Remains of the Day: Paranoid Android

11.07.2011
E-readers go high definition, Apple loses in court, new iPhone ads appear, and not even Android users want to buy Android tablets. The remainders for Monday, July 11, 2011 almost feel bad for Android tablet makers. Almost.

(Official Google Blog)

The poorly-capitalized iriver Story HD e-reader will go on sale on July 17 at Target stores. The device will be the first e-reader to integrate with I'm most excited about the "high definition" claim regarding the reader's e-ink screen: If it's anything like high-def television, I expect to see camping out on each (text) character's face.

(AppleInsider)

A federal jury concluded that Apple violated two patents held by Personal Audio, and that Apple must pony up $8 million because of it. Now, Apple has $60 billion in the bank; that means Apple's fine accounts for about 0.013 percent of its savings account. To put an $8 million fine in perspective, Apple only needs to sell 472 custom 12-core 2.93GHz Mac Pros with 64GB of RAM, a Mac Pro RAID card, 4 512GB solid state drives, two 18x SuperDrives, and a quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card to score that much cash. Apple could well pay Personal Audio with a $10 million bill and then tell the patent-holding company to keep the change.

(Mac Rumors)