Spotlight on Apple notebooks: 1989 to 2008 (3)
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On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Apple will unveil the latest addition to a long line of portable computers that dates back nearly 20 years — to the ungainly, 15.8-pound “Macintosh Portable” that PC World named the 17th worst technology product of all time. (link) Apple’s notebook offerings have come a long way since 1989. They now outsell Apple desktop machines by nearly 65%. In Q3, they accounted for 29% of Apple’s (AAPL) total revenue. (See All ...
Survey: 8% of U.S. teens own an iPhone; 22% want one (2)
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Today’s economic crisis doesn’t seem to have reached the 769 high school students polled in Piper Jaffray’s 16th bi-annual survey of teenage buying patterns and preferences. The survey, conducted at several apparently well-heeled high schools in the United States over the past few weeks — while the global financial markets were melting down — focused on MP3 players, online music and Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone. The results, released late Tuesday, may say more about the demographics ...
Has Steve Jobs built a secret MacBook factory? (3)
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”I’m as proud of the factory as I am of the computer,” Steve Jobs told Fortune 18 years ago, describing the 40,000-square-foot plant he had constructed in Fremont, Calif., to manufacture circuit boards for his ill-fated NeXT, the $10,000 workstation into which Jobs poured his heart and soul after he was forced out of Apple (AAPL) in 1985. The factory, as Jobs described it, had everything: robots, lasers, tolerances within one 10,000th of an inch, ...
Steve Jobs rumor: What can the SEC do? (1)
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Should investors take comfort in the news that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating “Johntw,” the as-yet unidentified rumor mongerer who briefly drove Apple (AAPL) down nearly 10% Friday before Apple PR finally broke its silence and let it be known that Steve Jobs had not, in fact, suffered a heart attack? (link) Not necessarily. As anybody who follows the company knows, rumors about Apple — negative and positive — are as common as ...
Stop the presses: Apple waved an olive branch (3)
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If you ever wanted a demonstration of Apple’s out-sized power over the Internet chattering classes, you need look no further than the front page of Techmeme, the premier site for catching up on the hottest tech news of the day. On Wednesday morning, Apple (AAPL) announced on its developers Web site that it was dropping the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that prevented iPhone programmers from talking about their applications. By midafternoon, the announcement was the subject ...
Mac ‘market share’ hits record 8.28% (1)
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The presence on the Internet of both the Mac and the iPhone grew smartly this summer, registering record numbers for each operating system in the Net Applications survey issued overnight Wednesday. The Mac’s share of Web hits grew 5.34% to a record 8.28% last month, according to the Web metrics firm’s September survey. The iPhone’s share, having surged 57% — from 0.19% to 0.30% — in August (see here), grew another 6.67% to hit 0.32% ...
Rumor: An iPhone for Verizon in 2009 (1)
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Chalk this one up to wishful thinking. A leading Apple blog posted a rumor Sunday that the iPhone — which is currently available in the United States only through AT&T Wireless — could be coming to Verizon, perhaps as early as January 2009. Cleve Nettles, writing in 9 to 5 Mac, says “negotiations between Apple and Verizon are ongoing but they expect to hammer out agreements by the end of the year.” According to a ...
Thumbs up for iPhone 2.1 fixes (11)
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Steve Jobs waited until the end of his keynote address on Tuesday to announce the news that iPhone owners had been waiting for: a software update with fixes for the device’s many bugs. “It’s a big update,” he promised as he ticked off the benefits of iPhone 2.1: fewer dropped calls, improved battery life, dramatically faster back-ups, new performance enhancements and - he added three times for good measure - “it fixes a lot of ...
Tuning in to Apple TV 3.0 (38)
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Does Steve Jobs have a surprise in store for the analysts and reporters gathering in San Francisco for Let’s Rock — the dog-and-pony show Tuesday at which Apple (AAPL) is widely expected to unveil the next generation of iPods? Peter S. Magnusson hopes he does — and what he’s wishing for is a new Apple TV. The Swedish-born entrepreneur (and founder of Virtutech) points out in a thoughtful post that the upcoming holiday buying season ...
