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Apple senior Vice President Eddy Cue told a Manhattan courtroom Thursday that he rushed through the process of making deals with publishers — so that Steve Jobs could unveil the iBooks store on stage while the Apple founder was still alive.

Cue is at the center of an antitrust trial where Apple stands accused of fixing prices of e-books at an artificially high level. Department of Justice prosecutors have described Cue as "the chief ringleader" of a price-fixing effort, a charge he vehemently denied. The five major publishers involved in the lawsuit have all made out-of-court settlements with the DOJ.

But Cue argues he wasn't aware of any price-fixing deals the publishers may have been working on. He was focused on making a deal fast on behalf of his then boss, Steve Jobs.

It was late 2009, and Jobs was "at the end of his life," Cue said. Jobs, battling prostate cancer, would last another year before stepping down from running the company in January 2011; he died in October 2011. Each keynote presentation before then, including the unveiling of the iPad in January 2010, could well have been his last.

"I wanted to get it done in time for [the iPad launch], because that was important for him," Cue told the federal court. He had a couple of months to make the deals, and added that the pressure he felt was "tremendous."

Cue had something to prove: it was he who first insisted to Jobs that the iPad had the potential to be "the best e-reader the market has ever seen," he said. Jobs initially argued against it — but once he relented, he asked Cue to get the iBooks store ready for the January unveiling.

The deal Cue made allowed publishers to set their own prices (as opposed to Amazon, which bought books wholesale and set its own prices.) The government points to a clause in the deal that allowed Apple to lower the price of any given ebook if it was cheaper elsewhere.

This, the DOJ contends, gave the publishers cover to raise the prices of new and bestselling ebooks — and forced Amazon, which had long sold cheaper ebooks, to follow suit. The government has offered several emails from Jobs into the evidence, as has Apple. The case continues next week.

Source : mashable

Apple's new MacBook Air has hit the shelves, and one has made its way to the iFixit labs for dissection. Let's take a look at what's new in this device.

What's interesting about the new MacBook Air is that it is surprisingly similar to the previous-generation hardware. In fact, you can count the major changes on the fingers of one hand. These are:

• Larger capacity battery
• Smaller SSD module
• Updated AirPort card
• No separate platform controller hub
• New heat sink clamp

The battery is a 7.6 V, 7150mAh unit, compared to the 7.3 V, 6700mAh found in the version it replaced. This gives the MacBook Air increased battery life. with very little additional bulk.

In order to get the "up to 45% faster" flash storage compared to the previous models, Apple has switched from SATA to PCI-E. Interestingly, in order to deliver this Apple had to turn to its arch legal rival – Samsung. In fact, the flash storage is a triple win for Samsung:

• Samsung S4LN053X01-8030 (ARM) flash controller
• 8 x Samsung K9LDGY8SIC-XCK0 16 GB flash storage
• Samsung K4P2G324ED-FGC2 512 MB RAM

This is an interesting shift for Apple who has over the past few months been distancing itself from Samsung.

The revamped AirPort card features a Broadcom BCM4360, which supports 3-stream 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0.

Other chip highlights are as follows:

• Fourth generation Intel Core i5 processor, with integrated Intel HD 5000 Graphics
• Intel Z246TA38 Thunderbolt controller
• Linear Technology LT3957 inverting controller
• 4 x Elpida F8132A1MC DDR3L RAM, total of 4 GB
• Broadcom BCM15700A2
• Hynix H5TC4G63AFR 4 Gb synchronous DRAM
• MXIC MX25L6406E 64 Mb serial flash
• Texas Instruments TPS51980A synchronous buck controller

It's clear from this upgrade that Apple didn't feel the need to push the boat out in terms of upgrades in order to keep the MacBook Air current.

Like the previous generation, the 13-inch MacBook Air clocked in at a 4 out of 10 on our repairability scale (where 10 is the easiest to repair).

The iFixit team also got their hands on a new 802.11ac AirPort Extreme base station.

With this new device Apple has taken the power supply into the device, just as it did with the mac Mini.

The updated 802.11ac base station is designed to have multi-station WLAN throughput of at least 1 gigabit per second and a single link throughput of at least 500 megabits per second (500 Mbit/s).

On the logic board is a divers range of chips, including:

• Broadcom BCM53019 router SOC with gigabit switch
• Broadcom BCM4360KLMG
• Hynix H5TC4G63AFR 512 MB synchronous DRAM
• Micron 25Q256A 32 MB serial flash
• Skyworks 5003L1 WLAN power amplifier
• Skyworks 2623L high power WLAN power amplifier
• TDK TLA-7T201HF

There's also a free 3.5-inch slot in the AirPort Extreme big enough to take a hard drive, but there are no connectors on the motherboard to turn the AirPort Extreme into a Time Capsule equipped device.

