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Tim Cook not worried about the Kindle Fire, says tablet market may eclipse the PC market
With competitors still trying every which way to take on the iPad, Apple is just rolling on ahead and racking up sale after sale. Yesterday Apple reported 11.2 million iPad sales in the September quarter, representing an astounding 166% increase from the same quarter last year. The most recent entrant into the tablet market is […]
Continue reading...Apple’s releases Q4 2011 earnings – $28.27 billion in revenue on record iPad and Mac sales
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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Wall St. analysts would be well-advised to take their Apple earnings estimates and just tack on a little bit extra. Without fail, Apple over the past few years has demolished Wall St. expectations and this quarter was just as impressive though Apple did fail for the first time in a long time to meet Wall […]
Continue reading...Apple working on iPad Mini – but is that a reference to the screen size or its price?
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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Steve Jobs famously said that tablets with 7-inch screens stood no shot in the marketplace and would effectively be dead on arrival. Customers, Steve Jobs claimed, wanted their tablets a bit bigger – and so far it’s hard to argue as a plethora of smaller screened tablets have failed to gain even a modicum of […]
Continue reading...Samsung lawyers struggle to differentiate iPad from Samsung Galaxy Tab
Friday, October 14, 2011
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At a court hearing yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh said that she wouldn’t be granting an injunction based on one of Apple’s utility patents, despite her contention that Samsung’s products do infringe upon Apple’s lineup of iOS devices. But not all hope is lost for Apple. There are still 3 other design patents […]
Continue reading...Robert Scoble anticipates monster Facebook announcement tomorrow along with new DirecTV style app for the iPad
Monday, October 3, 2011
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By John Hiesler: The Apple rumor mill is in high tear today ahead of tomorrows long awaited iPhone 5 announcement. Earlier today, Robert Scoble penned a post on Google+ (I guess some people do actually use it) articulating some thoughts about tomorrow’s event while also giving us a few rumors to chew on overnight. First, […]
Continue reading...Facebook and Apple mend fences to stave off threat from Google
Monday, October 3, 2011
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Facebook and Apple haven’t exactly had the smoothest of relationships. Highlighting their tumultuous relationship, which appears to be on the upswing, Mashable provides us with many interesting tidbits detailing the ups and downs of Facebook’s dealing with Apple. The beginning of the saga that would become Facebook and Apple got off to a rousing start […]
Continue reading...Despite upcoming Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’, manufacturers becoming wary of taking on Apple’s iPad
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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You can line em’ all up. The HP TouchPad. The Motorola Xoom. The BlackBerry PlayBook. What these tablets all have in common is that they’ve been remarkably unsuccessful at stealing away any significant marketshare from Apple’s iPad. Sales of the TouchPad were so low that HP ultimately decided to axe the product altogether, and Motorola […]
Continue reading...Facebook iPad app rumored to debut at Apple’s October iPhone event
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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Just hours after news spread that Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen had left the company amid frustration that Facebook still hadn’t released the Facebook iPad app he helped engineer came word from Mashable that Facebook will unveil it’s long-awaited iPad app at Apple’s upcoming media event on October 4th where the company will unveil the final […]
Continue reading...Comcast readying live TV streaming service for the iPad
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider is working on a new service which will allow iPad users to stream live TV onto their device. This initiative follows Comcast’s Xfinity TV iPad app which lets users manage their DVR remotely and watch 3,000 hours worth of on-Demand content from anywhere. Comcast’s TV streaming service, called AnyPlay, […]
Continue reading...Apple reportedly cuts iPad orders down by 25%, but no reason to worry…
Monday, September 26, 2011
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A new report from JPMorgan Chase & Co. states that Apple is cutting down its iPad orders for the fourth quarter by 25%, marking the first time Apple has apparently instituted such a drastic decrease in production.
Continue reading...Qantas Airways to explore giving iPad 2s to passengers as an entertainment device
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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There are certainly no shortage of Airlines who are taking to the iPad. But whereas some airlines like Delta and Alaskan Airlines employing iPads to serve as replacements for thick and heavy paper manuals, Australia’s Qantas Airways is flipping the script and running a pilot program (no pun intended) wherein it’s giving iPad 2s to […]
Continue reading...As tablet competitors tank, Apple in ‘no rush’ to release iPad 3
Monday, September 19, 2011
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Apple’s iPad effectively resurrected a tablet market that was by all accounts littered with a succession of failed products. And while competitors have been able to compete with the iPhone – both in terms of user experience and market success – no one has really been able to challenge Apple’s iPad dominance in the least. […]
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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