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ARM-Based MacBook Air Unlikely Based on Analyst Talk wi... 12:24 AM	MacRumors
ARM-Based MacBook Air Unlikely Based on Analyst Talk with Tim Cook There had been some interesting claims last year that Apple had been actively testing an ARM (A5) based MacBook Air. The ARM processor is the same one that is used in the iPhone and iPad. An ARM-based MacBook Air, however, would raise a number of questions about what kind of device it might actually be. Would it run OS X, or iOS? Would it be closer to a Mac or an iOS device? One of the main advantages of using an ARM processor would be a reduction in power-requirements, but with a corre... Read the full article on MacRumors »
AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB o... Feb 04 2012 22:24:37	MacRumors
AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage amongst mobile Unlimited Data Plan users. While AT&T no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan. Those iPhone users have been able to retain these Unlimited plans, even though AT&T has since moved to a tiered data plan structure. When AT&T announced their plan to start throttling users, the company said that they would only b... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Revises Snow Leopard Security Update and Pulls 10... Feb 04 2012 22:02:21	MacRumors
Apple Revises Snow Leopard Security Update and Pulls 10.7.3 Delta Update After a couple of issues with some software updates, Apple has made some quiet revisions to address the problems.The first was a Snow Leopard security update which inadvertently caused problems with Apple's PowerPC emulation layer Rosetta. Macworld notes that Apple has since released Security Update 2012-001, version 1.1 for Snow Leopard. The new version seems to fix the PowerPC crashing issues described with the original update.Meanwhile, the crashing/CUI errors with 10.7.3 Delta upd... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Uploaded iTunes Match Songs Inaccessible for Some Users Feb 03 2012 23:52:33	MacRumors
Uploaded iTunes Match Songs Inaccessible for Some Users Some iTunes Match users are encountering difficulties when attempting to download songs they have previously uploaded to iTunes Match. Matched songs appear unaffected for most users. Threads on both the MacRumors Forums and the Apple Support Communities detail the issues.I keep getting the "error = -2114" and "Please check that the connection to the network is active and try again." It then moves to the next download and most times is succsesful. I am getting this error in the last few hour... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Genius Recommendations for Movies and TV Shows Appearin... Feb 03 2012 22:00:56	MacRumors
Genius Recommendations for Movies and TV Shows Appearing on Apple TV Several Apple TV users have reported a new addition to the menus of their devices, with the new option bringing Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows in their libraries. Curiously, early reports noted that rather than carrying a correct menu title, the movie option carried the name "ATV.Menu.MOVIE.GeniusItem", suggesting that the new feature may have appeared prematurely. Apple seems to have fixed the issue, however, with the menu option now showing properly as "Genius". Improper... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Clarifies iBooks Author Licensing Situation in Ne... Feb 03 2012 20:01:03	MacRumors
Apple Clarifies iBooks Author Licensing Situation in New Software Update Following Apple's release of iBooks Author last month to support creation of iBooks Textbooks, significant controversy arose regarding the software's licensing, which specified that the output from the software could only be sold via the iBookstore and not any other marketplace.Some confusion had resulted from Apple's language, with some believing that Apple was claiming rights to all content used in the production of the iBooks Textbooks, perhaps attempting to exclude books from being publi... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's Share of Profits Among Top Mobile Phone Vendors... Feb 03 2012 19:02:28	MacRumors
Apple's Share of Profits Among Top Mobile Phone Vendors Hits 75% asymco's Horace Dediu has released his latest calculations of revenue and profits in the global mobile phone industry, finding that Apple has increased its share of the top vendors' profits to 75%. Samsung followed in second place with 16% of industry profits while no other vendor accounted for more than 4% of profits.Apple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share.Apple and Samsung combined for about 91% of profits with RIM third at 3.7%, HTC fourth at ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Snow Leopard Security Update Kills PowerPC Apps Using R... Feb 03 2012 15:49:53	MacRumors
Snow Leopard Security Update Kills PowerPC Apps Using Rosetta While the odd "CUI Error" experienced by some users after upgrading to OS X 10.7.3 earlier this week has garnered a fair amount of attention, it appears that a security update released for Mac OS X Snow Leopard at the same time is also causing major issues for users who rely on older PowerPC applications that run under Apple's Rosetta framework.Security Update 2012-001 was released alongside OS X 10.7.3 on Wednesday in order to bring some of the security fixes found in OS X 10.7.3 to users s... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Pulls All 3G Devices Except iPhone 4S from German... Feb 03 2012 14:11:17	MacRumors
Apple Pulls All 3G Devices Except iPhone 4S from German Online Store Following Motorola Patent Win [Updated] Bloomberg reports that Apple has removed all non-iPhone 4S devices with 3G technology from its German online store following a win by Motorola in the ongoing patent dispute between the two companies. The devices, which include the 3G iPad 2, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS, remain available from Apple's physical stores and other resellers in the country. iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS removed from Apple's German online store The removal is related to enforcement of a December injunction focused on a Mo... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's New SVP of Retail Went Undercover as Regular Sa... Feb 02 2012 21:00:01	MacRumors
Apple's New SVP of Retail Went Undercover as Regular Salesperson Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this week explained that new Apple's new Senior Vice President of Retail, John Browett, was hired not to "bring Dixons to Apple", but instead "to bring Apple to an even higher level of customer service and satisfaction." In the initial press release announcing the hire, Cook went even further, saying that "John shares that commitment [to customer service] like no one else we’ve met."Showcasing part of John Browett's dedication to customer service, MacRumors reade... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iMessages Going to Wrong iPhone "Isn't a Bug" Claims Apple Feb 02 2012 18:34:41	MacRumors
iMessages Going to Wrong iPhone "Isn't a Bug" Claims Apple In December, an apparent bug appeared in Apple's iMessage service that allowed iMessages to be sent to a stolen iPhone. Earlier this week, Gizmodo reported that a customer who went to Apple's Genius Bar began receiving iMessages to and from the Genius who helped fix their phone.It appears that the Genius took his personal SIM card and inserted it into the customer's iPhone as part of a series of unofficial and unapproved diagnostic efforts to fix the customer's phone. An Apple representative... Read the full article on MacRumors »
No Apple Event Scheduled for February Feb 02 2012 18:17:45	MacRumors
No Apple Event Scheduled for February Earlier today, Japanese blog Macotakara claimed that Apple will be holding an "unusual" event in February, backtracking somewhat on its earlier claim of an early February iPad 3 event.The Loop's well-connected Jim Dalrymple now reports that Apple will not hold an event in February, indicating that observers waiting for the iPad 3 or other major announcement from Apple will need to hold out until at least March.This is not going to happen, according to my sources. Apple will not hold an even... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's Town Hall Meeting Emphasized Corporate Philanth... Feb 02 2012 18:06:06	MacRumors
