Apple is sued to have less storage space on their products than they promise.
The lawsuit was delivered to a federal court in California earlier this week. Apple promises 16 gigabytes of storage on their cheapest phone and tablet models, but in reality as much as one fifth of the space consumed by the operating system, according to the lawsuit.
The two men behind believes Apple driver deceptive marketing because they advertise more storage than is actually available.
– Defendant does not disclose to customers that as much as 23.1 percent of the promotional storage taken up by iOS 8 and is unavailable for the customer, it says in the lawsuit.
The two men behind the lawsuit is Paul Orshan and Christopher Endara, both residing in Miami, writes The Guardian. They claim to have purchased the iPhone and iPad last year which was marketed with having storage 16 gigabytes, but that proved to have less space than this to the user.
Apple got a lot of criticism after update to iOS 8.0.1, when several customers experienced losing mobile coverage after they had updated software. They also received criticism that the program was so heavy that many had no room for it on their phone.
Orshan and Endara hopes to expand the lawsuit a class action, and requires five million US dollars in replacement (over 37 million).
– Every gigabyte Apple cheat users for roughly corresponds 4-500 high resolution images, said the men’s lawyer, Jonas P. Mann.
(Dagbladet): Although Netflix short time conquered Norwegian screens, their supply of film and TV series far skrinnere in Norway than in many other countries.
filmstudio the annoyance has many however found that it is easy to get access to more content by installing so-called virtual private network (VPN) that deceives the servers to believe that contacting streaming service from the United States.
Now it may look as if Netflix started to crack down on the practice.
New Development
Users of Netflix ‘Android app writes on Reddit that app has begun to double check where you coming from, and they no longer have access to content that is not licensed for the territory where they are located.
In addition reports several VPN providers that their users are increasingly being halted by Netflix, writes TorrentFreak.
– This is a completely new development. A few weeks ago we received the first feedback from a handful of clients that Netflix blocked them because of VPN or proxy use. It is the first time we’ve heard that Netflix shows the type of error to a VPN user, says Ben Van der Pelt, a spokesman for VPN service Torguard, to the site.
Such blocking VPN users will also shut out those who use them of anonymity considerations, for example, to circumvent censorship. It can also lead to more dropper Netflix favor of illegal downloading.
Experimenting
Self refuses Netflix to have changed its policy to VPN users, according to CNet. They have previously determined that such behavior is a violation of the User Agreement, but claims the problem is not comprehensive.
Much indicates that the company is experimenting with different methods to ensure that users are where they claim to be. The methods can range from checking what time zone clock on your PC is set to use the phone’s GPS function.
Although streaming service in practice has seen between fingers at localization cheating , it has leaked correspondence between Netflix and Sony Pictures reveals that movie studios and series manufacturers are beginning to get tired of that streaming service fails to keep the Scots seal between the different terroritoriene they negotiates rights.
2014 was a very important year for Apple due launch of two new iPhone models with greater screens, the announcement of Apple Watch and not least iOS 8.
Exciting new product category from Apple this year The new iPhone models have been well received by critics as well as customers and therefore has sold very well.
Apple Watch is not yet on sale, but is expected during the first quarter.
Apple still says only that it “coming soon “but started for a good while since beta testing of iOS 8.2 will be the first version of the OS with support for smart watch.
iOS 8.3 is also revealed.
But it comes ie more than just upgraded hardware and new iOS versions.
Let’s take a look at Apple’s probable launch plan for a number of existing and not yet announced, but notorious products chronologically.
Apple Watch – first quarter 2015 First out this year: Apple Watch. The watch is launched sometime during the first quarter, and will require Bluetooth pairing against an iPhone 5 or later.
Former Apple marketer Ken Segall (as we have previously interviewed) claims at launching three months.
From the beginning, it will not be able to run a full-fledged apps from the clock, but support for this comes later.
Tired of charging many gadgets? Apple Watch will disappoint you in that case, since it must be plugged into every night.
The price of the cheapest model is around 2600 dollars in the United States. Due weak dollar and strong dollar becomes much more expensive enough here at home.
Apple Watch will hardly cost under 2,000 kroner in Norway. Apple
iPad Pro / iPad Air Plus – summer or late 2015 iPad Pro has previously been referred to as a Microsoft Surface-challenger, but it is uncertain whether it receives stylus support even though Apple has patented exactly this.
We know how Apple tries to trick their competition to take the patent at the most.
