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Title: At CES: The first air conditioner to carry the Made-for-Apple logo Post by: HCK on January 09, 2014, 02:00:03 pm At CES: The first air conditioner to carry the Made-for-Apple logo
Major appliances from China's Haier group are now MFi certified. <p></p> <p>FORTUNE -- Apple's (AAPL) peripheral certification program hasn't been in the news much since Made for iPod morphed into Made for iPhone/iPod/iPad and then, in 2010, to MFi.</p> <p>For nearly a decade, makers of devices that plug into Apple's proprietary ports -- FireWire, 30-pin dock, 4-conductor iPhone connectors, Lightning, etc. -- grudgingly paid up to a 10% royalty (since reduced to $4 per MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/08/apple-ac-haier-mfi/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=130947&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/1zYtZ6ynXGc" height="1" width="1"/> Source: At CES: The first air conditioner to carry the Made-for-Apple logo (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/1zYtZ6ynXGc/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/08/apple-ac-haier-mfi/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/08/apple-ac-haier-mfi/feed/atom/) |