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Zibri spots more Qualcomm evidence in iTunes

The evidence of a shift in Apple's wireless chipset choices for upcoming iDevices is growing stronger. First there was Engadget's strongly sourced report indicating that Qualcomm (the key innovator/inventor in the CDMA space) was going to take over the radio component sourcing for both the iPhone 5 and future iPads, instead of the Infineon hardware that's been used up until now.

Add to the pile this new post from jailbreak impressario Zibri, who says that there are key items in the current iTunes build that clearly show support for a Qualcomm baseband. It's great that they're there, don't get us wrong, but chances are they're in place to cover the forthcoming/announced Verizon iPhone rather than future unannounced iPhone and iPad versions. In fact, as far back as August of 2010, TechCrunch put a stake in the ground and predicted a January 2011 launch of a CDMA Verizon iPhone based entirely on the chain of component orders that could be traced back to Qualcomm's manufacturing partners.

Any time there's a drastic shift in the architecture of an Apple product, the component story has to change along with it (see the 68040 to PowerPC transition, PPC to Intel only five short years ago, and hard-drive-based to flash memory for iPods as past examples). Chances are we will be hearing a lot more about Qualcomm in the weeks and months to come.

Thanks to Zibri for sending in the tip.
Zibri spots more Qualcomm evidence in iTunes originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mac.com email addresses getting the boot? Signs point to 'No.'

On Friday, we got a rather nervous tip from reader Julian (echoed in this MacStories post) pointing to his Apple Discussions thread about the future of @mac.com addresses. The thread cited a conversation with an Apple support chat representative that seemed to indicate an imminent end-of-life for the vintage mac.com emails, with all incoming and outgoing mail being forced over to the equivalent me.com address.

Since the mac.com domain predated the July 2008 relaunch of Apple's web services as MobileMe by several years, many subscribers have never bothered to update all the various spots where their mac.com addresses are used, and the prospect of being pushed to do so is obviously a bit worrisome. It's not at all clear, however, that this is actually happening, despite the rather sharp level of anxiety.

Why the agita right now? As with most Apple news nowadays, it begins with the iPhone. In a subtle tweak to iOS 4.2, Apple changed the MobileMe account setup to only allow the me.com address if you're activating your mail account 'fresh' on the device.

While anyone who upgraded from 4.1 or earlier without deleting and reactivating accounts is completely unaffected, trying to set up a mac.com account under MobileMe on a 4.2 iPad or iPhone will always result in the me.com equivalent address being used for inbound and outbound mail. (Keep in mind that you will still get incoming mac.com mail regardless of the account setup, as the two addresses are linked to the same mailbox -- JoeyFatone@mac.com is the same as JoeyFatone@me.com as far as inbound traffic is concerned.)
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Mac.com email addresses getting the boot? Signs point to 'No.' originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The best Angry Birds birthday cake ever

Although some of the staff here at TUAW have managed to avoid succumbing to the addictive wiles of Angry Birds, many of us have spent countless hours lobbing angry birds at pigs. Readers often send us pictures of Angry Birds birthday cakes, food, clothing, Halloween costumes, and other items showing that they have spent way too much time with the game.

With the Angry Birds fever showing no signs of abating, most of these missives end up in our trash can, but one today was so incredible that we had to show you. TUAW reader Adam Riggins recently turned 31, and his girlfriend Melanie decided to treat Adam with an awesome Angry Birds cake. The attention to detail, as seen in the gallery Adam has posted, is incredible.

Adam said that under that fun exterior was a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup cake. His comment about Melanie? "She's a keeper." We agree wholeheartedly.

Watch out, Duff Goldman; there's a new ace in town!
The best Angry Birds birthday cake ever originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aluminum iMac survives fire, water
Recent incidents of arson in the city of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia have resulted in many businesses losing nearly everything they had. One fire this past week left a certain business owner with little left to salvage, but there was one bright spot to be found poking out from the ashes. Or rather, there were two...

A pair of iMacs survived the not only the intense heat of the blaze that night, but also the subsequent water firefighters used to extinguish the flames. According to our friend Wei who sent us this story, the iMacs were of the mid-2007, 20" aluminum variety.

There's no longer that clean, finished exterior, of course, but the computers miraculously still work (see photo on the right) which is certainly a testament to how well they were made to begin with.

If this story sounds familiar to you, it should. It's not the first time we've featured an indestructible, fire-proof iMac here on TUAW. About one year ago, a Swedish man was also unfortunately hit by a house fire that destroyed his entire home and everything in it.

Everything except for his iMac that is, which was still functional after the ordeal.
Aluminum iMac survives fire, water originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ten billion apps downloaded! (updated with winner)

If you think back to the first year of the iPhone, when the OS was only identified as iPhone OS and Steve Jobs claimed web apps were perfectly adequate, it's amazing that Apple just concluded their "Ten Billion App Countdown" promotion. This means a whopping 10 billion app downloads have coursed through the mighty veins of iTunes (as opposed to the Mac App Store, which could take a bit longer to reach this milestone). I can count myself responsible for over 3,000 of these downloads (yes, really) so perhaps it's not as astonishing as it seems when you consider how many iOS devices are now out there running around.

How many apps have you downloaded?

Update: The Loop reports the winner is Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK who downloaded Paper Glider. One in ten billion!

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
Ten billion apps downloaded! (updated with winner) originally appeared on TUAW on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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McSweeney's revamps iOS app, now universal with a bookstore
I've said before that I'm a huge fan of McSweeney's, the publishing group founded by author Dave Eggers. The company has had an iPhone app for a while, but it recently updated to a universal version, so now all of that great content (from daily posts to various blogs, books, and the eponymous quarterly) is available to read on the iPad any time you want.

The app is set up on a subscription basis, so the original purchase of $6.99 gets you access to six months of daily content from the company, plus "semi-eternal delivery" of material from the website (which is publicly available anyway). There's also an ebook store in the new version of the app, where you can buy any books the company has published, at prices from $6 to $15. All together, that may sound like a little much compared to some other apps, but compared to actual print books, that's still cheap, and all of McSweeney's ebooks are manually designed and typeset for the format, which is pretty cool.

Good to see that McSweeney's is improving its iOS presence -- the App Store's a great place for smaller publishing houses like this one to find a bigger audience, I think.
McSweeney's revamps iOS app, now universal with a bookstore originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Zynga acquires Drop7 developer Area/Code
Area/Code's Drop7 was one of the first big games on the App Store, and it was even recently featured in the iOS indie bundle sale over the holidays. But the developer probably can't wear the indie label too proudly any more -- the studio has been acquired by social gaming giant Zynga, and will be renamed "Zynga New York."

In a blog post on the website, the company doesn't really reveal what it's working on next, but it sounds like social gaming on a large scale will be the focus (right after, we hope, Drop7 gets ported into a social browser game, though they can leave the microtransactions out of it, thanks).

This is of course the second big iOS-related acquisition (and rebranding) that Zynga has done, after it bought Words with Friends developer Newtoy earlier this year. I don't think this is the last buy we'll see Zynga make off of the App Store, either -- the company is flush with Farmville cash, and has been on the hunt for talented developers for a while. The only question is who they'll bring in next.
Zynga acquires Drop7 developer Area/Code originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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