Despite the increasing success of Apple’s mobile devices — the iPhone and the iPad in particular — I think the Cupertino company would have difficult time maintaing interest in the iPhone 5 and the iPad 3 if neither device features 4G LTE capabilities. Rival handsets have been offering the feature for some time now, and it seems our patience in waiting for Apple to implement it is...
Apple predicted a $25 billion quarter, but as is their want, they blew the doors off that with $28.27 billion being the final number. While this wasn’t their biggest gross quarter ever – that was last quarter with $28.5 billion – the fourth quarter of the company’s financial year ended up being a record for profits. Apple reported $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share. This...
#yawn Part one was a purposely snarky but also pretty honest assessment of today’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event. Me, you, Wall Street – pretty much everybody I’ve talked to was left pretty underwhelmed by 60 minutes plus of sales stats, minor spec bumps, rehashed iOS 5 feature announcements, and, well, Sprint. The big news here, I think, is Sprint and Siri. Sprint finally gets its iPhone...
Dreams of an all-new iPhone 5, with a larger screen and a thinner, lighter design, have been quashed in recent rumors, with claims that only a much-improved iPhone 4 — dubbed the ‘iPhone 4S‘ — will be heading out of Cupertino this year. However, case manufacturers have been giving us a glimmer of hope, and one in particular is making 50,000 cases for an Apple device that is unlike...
Hearing that Steve Jobs has left Apple as its CEO could be a scary event for the employees. The man has led the company to being one of the most valuable in the world, so it stands to reason that some people that work there might get a bit nervous at the thought of someone else leading them. Even though Tim Cook has been the interim CEO since Steve Jobs announced his medical leave of ...
Love him or hate him, there’s one thing most people can agree on: Steve Jobs has been one of the most interesting figures in consumer technology. So now that the once-and-former Apple honcho is exiting stage left, let’s take a look at some highlights (and a few lowlights) of the man who turned a black turtleneck, jeans and some production value into a cultural phenomenon — and was ...
"When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical."– Jonathan Ive, Senior VP of Industrial Design at Apple, Inc. When speaking of Apple's cutting-edge design laboratory, former executives paint the picture of a scene analogous with Batman's lair. Shrouded in the secure secrecy of an off-site office, a dozen engineers and their leader...
While every one wishes Apple CEO Steve Jobs a speedy recovery from whatever his medical leave entails, one can’t help but to wonder who would be the anointed one to step in and replace him as CEO should he have to step down. While Steve Jobs and Apple have become synonymous over the years with Apple to the point that you sometimes think he is the only person who works there, the truth...
Apple’s TV set top device, the Apple TV, marks its third year of shipments this month, and that makes us reflective on the lifespan of this Apple experiment that appears to be a failure at first glance. Just about everything Apple touches turns to gold, so why is the Apple TV something akin to the family member never talked about at the family reunion? First announced on Sept. 12th,...