2014

• The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was intended mostly to prove that India could succeed in such a highly technical endeavor — and to beat China. As Mr. Modi and others have noted, India’s trip to Mars, at a price of $74 million, cost less than “Gravity,” the Hollywood movie. NASA’s almost simultaneous — and far more complex — mission to Mars cost $671 million.

INFOGRAPHIC: You Won’t Believe How Many World-Changing Inventions Came From NASA

• Minecraft offers Microsoft a platform with strong elements of social and mobile usage, two areas where it has struggled so far. But perhaps most importantly, Minecraft gives Microsoft an intergenerational success story that few other games or services can replicate.The Verge spoke with dozens of parents who see Minecraft not only as an incredible tool for bonding with their children, but a gateway to education in computer science that could restore some appeal to the Microsoft brand for the next generation. Ari Paparo, an ad-tech entrepreneur in New York, plays Minecraft with his own children. “My eight year-old son says: ‘If Apple wanted to get cooler they would buy Minecraft instead of Beats.’”  
  (The Verge)

• iPhone 5 ve 5s toplam cihaz sayısı 200 mio
• 4.7 ve 5.5 inch – 1334×750 1920×1080 pixels
• iPhone 6’larda kullanılan işlemci A8 ve M8
• A8’de 2 milyar transistor bulunuyor
• M8’in mesafe ve çıkılan kat (elevation) hesaplayabiliyor
• iOS8 17 Eylül’de download’a sunulacak
• iPhone6, ilk iPhone’den 50 kat daha hızlı
• AppStore’da 1.3 mio uygulama bulunuyor.
• Saat’in 3 modeli (Watch, Sport, Edition) olacak ve 2015 yılında satışa sunulacak, 349 dolardan başlayacak
• Saat’in üzerinde yeni bir iletişim modeli bulunuyor, Flirt uygulamalarında kullanılabilir
• Apple Pay iPhone6lar ve watch ile kullanılabilecek.

• Now Apple has changed its tune yet again, offering the entire U2 album “Songs of Innocence” for free to 500 million iTunes users.
• Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis hazarded a guess that Apple is paying the band up to $30 million in exchange for offering the album free to its hundreds of millions of users. “That’s probably what the Beats by Dre model is all about: Apple as a label,” he wrote in his email newsletter. “Everyone wins: free music for us, another selling point for Apple & artists get absurd exposure through sampling.”

141 Steps required to make an iPhone
24 Hours of labor it takes to manufacture the phone
325 Sets of hands it takes to make a single iPad
5 Days it takes to make a single iPad