An Apple patent (number 20100325194) for a push-based location update has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. It’s generally related to location information updates for mobile devices.
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A new Apple patent at the US Patent & Trademark Office shows that Apple is looking at developing new edge-lit backlight displays for Macs and its iOS devices. Patent number 20100321609 is for an edge-lit backlight unit with a thin profile. The invention relates generally to backlight units of electronic display panels, such as liquid crystal displays.
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Apple is apparently working on a new display standard, based on a patent (number 20100321395) for a display simulation system and method that has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. It relates generally to display devices and, more specifically, to techniques for simulating display devices on a computing device.
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By Greg Mills
New high tech products are sold, first at the hopeful high price the manufacturer would like to hold as the “suggested retail price.”. If the product sells like hotcakes at the high launch price point there is no reason to cut the price until the market is saturated. The market place is not kind to products that are not perceived as the best in their class. Why buy a Zune, for example, when you could buy an iPod for the same money?
Read MoreThe “MacNews” and “MacTech” sites will be closed Friday for Christmas. We wish all of you a happy holiday and offer this little holiday poem for your amusements.
Twas the start of a new year — 2011
Yet another 12 months of good Apple heaven
Our wish stockings were hung in our brains without care
To answer all our wishes Apple hasn’t a prayer
We Apple fans are nestled in front of our Mac
That “beleaguered” computer that’s come roaring back
While rumors of Sandy Bridge processors sound mighty good
And Light Peak and Blu-ray, oh, they’d be soooo good