But maybe it comes finally support for enhanced multitasking?
expected that the tray is not fatter than 7 mm, gets a new A9 CPU (which Samsung reportedly already started mass production of), 2 GB RAM and 802.11ac WiFi.
The panel is probably between 12.2 “to 12.9″.
An iPad Pro concept with 12.2 inch large screen. curved.de
iPad Air and iPad mini – late 2015 What really happens with mini-model of Apple? The 7.9 “screen?
This year’s upgrade to Apple’s smallest iPad was simply pretty miserable with the same panel, performance and weight. Only Touch ID received this year.
There is therefore reason to believe that the late years receive a proper upgrade with better screen, better performance (thanks to 2GB of RAM and maybe iPad Air 2 seating A8X chipset) and a thinner profile.
iPad Air 3 (name unknown) is surely as much RAM as deuces have, ie 2 GB, but equipped enough with better cameras and the new A9 chipset.
iPad Air 2 is a good deal better than its predecessor. The same can not be said about the iPad mini 3 only was upgraded with Touch ID login. Trond Bie / ITavisen
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus – late 2015 year upgrades of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is hardly as exciting as the models that were revealed with a new design and larger screens in September last year.
There are plenty of talk about a performance upgrade this year. Designed remains probably unchanged, but we hope they stop bending itself.
And Apple, what with slim weight on Plus model and make it as thin and quick as the iPad Air 2?
Plastic Mobile iPhone 5c disappears enough.
Besides better performance and maybe something lighter and thinner models, do not run iPhone 6s major changes. Apple
MacBook Air 12 “- early or halfway out in 2015 It is high time that Apple updates MacBook Air series, so that they get better panels. 1440 x 900 on a 13 inch big screen is not good enough.
Samsung, Apple came to the market with its fanless 12 inches and Intel Broadwell Intel Core M-Machine (ARM happens probably not this year either).
There is a high probability that the new machine from Apple comes now that Intel has started mass production of the very power kind pieces.
Samsung laws namely 10.5 hours of battery life on his.
Samsung Ativ September 2015 is fanless, small leaks and easy and has resolution 2560 x 1600. 2015 is probably the year Apple updates its Air models Retina panel. Samsung
Mac Pro, iMac and Apple TV * iMac – halfway out in 2015 or late 2015 Broadwell chipset and new model with 21 “with Retina panel.
* Mac Pro – early or late 2015 possibly with Intel’s next-generation “Grantley» Xeon E5 v3 CPU.
* Mac mini – maybe once during year with new feed. Was upgraded with Haswell CPUs, 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Thunderbolt 2 in October last year.
* Apple TV – maybe once during year with new software with support for games, App Store, Siri, new design (last updated in 2012) and perhaps a new way to watch TV on.
2015 may be the year Apple TV really transforms itself from a “hobby” to something really big for the company if they get along Hollywood and the television industry.
* iOS 9 revealed perhaps at the end of the year with support for Augmented Reality.
* OS X 10.11 is also under development, but it is the only thing we know for the time being. Revealed perhaps halfway out in 2015.
It was recently confirmed that Microsoft has Xbox One stronger by improving the handling of console eSRAM, which developers say will lead to better performance. But according to a leak is not the only Microsoft has done.
Digital Foundry reports namely that Microsoft has added more processing power for Xbox One developers by giving them access to between 50-80 percent of seventh processor core. Just as with the Playstation 4 is two cores reserved operating system, but now developers can shut voice command and other Kinect features to get more power for other things.
It remains to be seen whether this will affect the games of Going forward, not to mention some will miss certain functions.
It’s not just Apple’s phones that have been larger in the past. Now prices are rising sharply, in parallel with the Norwegian krone has plummeted compared with the dollar.
From 1 January, you must out with a thousand lobe more if you want to buy an iPhone 6 with 128 gigabytes of memory.
According to IT newspaper costs this edition of the phone now 9590, compared with NOK 8590 million before year end.
Meanwhile, also the most popular versions of the iPad Air 2 and MacBook Air 13 become respectively 500 and 1300 crowns more expensive, according to the website.
Not new moms mark
Just before Christmas lighted Apple announced that from January 1 would introduce local moms throughout the EU and EEA all their apps and online products, but Apple spokesman Andreas Rødland in communications company Apeland denies that it is the cause of the increase in the Norwegian version of the Apple Store.
– The change was only digital goods, and did not affect Norway. Here was local moms already added to the prices, he informs Aftenposten via email.
