All the stories tagged with Apple Inc
Apple Inc was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne as a computer company wich is often credited to have initiated personal computing. After a meteoric rise in the 80s, Apple had lost the personal computing battle against Microsoft and others in the 90s. But in the late 90s and early 2000s, the company came back to profitability by focusing on less products and started using industry-standard components. Apple’s largest business is now in the smartphone space, with the iPhone representing more than half of the revenues and an even larger part of the profits. Read our Apple product reviews to see what the company has been up to: iPhone 5 Review, Macbook Pro with Retina display review
Apple to fix iTunes exploit
07/31/2009, Apple isn’t going to sit down and do nothing as they are widely expected to release a fix for the exploit via iTunes sometime tomorrow. News of this patch came about from a spokesperson for O2, although it remains to [...]
Apple announces 2TB Time Capsule
07/30/2009, Apple has upped the ante for its Time Capsule by doubling the storage size to 2TB, compared to the previous model which maxed out at half that amount. The 2TB Time Capsule will sit pretty at the top of the [...]
iPhone Sayn Design
07/30/2009, As if the iPhone isn’t expensive enough in selected countries, Sayn Design has come up with their intepretation of Apple’s best selling (and only) handset to date. This redesign won’t see the iPhone 3G S hit the market, but will [...]
Jailbreaking iPhones could lead to ‘catastrophic result’
07/29/2009, Apple is currently lobbying the Copyright Office to deny a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to legalize jailbreaking (using apps not approved by apple). Here’s what Apple has to say: Taking control of the BBP software would be [...]
Google Voice Mobile yanked
07/28/2009, Google Voice is one above average service despite its minor annoyances, and the mobile version for BlackBerry and Android platforms do away with the need for additional steps, making it an obvious replacement for your handset’s native dialer. While there [...]
iPhone SDK 3.1 Beta 3 available with augmented-reality friendly API
07/27/2009, Apple has made its SDK 3.1b3 available to developers. Today’s news is that Apple is making a video API available so that developers can retrieve the video feed from the internal camera to build augmented reality apps. The last time we checked, AcrossAir is [...]
iPods to die when their gross margins will be too low
07/24/2009, During its last conference call, Apple said something very sound: “We expect traditional MP3 players to decline over time as we cannibalize ourselves with iPhone and iPod Touch”. While many companies are afraid of cannibalizing (the sales of) their old [...]
Apple Forks Out $500 Million For Flash Memory
07/22/2009, Apple, riding high on yet another favorable quarterly earnings report, has just announced that it recently forked out a cool half billion American dollars to Toshiba in order to snag a long-term supply of NAND for its mobile devices. This [...]
What would a Macbook Touch look like?
07/21/2009, Some folks at the Georgia State University have thought about what an Apple tablet would look like, and here’s a video that shows their concept. Just to be clear, this was done for a product management class (video credit: John [...]
Ex-Apple real estate chief now working on Microsoft retail stores
07/21/2009, We told you recently that Apple and Microsoft were getting into a street fight as Microsoft plans to build retail outlets next to Apple’s. In order to do so, Microsoft has hired the person who worked on finding the prime [...]
Universal Offers Companion Features On iPhone And iPod touch
07/20/2009, The iPhone and iPod touch will soon be able to take advantage of companion features thanks to Universal, as the company is working on being the first to tie home theater with Apple’s own App Store. This App Store-Blu-ray tie-in [...]
Market share doesn’t mean much
07/20/2009, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson – that’s the market share classification that most people use to rank handset makers. However, people overlook profitability, The key metric in a mature business like cellphones. While Nokia still commands 60% of the industry’s [...]
Lawsuit Links Apple To Italian Mafia
07/17/2009, This sounds totally right out of a mental asylum – a lawsuit has been filed by a man, claming that Apple has conspired with the Italian Mafia to secretly track him, where threatening messages were transmitted to his iPod where [...]
