Apple is coming under new accusations today for reportedly witholding payments due from 'copy tax', from iPads sold in France. French publication Les Echos is reporting that Apple is refusing to pay the tax on 64GB iPads sold in 2011, and is now coming under-fire.
Apple reportedly owes a total of €4.74 million ($6.3 million), which comes from the 500,000 iPads sold in France during 2011.
So what is a copy tax exactly?
This is not the first time a tethering app passes Apple approval process to make its way to the App Store.
A couple months ago we told you about iTether, an app that brought tethering to the iPhone without even bothering hiding its true feature. At the time, iTether was so obvious that we really wondered how this app had made it through the app approval process. It got pulled shortly after, but a few early buyers were able to get their hands on the app and tether their iPhones for free.
Today, a new app managed to fool Apple's team of app reviewers by camouflaging the tethering feature under an app that looks completely legit...
HomePlayer is a jailbreak tweak that brings a fully focused audio experience to your SpringBoard. It interfaces directly with the Music app to bring a full screen music playing session to the Home Screen.
When I say "fully focused" I truly mean it, as the app completely disables the Home button's functionality to prevent users from exiting the interface.
It's an interesting concept, although it can be a bit buggy at times. In the end it's an obvious 1.0 tweak that can go as far as its developers decide to take it...
Do you have an ongoing issue with accidentally launching the Lock Screen camera in iOS 5? If so, then perhaps this is the jailbreak tweak for you.
LockscreenSureCam is a tweak that prompts you before launching the Camera on your Lock Screen. I don't know anyone who's ever had a problem with this, but I'm sure someone is out there that does. If that's you, then check inside for a brief video walkthrough.
Last Summer we told you about the Original iPhone Film Festival. The contest only had two rules of entry: the contestants must shoot their entire video with an iOS device, and the clip could not exceed 4 and 1/2 minutes.
Well it took a little while, but the winners of the Film Festival have finally been chosen. Continue reading to see the four videos that took home first place in their respective categories...
The Dev Team has recently updated their renowned RedSn0w jailbreak tool to version 0.9.10b5 in order to fix the DRM issue for iBooks on jailbroken devices.
This fix, which was developed by PlanetBeing and integrated into RedSn0w, overcomes the jailbreak detection by iBooks that would cause some images to not display properly, if at all...
Apple has spent an estimated $100 million dollars on its so-called "war on Android." And so far it doesn't have much to show for it. Even its recent ITC court victory over HTC doesn't look like it will have much of an impact on anything.
But that could all change thanks to a recent interpretation of Apple's '263 patent by a high-ranking US judge. The patent covers realtime API — a key component in Android that would be extremely difficult to work around if a manufacturer was found guilty of infringing on it...
Every few months there seems to be a jailbreak tweak that's released to cater to the James Bond wannabes out there, and SlyCam is the latest addition to the cache.
SlyCam allows one to covertly snap photos directly from iOS 5's Notification Center. Check out our video coverage of the jailbreak tweak inside...
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Don't have time to read Inside Apple? Maybe you can put 50 minutes of your time aside and watch this fascinating interview with author Adam Lashinsky. You won't learn anything you wouldn't find in the book, but at least you won't have to go through 240 pages...
Besides perhaps Twitter, Google Trends are a good way to gauge what's hot on the web, and now there's a pint-sized version for iPhone owners.
GTrends for Notification Center is a jailbreak widget that conveniently places a trending stock ticker into Notification Center.
You can even launch any of the top 20 trending topics directly from the widget, and use your own custom search queries.
GTrends is an interesting tool that allows you to easily keep your fingers on the pulse of the web...
Folks who have been wanting to get into developing jailbreak apps and tweaks will be happy to know that the process is about to get a whole lot easier.
ModMyi is reporting that users will soon be able to develop jailbreak packages using Apple's easy-to-understand Xcode interface...
Sometimes our iDevice's act crazy, unpredictable even. Sometimes, it's necessary to attempt to troubleshoot issues.
That's pretty much the only reason I could ever see a tweak like RestartAlerter coming into play; when troubleshooting issues.
Yep, it's a tweak that alerts your when your iDevice restarts or resprings, and that's pretty much all it does...