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Sony waives its publishing fee; Would Apple ever do the same?

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2013)

Video-game maker Sony has been making a big push for independent developers lately, both on its handheld PS Vita system and on its upcoming PlayStation 4 console, and yesterday, the company took another big step. Sony has decided to waive its usual US$99 fee for PlayStation Mobile developers, ...

Verizon Wireless to start charging $30 handset upgrade fee

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 11th, 2012)

A Reuters report claims Verizon Wireless will start charging customers an additional US$30 when they upgrade their phone. This fee will apply to existing customers who buy new hardware with a two-year customer agreement. Verizon says it's levying this additional charge in order to "provide ...

Rumor: Apple's cloud service comes with subscription fee

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2011)

CNET has heard from "music industry insiders" that Apple's long-rumored cloud service is indeed coming, but with a subscription fee. When it first launches, the service, which supposedly will act as a "music locker," allowing you to store and access a music collection in the cloud, may be ...

The iPad romance is over for Jeff Jarvis

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 7th, 2010)

You've lusted after something for months. You've imagined it in your daily routine, showing it off to your friends (with appropriate oohs-aahs and jealous looks directed your way) and feel like once you've obtained this item that your life is complete, you have obtained the Holy Grail, and you ...

Survey: 45% of iPod touch users running old firmware

by Mike Schramm (Dec 21st, 2009)

Chitika Research, a company that helps deliver online advertising, has released numbers from its network that claim 45% of iPod touch users still haven't upgraded to the iPhone 3.x firmware. Only 55% of the users measured have paid the cash to upgrade to the latest version (because of accounting ...

iPod touch fee could go bye-bye

by Mike Schramm (Sep 15th, 2009)

Chris Foresman over at Ars Technica has an interesting pronouncement: A rule governed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, that's been heavily lobbied for by Apple and other electronics companies, may be enough to lift the charge that iPod touch owners have had to pay for updates of ...

Japan to abandon iPod copyright fee

by Dave Caolo (Jul 10th, 2008)

For years, legislators in Japan have wanted a portion of the price of a digital recording device (up to 3%) to go to recording companies, songwriters and artists. The so-called "iPod tax" has met opposition from electronics manufacturers, as you could imagine. However, it looks like it's not going ...

Daring Fireball feed goes free

by Mike Schramm (Jul 31st, 2007)

John Gruber's Daring Fireball is probably my favorite Mac blog out there (save for the ol' TUAW, of course)-- it was one of the first I started reading, and he consistently provides not only great insight on Apple products and policies (and journalists' treatment of them), but a strong, often funny ...