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The Apple Store, which is the center of the Apple consumer universe has been shut down in preparation for the pending announcements coming in today’s keynote at WWDC. The World Wide Developers Conference, held each year at Muscone Center in San Francisco, is the place to be today as Apple shows their developers the future direction of the product lines. Many rumors surrounding the conference are expecting an entire renewal of the Apple MacBook Pro line of products as well…
Apple has released the latest update to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. The Mac OS X 10.7.4 update addresses a number of issues including: Resolve an issue where the “Reopen windows when logging back in” setting is always enabled Improve compatibility with certain British third-party USB keyboards Address an issue that may prevent files from being saved to a server Improve the reliability of copying files to an SMB server You can download the latest update through the Software Update…
Apple announced their quarterly profits today with their net profits up a whopping 94% over 2nd quarter 2011. During 2nd quarter 2012, Apple sold a total of 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads resulting in a quarterly net profit of 11.8 Billion USD during the quarter. They also sold 7.7 million ipods during the same quarter. The number of iOS devices is now over 365 million devices thanks to to the sales of the devices this previous quarter. Apple’s…
The centerpiece of the iPhone 4S, Siri, is now the center of attention in a new class action lawsuit against Apple. The lawsuit, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, claims that Apple’s adervtising in relation to Siri’s capabilities is “misleading and deceptive” and does not perform the tasks as Apple shows in the ads. One Frank M. Fazio, an iPhone 4S users from Brooklyn, NY is feeling like Apple tricked him into buying the device and apparently…
The trademark dispute in China between Proview, a bankrupt supposed owner of the iPad name and Apple, the known manufacturer of the iPad, is now widening to a point where Apple is being black mailed for 2 Billion USD by Proview. While Apple purchased the rights to the name several years ago, Proview is now arguing that that sale did not cover mainland China where the iPad is made. Apple was initially being asked for 1.6 Billion in addition to…
Have you ever wondered what Apple had in mind when it was designing new Apple IIgs machines back in the 1980’s? Lim Thye Chen gives us a brief glimpse into some of those designs of prototypical Apple machines with a few pictures from the original Apple Design book at: http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=rxq26qsiiir9 While this is not the first time we have seen such wild ideas of Apple products, it is the first time we have seen a mythical Apple IIsi or a…
Apple stock shed the downward trend it set in early morning trading yesterday and jumped $5.73 in regular trading closing at $453.01. This close was up $5.73 from Friday’s close. The stock jumped even further in after hours trading closing the late session up another 0.84 to end the day at $453.85 USD per share. Rumors running through many news desks on the day were that the stock would push quickly tot he $500 USD per share mark, however, after…
Apple has hired John Browett, former CEO of Dixons Retail to be the new Senior VP in charge of Apple Stores world wide. Press Release From Apple: CUPERTINO, California—January 30, 2012—Apple® today announced that John Browett will join the company as senior vice president of Retail, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Browett comes to Apple from European technology retailer Dixons Retail, where he has been CEO since 2007. Beginning in April, he will be responsible for Apple’s retail strategy…
Mike Maginnis has managed to make the Apple /// Cobol software and manuals available ont he Apple ][ Scans website. Thanks to a loan of the materials from David Scmenck, the Apple /// collection is one item richer today. Originally released by Apple in 1982, it sold for a whopping $500 at the time. To download the software and the manuals, check out the Apple][ scans website at: http://apple2scans.net/apple-iii/apple-iii-cobol/
Yesterday, Tim Cook held a town hall meeting with employees of Apple Inc. While there were several items discussed, perhaps the biggest surprise was the new employee discounts that Apple employees will get. Each employee will get $500 off Mac Purchases and $250 off iPad purchases, once every three years. The discounts will begin in June 2012 and it is only available to employees who have been with the company for more than 90 days. It is also not applicable…
Motorola files a lawsuit against Apple claiming infringement of 6 patents. The lawsuit came with the full permission of Google who has been going after Apple in a proxy war to claim more of the pot of gold. The lawsuit filed today asks the courts for an injunction against the iPhone 4S and Apple’s iCloud service saying that they are infringing upon the following patents: U.S. Patent No. 5,710,987 on a “receiver having concealed external antenna” U.S. Patent No. 5,754,119…
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…
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…
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?
In the 5 days since the launch of the Textbooks section of the Apple Book Store, they have sold approximately 350,000 books according to Global Equities Research. They also apparently gave away 90,000 plus copies of the iBooks Author software for textbook production. If these numbers and trends continue, Apple could well have the largest book store sales in the world within a matter of weeks instead of the normal years that it took Amazon to get to the top….
This week showed a bit of how fickle the market can be when it comes to stock trading. In spite of a good announcement from Apple, Inc. on the 19th of January, the stock fell off the pace more than 11 points. However, RBC Capital recently said that the stock is still a buy and could go as high as $525 a share. While this might be true, the upcoming Conference Call tomorrow evening (5pm EST) will definitely tell a…
While Apple has put camera’s in most every device that they produce these days, many in the military or government cannot use the devices due to the sensitive nature of their jobs. That is until now. The M1 Shop in Singapore has the iPhone 4S models with no camera for sale now. While the cameras are a bit priceier than the camera laden models, they are worth the price for those who must have the phone but cant have a…
The Video from this mornings Apple Event in New York City is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. The event was held at 10am and was primarily focused on Apple’s push for education, introducing iBooks 2.0, iBooks Author, and the iTunesU App, You can download the latest video or any of the previous events from the iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-keynotes/id275834665