Apple's Town Hall Meeting Emphasized Corporate Philanthropy Last week, following Apple's blockbuster earnings report, the company held an internal town hall meeting with employees to discuss "exciting new things". While one piece of information about new employee hardware discounts did surface, little else from that meeting has made its way off of Apple's campus.The Verge now reports that it has been hearing that discussion of the company's philanthropic efforts was a notable focus of the event, with Tim Cook spending "quite a bit of time" talking a... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Poised to Benefit from U.S. Government's Five-Yea... Feb 02 2012 15:55:24	MacRumors
Apple Poised to Benefit from U.S. Government's Five-Year Push for Digital Textbooks The Associated Press reports on a new initiative from the U.S. government to help push schools and textbook companies make the transition to digital textbooks over the next five years. With Apple pushing itself to the forefront of the digital textbook discussion with its iBooks Textbooks launch just two weeks ago, the company stands to significantly benefit if its iPad hardware becomes a primary tool in the move to digital textbooks.Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Com... Read the full article on MacRumors »
OS X 10.7.3 Update 'CUI Error' Fixable in Many Cases wi... Feb 02 2012 15:15:56	MacRumors
OS X 10.7.3 Update 'CUI Error' Fixable in Many Cases with Combo Version Following yesterday's release of OS X 10.7.3, a number of users in our forums and at Apple's discussion forums began reporting issues with the update. The most serious of these issues seems to be widespread crashing of apps generally accompanied by an artwork error in the crash notice window in which the window's buttons are replaced with graphics showing "CUI" and question marks. In general, users have found that applying the combo version of the OS X 10.7.3 update rather than the standar... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Avid Takes on Apple's iMovie with Avid Studio for iPad Feb 02 2012 14:46:15	MacRumors
Avid Takes on Apple's iMovie with Avid Studio for iPad While companies such as Avid and Adobe have attempted to capitalize on Apple's Final Cut Pro X missteps by wooing users in need of professional video editing and production software, AllThingsD notes that Avid is pushing forward on the mobile "prosumer" front with its just-launched Avid Studio [App Store] app for iPad. The iPad obviously imposes some limitations on what can be done with the software compared with the full Avid Studio for Windows, but Avid suggests that it is full-featured e... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iPad 3 Event in March, An 'Unusual' Apple Event in Febr... Feb 02 2012 10:05:47	MacRumors
iPad 3 Event in March, An 'Unusual' Apple Event in February? Japanese blog Macotakara has posted a follow-up to their previous claim of a February iPad 3 media event.The original report had claimed that Apple would hold an iPad 3 media event in February with product launch in March. We had expressed some doubts about the long lead time between event and launch. Macotakara has had a mixed track record in the past, but has had enough hits that they continue to warrant attention.The site is now reporting that while there will be an event in Februa... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Analyst Expects iPhone 5 to Launch at WWDC 2012 in June Feb 02 2012 09:31:25	MacRumors
Analyst Expects iPhone 5 to Launch at WWDC 2012 in June The Commercial Times relays a report from Daiwa Securities that the iPhone 5 is expected to launch at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) to be held in June 2012. Daiwa Securities also claims that the iPhone 5 will utilize "glass to glass" touch panel technology which will benefit TPK Holding and Wintek.The summer launch claim is not new and has been echoed in previous reports. So this could simply be a parroting of previous rumors. Apple broke from tradition with the iP... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Passes LG to Become World's Third Largest Mobile ... Feb 02 2012 03:34:47	MacRumors
Apple Passes LG to Become World's Third Largest Mobile Phone Manufacturer Research firm IDC today released its estimates of global mobile phone sales for the fourth quarter of and full-year 2011, finding Apple moving past LG to claim third place in the rankings for the first time. Apple was rapidly closing on LG by mid-2010, but fell back into fifth place behind ZTE during the third quarter as customers held off in anticipation of new iPhone hardware. The strong surge from the iPhone 4S launch was then enough for Apple to move up in the year's final quarter and by a... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's Hiring of an Outsider is Out of Character Feb 01 2012 22:00:23	MacRumors
Apple's Hiring of an Outsider is Out of Character Earlier this week, Tim Cook announced the hiring of John Browett to replace Ron Johnson as the Senior Vice President of Retail at Apple. After spending more than 10 years at Apple, building the world's most successful retail chain from scratch, Johnson was appointed CEO at JC Penney with the difficult task of turning around one of the country's most well-known department stores. Johnson announced his departure from Apple in June of 2011 and by August Apple's recruiters were in full-swing loo... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Releases OS X 10.7.3 with New Language Support an... Feb 01 2012 21:18:48	MacRumors
Apple Releases OS X 10.7.3 with New Language Support and Bug Fixes Apple today released OS X 10.7.3, the third maintenance update to OS X Lion. The update is available via Software Update and Apple's download pages.The 10.7.3 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac including fixes that: - Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support - Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X -... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's 1.3 MP Camera-Equipped iPod Nano Due for Launch... Feb 01 2012 18:59:38	MacRumors
Apple's 1.3 MP Camera-Equipped iPod Nano Due for Launch in March/April? [Updated] Earlier today, we reported on new photos of an iPod nano casing that appears to support a rear-facing camera. With similar photos having shown up in the past, it was unclear whether Apple was still pursuing the design for a future iPod nano. M.I.C gadget now weighs in with claims that the pictured device is in fact a two-month old prototype but that Apple has been having difficulties with the 1.3-megapixel camera taking overexposed photos.It’s real, and it’s a two-month-old prototype t... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Reportedly Investigating Television Set Component... Feb 01 2012 17:31:32	MacRumors
Apple Reportedly Investigating Television Set Components as Anticipation Builds Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, whose long-standing claims of an Apple television set have been gaining steam in recent months as new rumors have surfaced in support of the idea, issued a research note late yesterday (via AppleInsider) discussing some new developments with Apple's work. Specifically, Munster notes that he had recent discussion with a "major TV component supplier" which disclosed that Apple had contacted the company to inquire about their products. The disclosure adds anoth... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Photos of Debug Software Show Alleged Details of iPad 3... Feb 01 2012 16:27:59	MacRumors
Photos of Debug Software Show Alleged Details of iPad 3 with Quad-Core A6 and LTE BGR reports that it has received from a source photos of what are claimed to be screenshots from Apple's iBoot development and debugging software for the bootrom showing details on an iPad 3. The screenshots, which show references to the known "J1" and "iPad3,1" code names, reveal that the device will indeed be using a new application processor carrying an S5L8945X identifier, presumably as part of a new A6 system-on-a-chip.For starters, the model numbers are J1 and J2 (iPad3,1 and iPad3,2), an... Read the full article on MacRumors »
New Photos of Camera-Equipped iPod Nano Casing Surface Feb 01 2012 15:17:33	MacRumors
New Photos of Camera-Equipped iPod Nano Casing Surface Last April, Taiwanese site Apple.pro posted a photo of what appeared to be an iPod nano with a hole in the rear casing that was said to be for a camera. A second photo showing the casing from the other side surfaced a month later, appearing to show a clipless design for the device and claiming that it would carry a 1.3-megapixel camera.Apple ultimately made no changes to the design of the iPod nano in September of last year, instead opting to update the software and lower pricing on the 8 G... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Tim Cook on New Retail Chief John Browett: 'The Best by... Feb 01 2012 13:57:12	MacRumors
