Publishers must do their own authentication of users and their own e-commerce outside the Apple interface, to make the program work.
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Apart from its superb screen and intuitive interface, Apple iPhone has matured a good deal over the past year.
Yet just as Apple pioneered the graphical interface in the 1980s, it could now blaze a trail for the music industry.
Not long after the introduction of the first generation of iPad tablet, the HyperDrive from HyperShopoffering up to 750 GB of external storage through the Apple ipad proprietary external interface became available.
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"Apple is brilliant on interface and usability, but in Europe, phones are so heavily subsidized, there's a perception that they're worth nothing, " says Boris Nemsic, chief executive of Telekom Austria Group, a European telecom company with 11 million mobile customers.
"Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smart phone products and computer tablets, Samsung chose to copy Apple's technology, user interface and innovative style in these infringing products, " Apple said in its 38-page suit.
Apple has patented a 3D interface that detects and responds to the movements of your eyes to trick them into perceiving depth.
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They took the VCs' money and ran: The graphical user interface went to Apple and appeared in the Lisa and the Macintosh, ethernet went to the startup 3Com, and the digital-printing language was snapped up by Adobe Systems.
Anything that needs a liberating interface could be an Apple product or service.
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We've seen plenty of patent applications from Apple describing a tablet and its interface over the years, and this morning another has been making the rounds, purported by many to give a glimpse at that device's internals.
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For example, when Apple came out with its graphical user interface in the 1980s, Microsoft eventually crushed it with its Windows system.
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Combined with iOS software and Siri, the potential interface for a TV or improved Apple TV box could be groundbreaking.
In particular, Allaire thinks those iDevices can help Apple replace the famously and persistently clunky user interface for cable TV.
Less likely would be an interface between Entourage and iChat, Apple's instant messaging software that uses America Online 's network.
Apple focused on a fun and clever user interface with Siri.
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Similarly, while Apple's OS X's user interface is not just easy to use but engaging, it's just a candy shell built around the kind of tried-and-true Unix software that's powered everything from phone networks to computer science labs for a generation.
Apple has developed extremely user-friendly software to interface with its elegant designs.
Google and Samsung, to say nothing of up-and-coming Chinese companies, are great players that will give Apple a run for its memory, apps and user interface.
Helping out will be famed Apple designer Jony Ive who also now carries the new Human Interface title.
Remember that one random company who sued Apple back in March of 2008 for ripping off its display interface patents?
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The introduction of a radical and game-like form of navigation would be a clear signal that Apple is still in the leadership role when it comes to interface design.
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And I trust that Apple would constantly come up with ways to make the user interface better and offer cool new features (and gt us to spend more money of course).
One sure bet with Apple products down the years has been their ability to innovate the interface in surprisingly usable ways.
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Alongside the Apple 1 and the Pascaline will be an original Apple Lisa, one of the earliest computers to feature a graphical interface and mouse -- technologies which paved the way for desktop computing as we know it today.
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Carl Howe, vice president of research at Yankee Group, a Boston-based research and advisory firm focusing on mobile technology, says a significant advantage for Apple is that it convinced automakers to add a button for its interface into their vehicles.
Apple didn't invent the digital musical player, the graphical user interface or the touchscreen.
Changing the user interface would be significant enough to get consumers to want an Apple TV.
As Apple devices fall in the hands of more and more people, user interface will become more and more important.
Rather than build them one by one, Apple is more likely to focus on AirPlay or some equivalent way to interface with all these devices.
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