Thus, it is most likely that the violent price rise in Norway because the American company has taken account of the weaker the Norwegian crown. Since 2013, the Norwegian krone fell approximately 35 percent compared with the dollar.
According Rødland in Apeland Apple has not yet made any comment on the price increase.
Can save 3000 million
Just before Christmas experienced Russian consumers sharp rise in Apple products because ruble slid to new lows.
And in a period closed the American company all sales via the Russian online store.
According to IT newspaper it is now possible to save up to 3000 dollars by buying a MacBook Air from other Norwegian stores than online store Apple.
According to the Danish newspaper one only needs to know the number of the phone in order to quickly find out where it is.
Information has gained Karsten Nohl, who is research director at IT security firm SRLabs in Germany to test the safety of several Danish mobile operators.
Monitoring
At the two operators TDC and Teleselskabet 3 he found a serious security flaw that makes it possible for anyone to see how mobile phones are itself. It opens for monitoring and abuse.
TDC recognizes that they have a problem and informs Information that they now working to tight security hole.
Security hole is just one of several problems signal system that cellular networks worldwide use to communicate with each other, said Nohl.
Can eavesdrop
Another security flaw makes it according to him also possible to eavesdrop mobile calls, but this he has not tested in Denmark.
While it was previously only mobile companies themselves who had access to the signaling system SS7, today it is also possible for others to gain access to the system.
Offers itself to track
Washington Post has previously revealed how private security company as a result of system failure has offered to track individuals on behalf of the authorities in several countries.
– Malicious persons attacker routinely poorly protected telecommunications operators via the Internet, concluded Philippe Langlois in the French IT company P1 Security recently.
All products more expensive – fierce price increase in the Apple Store.
Friday, 2 January 2015 – 7:42
There will be no January sales at Apple in 2015.
Read also: Here’s iPad Air 2 and MacBook Air 13 “ much cheaper.
Updated 18:30:
Apple confirms that price changes are related to exchange, but have no other comments.
Updated 13:51:
Apple has not yet willing to comment price jumped probably due weak dollar and strong dollars.
Drastic increase in the price of Apple products January 1 company continued price up violently on iOS and Mac products in the Norwegian online store.
23. December we wrote an article entitled “Do you think Apple products are expensive in Norway?” regarding the quite drastic price increase in the Russian online store due to a weak Russian currency – now has the same happened in Norway .
We have contacted Apple Norway to get an explanation of why the products has suddenly gotten such a negative price adjustment for Norwegians.
iPhone 6000 million more expensive Before and after 2015 prices on a handful of Apple products:
Christmas major gaming buzz has undoubtedly been DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) on PSN and Xbox Live and Playstation players, it would take many days for online play again was an opportunity for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita.
As the downtime was so long has brickbats flew against Sony, and the main argument has been that you can not accept so long downtime for a paid service that Playstation Plus. This is obviously Sony manner of speaking, agree with, and therefore they have now decided to compensate customers for days PSN was not available during Christmas.
More specifically, they have added five additional days of the expiration time all Playstation Plus subscriptions (and all PS Plus trials) that were active when the problems started on December 25. This happens also completely automatically so you do not need to do anything yourself.
In addition, they also announced that they will offer everyone a 10 percent discount on their next purchase in the Playstation Store (discount applies for whole basket) for a yet to be determined date later in January. We’ll keep eyes and ears open for more details about this as soon as they come to light.
Leak Reveals: How Microsoft gives developers more power.
Friday, 2 January 2015 – 2:41 p.m.
November developer package to Xbox One is leaked by hacker group group H4LT (Twitter).
This provides insight into what Microsoft has given developers of improvements lately, while it can open up to third party applications on hackers manage to sneak around Microsoft signerssystem to run an app or a game.
Developer Kit reveals Making Xbox One to Stua ‘midpoint for all entertainment aspect has not gone as planned for Microsoft while interest Kinect is so lackluster that it probably is heading to to be buried.
They started offering the console without Kinect, which helped the sales, but the problem to Microsoft is still the PR and performance-wise was the Playstation 4 in 2014 victor.
This year there will not be as easy for Sony.
Got a core Not only due to a lower price and more games, but the fact that Microsoft finally listening to game developers, giving them more power to play with.
In the leak of SDK comes namely emerged that Microsoft from October has given programmers access to 50 to 80 percent of the CPU core number seven of eight (PS 4 has the same number of CPU cores, but One is clocked higher: 1.75 against PS 4 its 1.60 GHz).
