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Business Insider, day 1: Did Apple screw up its fall event announcement because Steve Jobs wasn't there to open Calendar.app?

Business Insider, day 2: Here's a chartfographic thingy showing why Apple's announcements (and market valuation) are incredible and light years ahead of the competition

TechCrunch: Apple just ______ed the competition with the _______est announcement–and the industry/world/universe/space-time continuum/God himself will never be the same

PC World: This Fall is Finally the Beginning of the End for Apple Because It Isn't Open Enough. Finally

Ars Technica: Balanced, well-researched analysis of Apple's announcements and their meaning to the industry

Macworld: Ditto

All Rumor Sites: No Harm No Foul, Right?

Mashable: Here's 60+ posts in the span of two hours with the word "Apple" in them

Daring Fireball: Good Apple analysis wrapped with a baseball, Star Wars, or Kubrick analogy

Warner Bros. has decided that it is going to try a new way to distribute certain movie titles. Inception and The Dark Knight now have their very own apps with the movie and special features built in.

This also helps sales in countries where the iTunes movie store is not available but the App Store is.

Get the links and trailer below.

(Inception, The Dark Knight)

Apple has released a support document outlining the difference in call features between the GSM model and the CDMA model.

For example, the iPhone on AT&T supports up to 5 simultaneous calls at once while the Verizon iPhone supports only 2. Also, to place a call of hold the GSM iPhone simple taps and holds “Mute” while the CDMA version in incapable of doing it at all and Apple states:

CDMA networks do not offer the ability to place a call on hold.

The GSM iPhone seems to offer way more easy of use and advantages at this point. Check out the full chart above and the full document below.

(via Apple Support Document, Macgasm)

Now that AT&T has lost the iPhone exclusivity, it seems that AT&T is being a bit bitter about it being on Verizon. CEO Randall Stephenson stated:

“You purchase an app for one operating system, and if you want it on another device or platform, you have to buy it again."

"That's not how our customers expect to experience this environment.”

We're sure Jobs would not have tolerated this a month ago so hopefully those slow Verizon iPhone 4 sales pick up so he can shove it in his face.

(via USA Today)

The Opera Mini for the iPad  is being shown at MWC.

Very fast, smooth and we can't wait! Check it out below!

Security services company Lookout has released a new study showing many comparisons between the Apple App Store and the Android Market.

Between August 2010 and February 2011, the App Store brought in nearly 24,000 developers. Android only brought in a little over 4,000. On the contrary, the Android Market had a 127% increase in the number of apps released since August 2010 whereas the App Store has only seen a 44% growth rate. At that growth rate, Android apps should surpass the App Store by the end of 2012.

Is it better to have more apps or developers?

Check out the full, extensive report here.

If the iPad is counted as a PC, then Apple is the largest mobile PC vendor in the world.

DisplaySearch has released some research that shows Q4 2010 mobile PC shipments by vendor, units sold and market share percentage. Apple ranked number one with 10.2 million units and a 17.2% share, HP ranked second with 9.3 million units and a 15.6% share. Finishing the top five was Acer, Dell and Toshiba.

Apple previously announced during its 1Q financial call that they had record Mac and iPad sales. Maybe OS X 11 will make the iPad a true PC.

(via WSJ)

Google has announced an all inclusive subscription model titled “One Pass”. “One Pass” allows you to purchase a subscription at many lengths, and then have access to that content across multiple types of devices such as a desktop browser or a mobile application.

The process uses web interface and Google Checkout so implementing this functionality isn't too complicated.

Google is only charging 10% and you get access to consumer data.

This comes perfectly timed as Apple has announced its subscription model which has already comes under fire by Rhapsody. Apple wants developers to offer the same subscription offer that they offer outside the app, in the app as in app-purchase. Although for the consumer this is much less hassle-free, the developer then has to pay 30% of that subscription to Apple, most of which can't afford that model.

Check out the "One Pass" promo video:

(via Google)