Here is your daily Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock news and rumors for August 17, 2010. Most interesting today is a look at Apple programming behind iOS 4 that hints at future features on a next generation iPad or iPhone. Also on tap is a schedule for Chinese Apple sales and the prospects of FM radio on iPods and other AAPL gadgets.
iOS 4 Source Code Hints at Future iPod, iPhone Features: It’s not easy to keep your plans secret in a tech savvy world. If you’ve built your software with the future in mind, chances are your code hides a tell that breaks your business poker face. Such is the case with APPL’s iOS 4 mobile operating system. According to a report from Boy Genius Report, the source code of iOS 4 references multiple upcoming products from Apple Inc., including two revised versions of the iPhone 4, the next model of iPad, and the much-desired Verizon-compatible CMDA iPhone. The code specifically references three products, “iProd 2,1,” “iPhone 3,2,” and “iPhone 3,3.” Boy Genius‘ source claims, “[This] code queries the device, and if the device is either a CMDA iPhone or iPad 2, the device will auto-activate, thus bypassing the need for iTunes. We’re told this block of code has appeared every year consequently before a major iPhone/device release, removed right before launch.” The “iProd” code began appearing in iOS 3.1 last year, right before the iPad was revealed in January 2010. The “iProd 2,1″ in the iOS 4 source code would naturally seem to indicate an iPad 2.
iPhone 4, iPad Get Chinese Release in September: Just two short weeks ago, Apple finally released a Wi-Fi capable iPhone 3GS in China after months of trying to get the device approved for sale. Now APPL has announced plans to release the next model of their popular smartphone, the iPhone 4, in China, and a whole lot sooner than anyone might have expected. A MarketWatch report says that China Unicom will start supporting a Chinese iPhone 4 at the beginning of September with the iPad to follow shortly thereafter. Media group Chinese Caixin is cited as the source of this information. It is unclear at this time if the Chinese iPhone 4 and iPad will support Wi-Fi communication or just 3G network support from China Unicom. A Chinese ban on IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standards held up the release of a Wi-Fi iPhone 3GS until August 2010.
APPL Under Pressure to Include FM Radio Reception in iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone: The 30 year-old pop axiom that the video killed the radio star doesn’t hold true anymore. iTunes killed the radio star. Just like it killed the CD and the record store. But just as the recording industry has fought tooth and nail to keep its business viable in the digital age, so too is the broadcasting industry readying for battle According to a report by Nate Anderson of Ars blog “Law and Disorder,” the National Association of Broadcasters and musicFirst, a RIAA-backed lobbying group, have been in an ongoing dispute over how royalties are paid for radio broadcasts of music. A new plan that both groups agree on would require radio stations to pay limited performance rights fees to music studios on an annual basis. The agreement also requires the passage of a law requiring all mobile devices include FM radio chips, including North America’s most pervasive media player, Apple’s iPod Touch line. Of Apple’s entire line of mobile products, including the iPhone and iPad, only the iPod Nano includes an FM radio chip. While Apple hasn’t commented on the agreement, the Consumer Electronics Association has condemned the agreement as “a back room scheme� not in out national interest.”
As of this writing, Anthony Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.
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