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Steve Jobs used patents to pressure Bill Gates into 1997 investment in Apple.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was no stranger to legal battles involving the patent system. Apple is currently waging war on a number of Android vendors and the company’s former CEO vowed to crush Google’s mobile platform before his untimely passing last year. ”I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said, according to Walter Isaacson’s biography of the Apple boss. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” But more than a decade before the iPhone even existed, Apple was locked in patent battles with Microsoft that would end up saving the company from the brink of bankruptcy. Read on for more. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple iPad event set for March 7, 10am PT
Apple has sent out press invitations for their iPad 3 unveiling, set of March 7 at 10am PT. The invitation reads:
We have something you really have to see. And touch.
iPad 3 announcement March 7
According to sources who have been reliable in the past, Apple currently plans to hold their iPad 3 announcement on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Along with the 2048×1536 Retina display, the iPad 3 will feature a quad-core Apple 6 system-on-a-chip, and possibly 4G LTE networking. Read the rest of this entry »
iPad 3 Rumor Roundup
The iPad 3 is just around the corner, and while I get asked often what it’s going to have, no one really knows for sure. Apple is very VERY good at keeping its new products under wraps.
Here’s a great article that summarizes the rumors and what you can probably expect from the next iPad. Read the rest of this entry »
