Apple, Inc. has released another update to the upcoming release of Mac OS X, 10.7.3. The Build 11D50 is a 997mb download and while there are still questions about what Apple has planned, the laast few builds have been fairly stable. To download the latest build, you will need a Developer account. The build can be downloaded at: http://developer.apple.com/
Readdle has released an update to the PDF document control software, PDF Expert. Version 3.2 of PDF Expert incorporates a number of enhancements to the package including: Document Search now looks far beyond the file name. It lets you find the needed documents faster and easier than ever before! New sorting panel lets you reorder the files based on Name, Date or Modified Date. Just scroll the document list to the very top to reveal it, pretty much like in…
Apple’s Conference Call with the media yesterday is now available online. The Phone Conference to announce the quarterly profits was held at 5pm EST 24 January and announced Apple’s record breaking quarter. To listen to the entire audio of the event, go to the quicktime page at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq112/
Apple had a slam dunk, in your face type of quarter in quarter 1, 2012. It’s profits were beyond that of any belief. The stock price jumped to over 455 USD a share at one point after profits were announced. The number of iPhone 4S’s sold were more than 4 million units beyond that of even the most optimistic analyst. It was a huge success, but there are cracks in the mirror. Supply is an issue for the iPhones, hard…
iBooks Author, the app which allows educators to produce their own textbooks, has pushed over 600,000 downloads in 5 days. It was previously thought that this number was under 90,000, however Apple announce in this morning’s conference call that this plus a total of 3 million iTunes U downloads is pushing the education initiative along mightily. The fact that iBooks Author only runs on Mac OS X Lion should also drive future Mac OS X sales or even machine sales…
After Apple announced their quarter one profits this morning and the stock price went through the roof. At press time, the price was at $451.51 USD in after hours trading, up more than $31.10 USD or 7.40 percent. With groups like RBC Capital posting a buy level at $525 USD a share, this is not much of a stretch at this point. The increase in share price makes Apple Inc. the number one company in the US as far as…
Apple Inc. (AAPL) announced their first quarter results in a conference call today posting sales of $46.33 Billion USD. They sold 37.04 billion iPhones or more than 4 billion more than anyone expected this number to be. iPads sales were strong but not quite at expectations at 15.4 $billion Units and 5.2 million Macs. This quarters sales puts the total number of iPhone units sold globally by Apple Inc over the of the products at 315 million units. Cash on…
I’ve discovered something surprising. There are many E-book readers for the Mac and only one for Linux. This is a shocker. Ideally, with a few changes, those Mac readers should function under Linux. I mention this because I like how some of the ones for the Mac work. The reader for Linux is so-so. Since there is only one (and I talked about E-book readers at length a few months ago) I’ll just say it is available in the Debian/Ubuntu/Mint…
According to a report by GigaOm, Apple has overtaken all of the other large hardware manufacturers to become the number one purchaser of semiconductors. The report states that Apple spend a total of $17.3 Billion USD last year on semiconductors. This change in the top rank has been spurred on by the iPhone and iPad’s popularity and demand. Source: GigaOm
Apple will be holding Conference Call at 5pm EST today to report the fiscal year 2012 first quarter profits. While many in the industry are expecting lower overall numbers, it seems that they are at the expecting high numbers at Apple. According to ColinW. Gillis at BGC Partners, “analyst expectations are around 33 million iPhones and 12 13 million iPads”. Others including Mark Moskowitz at JP Morgan is expecting that number on the iPhones to be about 28 Million.
Apple has lost an appeal to have Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet banned from The Netherlands. The dutch court tossed the appeal from Apple, giving the lower court the final say on the matter. This decision comes just days after Samsung lost a minor ruling in German courts. Source: Reuters
Fortune has released a new excerpt from the Inside Apple book written by Adam Lashinsky. The book discusses Apple from the employee and the secrecy and security aspect, goine into detail about how employees are treated, how they are paid, and what the policy at Apple is relating to product releases. The book even goes into the tit-for-tat type fights that erupt between employees and that dressing someone down is acceptable if it is in the interest of making a…
Apple has finally created a support website for the iTunes U. Introduced along with Apple’s Education Initiative last week in New York City, iTunes U is intended to give students of all ages materials which are downloadable to their iPads as well as instructurs the tools with which to reach the student easily and interactively. Lack of a real support structure has been hindering usage of the facility so far, however Apple eliminated that issue yesterday. You can check out…
Evi is an app for the iPhone which it’s developers, True Knowledge, as well as several high profile Apple and Mac related websites were claiming was a good replacement for Siri. However, the reality is much cloudier than that. After 516 ratings, the average is 1.5 stars with most people complaining that the app can7t even connect to the Evi servers to perform the required tasks. Apple also had issues that were very similar when they first released Siri, however,…
A report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners states that of all of the buyers who purchased the iPhone 4s from October, 2011 to present, only 21 percent of the buyers chose the 64gb model. Online sales also decreased from 43 percent of total sales to 33 percent by the end of 2011 Source: Appleinsider.com
A report in CNN Money is claiming that the Apple stores are worth nearly as much as the White House is. According to the report, a square foot of an Apple store moves an average of $4,709 per square foot while the the White House is worth $4,752 per square foot. Just my opinion but since Apple is doing it every year, wouldn’t that make the Apple store more valuable?
The latest version of the Google Chrome browser has been released. Version 16.0.912.77 if primarily a maintenance release, fixing a number of bugs. You can download the latest version from the Google Chrome website at: https://www.google.com/chrome
According to a post on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online blog, the beta version of Eamon Deluxe 5.0 may go out to beta testers as early as today. Frank Kunze is in the final stages of squashing bugs with the new version and expects that the beta will be in testers hands at end of day.
Virgin America has paid tribute to Steve Jobs by including a saying he used at the 2005 Stanford Commencement on its airplane. The expression “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” is now gracing the nose of the airplane with the tail number N845VA, just below the cockpit window on the left side of the plane. While Steve used the expression in his speech, it comes from the back cover of a 1970’s Whole Earth Catalog when the catalog was ceasing print. Now…
Ken Gagne of Juiced.gs has posted a very thorough profile of Mark Simonsen, former Beagle Bros programmer and owner. Mark attended Kansasfest in 2010, giving its keynote speech and participating in the annual Hackfest event which pits Apple ][ aficionados against the clock in an all out performance of their programming skills. To read the entire article, check out the Kansasfest website at: http://www.kansasfest.org/2012/01/loyal-to-the-core-simonsen/