Tim Cook on New Retail Chief John Browett: 'The Best by Far' MacRumors reader Tony Hart notes on his blog that after emailing Apple CEO Tim Cook with his thoughts on the company's selection of Dixons CEO John Browett as the next head of retail, he received a personal response in which Cook noted that Browett was "the best by far" among the candidates he talked with about the position.Tony,I talked to many people and John was the best by far. I think you will be as pleased as I am. His role isn't to bring Dixons to Apple, [it's] to bring Apple to an ev... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Seagate Starts Selling GoFlex Portable Thunderbolt Adapter Feb 01 2012 10:07:14	MacRumors
Seagate Starts Selling GoFlex Portable Thunderbolt Adapter The slow trickle of new Thunderbolt products continues. Seagate has begun selling a $99 Thunderbolt SATA adapter for portable (2.5") external hard drives: The GoFlex series is a set of external hard drives with interchangeable interface adapters that allow their hard drives to switch between different interfaces. Existing adapters include USB 3.0, Firewire, and eSATA. This new adapter offers Thunderbolt support for existing portable GoFlex customers. One reader notes that the inte... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Had 'Worked On' Offering a High-Definition Music ... Feb 01 2012 09:00:07	MacRumors
Apple Had 'Worked On' Offering a High-Definition Music Format In an interview with AllThingsD, recording artist Neil Young revealed that he had discussed high definition music formats with Apple's Steve Jobs prior to his death. The interview is summarized by CNet, in which Young claims that MP3s have just "5 percent of the data present in the original recording." Young is concerned that there is no suitable high definition available to consumers. Higher definition music, of course, would require much larger files. Young reportedly approached ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's Stock Off to Fast Start in 2012 with 50-Point G... Jan 31 2012 21:48:37	MacRumors
Apple's Stock Off to Fast Start in 2012 with 50-Point Gain in January With stock trading for January coming to a close today, Apple's performance for the first month of 2012 has been notable, with the company's stock riding strong earnings to a monthly gain of over 50 points that has increased its price by nearly 13%. Much of that gain came alongside Apple's stellar earnings release one week ago, but Apple has continued to drift upward since that time and closed at yet another record high of $456.48 today after touching $458.24 early in the day's trading.... Read the full article on MacRumors »
ZFS Comes to OS X Courtesy of Apple's Former Chief ZFS ... Jan 31 2012 21:23:40	MacRumors
ZFS Comes to OS X Courtesy of Apple's Former Chief ZFS Architect Apple's flirtation with ZFS, the file system backed by Sun, has been well-documented with rumors and speculation dating back to 2006. The interest was fueled in mid-2007 by a claim by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz that ZFS would supplant HFS+ as the file system for Mac OS X Leopard. While ZFS did not materialize in Leopard, Apple clearly continued to work on the project, with claims of some support appearing in marketing materials for Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard.Optimism surrounding that devel... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iPad Drives Apple to Perch Atop List of Top-Selling PC ... Jan 31 2012 19:16:59	MacRumors
iPad Drives Apple to Perch Atop List of Top-Selling PC Manufacturers Late last year, research firm Canalys predicted that Apple might become the world's largest PC manufacturer during the fourth quarter of 2011 if tablets were counted alongside more traditional computers. With the major firms now having reported their sales numbers for the quarter, Canalys has pieced together the numbers to confirm that Apple has indeed taken the lead on the strength of the iPad.Canalys today announced that Apple, after reporting stellar results, became the leading worldwide cli... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Thousands Line Up for New iPhone Production Jobs at Fox... Jan 31 2012 17:09:30	MacRumors
Thousands Line Up for New iPhone Production Jobs at Foxconn Facilities in China Back in late December, reports surfaced indicating that Foxconn was planning a major expansion of its iPhone production capabilities in Zhengzhou, China, with the company reportedly investing $1.1 billion and working with the Chinese government to recruit 100,000 new workers to the facility. M.I.C gadget now reports that the hiring notices have gone out and thousands of prospective employees have lined up to apply for the positions.On the 30th of January, thousands of hopefuls stood for... Read the full article on MacRumors »
China Telecom May Launch iPhone 4S by Late February Jan 31 2012 15:24:28	MacRumors
China Telecom May Launch iPhone 4S by Late February Following a report from Marbridge Consulting yesterday claiming that sources within China Telecom had revealed that a deal had been struck with Apple for the iPhone 4S, China Daily reports that China Telecom subsidiary Beijing Telecom has confirmed plans for an iPhone 4S release as soon as late February.In a news release on Monday, Beijing Telecom Co Ltd, a subsidiary of China Telecom, said the CDMA-version iPhone 4S is likely to hit the domestic market by the end of February, or at the beginnin... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X with Multicam Support, Ad... Jan 31 2012 14:23:00	MacRumors
Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X with Multicam Support, Advanced Chroma Keying, and XML Support Following up on promises to bring support for major features such as multicam editing and XML compatibility, Apple today announced the launch of Final Cut Pro X v. 10.0.3 with a number of enhancements. The release follows another major update released last September and another minor one released in November.Apple today released Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, a significant update to its revolutionary professional video editing application, which introduces multicam editing that automatically syncs up... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Names John Browett as New Senior Vice President o... Jan 31 2012 07:22:59	MacRumors
Apple Names John Browett as New Senior Vice President of Retail Apple announced this morning that John Browett will be joining Apple as their new Senior Vice President of Retail. Browett will be leaving his current position as CEO of Dixons Retail. Apple® today announced that John Browett will join the company as senior vice president of Retail, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Browett comes to Apple from European technology retailer Dixons Retail, where he has been CEO since 2007. Beginning in April, he will be responsible for Apple’s retail strategy an... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Releases Redesigned iOS-Like Airport Utility 6.0 ... Jan 30 2012 22:47:06	MacRumors
Apple Releases Redesigned iOS-Like Airport Utility 6.0 and an Airport Base Station Bug-Fix Apple has released updates to its Wi-Fi base stations and to the Airport Utility program that controls them.AirPort Utility 6.0 for Mac OS X Lion weighs in at 14.13MB and requires Mac OS X 10.7.2. The user interface has been redesigned to look more like the iOS Airport Utility application available through the App Store for the iPhone and iPad. It is also streamlined, with fewer windows required to access the full range of Airport Base Station settings. AirPort Base Station and Time Cap... Read the full article on MacRumors »
More Hints that Apple is Working on an NFC Payment Syst... Jan 30 2012 22:23:52	MacRumors
More Hints that Apple is Working on an NFC Payment System on the Next iPhone Apple's interest in incorporating Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities into the iPhone has been long rumored. Near Field Communications is short range wireless communication technology (~4 inches) that is used in mobile phones for a variety of applications including mobile payments. One of the more credible reports about that possibility came from the New York Times in March 2011. The newspaper reported that Apple was interested in incorporating NFC into a future iPhone, but was ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Seeks to Thwart iPhone Scalpers in Hong Kong with... Jan 30 2012 21:32:22	MacRumors
