your kind comments. br/ br/ Hope the TV works out well. br/ br/ Happy new year br/ br/ John/blockquoteWhen Steve Jobs was CEO, he was known to occasionally respond to customer emails directly. Since he became CEO, Tim Cook has been doing the same. br/ br/ John Browett begins at Apple in April.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/id-softwares-rage-arrives-on-mac-app-store/"Id Software#039;s RAGE Arrives on Mac App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/the-daily-reports-100000-paying-subs-on-one-year-anniverary/"#039;The Daily#039; Reports 100,000 Paying Subs on One-Year Anniversary/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/safari-5-1-4-with-javascript-and-pdf-handling-improvements-seeded-to-developers/"Safari 5.1.4 with JavaScript and PDF Handling Improvements Seeded to Developers/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VNsAPQNrSuPl7PkJpQMSiHjbRa0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VNsAPQNrSuPl7PkJpQMSiHjbRa0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VNsAPQNrSuPl7PkJpQMSiHjbRa0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VNsAPQNrSuPl7PkJpQMSiHjbRa0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Dek6XANs47g:5s5bEDF8Tyw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Dek6XANs47g:5s5bEDF8Tyw:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Dek6XANs47g:5s5bEDF8Tyw:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/Dek6XANs47g" height="1" width="1"/

In December, an apparent bug a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/15/imessage-bug-sends-texts-to-stolen-iphones/"appeared in Apple's iMessage service/a that allowed iMessages to be sent to a stolen iPhone. Earlier this week, emGizmodo/em reported that a customer who went to Apple's Genius Bar a href="http://gizmodo.com/5880593/the-apple-bug-that-let-us-spy-on-a-total-strangers-iphone"began receiving iMessages/a to and from the Genius who helped fix their phone. br/ br/ It appears that the Genius took his personal SIM card and inserted it into the customer's iPhone as part of a series of unofficial and unapproved diagnostic efforts to fix the customer's phone. An Apple representative explained to emThe Loop/em's Jim Dalrymple that the issue in the emGizmodo/em story wasn't a bug, but instead was the result of the Genius a href="http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/02/02/reported-imessage-bug-is-not-a-bug-says-apple/"not following protocol/a. br/ blockquote“This was an extremely rare situation that occurred when a retail employee did not follow the correct service procedure and used their personal SIM to help a customer who did not have a working SIM,” Apple representative Natalie Harrison told The Loop. “This resulted in a temporary situation that has since been resolved by the employee.”/blockquoteThe act of installing an employee's personal SIM card into a customer's iPhone is obviously not an approved procedure at the Genius Bar. However, the fact that the Genius wasn't supposed to perform this act does not mean that this was merely an "extremely rare situation". br/ br/ In the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5880593/the-apple-bug-that-let-us-spy-on-a-total-strangers-iphone"Gizmodo situation/a, a customer was having difficulties with her iPhone 4 and took it to the Genius Bar to be serviced. When it was returned, the phone was in perfect working order, except for one thing: it displayed every incoming and outgoing iMessage meant for the Genius. Because he had inserted his personal SIM card into the iPhone during the diagnostic process, it registered with Apple's iMessage servers and began sending all of his messages to the customer's phone. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/stolenphone.jpg" alt="" title="stolenphone" width="560" height="181" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335517" / br/ A number of customers have reported similar iMessage issues, including messages continuing to go to a stolen iPhone a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/12/15/imessage-bug-sends-texts-to-stolen-iphones/"after a remote wipe and a SIM card deactivation/a. This is obviously an unintended action, and though Apple a href="http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/02/02/reported-imessage-bug-is-not-a-bug-says-apple/"explains/a the solution to be "toggle iMessage on and off" in the Settings app, that is an impossible act to perform remotely on a stolen phone. br/ br/ (emImage via a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/12/stolen-iphone-your-imessages-may-still-be-going-to-the-wrong-place.ars"Ars Technica/a/em)br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/unYubKNtFh4FHmZPNUQeNJRF8RY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/unYubKNtFh4FHmZPNUQeNJRF8RY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/unYubKNtFh4FHmZPNUQeNJRF8RY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/unYubKNtFh4FHmZPNUQeNJRF8RY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=72w8XQtGWbQ:8eDWPCtB6o4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=72w8XQtGWbQ:8eDWPCtB6o4:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=72w8XQtGWbQ:8eDWPCtB6o4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/72w8XQtGWbQ" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/07/apple_logo.jpg" alt="" title="apple_logo" width="103" height="125" class="alignright