With the drumbeat surrounding an impending Apple HDTV becoming louder by the week, Bloomberg reports that Apple engineer and iTunes developer Jeff Robbin has been tapped as the lead developer of the rumored television set. Robbin’s involvement is a sign of Apple’s commitment to extending its leadership in smartphones and tablets into the living room. […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Comments Off on Apple HDTV prototypes already believed to be in the works
First it was the iPhone. Next it was the iPad. And now it’s an Apple HDTV that seems to be the latest focus of the Apple rumor mill. Rumors of an Apple HDTV have been picking up steam for some time now and even received a little kickstart after Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson in […]
Continue reading...Friday, October 21, 2011
Comments Off on Steve Jobs on an Apple HDTV – “I finally cracked it”
One of the tenets of Apple under the reign of Steve Jobs was product secrecy, but Jobs upcoming biography has an interesting product revelation that confirms Apple’s plans to build an integrated HDTV. “He very much wanted to do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones: make them simple […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Comments Off on Apple working on iPad Mini – but is that a reference to the screen size or its price?
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...Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Comments Off on iPhone 5 is the last product Steve Jobs was intimately involved in
The iPhone 4S is flying off the shelves faster than Apple can manufacture them. A quick perusal of Sprint’s website shows that they’re already sold out of the 16 and 32GB models while all iPhone 4S models on Verizon’s website now show a shipping date of October 28th. Clearly, the iPhone 4S is an immediate […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Comments Off on No LTE or WiMAX iPhones expected; iPhone price structure will be most aggresive to date – Report
Buckle-up, folks. Today promises to be insanely busy and chock full of interesting announcements. With Apple’s media event now less than an hour away, rumors are still trickling in. There’s been a lot of talk about what kind of iPhones Apple might release and how big the screens will be, but there hasn’t been much […]
Continue reading...Monday, October 3, 2011
Comments Off on Siri co-founder Norman Winarksy says Assistant will be “world changing event”
The centerpiece of Apple’s special media event tomorrow will likely be Apple’s voice recognition feature in iOS 5 dubbed Assistant. The feature was reportedly built on Siri, a startup acquired back in 2009. Now, 9to5Mac has an extremely interesting interview with Siri co-founder Norman Winarsky who unabashedly raises expectations for tomorrow’s announcement. Notably, Winarsky points out […]
Continue reading...Monday, October 3, 2011
Comments Off on Robert Scoble anticipates monster Facebook announcement tomorrow along with new DirecTV style app for the iPad
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...Monday, October 3, 2011
Comments Off on iPhone 3GS to be offered for free with contract – Rumor
Most of the attention surrounding Apple’s upcoming iPhone event is naturally centered on what new iPhone models Apple will be announcing. But one of the seemingly many surprises Apple will unveil tomorrow has to do with the iPhone 3GS, Apple’s now aging smartphone that was released almost 2.5 years ago. RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike […]
Continue reading...Monday, October 3, 2011
Comments Off on Is this what Apple’s Assistant interface looks like?
The focus of Apple’s upcoming media event will not solely be relegated to hardware. Rather, it’s been rumored that the main attraction of Tuesday’s “Let’s talk iPhone” event will be the introduction of voice recognition functionality in iOS 5. Voice recognition in iOS 5 will be an next-gen iPhone exclusive, so if you want to […]
Continue reading...Monday, October 3, 2011
Comments Off on Will Apple unveil iOS App Rentals tomorrow?
Perhaps Apple has more surprises in store for us tomorrow than we realize. After playing around with the recently released iTunes 10.5 beta 9 – the same one that references iPhone 4S – Twitter user @SonnyDickson found some data strings which suggest iOS app rentals may be a possibility. Take a look at the image […]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 2, 2011
Comments Off on Apple seeking international music licenses for upcoming iCloud sevice
Citing people familiar with the discussions, CNET is reporting that Apple is attempting to shore up last minute deals with various record companies that would net Apple international music licenses for its upcoming iCloud service. If Apple is successful in achieving said deals, an announcement to that effect may be made at Apple’s upcoming iPhone-centric […]
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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