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TUAW Year In Review: January 2012

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day.

Apps to kickstart your New Year's resolutions

With the first day of the new year falling on a Sunday, it's a great day to organize whatever resolutions you've made. Here are a few apps to get started with. Get more organized I'm spending...

In which Steve once again predicts the future: the Newton and the iPhone

AllThingsD has an interesting story on their site about the Newton and a few specifics on the end of its short life. At the 1997 Worldwide Developer Conference (held the year Steve returned to...

Take a tour of the Macworld | iWorld 2012 show floor

Just as soon as the show floor opened at this year's Macworld | iWorld 2012 in San Francisco, we grabbed a camera and did a run through the exhibitions on display. You can see all of the various...

January 9, 2007: iPhone introduced at Macworld Expo, five years ago

As we bid goodbye to this January 9, amidst the CES chaos, we pause to remember. It was five years ago today that Steve Jobs announced the very first iPhone, at the annual Macworld keynote, and...

Apple confirms purchase of flash memory firm Anobit

Apple spokesperson Steve Dowling spoke to Bloomberg's Business Week and confirmed the company purchased Anobit, an Israeli-based flash memory firm. Israeli newspaper Calcalist broke the story in...

Also of interest: "Ask Different" welcomes your Apple questions Target confirms it'll open Apple shops in 25 locations Apple publishes Supplier Responsibility Progress Report The MacBook Air turns four years old today Apple to bring interactive textbooks to the iPad with iBooks 2 (Updated) iBooks Author makes its debut today for creating ebooks (Updated) Three new apps support console games from iOS Apple Store almost worth as much as the White House iPod line experiences major decline year-over-year Macworld | iWorld attendance steady in 2012; many newbies in the crowd New Flaming Lips song features Siri on vocals Siri guest stars on CBS's Big Bang Theory Siri VC Morgenthaler weighs in on iPhone 4S bandwidth badmouthing (Updated) Steve Jobs kept letter from Bill Gates on his nightstand

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TechCrunch: January’s Apple event to focus on iBooks and publishing

TechCrunch dug up a bit more info on the media event Apple is reportedly holding later this month. According to the site's sources, the event will have less of a consumer focus (don't expect any new hardware), and it will be more about unveiling improvements to the iBooks platform to the publishing industry.

TechCrunch's sources haven't determined anything more exact than that, with the exception that this isn't expected to be a "major" event. I don't know about anyone else, but when I hear about "improvements to the iBooks platform" I immediately think, "iBooks for the Mac? I really hope you're talking about iBooks on the Mac, because next to the Kindle platform you're looking kind of silly without it."

No specific date for the event has been announced yet, but it's expected later this month.

TechCrunch: January's Apple event to focus on iBooks and publishing originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone alarms work fine on 1/1 and 1/2, if you update iOS

There's two possible explanations for why Engadget's tipline was heating up this morning with emailed complaints about iPhone alarms not going off as scheduled on New Year's Day (first reported last year and fixed in iOS 5), but we haven't heard a peep about the problem.

Explanation #1: The vast majority of TUAW readers sporting iOS 5-eligible devices (everything after the 2nd-gen iPod touch and the iPhone 3G) have already updated, and the ones who haven't don't depend on their on-device alarm clocks.

Explanation #2: TUAW readers like to do New Year's Eve up good and proper, and are still all sleeping it off.

Either way, we wish you a happy 2012, free of handy excuses for oversleeping like "My iPhone didn't wake me up!"

iPhone alarms work fine on 1/1 and 1/2, if you update iOS originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple iPhone and iPad See Increase in Mobile Ad Impressions


While Android has recently been taking a larger chunk of ad impressions across Millennial Media’s network, Apple’s iOS device ecosystem saw the largest month-over-month growth this past month.  According to Millennial Media’s January report,  iOS outpaced all other mobile operating systems and experienced a 47% increase month-over-month.  Google’s Android OS saw a 32% jump in ad impressions served, the second largest growth among mobile OSs.

In Millennial Media’s report, Apple devices continued to hold three of the top 10 mobile device spots with the iPhone once again leading the pack. The iPhone held 15% of the ad impression market share, a slight increase over the previous month. Apple’s iPod Touch was able to regain the number two spot with just over 8% of all ads served on Millennial’s network. HTC’s Nexus One edged out the Blackberry Curve to earn the third spot with 7.8% of all ad impressions.

Among mobile device makers, Apple continues to lead with over a quarter of all ads served. HTC and Samsung were the big winners this past month, the two Asian manufacturers unseated Motorola and RIM from the number two and three spots in Millennial Media’s January report.

While Apple was able to maintain the top spot among device manufacturers, Android continues to make its way on to more mobile devices.  Over 50% of the phones on Millenial’s Top 30 mobile devices list run Google’s Android OS.  Android devices made up 54% of all ad impressions on Millenial’s network versus a total of 28% for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Apple’s Mac App Store to Open January 6


Apple’s popular App Store will launch for the Mac on January 6 according to Apple.  The company announced today that the Mac App Store will be available in 90 countries on launch day and will feature both paid and free apps for Apple’s Mac computing platform.

The Mac App Store will be very familiar to anyone who has ever owned an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.  Users will be able to browse, search and purchase Mac apps directly from their computer. Apple will also feature apps in a “Noteworthy”, “Staff Favorites” and a “What’s Hot” section of the Mac App Store, similar to what is currently available for iOS apps in the App Store.

“The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started on January 6.”

The app purchase process is simple and straightforward.  Find an app you want, click on it and the app will begin downloading and install itself on your machine automatically. After an app has been purchased, the Mac App Store will notify user’s when updates become available.

The Mac App Store will be available as a free download for Mac users running OS X Snow Leopard.

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