Apple has repeatedly promised to release several “impressive new products” in 2015. We’re still guessing Cupertino will announce an iWatch and a revamped Apple TV along with a bigger iPhone later this year, but according to Jefferies analyst Peter Misek the company’s plans may be a lot crazier than that. Misek has never shied away from making grandiose Apple product predictions, even...
Those of you that have been saving up for the oft-rumored Apple television set may want to consider putting those funds towards something else. According to a new book from Yukari Iwatani Kane, the former reporter in charge of covering Apple for The Wall Street Journal, Jobs once bluntly told his employees that the company would not be entering the television market. In his new book ...
Apple is reportedly developing what could be a final piece of its TV plans. The Wall Street Journal reports that Cupertino is working on its own content delivery network (CDN) which could be used to push out video content or even release future updates for the company's desktop and mobile software. We want to believe Apple's new CDN means an iTV or at least a drastically improved...
When Tim Cook casually mentions Apple has big plans for next year, does he mean HDTV big? That’s something many people will be expecting, and even if it doesn’t suddenly appear out of a Cupertino lab, we’ll likely hear rumors about it until it does. So what would such a TV set actually look like if it did exist? Leave it up to Martin Hajek, who has produced some excellent Apple renders...
Apple CEO Tim Cook just made a revealing comment during the company's fiscal fourth quarter 2013 earnings call. Cook didn't specifically address any questions about new products, though he did say that "new product categories" are coming in 2014 and that Apple is "confident" it will happen. That suggests that Apple is indeed looking to launch something other than a new piece of software...
Apple’s going to take the stage today to introduce its new iPads, but a new report is sparking fresh rumors that the company is working on its own television set. Masahiko Ishino, an analyst with Advanced Research Japan, published a note recently that suggests Apple is building both 55-inch and 65-inch TVs with 4K ultra high-definition (UHD) resolutions. The TV sets, Ishino says, are...
As the market for streaming media and set top boxes continues to grow, Apple is expected to amp up its own Apple TV offerings in response to products from longtime rival Google as well as Roku and other newcomers. This week, Cupertino indicated some big updates in the future after it was revealed the company hired Cable TV executive Jean François Mulé as an engineering director. Mulé...
Apple’s vision for the future of TV is an actual physical set, and it’s reportedly already being worked on. According to Quartz, the iPhone maker has been sparking up conversations with media companies—Viacom, HBO, Disney and ESPN—about a new streaming service for its upcoming prized pony; forget actual cable providers, Apple is going straight to the source. The experience, people...
Well, that was fast. Twitter's new two-step authentication only rolled out Wednesday, and there's already another security breach. Seems the Syrian Electronic Army is at it again, this time hacking ITV's London news Twitter account. The @itvlondon account was taken over Friday afternoon to push out fake news stories about Syrian rebels, followed by "Just kidding. The Syrian Electronic...
Foxconn is currently afraid that it's relying too much on Apple for its business. The New York Times recently addressed many of the company's concerns, and how the popular electronics manufacturer may try to move away from its reliance on Apple to venture into new industries. Still, buried in that article is a hint that Foxconn may soon be working on Apple's iTV. The New York Times...