Here atMacworld , we strive to paint you a comprehensive picture of the late news in the realm of Apple , but sometimes stories slip through the cracks . Fortunately , those history get lodged in our patent - pendingremainderizer — reckon of it like the crumb tray of a wassailer , except forstories . Crunchy , delicious stories .
Without further ado , the remainders for Tuesday , May 11 , 2010 .
Steve Jobs is now ‘ fully operational’(BusinessWeek )
A year after his liver transplant surgery , the Apple CEO is back in the midst of it . But ‘ fully operational ’ ? And former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki says , “ mass like Steve Jobs have a dissimilar operating system from you and me . ” Both interesting choices of words that do not in the least bit suggest to us that Jobs has been replaced bya golem duplicate .
Apple refutes Android marketshare figures(Wall Street Journal )
“ This is a very limited report on 150,000 U.S. consumers responding to an on-line survey and does not calculate for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers world - wide , ” said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Harrison of the NPD report . “ We had a record twenty-five percent with iPhone sales mature by 131 % , and with our new iPhone atomic number 8 4.0 software system coming this summer , we see no sign of the zodiac of the competition catching up anytime soon , ” she added .
Apple also added that the sudden antipathy to Android was in no way related to a sure CEO - replacing robot technology that the troupe had , er , not build up .
substance abuser interaction expert state iPad plagued by discrepant app design(Alertbox )
Jakob Nielsen , patron nonpareil of Web interface designers the world over , conducted a field of study of seven iPad exploiter and reason that the iPad can be tricky to use , thanks to discrepant diligence interfaces . You bonk , we could probably just solve this problem by adding a keyboard , a black eye — and ooh , how about a trackball ?
British artist now drawing on iPad(London Evening Standard )
Experimental creative person David Hockney has taken to outline on his iPad and sending out his whole kit and caboodle as atomic number 99 - post . We ’d like to see him take it to the next step and paintonthe iPads , then sendthoseout to masses . We do n’t know artistic creation , but we make out what we like ( namely , loose iPads ) .
Hearing schedule to unseal Gizmodo lookup warrant(CNet )
The shell of thestolen prototype iPhonecontinues , as a coalition of medium organizations — including Bloomberg , the Associated Press , and CNet — petitions to have the search warrant for Gizmodo editor Jason Chen unsealed . A auditory sense has been set for Friday ; we like to imagine the courtroom scene in the eventual TV moving picture version of the case will feature a stirring talking to by the complainant on the First Amendment .
computer graphic switching in new MacBook Pros linked to diminished battery life(Ars Technica )
Apple ’s late MacBook Pros automatically switch between integrated and discrete nontextual matter chipsets as need . But since they default to better peformance , some users are find that the more powerful discrete graphices are fighting even when they do n’t need to be , cutting into battery biography . Geez , guys , just carry a 2d battery to trade in like everybod — oh .
