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Apple Seeds is iSource’s daily roundup of Apple-related stories for the most diehard of fans, or for the news junkie that has to have all of the day’s news: Apple and Samsung CEOS Meet for Moderated Patent Settlement Talks FOSS Patents is reporting that Apple and Samsung have met for …

Apple’s corning of “post-pc” devices generates 76% of the company’s revenue according to CEO Tim Cook. To sell these devices directly to customers, Apple now has 362 stores which saw over 110 million visitors in Q4 of 2011. Apple sold a staggering 315 million iOS devices last year, 62 million …

Apple, without much fanfare, has announced and released the first developer preview of their next-generation of OS X, named Mountain Lion. This new release will bring over 100 new features to the venerable OS, with many of them coming over from iOS. Features such as: Messages, Notes, Reminders, Game Center, …

Patently Apple is reporting on a recently-released Apple patent application that describes the use of motion sensors alongside a 3D user interface in iOS devices. In the patent, the interface could be a virtual room that could be navigated by changing the orientation of the device. Specifically, the patent notes …

Nearly since the beginning, Apple has been using Imagination Technologies’ GPUs in their iOS devices. The current renaissance of this is in the form of the PowerVR SGX543MP2 that is built into Apple’s A5 chip. The same chip that is currently used to power the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. …

9to5Mac is reporting that evidence has cropped up in a beta version of iOS 5.2, indicating that Apple is building in support for quad-core processors in future iOS devices. Since this find is in a beta of a soon to be released version of the OS, it’s a safe bet …

As years past have made apparent, Apple’s biggest sales quarter aligns nicely with the holiday shopping season. No surprise there. However, we normally have to wait for Apple’s earnings conference call at the end of the quarter to see how they performed. Not this year. At least not in regards …

Apple Seeds is iSource’s daily roundup of Apple-related stories for the most diehard of fans, or for the news junkie that has to have all of the day’s news: More Than 10% of US Mobile Phone Users Now Have an iPhone comScore has released results from their most recent survey, …

Today’s announcements at Apple’s “Let’s talk iPhone” included a new iteration of Find my iPhone now including Find my Friends, a pretty neat evolutionary step in location awareness and sharing. This is a great idea in principle and in practice. You can locate those who have opted to share location …

Alongside the reopening of the iTunes Match beta, Apple has also issued new beta for iTunes 10.5, iWork, and iOS 5 in preparation for Apple’s iCloud roll out later this year. Apple has also issued a new build (Build 11C55) of OS X 10.7.2, which for the first time, fully …

9to5Mac is reporting that Apple has seeded mobile carriers with a “near-final” build of iOS 5 for testing. The biggest difference between this build, and the builds that Apple has been seeding to developers, is that the carrier builds have Nuance Speech recognition turned on in order to be tested …