This was a significant workweek for Apple : It settled a lawsuit , met with shareholders , and bought a party . Oh , and have ’s not draw a blank it ’s only been a week since the ship’s company unveiled Mountain Lion to the masses , and we ’ve spent much of that metre meditate the approaching OS update . So grab a pleasing beverage of your selection and get comfortable — we have a mass of stories for you to catch up on .
How do you like them Apples?
Apple acquired a company called Chomp for a reported $ 50 million . ( I ’ll bet the company could have pay a lot less for Nibble Delicately . )
The troupe alsosettled a course - legal action lawsuit , agree to give customer unhappy with their iPhone 4 ’s antenna performance either 15 buckeroo or a complimentary iPhone guinea pig . Which is way , way better than taking Apple up on its offering of a free case two year ago when people first started complaining about the issue — assume you are a lawyer take with the case .
Apple defy its annual shareholder merging ; CEO Tim Cook basically spend a duet hour onstage screaming “ We ’re rich ! ” at the top of his lungs .
Also this calendar week , Appledetailed the troupe ’s carbon footmark — and yet still no public disclosures about the company’sEinsteiniumfootprint . For shame !
Developers worry about meeting Apple ’s deadline for sandboxing their Mac App Store apps scored another reprieve , this sentence until June 1st . My best guess is that Apple want the sandboxing rule to go into result on the day of remembrance of the date when , in 1974 , the Heimlich maneuver was first bring out in theEmergency Medicinejournal .
Mountin’ Mountain excitement
We have n’t discontinue thinking about Mountain Lion , the next version of OS X due out this summer . We hope it better brook multiple displays , we desire it add Siri integrating , and we ’re also busy drool overten features you ought to get especially excited about .
Drool - covered keyboards are no play to type on , so we alsopodcasted about features we ’d like to see make it into OS X 10.8 .
Meanwhile, back on the Mac
If you ’re a Versions virgin , do n’t overlook our tutorial onVersions and Auto Save . But do n’t look on those technologies and forego establishing a right backup regimen : Yet another Mac - centrical Trojan horse cavalry chance variable is galloping on the loose , and you do n’t need to get saddle with it .
If you rip videodisc with HandBrake and you ’ve upgrade to the latest version of VLC , you ask to have sex aboutan authoritative trick to make ripping piece of work properly . If you live in the universe , you ought to check our picture tutorial onUniversal Access .
Mac package we looked at this calendar week includedWriteRoomand Scrawl , two apps focused on dissimilar kind of writing . I ’ll never understand our staff ’s obsession with the written word .
Clear i’s, full hearts, can’t lose
On the iOS side of the fence , we reported thatthe most purchased smartphone of 2011 was the iPhone 4 . We also explore howthird - parties are enabling iOS developers to integrate new receipts streamsby tying in sales of physical goods to their apps . If you ’d like tokeep your Mac and iOS calendars in sync — whether via iCloud or Google — we can help with that .
And unsurprisingly , we looked at a bunch of apps this week :
We also put together a roundup of tax filing apps for iOS . Also do n’t miss ourWeek in iOS Appsfeature , either , because that would probably make contributor Joel Mathis cry . And no one wants to see that .
That ’s it for this workweek ’s edition of the Wrap . We ’ll see you again next Saturday , unless you see us first .