The ease with which the AirPort Extreme can be dismantled earned it a repairability scale of 8 out of 10 from the iFixit team.

iOS 7

• Completely redesigned interface
• New Lockscreen
• New translucency and Parallax allows you to see layers of info
• Weather app has interactive displays
• Calendar has new minimalist UI
• Multiple page support in Folders
• Notification Center now available on Lock Screen
• FaceTime audio calls
• Notification syncing
• Phone and Message blocking
• Activation lock disables phone if stolen
• iPhone beta available to developers today
• Coming this fall

• Swipe up from bottom of device to access toggles quickly
• Turn on Airplane Mode, adjust brightness, AirDrop, etc.

• New interface shows app cards
• Multi-tasking for all apps with great battery life
• Puts apps into scheduled background cycles
• Adapts to network conditions

• New full-screen look
• Pull down from top brings up smart search field
• iCloud Keychain support

• Redesigned UI
• New filters
• Accessible from Control Center

• Collect photos into ‘Moments’ based on location, date, or people.
• Look across photo collection by pinch-to-zooming through Photostream
• Share photos via AirDrop, Twitter, Facebook, iMessage, etc.
• See comments from people you’ve shared the picture with directly in image

• Share images with friends
• System-wide support with apps with share-sheets
• Works on iPhone 5, iPad 4, 5th Gen iPod Touch

• New interface with wave animation
• All new female and male voices
• Can now control more of your device such as adjusting brigthness
• Wikipedia and Bing search results integrated directly into Siri

• Get iOS on your car’s dashboard screen
• Get directions, play music, have iMessages dictated to you and more, eyes free.
• Supported by more than 12 car manufacturers in 2014

• Search for apps by age range
• Find apps based on current location
• Apps are updated automatically (John McCain is well pleased)

• Built directly into iOS Music app.
• Featured Stations stream music based on its theme.
• Share stations with friends, or create your own based on favorite artists
• Preview and purchase songs directly in the app.
• Support on Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV
• Free for all users
• Completely ad-free for iTunes Match subscribers
• Launches in the U.S.

OS X 10.9 Mavericks

• OS X names will now be California-themed
• New Finder Tabs
• Tags for files – keep track of files by adding a tag in OS X
• Multiple Displays – much more powerful. Menus and dock appears on both displays.
• OpenGL 4 support
• Time Coalescing - helps improve your CPU efficiency by up to 72%
• 1.5x faster at waking a system from standby
• Accelerated Scrolling optimized for Retina displays
• AppNap – lets you pause apps to prevent battery drain
• Developer preview available today
• Releases Fall 2013

• New Sidebar with reading list, bookmarks and shared links
• Big performance improvements
• 1.44x faster in SunSpider JavaScript benchmark than Chrome and Firefox
• Improved CPU energy uses

• Remembers your website logins, credit card numbers, etc.
• Can suggest to auto-fill your forms for you with private info

• Reply to iMessages, Email, FaceTime calls right from desktop
• Get push notifications from iOS apps on your Mac
• Tells you what you missed on your lock-screen
• Apps update in the background

• Street Maps
• 3D Flyover
• Info cards
• Turn-by-turn directions
• Send directions to your iPhone

• Access to 1.8 million books in iBookstore
• Read books from your desktop or iOS
• Interactive books just like in iOS

• Create iWork docs from a web browser
• Works on OS X or Windows
• New iWork releases coming to Mac and iOS later this year

Macbook Air

• All-day battery life thanks to Haswell processor
• 2X GPU execution units with 40% faster graphics
• 11-inch MBA will have 9 hours of battery life
• 13-inch MBA now has 12 hours of battery life
• 45% faster SSD storage
• Faster WiFi 802.11ac card
• 11-inch starts at $999 with 128GB storage
• Ships today

Mac Pro

• New unified thermal-core body
• Intel Xeon with up to 12-core
• Fastest ECC memory
• PCIe Storage that’s 10x faster than any previous Mac Pro drive
• Thunderbolt 2 support. 20GBps throughput
• Dual workstation GPUs
• 4k display support
• 1/8th the size of old Mac Pro
• Made in the USA
• Coming later this year

• New design
• 802.11ac Wi-Fi 
• Room for harddrive storage to beam files

Company Stats

• 600 million iOS devices sold to date
• 24th WWDC
• attendees from 66 countries
• 6 million registered developers
• WWDC sold out in 71 seconds
• 1 million daily vistors at the 407 Apple Stores in 14 countries
• 50 billion apps download from the App Store
• 300 million iTunes in the Cloud users
• 900,000 apps in the store
• 375,000 iPad apps
• 575 million App Store accounts (more accounts with credit cards than any store)
• $10 billion has been paid to developers ($5 billion just last year)
• 72 million Macs installed
• 28 million copies sold of OS X Mountain Lion
• 35% of Mac users are now using OS X 10.8