Apple Seeks to Thwart iPhone Scalpers in Hong Kong with New Reservation System Seeking to thwart would-be iPhone scalpers in Hong Kong, Apple has instituted a new reservation system (via 9to5Mac) to handle in-store purchases. With the new system, customers wishing to purchase an iPhone at the company's retail store in the IFC Mall must request a reservation between 9:00 AM and noon one day prior to their desired purchase. By 9:00 PM that same day, Apple will determine stock levels for the following day and notify customers who are granted reservations for the following m... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Verizon Moving Closer to Shared Data Plans? Jan 30 2012 20:42:14	MacRumors
Verizon Moving Closer to Shared Data Plans? Verizon and other carriers have been talking for some time about the idea of shared data plans that would allow users to draw from a single monthly allotment of cellular data for multiple mobile devices, much the same way family plans can share minutes among their phones. While European carriers have led the way in allowing users with both an iPhone and iPad to share a single bucket of data, Verizon and AT&T have indicated they are working on similar workings with Verizon indicating early last ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Taiwanese Site Sued by Supplier After Leaking Claimed i... Jan 30 2012 19:57:07	MacRumors
Taiwanese Site Sued by Supplier After Leaking Claimed iPad 3 Dock Connector Last July, Taiwanese site Apple.pro posted photos of what was claimed to be the dock connector and ribbon cable for the iPad 3. While the connector doesn't reveal much of anything about the full iPad 3 device other than some speculation about the connector itself being white as opposed to black on the iPad 2, it was one of the first reported leaks of iPad 3 parts. Claimed iPad 3 dock connector leaked in July 2011 Apple's suppliers seem to have taken the leak seriously, however, as Apple.p... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iPhone 4S Now 'In Stock' in Most Apple Online Stores Jan 30 2012 17:22:30	MacRumors
iPhone 4S Now 'In Stock' in Most Apple Online Stores Customers looking to order the iPhone 4S through Apple's online stores have long been faced with minor shipping delays as the company sought to keep up with demand, with Apple's online stores for most countries initially citing 1-2 week shipping estimates for the all models of the device. Those windows tightened up a bit earlier this month when Apple shifted to 3-5 business day estimates, but it now appears that the Apple has achieved a relative balance of supply and demand as the iPhone 4S is ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's Secrecy Extends to Putting New Employees on Fak... Jan 30 2012 14:47:03	MacRumors
Apple's Secrecy Extends to Putting New Employees on Fake Projects In his new book, Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky details the process undergone by new hires at Apple, noting that many of them are hired without knowing the exact project they are working on that they are frequently put through a testing period working on a different project in order to provide time to evaluate their trustworthiness.For new recruits, the secret keeping begins even before they learn which of these building they'll be working in. Despite surviving multiple rounds of rigorous intervie... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Macworld 2012: Autodesk Inventor Fusion for Mac Coming Jan 27 2012 20:46:12	MacRumors
Macworld 2012: Autodesk Inventor Fusion for Mac Coming Autodesk was at Macworld showing off a new product for the Mac called Autodesk Inventor Fusion. Autodesk Inventor Fusion is an existing 3D mechanical design software on Windows, but will soon become available for the Mac for the first time. Autodesk made headlines back in 2010 when they returned to the Mac platform after a two decade hiatus. Due to the success they've seen with their existing Mac products, the company will be bringing Inventor Fusion to the Mac. In the next few wee... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Civil Suit Against Google, Apple and Others Over Employ... Jan 27 2012 18:30:35	MacRumors
Civil Suit Against Google, Apple and Others Over Employee-Poaching Ban Can Continue A U.S. District Judge has ruled that an anti-trust case filed against a number of tech companies can continue, saying "they still have an antitrust claim" according to Bloomberg.[Judge] Koh didn’t take issue with the allegations about the agreements between individual companies, Joseph Saveri, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in an interview after the hearing. Instead, Koh has questions about “how it ties together,” or claims of an over-arching conspiracy between all the companies, he... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Tim Cook Responds to Report on Working Conditions at Su... Jan 27 2012 14:25:00	MacRumors
Tim Cook Responds to Report on Working Conditions at Suppliers' Factories In the wake of yesterday's report regarding treatment of workers at the facilities of Apple's suppliers, Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent an email to company employees addressing the situation. As published by 9to5Mac, the email highlights Apple's efforts to oversee compliance with company standards for workers' rights and the transparency with which it has shared that information. From Cook's opening statement:As a company and as individuals, we are defined by our values. Unfortunately some people ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Estimated to Retake Title of World's Largest Smar... Jan 27 2012 04:13:00	MacRumors
Apple Estimated to Retake Title of World's Largest Smartphone Vendor Research firm Strategy Analytics today announced its estimates of the global smartphone market for the fourth quarter of 2011, finding that Apple narrowly squeezed by Samsung to retake the title of world's largest smartphone vendor as measured by unit shipments. According to Strategy Analytics' numbers, Apple's 37 million iPhones narrowly eclipsed Samsung's quarterly smartphone shipments of 36.5 million units.Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “While Apple took the... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iWorld 2012: Bottle Opener Cases, Wave Cradle, Nomad Br... Jan 26 2012 22:51:38	MacRumors
iWorld 2012: Bottle Opener Cases, Wave Cradle, Nomad Brush, Wallet Case Macworld | iWorld carries the usual collection of iPhone cases and accessories, not all of which are insanely great. But here are a few interesting ones that were on the show floor as I made my way through the masses. Opena Case and Intoxicase were both showing off iPhone cases with built in bottle openers. Intoxicase's even integrates with an app that counts the number of openings. Not sure the demand for such a thing, but here they are. WaveCradle is simple aluminum stand that amp... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Macworld 2012: WDC Shows Off MyBook Thunderbolt Duo Jan 26 2012 21:24:05	MacRumors
Macworld 2012: WDC Shows Off MyBook Thunderbolt Duo We briefly mentioned WDC's press release that they would be showing their new MyBook Thunderbolt Duo at Macworld. Here are photos from the show floor of the unit. As expected, the new drive shares the same appearance as their previous two drive MyBook hardware.This new model, however, incorporates two Thunderbolt ports that allows the units to be daisy chained with each other to create a single logical drive. At the show, WDC was showing 4 devices daisy chained with Thunderbolt in a s... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iPhone Average Selling Price Remains Steady Even With F... Jan 26 2012 19:19:54	MacRumors
iPhone Average Selling Price Remains Steady Even With Free 3GS Offer Earlier this week, Apple reported its best quarterly earnings ever, taking in more than $46 billion over three months. 53% of that revenue was from the sale of 37 million iPhones, at an average selling price of nearly $660. This ASP is particularly impressive, considering this is the first quarter that Apple has sold a "free" iPhone in the U.S. -- the iPhone 3GS is available for free to new two-year contract signers on AT&T. Apple's iPhone ASP has remained fairly consistent, hoverin... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Part-Time Apple Employees Now Eligible to Participate i... Jan 26 2012 18:54:41	MacRumors