size-full wp-image-317466" /Earlier today, Japanese blog iMacotakara/i a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/ipad-3-event-in-march-a-strange-event-in-february/"claimed/a that Apple will be holding an "unusual" event in February, backtracking somewhat on its earlier claim of an a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/17/ipad-3-media-event-planned-for-early-february/"early February iPad 3 event/a. br/ br/ iThe Loop/i's well-connected Jim Dalrymple now reports that Apple a href="http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/02/02/apple-will-not-hold-an-event-in-february/"will not hold an event/a in February, indicating that observers waiting for the iPad 3 or other major announcement from Apple will need to hold out until at least March.blockquoteThis is not going to happen, according to my sources. Apple will not hold an event in February, unusual or otherwise. That’s it./blockquoteDalrymple has in the past a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/12/no-apple-media-event-on-september-7th/"quashed inaccurate rumors/a regarding Apple media events, and has proven to have reliable information.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WbayhMJOz-U9ALBZw1aqxb_4h1U/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WbayhMJOz-U9ALBZw1aqxb_4h1U/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WbayhMJOz-U9ALBZw1aqxb_4h1U/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/WbayhMJOz-U9ALBZw1aqxb_4h1U/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=OGMN-X3dCHw:Zum0jcWfVAo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=OGMN-X3dCHw:Zum0jcWfVAo:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=OGMN-X3dCHw:Zum0jcWfVAo:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/OGMN-X3dCHw" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/08/tim_cook_headshot-150x171.jpg" alt="" title="tim_cook_headshot" width="150" height="171" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-321991" /Last week, following Apple's blockbuster earnings report, the company held an a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/24/apple-to-hold-company-town-hall-discussing-exciting-new-things-at-apple/"internal town hall meeting/a with employees to discuss "exciting new things". While one piece of information about new a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/26/apple-to-give-employees-500-off-macs-and-250-off-ipads/"employee hardware discounts/a did surface, little else from that meeting has made its way off of Apple's campus. br/ br/ a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/2/2766403/tim-cook-apple-charity-project-red-stanford"iThe Verge/i now reports/a that it has been hearing that discussion of the company's philanthropic efforts was a notable focus of the event, with Tim Cook spending "quite a bit of time" talking about the company's work in that area. One of Cook's first visible actions as CEO was to institute a a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/08/apple-institutes-new-charitable-matching-program-for-employees/"charitable matching program/a for employees under which the company would match donations up to #36;10,000 per employee per year, a move that marked a distinct departure for Apple following the Steve Jobs era. That program resulted in a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/10/apple-and-employees-give-2-6-million-to-charity-through-donation-matching-program/"#36;2.6 million in donations/a in its first two months of existence. br/ br/ According to iThe Verge/i, Cook disclosed at the town hall meeting that Apple has also given #36;50 million to Stanford University's hospitals, divided equally among projects for a new main hospital and new children's hospital. Apple's involvement in Stanford's philanthropic efforts for the hospitals was a href="http://stanfordhospital.org/newsEvents/newsReleases/2011/corporate-partners.html"announced last year/a as part of a consortium also involving eBay, HP, Intel, Intuit and Oracle, but Apple's specific monetary commitment to the effort had not been revealed.blockquoteApple CEO Tim Cook held a town hall meeting last week to celebrate Apple's record quarter, and in addition to giving employees deep discounts on Apple products, we're now hearing that he spent quite a bit of time focusing on Apple's charitable contributions. According to our sources, Cook said that Apple has donated a total of #36;50 million to Stanford's hospitals, split into #36;25 million for a new main building and #36;25 million for a new children's hospital./blockquoteCook also reportedly addressed Apple's work with (Product) RED, the Bono-led effort to fight AIDS, with Cook noting that the company has given over #36;50 million to the project through its special (Product) RED-branded iPods and accessories. Bono had previously cited Apple's involvement in (Product) RED in a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/02/bono-defends-steve-jobs-against-criticism-over-lack-of-public-philanthropy/"rebuffing/a criticism of Jobs regarding his lack of public philanthropy.