Can Steve Jobs save the iPod? (31)
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One of the unintended consequences of the success of the iPhone is that it has rendered the classic iPod and its diminutive sisters — the nano and the shuffle — nearly irrelevant. What do you need a second MP3 player for if you’ve already got a few hundred tunes in your pocket? Apple (AAPL) was able to goose sales for a while last spring by sharply cutting prices on the iPod shuffle, but the tide ...
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From looking at the graph, there is a clear trend that tells me that, even after the initial launch of the iPhone, sales are strong and Holiday's are becoming better and better. If the price is right, people will still buy an iPod.
iPhone talks in China in ‘final stages,’ state media reports (2)
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Things seem to be heating up again for the iPhone in China, according to several press accounts early Tuesday. The most promising was an item in 21st Century Business Herald, a Chinese state-controlled financial paper, which described talks between Apple (AAPL) and China Mobile (CHL), the world’s largest cellphone carrier, as in their “final stages,” according to AFP. Meanwhile, both Reuters and Network World carried remarks made by China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou on Tuesday ...
Apple iPhone: 8 million and counting (4)
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On Saturday, Aug. 30, the daughters of “BillH” bought an iPhone at an AT&T store in Sunnyvale, Calif. The next day, their father, an Apple investor from Minneapolis, reported on The Mac Observer’s Apple Finance Board (AFB) that the so-called IMEI number on the phone was 01 171400 6049xx x (the last three digits X’d out for safety sake). That number may not mean anything to you or me, but to a group of Apple ...
Best Buy to sell iPhones starting Sept. 7 (1)
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In a move that will significantly expand its retail presence in time for the holiday season, Apple has agreed to let retailing giant Best Buy sell the new iPhone 3G through its nationwide chain of Best Buy Mobile outlets starting early next month. Best Buy markets cell phones in the United States through 970 full-size stores and 16 stand-alone Best Buy Mobile shops. All U.S. Best Buy stores will carry the iPhone except for a ...
iPhone: Trouble in the App Store (13)
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It’s been a confusing week for both sellers and buyers at the App Store — the venue for third party software that is the best thing to happen to the iPhone (except maybe the price cuts) since it arrived more than a year ago. The iPhone 3G is OK, if you manage battery consumption very carefully. And Mobile Me is slowly getting up to speed (see here). But the App Store — with 1,574 programs ...
iPhone nano: A rumor before its time (8)
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Is Steve Jobs preparing to launch a smaller, cheaper version of the iPhone in time for Christmas? That’s the rumor — based on a brief item in London’s Daily Mail — that had Apple watchers buzzing over the weekend. “Report: iPhone nano to ring in the holidays” read the headline on Crave, CNet’s gadget blog. “iPhone Nano Rumor Brings Hope Alive,” wrote iPhone Savior. “Holy rumor, Batman,” shouted Crunch Gear, “iPhone nano to be released ...
Steve Jobs’ health: What’s going on (1)
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Steve Jobs’ health is in the news — again. Apple isn’t talking — again. And investors are freaking out — again. So now’s probably a good time to remind ourselves what we know, and don’t know, about the health of Apple’s CEO. In 2003 Jobs learned that he had a malignant tumor in his pancreas — a large gland behind the stomach that supplies the body with insulin and digestive enzymes. The most common type ...
Jobs tells Times: No cancer (7)
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Apple’s CEO on Saturday made an important disclosure in The New York Times business section, saying that he is not suffering a recurrence of cancer. Perhaps not surprisingly, Steve Jobs did so in a fashion few other corporate chiefs would employ. In his weekly “Talking Business” column, Joe Nocera, a veteran reporter and former Fortune editor, revealed at the end of a 1,700-word piece about the secrecy surrounding Jobs’ health problems that on Thursday afternoon, ...
iPhones (briefly) available at 80% of Apple stores (1)
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After suffering severe product shortages — and frustrating untold numbers of would-be buyers — Apple by fits and starts seems to be getting its iPhone 3G supplies in order. Thanks to a pair of free tools that have emerged to take advantage of Apple’s raw data feed of store-by-store availability, we’re getting a much better picture of the company’s supply and distribution problems than is afforded by the availability widget on Apple’s website. The first ...
