Apple’s determination to keep Flash off the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, etc., may be leading toward a lawsuit. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for “IT World” (http://www.itworld.com/legal/104320/adobe-vs-apple-going-get-uglier), says “sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks.”
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Apple introduced its iAd advertising platform last week and SeekingAlpha.com is forecasting that iAd will earn almost US$5 billion per year in gross ad revenue, of which Apple will take a 40% cut at about $2 billion per year.
The financial webs site is also predicting that Apple will take a 30% cut of the forecasted $600 million revenues from paid apps in 2010. Last week, in introducing iAd, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that, today, when users click on mobile ads they are almost always taken out of their app to a web browser, which loads the advertiser’s web page.
Everyone is expecting a Verizon/CDMA iPhone at some point in the future. However, even if the wireless carrier offered the Apple device it would be a “mixed blessing” Bank of America analyst David Lynch told investors Monday.
“While clearly accretive to market share in our view, it is not accretive to earnings, even assuming steady pricing, until 2013,” Barden writes.
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The versatility of the iPad is a threat to eReader devices, analysts told “BusinessWeek” (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2010/tc20100412_516320.htm?campaign_id=yhoo). Wall Street analysts are already slicing their forecasts for Kindle sales, the article adds.
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Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.3 1.1. It includes general operating system fixers, Airport and wireless network fixes, and more.
You can download the update via the Software Update component of the Mac OS X Systems Preferences app. Mac OS X 10.6.3 1.1 requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.
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