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/02/apple-grabs-another-gaming-pr-executive-for-app-store/"Apple Grabs Another Gaming PR Executive for App Store/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dR5gJd5LYxS2SxzSKy9au_B3dOg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dR5gJd5LYxS2SxzSKy9au_B3dOg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dR5gJd5LYxS2SxzSKy9au_B3dOg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dR5gJd5LYxS2SxzSKy9au_B3dOg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=hLnbIGOf4GU:xYJEgT7133Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=hLnbIGOf4GU:xYJEgT7133Q:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=hLnbIGOf4GU:xYJEgT7133Q:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/hLnbIGOf4GU" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Challenge-schools-Embracing-apf-3730035119.html"The Associated Press reports/a on a new initiative from the U.S. government to help push schools and textbook companies make the transition to digital textbooks over the next five years. With Apple pushing itself to the forefront of the digital textbook discussion with its a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/19/apple-launches-ibooks-2-with-interactive-textbooks/"iBooks Textbooks launch/a just two weeks ago, the company stands to significantly benefit if its iPad hardware becomes a primary tool in the move to digital textbooks.blockquoteEducation Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski on Wednesday challenged schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students' hands within five years. [...] br/ br/ Tied to Wednesday's announcement at a digital town hall was the government's release of a 67-page "playbook" to schools that promotes the use of digital textbooks and offers guidance. The administration hopes that dollars spent on traditional textbooks can instead go toward making digital learning more feasible./blockquoteThe report notes that the K-12 textbook industry is an #36;8 billion per year market in the U.S. and that textbook companies have been working for a number of years on digital initiatives. The primary roadblock, according to the textbook publishers, has been that schools simply don't have the hardware necessary to make the full commitment to digital learning. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/ibooks_textbooks_library_store.jpg" alt="" title="ibooks_textbooks_library_store" width="560" height="395" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335483" / br/ With the iPad starting at #36;499, pricing is undoubtedly still a significant hurdle for schools that will need to purchase the devices in significant quantities, although Apple has been rumored to be looking to bring the entry-level pricing down in the coming months by continuing to offer the iPad 2 alongside the new iPad 3.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/nasa-releases-sector-33-air-traffic-control-game/"NASA Releases quot;Sector 33quot; Air Traffic Control Game/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0Pn25ZTOgMgZhv-JpdNVzOXFHkw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0Pn25ZTOgMgZhv-JpdNVzOXFHkw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0Pn25ZTOgMgZhv-JpdNVzOXFHkw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0Pn25ZTOgMgZhv-JpdNVzOXFHkw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=K0beV-ci7hc:-Yi9-xOoOO0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=K0beV-ci7hc:-Yi9-xOoOO0:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=K0beV-ci7hc:-Yi9-xOoOO0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/K0beV-ci7hc" height="1" width="1"/

Following yesterday's a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-releases-os-x-10-7-3-with-new-language-support-and-bug-fixes/"release of OS X 10.7.3/a, a number of users in a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1317887"our forums/a and at a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3703113"Apple's discussion forums/a began reporting issues with the update. The most serious of these issues seems to be widespread crashing of apps generally accompanied by an artwork error in the crash notice window in which the window's buttons are replaced with graphics showing "CUI" and question marks. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/cui_10_7_3.jpg" alt="" title="cui_10_7_3" width="560" height="420" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335474" / br/ In general, users have found that applying the a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484"combo version/a of the OS X 10.7.3 update rather than the standard delta version typically offered via Software Update will fix the issues. The combo update can even be applied over an existing installation that is exhibiting the problem. br/ br/ With the crashing issues perhaps causing users difficulties in applying the combo update to fix the problem, iOS X Daily/i provides a a href="http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/01/fix-mac-os-x-10-7-3-update-problems-cui-errors-stuck-installs-and-crashes/"nice summary/a of how this can be accomplished:blockquoteThe simple formula is this: br/ br/ - Download Mac OS X 10.7.3 Combo Updater (a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484"direct link/a) br/ - Run the 10.7.3 Combo Updater on top of the existing 10.7.3 installation br/ - Reboot br/ br/ If you can’t get to the desktop of the Mac in question, you can a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/04/07/how-to-boot-a-mac-in-target-disk-mode/"boot it with Target Disk Mode/a (Firewire or Thunderbolt required), and then point the 10.7.3 Combo Update at the troubled Mac and install it that way. If your OS X installation is totally screwed up and you can’t use target disk mode, you have a few choices: br/ br/ 1. Restore from a recent pre-10.7.3 Time Machine backup, then install the Combo Updater br/ 2. Boot from Recovery HD, a a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/08/lion-recovery-disk-assistant-tool-makes-external-lion-boot-recovery-drives/"Recovery Drive/a, or a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from-a-usb-flash-drive/"Lion USB drive/a, and reinstall everything br/ br/ Not the best situation, but hopefully you have recent Time Machine backups./blockquoteThe report also notes that users who already updated and are unaffected by the issues but still concerned that there may still be issues lurking can back up their systems and simply install the combo version for peace of mind. br/ br/ bUpdate/b: a href="http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/02/apple-already-investigating-mac-os-x-10-7-3-cui-application-crashing-issues/"i9to5Mac/i notes/a that Apple has put out a notice to a set of OS X 10.7.3 testers asking for feedback on the issue.blockquoteWe would like to know if you have experienced an issue after updating to 10.7.3 characterized by the following: Applications crash or quit on launch, The term “CUI” and other graphic anomalies appear in dialogs and windows. If you have encountered this issue please submit a bug report. Be sure to include the following with your report: Install logs, system logs, a full System Report./blockquotebr/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/nasa-releases-sector-33-air-traffic-control-game/"NASA Releases quot;Sector 33quot; Air Traffic Control Game/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XSbeNKA2Sx3yOTxA67ZHxzqII0c/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XSbeNKA2Sx3yOTxA67ZHxzqII0c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XSbeNKA2Sx3yOTxA67ZHxzqII0c/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XSbeNKA2Sx3yOTxA67ZHxzqII0c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=GYgS1kwmnGg:0F1X4NlFwZ4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=GYgS1kwmnGg:0F1X4NlFwZ4:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=GYgS1kwmnGg:0F1X4NlFwZ4:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/GYgS1kwmnGg" height="1" width="1"/

While companies such as Avid and Adobe have attempted to capitalize on Apple's Final Cut Pro X missteps by wooing users in need of professional video editing and production software, a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120201/avid-brings-its-pro-sumer-video-editing-app-to-ipad/"iAllThingsD/i notes/a that Avid is pushing forward on the mobile "prosumer" front with its just-launched a href="http://www.appshopper.com/photography/avid-studio"iAvid Studio/i/a [a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avid-studio/id491113378?mt=8"App Store/a] app for iPad. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/avid_studio_ipad_1.jpg" alt="" title="avid_studio_ipad_1" width="480" height="351" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335465" / br/ The iPad obviously imposes some limitations on what can be done with the software compared with the full a href="http://www.avid.com/US/products/Avid-Studio"Avid Studio/a for Windows, but Avid suggests that it is full-featured enough to be used for editing on the go and is ideally suited as a companion to the desktop app.blockquoteThe idea is that the iPad app and the desktop software are complementary, [Avid vice president Tanguy] Leborgne said, so that users who want to create and edit projects on the go can do so, but ultimately preserve them by taking them to the PC. br/ br/ The Avid iPad app does have some nice features, including an interface that includes a storyboard area and an editing timeline. And while some video editors rely heavily on customized keyboards or a mouse, others might appreciate the ability to pinch and squeeze videos and images to scale them on the touchscreen of the iPad, or the ability to move text and titles around with their fingers./blockquoteimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/avid_studio_ipad_2.jpg" alt="" title="avid_studio_ipad_2" width="480" height="351" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335466" / br/ Avid Studio for iPad is launching with an introductory price tag of #36;4.99, which will increase to #36;7.99 after the first month.