Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Greg’s Bite:Robots, Browsers and Demand for Apple Products

Greg’s Bite:Robots, Browsers and Demand for Apple Products

Posted by | Aug 1, 2011 | , |

Posted by Greg Mills

Robots to replace Chinese workers?
The assembly line in China got a rude wake-up call from Foxconn’s founder recently. Terry Gou has announced that he intends to replace up to 1 Million hard working assembly line workers with robots, within three years. The economics of robots can be pretty compelling. The cost, maintenance and installation of robotic assembly line automation can be very competitive with human workers. See: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/30/c_131018764.htm

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Greg’s Bite: Apple vs HTC, S3 Patents invalid!

Greg’s Bite: Apple vs HTC, S3 Patents invalid!

Posted by | Jul 29, 2011 | , |

Posted By Greg Mills

Recently it came out that HTC won one in the legal mega-spat with Apple. HTC had just paid $300,000,000 to S3 for five patents, two of which, had been just found to be infringed by Apple in a separate infringement complaint by the US International Trade Commission. Eager to have something to hold over Apple, HTC bought the patents, apparently not knowing they had just been found to be invalid by the US Patent Office in a re-examination of the patents.

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Macs with double-high resolution displays may be coming

Posted by | Jul 29, 2011 | , |

OS X Lion incorporates support for displays packing four times as many pixels as they do today. So perhaps we’ll see Macs with their own version of the Retina Display soon.

Currently the “HiDPI” mode remains inaccessible unless you’ve downloaded Apple’s Xcode software development tool. It contains a graphics test application called Quartz Debug and it enables HiDPI modes — which allow developers to supply 2x-enlarged images to support double-high resolution displays — in Lion’s Displays control panel.

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