Apple has been sued by the error in iMessage

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Apple has been sued this week by appropriating the SMS user due to a bug in iMessage. Apparently there is a known bug for the last time for which retains iMessage SMS message sent to the user from iMessage, no matter if it is not in use or number or SIM card being used in a different terminal. 

The iPhone 6 could be as thin as the iPod Touch

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The new Apple iPhone could be very, very thin. Almost as much as the iPod Touch. So say the latest rumors we have seen about the leak of alleged cases for the new Apple smartphone.



With the latest rumors, users want to know more about the possible size of the iPhone 6. This important aspect in a terminal is the focus of much of the community and the latest rumors suggest that the phone could be much more thin, almost as much as an iPod Touch, as we have seen recently.

According to the alleged leak of the new iPhone 6 cases, the thickness of the iPod Touch fits perfectly with the new size of the iPhone 6. Here we show in a video released by Unbox Therapy, who have managed such cases. The main problem is that not really know whether the alleged cases are real.

However, what if we have clear is that almost all the rumors about the size of the iPhone 6, from various sources, point towards the same details as time goes by. In theory, the size of the iPhone 6 would have changed to have a wider thinner and lighter screen of 4.7 inch. Other rumors, with some more time, indicate that the screen would be protected by sapphire crystal and likely have a substantial reduction of the splices.

If all this is true you could call this new phone like the iPhone Air, as it would be the subtlest phone, but also wider. While we wait, we remind this interesting comparison of the most popular phones on the concept of iPhone 6 which comes closest to what we think.

An Apple's Ex-Engineer talks about the development of the first iPhone

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• Received a job offer from Apple six months before the end of his career, but decided to wait to finish it. 
• When he started, he was assigned to the team's first mobile Safari. 
• By leaving Apple, he founded a small company that sold three years at Motorola for $20 million.

Francisco Tolmasky worked on developing the original iPhone and talks about his experience 

When we hear that a young man has sold his start-up by several million dollars we always do the same question, why did not I think of that myself? We forget the countless hours dedicated to their own company, for almost certainly bad times and crossed the tremendous difficulties of raising a company from nothing and be able to a big to notice you.

But not only that, aside from the necessary luck in any walk of life, you must have knowledge, wit, ambition and take, sometimes, risky decisions. When I had been asked that question many times and knowing the stories of some successful entrepreneurs, rephrase the question to mean, I would have been able to do that?

One of those stories might be to Tolmasky Francisco, a young businessman, 29, former employee of Apple, based in San Francisco and now works independently in the development of mobile games. 

In 2007 he founded a company called 280 North that eventually created and perfected a programming language and a number of frameworks for developing rich web applications style desktop applications Mac OS X. Just three years after its foundation, Motorola took notice of her and took on 280 North for 20 million dollars.

Tolmasky made ​​decisions that surely I had never taken, as do Apple wait six months to finish his career in computers, when it proposed Cupertino work for them.

But it was not only, also decided to leave in 2007 the company on the block in the success of the original iPhone, because the work environment in which he had begun work had changed and no longer resembled the typical atmosphere of a small business.

Leaving Apple in 2007 because he did not like the atmosphere of large company

Although it is unusual for former employees of Apple talk about their relationship with the company, Tolmasky agreed with the excuse of the presentation of his latest development. The reason I went to work for the Cupertino, was to assist in the production of an Internet browser adapted to the small screen of a phone that could be handled with fingers. The first concept for mobile Safari.

The project was developed in a secluded area of ​​the campus and the team was divided into hardware and software, working separately to avoid leaks. Jobs met with them twice a week. Says that at first it was a little frustrating because he saw how the task of developing satisfactorily.

Tolmasky recalled his work in another application for the iPhone, like the keyboard. The development of this software element turned out to be a kind of race, and that Apple co-founder it not convince any solution. So I assigned all team members full time to perfect the keyboard for a few days until Apple CEO gave its approval.

The young businessman also told us of the days before the presentation of the iPhone. Jobs wanted a map application to display the new terminal, the problem was the weather. He ordered the work to a fellow Tolmasky and was working nonstop to get a functional application maps for presentation.

Finally he defined the character of Steve Jobs so:

"This ws the effect Jobs produced upon thee: this is important, it has to be done, and do it."

Apple wins or Apple loses, really can be only one?

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One of the great debates that are built around the technology business is about who is winning and who is losing. It seems no middle ground support and often results in one winner and several losers. Depends on who you ask, you can say that Apple and Google won, Samsung and Microsoft lose, especially the latter.

Google wins because Apple lost and Microsoft has been crushed. Microsoft is ready for an imminent return because the other two were asleep. Samsung is overtaking Apple and Microsoft at the same time. Is this true? Is there a common base or economic sense to support these claims today?

I win, you lose

There is a misperception that the economy is a zero sum ​​game when you lose. That everything I wear is because you have removed yourself. This concept is closely linked to the term commercialism, we define: 

Economic system based primarily on trade development, mainly to export, and considers the possession of precious metals as a characteristic sign of wealth.

From this perspective, the economy of the countries was during the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries as if it were a game of poker: the players' chip pass from hand to hand according the skill of each. Similarly, the wealth of each country is measured in terms of the amount of precious metals (gold and silver) which was in their possession, having two ways to enlarge:

1. Trading, exporting more than it imports. If lots sold abroad, goods are exchanged for precious metals and the country's wealth increases. 

2. Attacking the neighboring country to plunder their gold and silver and protecting the territory from external invasions.

This perception that it was only possible to increase the wealth neighbor taking it away (peacefully or militarily), seems to come to this day and is installed directly in the technology industry. Involves large as Microsoft, Samsung, Google and, of course, Apple. 

Rethinking the winners and losers

What if all this is not so? Is it possible that Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung win at the same time and coexist in relative "peace"? That is not necessary for Apple to win, others have to lose. I think it is possible, in fact, has long been so.

If you look at the different businesses, we see that they are not 100% incompatible with each other:

• Apple is a vertical business that is almost impossible to replicate at that scale. Its main strength lies in the attractiveness of its closed system. 

• Google has a universal character who aspires to be everywhere and on all platforms, both iOS and Android and Windows Phone. Not forgetting the PC, mobile and tablet. Where will be the user, will be Google. 

• Google is like Microsoft in its horizontal nature concerning the platform. The new CEO seems to have regained the essence of Microsoft to have presence beyond its own platform. For example Office for iPad.

• Samsung, Korean hybrid that also follows a vertical scheme but aims to have a product for every age and budget.

Each has its strengths and weaknesses. Some do better than others and will win money, sometimes more and sometimes less. The rivalry is more intense among businesses of the same type as the Apple and Samsung vertical or horizontal as Google and Microsoft, but that does not mean that one should die for the other to succeed.

Can Apple beat all records when discloses its quarterly results, but that does not mean that Google and company will have to go wrong, do you think?