Is better software cause ? This is probably the reason why several titles launched in the fourth quarter 2014 was faster than at One on PS 4 under certain scenarios, and that One is 15 percent faster in a Ubisoft test from August, ie before the developers probably got access to another CPU core.
Therefore also speculated that Microsoft’s compiler is more efficient than Sony’s, and that this also helps performance.
It will be interesting to see which console that boasts most FPS, and 1080p games this year.
first January skrudde opp Apple prizes on the products will operate on its Apple Store, but exactly does that not all the other Norwegian nettbutikkene followed lavatories.
Price-galskap on nyåret example selger Lefdal iPad Air 2 16 GB to 3490 pounds.
Apple must reach ha 4690 dollars for exactly the same product in its nettbutikk. 1200 dollars cheaper, that is.
Verre it with iPhone 6 model parts for Apple’s latest mobiles are already cost-justert in the same nettbutikk, and is five dollars more expensive enn at Apple.no.
But not everyone has økt price enda. NetOnNet selger iPhone 6 16 GB to 5675 pounds.
Almost as 3000 dollars cheaper MacBook Air How about products with OS X?
A MacBook Air 13 “128GB costs reach 9,790 kroner at Apple, but again it’s a lot to save y patronize Lefdal. The shop tar namely 6870 dollars for this model.
You can thus save nothing less enn 2920 kroner on y act model with 13 “panel, 128GB lagringsplass and 4GB of RAM at Lefdal.
Apple has quietly introduced respite on digital purchases.
Within two weeks you can cancel the purchase and get your money back.
Previously content purchased in iTunes App Store. iBook Store or Mac App Store had a respite lapsed immediately download was initiated. So also the Norwegian respite law works.
But now Apple has undertaken a significant expansion of the right to return content purchased and delivered digitally.
– If you choose to cancel your order, you can do this within 14 days after you received your receipt, without giving any reason.
It writes Apple itself on its Norwegian language site with terms and conditions, which was last updated on December 16.
The exception is electronic gift cards, which can not be refund after the code is redeemed.
The way you cancel a purchase stated guidelines, where Apple including writes:
– To cancel your order, please inform us about your decision. To ensure immediate treatment we recommend that you use the “Report a problem” function.
Apple 14-day return policy applies only to the EU, writes Cnet via German iFun. The latter was the first to mention the change in a case Monday.
Through the EEA agreement also included Norway. For these changes is not something Apple has found itself in. Rather, this adaptation to the new EU consumer Directive which came into force in June.
Thus, it is reasonable to assume that the withdrawal period for digital purchase is something other app channels going to have to deal with.
So far it does not seem that Microsoft and Google has done something.
2-hour return operated long with reimbursement within a quarter of its app store, but this was in the fall extended to a 2-hour time limit.
If you buy an app or game in Google Play that you regret, you can within the two hours expired cancel the purchase with a full refund, according to this support page.
Microsoft Microsoft operates in principle with some respite in Windows (Phone) Large, unless it proves that the app or content you purchased may not be installed on the device, or if you purchased an app Microsoft later agree was erroneously described on the product page when the app was purchased, so the current conditions describing it.
In practice it has also previously been possible to complain at least the wrong purchase with app stores we mention in this article, but with a more cumbersome process and uncertain outcomes depending appealed to companies.
It appears from the terms that Apple has in its online store, writes bt.no. According digi.no have data giant quietly changed the terms and conditions so that those who have purchased an app can cancel your purchase within a 14 day period.
Without reason
“Withdraw: If you choose to cancel your order, you can do this within 14 days after you received your receipt, without having to give a reason, “writes Apple in their terms and conditions in its online store.
The exception are vouchers that can not be refunded upon successful redemption.
Undo deadline applies according to the website iFun only in the EU area, but it also includes Norway. The new terms include purchases of music, apps, books or Mac application store.
Consumer Advantage
– Without having read the terms of detail it seems that this is an extended deadline for the benefit of consumers. There is nothing in the legislation that says that Apple or other matter may introduce such extended respite, said legal director at the Consumer Ombudsman, Frode Elton Haug.
He explains that in electronic purchases can be agreed that the consumer waives the right of withdrawal the download of the product starts.
– This is the current regulations in the EU, says Elton Haug.
No withdrawal
The other major players have not yet changed their terms. At Google, there is a two-hour respite, while Microsoft has the standard rules where the consumer has no right of cancellation after the download is started.
– We have almost no cases involving such purchases. But it is clear that if the right of withdrawal works as described, this is an extension that can benefit consumers, says Frode Elton Haug.