Part-Time Apple Employees Now Eligible to Participate in Charitable Matching Program One of Tim Cook's first acts when he became CEO of Apple was to institute a charitable matching program for employees. Under the program, Apple would match employees' personal contributions to 501(c)(3) charitable organizations up to $10,000 per year. However, the program initially only applied to US-based full-time employees. Now, it seems Apple has expanded the program to include part-time US employees as well, and covering international workers soon, according to a tweet from the Appl... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Macworld 2012: 'Clear' To Do App for iOS, WDC MyBook Th... Jan 26 2012 18:36:30	MacRumors
Macworld 2012: 'Clear' To Do App for iOS, WDC MyBook Thunderbolt Duo Macworld | iWorld 2012 kicked off this morning in San Francisco with the opening of the expo show floor. For years, Macworld was the major trade show for Apple to announce their new products. The venue was the launching ground for the first iPhone launch back in 2007. Since Apple's departure, the show has continued with a focus on 3rd party companies. This year, the show has been rebranded as Macworld | iWorld reflecting the increased importance of iOS in the Apple ecosystem.Clear... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Former Apple Executives Address Working Conditions in S... Jan 26 2012 17:37:15	MacRumors
Former Apple Executives Address Working Conditions in Suppliers' Factories The New York Times today published a lengthy report discussing working conditions at the facilities of Apple's suppliers in China, part of a growing focus on how Apple's popular products are made. While the company is making strides in holding its suppliers accountable to company standards, the report cites former Apple executives who note that the company continues to struggle balancing its desire for better working conditions and workers' rights with its business priorities.Some former Apple ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iPad Grabs 58% of Tablet Shipments in 4Q 2011 Jan 26 2012 15:53:00	MacRumors
iPad Grabs 58% of Tablet Shipments in 4Q 2011 Research firm Strategy Analytics today announced the results of its calculations of worldwide tablet shipments during the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing that Apple continues to hold a majority of the market as Android improves its standing on the strength of Amazon's Kindle Fire.Peter King, Director at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in Q4 2011, surging 150 percent from 10.7 million in Q4 2010. Demand for tablets among consum... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iPhone Drives AT&T's Record-Smashing Quarter for Smartp... Jan 26 2012 14:15:23	MacRumors
iPhone Drives AT&T's Record-Smashing Quarter for Smartphone Sales with 7.6 Million Activations AT&T today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing that the carrier saw record-smashing sales of 9.4 million smartphones, nearly double the previous quarter's sales and 50% higher than the company's previous record. The iPhone was clearly the primary driver of smartphone sales for AT&T, as the carrier reported 7.6 million iPhone activations during that quarter, with the "majority" of those activations being iPhone 4S devices.In the fourth quarter, the company s... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple to Give Employees $500 Off Macs and $250 Off iPads Jan 26 2012 08:20:05	MacRumors
Apple to Give Employees $500 Off Macs and $250 Off iPads According to 9to5Mac, during today's town hall meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to employees that they would get $500 off Macs and $250 iPads. The new discount program starts in June 2012, and can only be used once every 3 years. Employees also need to have been working at Apple for at least 90 days. The discount is reportedly for both corporate and retail employees. The discount is said to exclude the Mac mini. Apple employees presently are allowed a one-a-year 25% disco... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Brazil Approves Tax Incentives to Begin iPad Production... Jan 25 2012 21:28:00	MacRumors
Brazil Approves Tax Incentives to Begin iPad Production as Apple Targets its Next Major Market Brazilian newspaper Folha reports [Google translation] that the Brazilian government has officially approved tax incentives that will allow Foxconn to begin producing iPads in the country. Interministerial Ordinance #34, signed on Monday and published in Brazil's official register today, specifically provides for a reduction in or exemption from certain taxes associated with the production of touchscreen tablet devices lacking a keyboard and weighing less than 750 grams.According to ministerial... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Gearing Up for iPhone 5 Production Ahead of Summe... Jan 25 2012 17:47:31	MacRumors
Apple Gearing Up for iPhone 5 Production Ahead of Summer Launch? [Updated] 9to5Mac reports that it has received word from a "reliable" source at Foxconn that Apple is gearing up to begin production of the iPhone 5, suggesting that the company could be pushing for a mid-year launch more in line with pre-iPhone 4S debuts.The source said various sample devices are also floating around (which vary slightly from one another) so it is impossible to tell which one will be the final. Some things in common with all of them, however, are:- 4+ inch display (made by LG on at ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Sneaks by Android in Fourth Quarter U.S. Smartpho... Jan 25 2012 16:27:08	MacRumors
Apple Sneaks by Android in Fourth Quarter U.S. Smartphone Sales Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Ramping Up Operations in Israel with Anobit Acqui... Jan 25 2012 16:09:16	MacRumors
Apple Ramping Up Operations in Israel with Anobit Acquisition and New Research Center According to a new report from Israeli business newspaper Calcalist (via 9to5Mac), Apple has begun hiring for its research and development center in Haifa, Israel with a goal of opening the center by the end of February. The report claims that Apple has already received "several hundred resumes" from engineers looking to work in the new center, which is being headed up by Apple's newly-hired Israeli high-tech executive Aharon Aharon.The report notes that is likely to set up its research cen... Read the full article on MacRumors »
O2 Privacy Flaw Sends Users' Mobile Numbers to Visited ... Jan 25 2012 14:44:47	MacRumors
O2 Privacy Flaw Sends Users' Mobile Numbers to Visited Websites As noted by think broadband, a privacy flaw in the way UK carrier O2 handles web traffic on mobile devices has resulted in users' mobile numbers being sent to any website visited from the device as part of the headers in the HTTP requests. While O2 is apparently still investigating the situation, it appears to have the potential for significant privacy-related issues.If you're reading this news article using your O2 mobile phone, you'll be pleased to know that O2 have already sent us your mobil... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Saw No Change in iPad Sales Following Kindle Fire... Jan 25 2012 00:45:26	MacRumors
Apple Saw No Change in iPad Sales Following Kindle Fire Introduction Contrary to some reports, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today that the company hadn't seen any slowdown in iPad sales following the introduction of the much-hyped Kindle Fire tablet. When asked by an analyst during today's quarterly earnings call about the impact on the iPad from lower priced tablets, Cook noted that the company sold a record 15.4 million iPads and that Apple doesn't consider "limited function tablets and e-readers to be in the same category as the iPad". A big reason for the iPa... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Sold 1.4M Apple TVs in Most Recent Quarter vs. 2.... Jan 25 2012 00:44:22	MacRumors
Apple Sold 1.4M Apple TVs in Most Recent Quarter vs. 2.4M Sold in All of Fiscal 2011 Apple sold 1.4 million Apple TV set-top boxes in the Q1 2012 quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook disclosed during today's earnings call. Cook also disclosed that Apple sold 2.8 million Apple TVs in all of fiscal 2011, so the last quarter's results seem to represent a significance acceleration of sales for the product. The current generation Apple TV was released at the beginning of fiscal 2011, which means Apple has sold 4.2 million 2nd Generation (iOS-based) Apple TVs in total. This is fairly imp... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple to Hold Company Town Hall Discussing 'Exciting Ne... Jan 25 2012 00:26:14	MacRumors
