The latest Android vs. Apple lawsuit is over. Photo: Tsahi Levent-Levi/Flickr CC
Apple has claimed final victory in a lawsuit arguing that the company was purposely intercepting and failing to deliver texts sent from iPhones to Android owners.
The case was related to Apple’s iMessage service, which posed a challenge to Apple-to-Android switchers up until 2014, when Apple finally issued a fix for the problem.
Ford will lend Google some of its automotive expertise. Photo: Google
Google is reportedly teaming up with Ford for a self-driving car project that will combine Ford’s vehicles with Google’s technology.
According to sources supposedly familiar with the plans, the deal will be announced at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January.
Is Apple putting its own interests over the public good? Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has waded in on the the question of whether or not Apple is right to refuse to help the government access smartphone data for security purposes.
“For years, government officials have pleaded to the technology industry for help,” Chen wrote in a recent blogpost. “Yet [the requests] have been met with disdain.”
Chen’s position is simple: that, “We are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good.”
We’re all still obsessed with the iPhone apparently. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android
iPhone ranks as the no. 1 consumer tech gadget on Google’s newly-released “Year of Search” list, beating Samsung’s Galaxy S6 as the smartphone we were, apparently, all looking for this year.
Australia says g’day to Android Pay, still won’t put a shrimp on the barbie for Apple Pay. Photo: Google
Australian banks including Westpac, ANZ and Macquarie have announced that they will soon accept contactless payments made via Android Pay — although would-be Apple Pay customers are still being left out in the cold.
The reason? Banks continue to be unhappy with Apple’s terms for its mobile payments solution, and showing that they are willing to accept Android Pay is a way of forcing a better deal with Tim Cook and pals.
