Members of Congress have many questions about iPhone location logging , and they ’re not afraid to ask . Elsewhere , Greenpeace has reengaged Apple , Cupertino may be pass on out supercharged iPhones , and the prevalence of cheap game may be — surprise — suffer expensive secret plan . The remainders for Thursday , April 21 , 2011 would never play secret plan — with your heart and soul .
Senator questions Apple over iPhone tracking(Ars Technica )
harmonize on a budget might take them weeks , but Congress is totallyon topof this iPhone location deal . BothSenator Al Franken ( D - MN)andRepresentative Ed Markey ( 500 - MA)have transport missive to Apple inquire why iPhones are logging users ’ location . Strangely enough , both letters curb the same question about whether or not the iPhone ’s location organisation could tell if someone was — hypothetically speak — on a golf game row ?
Apple named ‘ least fleeceable ’ tech company(The Guardian )
Just when you think the interminable battle between Greenpeace and Apple had died to embers , the environmental organization is stirring the coal once again , this time by hold Cupertino the ‘ least greenish ’ tech company . The reason for the ding ? Apple ’s North Carolina datum center , which will — Greenpeace approximation — triplethe company ’s electricity consumption . That ’s much bad than rival companies ’ data centers , which run on cotton fiber candy and the dream of the innocent .
Apple floats iPhone ’ 4S ’ with A5 chip to select developers to fix for next - gen iPhone(9 to 5 Mac )
Call it the iPhone4.5 . Apple ’s rumored to be distributing iPhone 4 units with the same dual - core A5 processor used in the iPad 2 to certain developer — mostly those in high - end gaming — for testing . TheWar and Peace - length NDA also reputedly moderate a clause that forbids those developers from going to bars for the distance of the agreement .
Epic : 99 - penny Apps Are ‘ Killing Us’(IndustryGamers )
Epic Games president Mike Capps says that $ 1 apps are a threat to the secret plan manufacture ’s pricing manakin : “ If there ’s anything that ’s stamp out us [ in the traditional games business ] it ’s dollar apps . How do you sell someone a $ 60 biz that ’s really worth it … They ’re used to 99 cents . ” I think , I ca n’t see Angry Birds cutting outGears of War 3 ’s bottom line , unless they commence give the razz guns with chainsaws on them . Oooh . Million dollar secret plan musical theme .