Apple to Hold Company Town Hall Discussing 'Exciting New Things' at Apple After today's record breaking results, Apple will be holding a company-wide Town Hall for employees discussing some "exciting new things going on at Apple." Tim Cook sent a company-wide email to employees, as posted by 9to5Mac:Thanks to everyone’s hard work, we’re off to a great start in 2012. Last week in New York we launched a groundbreaking initiative for education with iBooks textbooks, and today we reported the strongest quarter in Apple’s history.Please join me tomorrow morning at ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in Q1 2012: $13.06 Bill... Jan 24 2012 21:36:10	MacRumors
Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in Q1 2012: $13.06 Billion Profit on $46.33 Billion in Revenue Apple today announced financial results for the fourth calendar quarter of 2011 and first fiscal quarter of 2012. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $46.33 billion and net quarterly profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $26.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 44.7 percent, compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter, and international sale... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iPhone Represents 55% of Verizon's 4Q 2011 Smartphone S... Jan 24 2012 18:09:46	MacRumors
iPhone Represents 55% of Verizon's 4Q 2011 Smartphone Sales Earlier this month, Verizon Wireless Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo noted that the carrier had activated 4.2 million iPhones during the fourth quarter of 2011, more than doubling the previous quarter's sales on the momentum of the iPhone 4S launch and potentially signaling a blockbuster quarter for Apple in the iPhone market.Verizon today officially announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing in a conference call that the company actually activated 4.3 million iPhon... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Ranked as World's Top Semiconductor Customer in 2011 Jan 24 2012 17:16:30	MacRumors
Apple Ranked as World's Top Semiconductor Customer in 2011 Back in June of last year, IHS iSuppli reported that Apple had become the world's largest buyer of semiconductors in 2010, jumping past HP and Samsung to top the list with $17.5 billion in spending. Apple's lead was expected to grow in 2011 on continued strength of the iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Air, all of which contain substantial NAND flash memory, which has become a primary driver of semiconductor markets due to the booming mobile device landscape.Research firm Gartner is out today w... Read the full article on MacRumors »
'Apple University' Trains Future Apple Executives with ... Jan 24 2012 15:19:15	MacRumors
'Apple University' Trains Future Apple Executives with Focus on Missteps of Apple and Others Details of Adam Lashinsky's new Inside Apple book set to debut tomorrow continue to surface, and while some of the ideas behind the company's "Apple University" program for training the next generation of executives were previously disclosed in Lashinsky's original Fortune piece on the topic and in a Los Angeles Times article last October, the new book takes a more extensive look at the concept.As had been previously disclosed, Apple in 2008 hired Yale School of Management dean Joel Podolny ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Has an Unboxing Room to Test Hundreds of Variants... Jan 24 2012 09:11:20	MacRumors
Apple Has an Unboxing Room to Test Hundreds of Variants of their Product Packaging iPod nano packaging photo by iLounge From an advance copy of Adam Lashinsky's upcoming Inside Apple book, NetworkWorld notes an interesting bit of information about how Apple approaches retail packaging. Perhaps it should be no surprise, given the elegance of some of Apple's product packages, but Apple is said to have a secretive packaging room where a package designer goes through hundreds of iterations to find the right combination:One after another, the designer created and tested an e... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Steve Jobs Met with Light Field Camera (Lytro) Company'... Jan 24 2012 04:20:33	MacRumors
Steve Jobs Met with Light Field Camera (Lytro) Company's CEO In the upcoming Inside Apple book by Adam Lashinsky, it's revealed that Steve Jobs had expressed interest and subsequently met with the CEO of Lytro, the makers the first light field camera. The relevant book quote posted by 9to5Mac states:The company’s CEO, Ren Ng, a brilliant computer scientist with a PhD from Stanford, immediately called Jobs, who picked up the phone and quickly said, “if you’re free this afternoon maybe we would could get together.” Ng, who is thirty-two, hurried to... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's Legal Fees Rumored to Top $100M on HTC Patent D... Jan 23 2012 20:43:58	MacRumors
Apple's Legal Fees Rumored to Top $100M on HTC Patent Dispute Alone In his biography, Steve Jobs was so infuriated by Android's similarities to the iPhone that he swore to spend all the money Apple had in the bank to defeat the platform. Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons passes along a rumor that Apple has spent $100 million in legal fees on just its first set of claims against HTC. Who knows if it’s true, but if so, Apple didn’t get a lot for its money.[...][Against HTC,] Apple started out with 10 patents — presumably its best ones — and ended u... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Roundup of Analyst Expectations Ahead of Apple's Q1 201... Jan 23 2012 20:02:40	MacRumors
Roundup of Analyst Expectations Ahead of Apple's Q1 2012 Earnings Call Philip Elmer-Dewitt has assembled his list of analyst expectations ahead of Apple's quarterly earnings report Tuesday afternoon. The list includes estimates from 17 "independent" analysts and 34 "affiliated" analysts who work for large investment houses or research organizations. As usual, the independent analysts are much more bullish than the affiliated analysts. The independent consensus expects earnings per share (EPS) of $12.01 on revenue of $43.14 billion. The institutional con... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's First Dutch Retail Store to Open in Amsterdam o... Jan 23 2012 19:27:08	MacRumors
Apple's First Dutch Retail Store to Open in Amsterdam on February 18? We've been following the development of Apple's first Dutch retail store for some time now, as issues over historic preservation have slowed the timetable for construction at the landmark Hirsch building in Amsterdam. But things now appear to be coming together as iPhoneclub.nl [Google translation] and One More Thing [Google translation] offer a number of details on plans for the store, which seems to be headed for a February 18 opening. According to reports, much of the store staff is cur... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Sony Introduces Next-Generation Image Sensor to Advance... Jan 23 2012 17:19:31	MacRumors
Sony Introduces Next-Generation Image Sensor to Advance Mobile Device Cameras Sony today announced (via Macworld UK) the launch of new image sensor technology that the company expects will help improve performance and shrink the size of cameras on mobile devices by later this year. The new back-illuminated complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor utilizes a pixel section layered directly onto the sensor's circuitry, significantly reducing the sensor size from the previous design that utilized pixel and circuit sections side-by-side on a substrate l... Read the full article on MacRumors »
U.S. Tablet Ownership Nearly Doubles over Holiday Season Jan 23 2012 15:38:25	MacRumors
U.S. Tablet Ownership Nearly Doubles over Holiday Season According to new survey data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (via VentureBeat), the share of U.S. adults owning a tablet device nearly doubled during the most recent holiday season, moving from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January. While the introduction of Amazon's Kindle Fire certainly played a significant role in the tablet growth, the news still bodes well for Apple's iPad performance during the quarter.These findings are striking because they come after a period ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Early iBooks Textbooks Downloads Estimated at 350,000 Jan 23 2012 14:27:58	MacRumors
