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According to MacPrime.ch, there are now plans to open an Apple Store in Basel, Switzerland sometime around the middle of 2013. As of yet, the plans are unconfirmed by Apple, Inc, however, a blueprint of the store shows that they will be opening a bi-level store with approximately 7500 square feet. Source: ifoAppleStore.com
The Beijing Apple store has had a major debacle in its opening of sales of the new iPhone 4S there. The store was supposed to open at 7:00 am but as the time reached 7:15, the crowds of people who had amassed waiting for the sales to begin, began chanting and hurling eggs at the store. Swat teams were called in to control the crowd and the sale of the iPhone there halted. In most other cities, tickets were given…
As predicted here by our staff, Apple has scheduled an education related event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The event which will be held at 10:00 am on the 19th of January will outline Apple’s Education initiative. While many have said this event will feature the iPad 3 prominently, we are expecting it to take more of the Standford and MITx education initiatives in hand and show how those initiatives will integrate with iTunes. As stated in…
Have you ever wondered what would happened if you dropped your ipad? What if it was dropped out of an airplane? Well, the guys at G-Form already did that one and had to go one better. Using a weather balloon, they took an iPad to 100,000 feet insulated with their G-From Extreme Edge Case. Amazingly, the iPad drops to earth and survives. Dont believe it? Check it out for yourself!:
Since reaching a low of $354.23 USD on the day that Steve Jobs died, Apple, Inc’s Stock (AAPL) price has been on a steady climb. The stock closed at $422.40 at the market close and was trading just down from that at $422.28 USD in the after hours market. With Apple expected to announce their 4th Qtr results on the 24th of this month, it is expected that the stock will continue this upward trend baring some unforeseen change in…
A former Apple Genius Bar employee, Chad Ramey has laid out he entire experience with being an Apple Employee bare to the world in a public letter to Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook. In the letter, he says that he hated to “abandon his passion” just to please management’s requirement to push the numbers of customers through the system quickly, while not really listening to or servicing their real needs. The letter is a good insight into what has happened…
Apple is once again being accused of unfair business practices, this time in France, where 3rd party retailers are accusing Apple of not supplying all of their products to the re-sellers. While Apple keeps their own stores well stocked with all of their most popular products, they apparently are not doing the same for those resellers in France that sell Apple’s products. French retailer Ebizcuss is suing Apple for said unfair practices. This suit comes on the heals of the…
According to an article in the New York Post, 141 New York City merchants have been busted in a major crackdown on places which deal in stolen iPhones. The problem of iPhones and iPads being stolen in New York has reached epic proportions and it seems the merchants have been just a bit too eager to help the crooks out with this one. This sting by the New York City Police began at the crook level and worked its way…
Apple Computer Inc. has released an update to their Logic Express program. Logic Express is Apple’s consumer level version of their Music Mixing package which allows for the user to manage multiple sound streams and build songs in a professional manner. With its 36 instruments, the program is a very capable “little brother” to the professional version of the software, Logic Pro. It can handle up to 255 tracks of audio and has 83 plug in effects. The latest version…
Speculation that Apple may be losing out to it’s Chinese competitors in mainland China is coming to the forefront. While Apple products are popular the glove over, in China, there is a possibility that infrastructure to handle the iPhone and iPads may be the major limiting factor in China. According to a report in Reuters by Lee Chyen Yee, “A tie up with another telecoms service provider would help catapult Apple sales. But the biggest by far, China Mobile Ltd…
Mike Willegal of Mimeo fame has created an online registry of all known Apple-1 computers. While Apple Computer Inc produced 175 of the units in 1976, very few of the machines have survived the years and the tradein program Apple had when they introduced the Apple ][ computer. To date, Mike has catalogued 39 units complete with information about owners, auctions, auction / sale prices and current state of the machine. The original Apple-1 computer sold for $666.66 USD in…
The document of incorporation of Apple Computer Inc, from 1976, has been sold at auction for nearly $1.6 Million USD. The document which was originally held by founding member Ron Wayne, was sold in 1994 to US Businessman, Wad Saadi for several thousand dollars. The new owner of the document, Eduardo Cisneros, a US Television Exec (CEO of Cisneros Corp) and muscle car enthusiast, said about the purchase of the document in a tweet, “Very happy to own a piece…
by Rick Sutcliffe Technology News and Views Since 1983 Something Old, Something New December 2011 The Spy recently acquired a few surplus G5s, and in the process of setting them up to be useful file servers and replacements for even older G4s at his home and church, (re)-discovered some interesting things about memory, disk drives, and both hardware and software compatibilities. First is that all disk drives are not manufactured equal, quite apart from the Thailand flooding that means many…
Apple today released a couple of updates including iTunes 10.5.1. This update is supposed to include the new service from Apple called iTunes Match, their matching service which allows imported CDs to also be stored in iCloud. This service should address many users issues with the lack of cover art and proper titling of their CD’s and seeks to eliminate many of the gaps in most people’s cover flows. iTunes 10.5 also included:• iTunes in the Cloud. iTunes now stores…
The lastest version of the iTunes program, version 10.5 has been released a day ahead of the impending iOS 5 release. With all of the new product and software updates this week, it will be surprising if the Apple servers handle the load without some hiccups along the way. The update is a required update for all those users looking to use iCloud when it is released. According to the release notes included with the program, it includes the following…
This week is scheduled to be one of the biggest update weeks in the history of Apple, Inc. with a slew of program and product updates coming. On the agenda are: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 iTunes 10.5 iOS 5 iCloud iPhone 4S (HD Video, 8MP Camera, 64GB) iPod Touch (Pricing Change, new white edition) iPod Nano (Pricing change, new built in sensors) With all of the updates happening at once, it is easy for some of the items to…
While many people have been patiently waiting for the announcement of a public funeral for Steve Jobs, the likelihood of one being scheduled is looking pretty dim. A report in the wall street journal said that the funeral was being held Friday and was a private affair. Obviously, this was done to prevent such idiocy as the WBC protests or to prevent masses of people from descending upon the funeral procession. However, this also would be befitting the man who…
Notes making the rounds in the blogs today are making light of the fact that Siri, the new iPhone 4S personal assistant’s name is similar sounding to the Japanese word Shiri. Shiri, or Oshiri in Japanese is rear or bottom and certainly not a word I would believe Apple would want associated with their latest product. A similar incident happened when the iPad was introduced in Japan. AiPad is an adult diaper brand in Japan and this fact apparently escaped…
This morning, Apple introduced the iPhone 4S. While much of the media had been expecting the iPhone 5, the iPhone 4S was introduced including such capabilities as 8 Megapixel Camera, 1080P HD Video and Voice Control. The Siri application which was introduced a couple of years ago, with Apple, Inc. buying the company last year, is now totally integrated into the iOS and allows the user to control the phone completely hands free. On a more comical side, many folks…
Apple has shut down their Store (http://store.apple.com) in preparation for the upcoming announcements of new products. We can only assume that the new product is the iPhone 5 as that is what Apple has told us that today’s event is about. Any other goodies they decide to add will just be icing on the cake. This shut down has become commonplace with each event Apple has held in the past several years and thus is no real surprise.
