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Apple’s New Online Store for B2B Resellers
Post published on 10th August 2010
Apple has launched a new online store for business-to-business resellers, including corporations, schools and Apple Consultants. Consultants and institutions with an Apple account can set up online orders. The new system now supports creating templates for common orders so that proposers can create orders from existing templates or by selecting items manually. The order will then be sent to authorized purchasers for approval, and the recent order status will be tracked.
The new online store offers the following features: user experience based on your role and profile, product catalog customized to your account, quickly create a cart based on part numbers, use templates to simplify repeat ordering, find proposals for easy order conversion and detailed order lookup with 8 months of history. Resellers can access the new store at reseller.apple.com.
50% Discount to Education Institutions
Post published on 9th August 2010
Apple has come out with a new discount program that allows developers to offer education discounts when multiple copies of the same program is purchased.
When developers log into iTunes yesterday, they would meet the amendment, saying “This amendment enables you to offer a 50% discount to education institutions on multiple copies of the same app as described in Section 3.1 in the amendment above. If you agree to participate, you can apply the discount to individual apps in the Manage Your Applications module, or you can apply it to all of your current apps at once by choosing Yes, below.”
There is no more information about how to implement the discounts in iTunes, but it will a good news for educational institutions.
It’s OK to Jailbreak & Unlock Smartphones
Post published on 5th August 2010
Apple is often held up as an example of limiting the software users can install on their smartphones because it tied iPhone app installation to its own App Store. But now something has changed.
The US Copyright Office and Librarian of Congress changed the exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act on July 26th，allowing jailbreaking and unlocking smartphones. The new rules mean smartphone users can download and run applications and software not approved by the device manufacturer or the wireless carrier.
Besides, the Copyright Office also renewed its earlier ruling that allows consumers to unlock their cellphones for use on the carrier network of their choice instead of staying locked to a single service provider.
In addition to jailbreaking, all the other new rules are similar to the last set of exemptions, which were announced in November 2006.