Proview Suing Apple For Billions, Won't Settle For Less (Except That Of Course They Will)
Proview's settlement expectations are just a tad unrealistic.
Proview's settlement expectations are just a tad unrealistic.
Last night, “Nightline,” the venerable ABC News magazine, aired what it calls a behind-the-scenes report on working conditions at one Apple supplier factory.
After a few small wins (and some serious setbacks), Proview is finally ready to settle its "iPad" claims.
China Telecom has recently confirmed (via its website) that the network will carry Apple's iPhone 4S from March 9.
Apple has threatened to file a defamation suit against a Chinese firm at the center of a tussle over the iPad trademark in the country.
Thanks to special access granted by Apple, ABC's "Nightline" will air a special report Tuesday night featuring behind-the-scenes access to the Foxconn manufacturing plants in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China.
While Apple recently took criticism regarding the working conditions of iPad and iPhone manufacturing plants in China, the head of a non-profit investigative group says the plants are better than many other garment factories and other facilities in the country.
For some time now, Apple has been involved in a dispute regarding its use of the "iPad" name in China. Now, as the dispute escalates, Chinese authorities in at least one city have started seizing iPads, prompting retail store owners to hide their iPad stock in back rooms and sell the device secretly to avoid gaining unwanted attention.
It's rather fair to say that the launch of Apple's iPhone 4S in China hasn't gone smoothly. After postponing the handset's launch in Apple Retail Stores (which enraged egg-throwing scalpers) the company's Apple Online Store stock rapidly sold out. Some customers were able to get their handset from a retail store via an online reservation system, which was introduced less than a week ago. However, Apple fans in China are now able to order the iPhone 4S from the country's Online Store, and according to one Apple employee, online orders should be with customers by March 2 at the latest.
It has recently been announced that China Telecom will carry a CDMA version of the iPhone 4S from either the end of February, or the beginning of March.
Apple has launched a new iPhone 4S reservation system in its Chinese Apple Online Store, in an attempt to stop "scalpers" queuing for handsets and setting them on at an inflated price.
A couple of weeks ago, Apple's launch of the iPhone 4S in China descended into chaos: Apple Stores didn't open on time, unhappy customers threw eggs, and eventually, a SWAT team was called to the Beijing retail store. According to Business Insider, during yesterday's financial conference call Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that the company had underestimated demand for the iPhone 4S in China.
Mike Daisey wanted to know who made his Apple devices, so he traveled to China to find out.
The launch of Apple's iPhone 4S in China descended into chaos yesterday, as intense crowds punctuated with professional scalpers forced an Apple Store in Beijing to postpone the handset's launch.
A new report from The Wall Street Journal suggests that Apple might have built a modified iPhone that is compatible with China Telecom’s network.
Though it was only recently announced that the iPhone 4S will launch in China on January 13, China Unicom has already decided how its going to sell Apple’s fifth generation handset.
Apple's "Red Friday" one-day promotion is now live in Apple Online Stores across Asia.
In a press release that recently hit the Web, Apple has announced that it plans to launch the iPhone 4S in China and 21 other countries this January 13.
Apple is planning on celebrating the Lunar New Year (which, this year, is the Year of the Dragon) with a "special one-day Apple shopping event" on January 6.
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In China, Wi-Fi + 3G versions of Apple’s popular iPad will soon make their debut, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Apple has gotten so serious about stopping counterfeiters, it established its own global security team in 2008. This news comes from recently uncovered cables obtained by WikiLeaks and then noted by CNN.
In a recent report, application store analytics company Distimo investigated the changing app market, and came up with some interesting findings. Not only are some Western countries losing interest in mobile applications, but China - who only got their own App Store last fall - is now the second largest app market (behind the USA).