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/nasa-releases-sector-33-air-traffic-control-game/"NASA Releases quot;Sector 33quot; Air Traffic Control Game/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_adsf-jzsM5qqmypTyigfyt_c3k/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_adsf-jzsM5qqmypTyigfyt_c3k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_adsf-jzsM5qqmypTyigfyt_c3k/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_adsf-jzsM5qqmypTyigfyt_c3k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=vEezQcx1mUo:l0pJKwkUKX0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=vEezQcx1mUo:l0pJKwkUKX0:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=vEezQcx1mUo:l0pJKwkUKX0:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/vEezQcx1mUo" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/06/ipad_2_box.jpg" alt="" title="ipad_2_box" width="116" height="184" class="alignright size-full wp-image-313423" /Japanese blog a href="http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/index.php?ID=15589"Macotakara/a has posted a follow-up to their previous a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/17/ipad-3-media-event-planned-for-early-february/"claim/a of a February iPad 3 media event. br/ br/ The a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/17/ipad-3-media-event-planned-for-early-february/"original report/a had claimed that Apple would hold an iPad 3 media event in February with product launch in March. We had expressed some doubts about the long lead time between event and launch. Macotakara has had a mixed track record in the past, but has had enough hits that they continue to warrant attention. br/ br/ The site is now reporting that while there will be an event in February, that it would be a "strange" (or a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Dmitri46/status/165014362422116352"unusual/a) event rather than the usual product announcement event:blockquoteI reported that Apple was going to hold Special Event in early February according to Asian supplier and source from united states, but this report told a half-side of truth. Apple will hold "Strange" event at February instead of Special Event./blockquoteMeanwhile, they now report that the iPad 3 announcement and launch will both take places in March. br/ br/ Appleinsider a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/02/rumor_apple_to_hold_strange_event_in_feb_ahead_of_march_product_launch.html"contacted/a the author for clarification but was only told that the February event would not be a product event. br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/nasa-releases-sector-33-air-traffic-control-game/"NASA Releases quot;Sector 33quot; Air Traffic Control Game/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eGSsMSnCAtknbYkYuu63krkZf_4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eGSsMSnCAtknbYkYuu63krkZf_4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eGSsMSnCAtknbYkYuu63krkZf_4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/eGSsMSnCAtknbYkYuu63krkZf_4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Ol9THieOPg0:4_tDtURUYc8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Ol9THieOPg0:4_tDtURUYc8:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=Ol9THieOPg0:4_tDtURUYc8:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/Ol9THieOPg0" height="1" width="1"/

The emCommercial Times/em a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120202PB201.html"relays/a a report from Daiwa Securities that the iPhone 5 is expected to launch at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) to be held in June 2012. Daiwa Securities also claims that the iPhone 5 will utilize "glass to glass" touch panel technology which will benefit TPK Holding and Wintek. br/ br/ The summer launch claim is not new and has been a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/18/march-launch-for-slightly-thicker-ipad-3-iphone-with-4-inch-screen-in-summer/"echoed/a in previous reports. So this could simply be a parroting of previous rumors. br/ br/ Apple broke from tradition with the iPhone 4S by launching it in October of 2011. Previous iPhone launches have occurred at Apple's annual WWDC conference. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/wwdc.png" alt="" title="wwdc" width="527" height="334" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335435" / br/ The official dates for the 2012 conference have not yet been announced, but a a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/15/wwdc-2012-already-scheduled-for-june-11th-15th/"previously leaked/a guide suggested June 10th-15th as the likely dates. Moscone's a href="http://www.moscone.com/site/do/event/list?nav.type=0nav.filter=1206nav.base=1206"event calendar/a has those corresponding dates blocked off for a "Corporate Meeting" which typically acts as a placeholder for WWDC. br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/nasa-releases-sector-33-air-traffic-control-game/"NASA Releases quot;Sector 33quot; Air Traffic Control Game/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/C0Bh-Tvc7_DHermFBjSRItPIPrg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/C0Bh-Tvc7_DHermFBjSRItPIPrg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/C0Bh-Tvc7_DHermFBjSRItPIPrg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/C0Bh-Tvc7_DHermFBjSRItPIPrg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=x1Obci0l7XY:pTjlV7jrq0w:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=x1Obci0l7XY:pTjlV7jrq0w:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=x1Obci0l7XY:pTjlV7jrq0w:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/x1Obci0l7XY" height="1" width="1"/