Early iBooks Textbooks Downloads Estimated at 350,000 AllThingsD reports on a new research note from Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry claiming that customers downloaded approximately 350,000 iBooks Textbooks from the iBookstore over the first three days of availability. That performance was accompanied by over 90,000 downloads of Apple's iBooks Author app from the Mac App Store.If those numbers are accurate, Apple’s textbook effort would seem to be off to a good start. Which is good news for everyone involved — particularly textb... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Multi-Touch Page Flipping eBook Concept Shown on an iPad Jan 23 2012 07:52:27	MacRumors
Multi-Touch Page Flipping eBook Concept Shown on an iPad The KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence has posted this video demonstrating their patented eBook interface prototype. The prototype is implemented on an Apple iPad but reportedly uses private Apple APIs, according to the video description. The use of private APIs would prevent the app from being approved for the App Store, but the video shows a number of novel ways to navigate eBooks besides the simple "page flip" motion found on Apple's iBooks app. The new gestures ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Expected to Adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit Wi-Fi This ... Jan 23 2012 07:36:15	MacRumors
Apple Expected to Adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit Wi-Fi This Year AppleInsider claims that Apple is planning on incorporating support for the new faster 802.11ac Wi-Fi specification into products this year.The new 802.11ac standard achieves much faster wireless networking speeds than the existing 802.11n specification (in use on the latest Mac, AirPort and iOS devices) by using 2 to 4 times the frequency bandwidth (from 80 to 160MHz), more efficient data transfers through sophisticated modulation, and more antennas (up to 8; existing standards support up to 4,... Read the full article on MacRumors »
McGraw-Hill CEO Credits Steve Jobs' Digital Textbook Vi... Jan 20 2012 20:01:52	MacRumors
McGraw-Hill CEO Credits Steve Jobs' Digital Textbook Vision Amid Evidence of Pre-iPad Interest AllThingsD share some thoughts from McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw, who during a Q&A session following yesterday's iBooks Textbooks media event described how the development was part of Steve Jobs' vision for what textbooks should be like.Sitting and listening to all of this, I wish Steve Jobs was here. I was with him in June this past year, and we were talking about some of the benchmarks, and some of the things that we were trying to do together. He should be here. He probably is [gesturing up a... Read the full article on MacRumors »
'Absinthe A5' Brings First Untethered Jailbreak for iPh... Jan 20 2012 17:20:25	MacRumors
'Absinthe A5' Brings First Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Noted iOS jailbreak author pod2g has teamed up with the Chronic Dev Team to release "Absinthe A5", an enhancement to the popular Greenpois0n jailbreaking tool which adds the ability to perform an untethered jailbreak of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 for the first time.A related effort from the iPhone Dev Team will include a command-line tool for more control over the jailbreaking process and to assist with diagnosis and repair. Absinthe is currently available only for Mac OS X, although versions... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Publisher Touts 20-Point Boost in Student Performance w... Jan 20 2012 16:38:20	MacRumors
Publisher Touts 20-Point Boost in Student Performance with Textbooks for iPad With Apple announcing its iBooks Textbooks initiative yesterday, the company has been pushing its view that the iPad can help revolutionize education by keeping students engaged with unprecedented levels of interactivity. In an attempt to assess the effect of iPad textbooks on student performance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) performed a year-long pilot program using an iPad version of the company's Algebra 1 textbook for middle school students. The study, conducted at Amelia Earhart Mi... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Retail Stores Coming to India? Jan 20 2012 14:50:00	MacRumors
Apple Retail Stores Coming to India? Indian business newspaper Mint reports (via iPhone Hacks) that Apple may be preparing to open retail stores in India, dramatically increasing the company's presence in the country.Apple Inc. may open its own shops following the Indian government allowing full ownership of single-brand retail stores by foreign companies, according to a senior official of the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP).The maker of the iPad and iPhone has been in discussion with the department for som... Read the full article on MacRumors »
A Closer Look at iBooks Author, Textbooks and Exclusivity Jan 20 2012 04:45:41	MacRumors
A Closer Look at iBooks Author, Textbooks and Exclusivity Earlier today we published a story about iBook Author's exclusivity clause which generated some confusion. To clarify, Apple is not claiming exclusive sales rights to the content of published textbooks but to the specific output format (iBooks) generated by their iBooks Author tool. Today, Apple released an easy to use tool called iBooks Author which allows anyone (publishers and users) to create interactive iBooks with text, video, images and more. As Apple mentioned during their media... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Posts Video of iBooks and iTunes U Media Event Jan 19 2012 19:26:28	MacRumors
Apple Posts Video of iBooks and iTunes U Media Event Following today's media event that saw the introduction of iBooks 2 with new iPad digital textbooks alongside expanded iTunes U functionality, Apple has now posted video of the event to its site. The video is also available as a podcast video download in HD and standard formats. Among today's announcements:- Apple Launches iBooks 2 with Interactive Textbooks - 'iBooks Author' eBook Authoring App for Mac Now Available - iTunes U for iPad Retools the Learning ExperienceOur additional c... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iBooks Textbook Sales: Authors Set Pricing Up to $14.99... Jan 19 2012 18:00:15	MacRumors
iBooks Textbook Sales: Authors Set Pricing Up to $14.99, Apple Takes 30%, iBooks-Exclusive Engadget highlights the economics of publishing iBooks Textbooks to the iBookstore, noting that paid downloads follow Apple's traditional App Store and iBookstore model where the company takes a 30% cut of the purchase price of each book. Authors are free to set their own pricing, although Apple has placed a maximum price tag of $14.99 on the textbooks. In addition, the report notes that Apple requires all iBooks Textbooks to be exclusive to the iBookstore. An iBooks Author FAQ notes ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Hands-On Video With Apple's Digital Textbooks Jan 19 2012 17:30:20	MacRumors
Hands-On Video With Apple's Digital Textbooks Engadget has posted a hands-on video of the iPad's interactive digital textbooks in the press demo section of Apple's education-focused media event today, and they were impressed: Interacting with the books is a generally intuitive combination of tapping, swiping and pinching. You can pinch from any page to get out to the heading of that chapter, then drag along a bar on the bottom to quickly go from one chapter to the next. When you're looking at any page, you can get a closer view of any of t... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iTunes U for iPad Retools the Learning Experience Jan 19 2012 16:44:22	MacRumors
iTunes U for iPad Retools the Learning Experience In the second half of Apple's education-focused media event today, the company turned its attention to iTunes U, the company's free educational podcast section in the iTunes Store. Eddy Cue took the stage to announce that over 1,000 universities are currently using iTunes U, with the program's content having seen over 700 million downloads to date. The new iTunes U app advances iTunes U from audio and video lectures to a full-fledged learning app, allowing non-traditional students access to... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Launches iBooks 2 with Interactive Textbooks Jan 19 2012 16:14:26	MacRumors