Research firm IDC today a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23297412"released its estimates/a of global mobile phone sales for the fourth quarter of and full-year 2011, finding Apple moving past LG to claim third place in the rankings for the first time. Apple was a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/28/apple-closing-on-lg-for-title-of-third-largest-mobile-phone-vendor-with-142-growth/"rapidly closing/a on LG by mid-2010, but fell back into fifth place behind ZTE during the third quarter as customers held off in anticipation of new iPhone hardware. The strong surge from the iPhone 4S launch was then enough for Apple to move up in the year's final quarter and by a large enough margin that it was able pass LG in full-year numbers as well. br/ br/ centerimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/idc_4Q11_phones.jpg" br/ iWorldwide Mobile Phone Sales in 4Q11 in Millions of Units (Source: IDC)/i/center br/ While Apple has been estimated to be neck-and-neck with Samsung for the crown of top smartphone manufacturer, Nokia and Samsung firmly hold down the top two spots in the overall mobile phone rankings on the volume of their lower-end feature phones.blockquoteApple jumped into the third spot globally from the fifth spot last quarter thanks to a record-breaking quarter of shipments. That represents the Cupertino-based company's highest-ever ranking on IDC's Top 5 global mobile phone leaderboard. The launch of Apple's iPhone 4S smartphone, which is now available in over 90 countries (as of mid-January), was the primary reason the company leapt over LG and ZTE in 4Q11. Device sales in the U.S. and Japan were particularly strong given extra sales days in the quarter and carrier distribution./blockquoteApple's share of the market hit 8.7% in the fourth quarter and registered at 6.0% for the full year. Steve Jobs famously noted during the iPhone's 2007 introduction that Apple was shooting to take 1% of the massive overall mobile phone market, and the company has clearly exceeded that goal and can now set its sights on a 10% quarterly share during the next spike in sales. br/ br/ centerimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/idc_2011_phones.jpg" br/ iWorldwide Mobile Phone Sales in 2011 in Millions of Units (Source: IDC)/i/center br/ One year ago, Apple a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/28/apple-slips-to-fifth-in-global-mobile-phone-share-as-zte-surges/"ranked fifth/a in both fourth quarter and full-year sales for 2010, but by nearly doubling its sales year-over-year Apple was able to overtake both ZTE and LG to move into third place.br/ br/ br/ bRecent Mac and iOS Blog Stories/bbr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/apple-hardware-chief-bob-mansfield-cashes-in-nearly-12-5-million-in-stock-options/"Apple Hardware Chief Bob Mansfield Cashes in Nearly #36;12.5 Million in Stock Options/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/dexim-visible-green-iphone-cable-makes-charging-more-visible/"Dexim Visible Green iPhone Cable Makes Charging More Visible/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/steam-companion-iphone-app-now-available-to-all-users/"Steam Companion iPhone App Now Available to All Users/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/explore-strange-new-worlds-with-sir-benfros-brilliant-balloon/"Explore Strange New Worlds With Sir Benfro#039;s Brilliant Balloon/abr/ bull; a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/nasa-releases-sector-33-air-traffic-control-game/"NASA Releases quot;Sector 33quot; Air Traffic Control Game/abr/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mKTXxFxDKMNe04cS3dkMfMIBPZU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mKTXxFxDKMNe04cS3dkMfMIBPZU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mKTXxFxDKMNe04cS3dkMfMIBPZU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/mKTXxFxDKMNe04cS3dkMfMIBPZU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=PLco-cQQOoA:KuYWAQckVIs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=PLco-cQQOoA:KuYWAQckVIs:6W8y8wAjSf4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=PLco-cQQOoA:KuYWAQckVIs:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/PLco-cQQOoA" height="1" width="1"/

Earlier this week, Tim Cook announced the a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/apple-announces-john-browett-as-senior-vice-president-of-retail/"hiring of John Browett/a to replace Ron Johnson as the Senior Vice President of Retail at Apple. After spending more than 10 years at Apple, building the world's most successful retail chain from scratch, a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/01/retail-chief-ron-johnson-departs-apple-for-j-c-penney-no-successor-named/"Johnson was appointed CEO at JC Penney/a with the difficult task of turning around one of the country's most well-known department stores. br/ br/ Johnson announced his departure from Apple in June of 2011 and by August Apple's recruiters were in full-swing looking for a replacement. Curiously, for a company where nearly the a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/"entire executive team/a is home-grown, reports emerged that Apple was using executive search-firm Egon Zehnder to assist with finding the perfect candidate. The emWall Street Journal/em a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/03/apples-search-for-new-retail-chief-extending-internationally/"reported/a that Steve Jobs, at the time still on medical leave, was intimately involved in the decision to hire an outside firm "mainly because he wants to consider executives who are based abroad." br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/hamburgstore.jpg" alt="" title="hamburgstore" width="560" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335395" / br/ The entire executive team at Apple, aside from the just-hired Browett and a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/bruce-sewell.html"Bruce Sewell/a, Apple's general counsel, has been with the company for more than 10 years. Aside from the general counsel position, Apple's leadership team has remained fairly consistent through the second Steve Jobs era. br/ br/ Of nearly two dozen current and former executives, only a bare handful were hired from outside the company rather than being promoted from within, and only one -- general counsel Bruce Sewell -- is still with the firm. Apple's most famous crash-and-burn external hire was that of Mark Papermaster, a long-time IBMer who was hired by Apple in 2008 as Senior Vice President for Devices Hardware Engineering. After a lengthy court battle with IBM a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2008/10/30/apple-recruits-ibm-chip-designer-ibm-files-lawsuit/"over a non-compete clause/a he had signed, he was put in charge of the teams behind the iPod and iPhone, and presumably the early development of the iPad as well. br/ br/ Papermaster finally started work at Apple on April 24, 2009, nearly six months after he was originally hired. He a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2010/08/07/iphone-hardware-engineering-chief-mark-papermaster-leaves-apple/"left the company/a after only 15 months, just after the a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/16/coverage-of-apples-iphone-4-press-conference/"Antennagate scandal/a. br/ br/ He was in charge of the division that created the iPhone 4, and Papermaster's departure would seem to be that of an executive who fell on his sword over perceived issues with Apple's flagship product. However, Adam Lashinsky's book ema href="http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Apple-Americas-Admired-Secretive-Company/dp/145551215X"Inside Apple/a/em notes that there was more to it than a simple product miscue. Papermaster's years at IBM left him ill-prepared for the aggressive corporate culture at the top of Apple. br/ blockquoteSteve Jobs was on medical leave when Papermaster, who declined repeated requests to be interviewed, started at Apple. By the time Jobs returned, the word on Papermaster was that he wasn't fitting in. He wasn't seen as fighting hard for his division, a requisite internally. "Papermaster is a really nice guy, proverbially the guy you'd want to have a beer with," said someone who interacted with him during his time at Apple. "He is warm, patient, and willing to listen--just not the right qualities for Apple. It was so painfully obvious to everyone." It was said that when he came back to work, Jobs paid little attention to Papermaster, meaning the new executive had achieved "bozo" status in the founder's exacting judgement."/blockquoteimg src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/executiveteam.jpg" alt="" title="executiveteam" width="560" height="328" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-335406" / br/ emInside Apple/em is full of tales of the unique culture at Apple, such as the lack of profit-and-loss reports for individual divisions, like those that exist at most large companies. Apple's idiosyncratic culture and the complete lack of external hires at the top -- plus the short life-spans of those that have been tried -- mean John Browett, currently the CEO of European technology retailer Dixons Retail, could be in for a bumpy ride. br/ br/ img src="http://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/02/browett-150x224.jpg" alt="" title="browett-150x224" width="150" height="224" class="alignright size-full wp-image-335402" /From both Apple's press release a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/apple-announces-john-browett-as-senior-vice-president-of-retail/"announcing the move/a and an email Tim Cook a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/01/tim-cook-on-new-retail-chief-john-browett-the-best-by-far/"sent to an Apple customer/a about Browett's hire, it's clear that Apple is not hiring Browett for his experience at Dixons. Browett's hire has raised some concerns from Apple fans because of poor shopping experiences at the different retailers he was in charge of. Instead, Cook is hiring Browett for his enthusiasm for amazing customer service -- something Apple puts a lot of stock in -- as well as his international expertise. br/ br/ John Browett is Tim Cook's first major hire as CEO, and a lot of analysts and Apple fans will be watching to see how it plays out. Though it is likely Steve Jobs had extensive input on the process both before he resigned as CEO and before he passed away, Tim Cook is indisputably in charge. br/ br/ The first Apple Store opened in 2001, more than 10 years ago. Apple Retail's second 10 years are called the "decade of significance" within the company. 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