Apple Launches iBooks 2 with Interactive Textbooks At its education-focused media event today, Apple introduced iBooks 2, an updated version of the company's e-book software for iOS devices. The update comes as part of a push into interactive digital textbooks in partnership with a number of major publishers. From the iBooks 2 description:Introducing iBooks 2 — now with iBooks textbooks. - Experience gorgeous Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPad - iBooks textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, and videos... Read the full article on MacRumors »
'iBooks Author' eBook Authoring App for Mac Now Available Jan 19 2012 16:09:45	MacRumors
'iBooks Author' eBook Authoring App for Mac Now Available Today, during their education press event, Apple announced the availability of the iBooks Author App that allows users to create interactive iBooks on their Mac.Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive ph... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Live Coverage of Apple's Education-Focused Media Event Jan 19 2012 14:43:49	MacRumors
Live Coverage of Apple's Education-Focused Media Event Apple today is holding its education-focused media event where it is widely expected to introduce a new push into digital textbooks. The event is scheduled to kick off at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City at 10:00 AM Eastern / 7:00 Pacific.Apple will not be providing live video coverage of the event to the public, but a number of news sites will be on hand to provide text and photo updates, and we're including links to several of them here. We will also be updating this article with cov... Read the full article on MacRumors »
AT&T Introduces New Smartphone Data Plans w/3GB and 5GB... Jan 18 2012 22:05:09	MacRumors
AT&T Introduces New Smartphone Data Plans w/3GB and 5GB Options AT&T today announced new smartphone data plans with larger data allocations, the first update to AT&T's plans since June of 2010. The plans kick in this Sunday, January 22. "Customers are using more data than ever before," said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "Our new plans are driven by this increasing demand in a highly competitive environment, and continue to deliver a great value to customers, especially as we continue our 4G LTE deployment."T... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's Textbook Project Code Named 'Bliss' and Inspire... Jan 18 2012 21:55:02	MacRumors
Apple's Textbook Project Code Named 'Bliss' and Inspired by Al Gore's 'Our Choice'? AppleInsider reports that it received a tip earlier this week claiming that Apple's digital textbook project rumored for unveiling tomorrow has been developed internally under the code name "Bliss". The source also indicated that the project was inspired by Apple board member Al Gore's Our Choice e-book app focused on global climate change. Al Gore's Our Choice app Some of the source's information, including details on Roger Rosner's role in the project, was corroborated yesterday by The ... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Macs Landing on Corporate Desks, Led by iPhones and iPads Jan 18 2012 19:39:28	MacRumors
Macs Landing on Corporate Desks, Led by iPhones and iPads In the past 5 years, Apple's push into the enterprise has been led by the iPhone and the iPad. Corporate IT departments, long dominated by the BlackBerry, are becoming more receptive to iOS products, especially when users are given the choice about which platform to use. In addition to iOS driving up Apple's sales -- accounting for some two-thirds of Apple's revenue in fact -- iOS's corporate success is driving enterprise adoption of the Mac. The Wall Street Journal writes of Apple's growing... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple's Textbook Initiative to Feature Strong K-12 Focu... Jan 18 2012 15:53:35	MacRumors
Apple's Textbook Initiative to Feature Strong K-12 Focus, Aid Publishers Large and Small Bits and pieces of Apple's announcement plans for its education-focused media event to be held tomorrow are continuing to flow in, and Bloomberg now weighs in with its sources indicating that the company's new publishing tools will have a strong focus on shaking up the kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) textbook market.At an event in New York tomorrow, Apple will announce a set of tools that make it easier to publish interactive textbooks and other digital educational content, said two peopl... Read the full article on MacRumors »
How Apple's Organizational Structure and Policies Contr... Jan 18 2012 15:32:13	MacRumors
How Apple's Organizational Structure and Policies Contribute to Company's Strict Secrecy Fortune publishes a lengthy excerpt from Adam Lashinsky's forthcoming book, Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired -- and Secretive -- Company Really Works, highlighting the company's famous secrecy and how its organizational structure and policies foster that security.Those readers interested in reading the book from cover to cover when it debuts next week may want to avoid the excerpt, but for others the piece is an interesting look into how Apple keeps its employees on a need-to-know ba... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iWork VP Roger Rosner Taking Charge of Apple's Digital ... Jan 18 2012 00:02:49	MacRumors
iWork VP Roger Rosner Taking Charge of Apple's Digital Textbook Initiative According to the Wall Street Journal, Roger Rosner is the executive in charge of Apple's digital textbook tools. According to his LinkedIn page, Rosner is a Vice President for Productivity Applications at Apple, and has been with the company since 2001, prior to which he was CEO of Bluefish Labs, a software development firm that Apple purchased.Prior to working on the textbook service, Rosner was in charge of Pages, Numbers and Keynote -- Apple's iWork suite of office applications. Jessica V... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Apple Ends $100 Printer Rebate Program for New Mac Purc... Jan 17 2012 21:29:21	MacRumors
Apple Ends $100 Printer Rebate Program for New Mac Purchases Since at least 2004, Apple has offered a rebate program that has typically offered users a $100 rebate when they purchase a new Mac and an eligible printer directly from Apple. The program was typically offered as a three-month program that was consistently renewed upon expiration, although in recent years the company shifted toward a perpetual program while reserving the right to discontinue it at any time. It now appears that Apple has discontinued the program entirely, as retail sou... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Robust Market for Used iPhones Benefits Users, Carriers... Jan 17 2012 20:05:50	MacRumors
Robust Market for Used iPhones Benefits Users, Carriers, and Apple AllThingsD reports on new research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) analyzing the impact of the secondary market for the iPhone, the portion of used iPhones that are resold or given away when users upgrade to the latest models. The survey looked at customers purchasing new iPhones beginning with the iPhone 4S launch last October, finding that 53% of those users had returned their old phones to the secondary market.Of those old phones being put back onto the secondary mark... Read the full article on MacRumors »
iPad 3 Media Event Planned for Early February? Jan 17 2012 17:11:53	MacRumors
iPad 3 Media Event Planned for Early February? Apple's education-focused media event isn't until Thursday, but Japanese blog Macotakara reports that Apple is already making plans for an early February event to introduce the iPad 3 ahead of an early March launch. The event is said to potentially also feature iOS 5.1, which is currently in developer testing.According to asian supplier and a source in United States, Apple seems to prepare to hold Special Event in early February.Because Chinese factory will be in holiday of New Year, then n... Read the full article on MacRumors »
Display Panel Shipment Plans Suggest Apple Will Offer i... Jan 17 2012 15:18:28	MacRumors
Display Panel Shipment Plans Suggest Apple Will Offer iPad 2 Alongside iPad 3 The question of whether Apple will continue to offer the existing iPad 2 as a lower-cost option alongside the forthcoming iPad 3 has been the subject of a fair amount of rumor and speculation, but if new display panel shipment plans provided to Digitimes are correct, it appears that the iPad 2 will indeed live on. According to the report, production of the "Retina" resolution iPad 3 display panels at 2048x1536 pixels will surpass that of the lower-resolution 1024x768 iPad 2 panels by the se... Read the full article on MacRumors »