Tue, 30 April 2013
KGI Analyst Predicts Lower Price for iPad mini “Allegedly Authentic” iPhone 5S Leak Helps Boost Apple Shares Apple Back to Being the Most Valuable Publicly Traded Company (for Now) KGI Analyst Expects Refreshed MacBook Air Sans Retina Display at or Around WWDC Bernstein Analyst Reiterates $600 Price Target and Outperform Rating on Apple Shares Despite iPhone Market Share Shrinkage ISI Analyst and Donald Trump Call for Larger Screen for iPhone SFPD Sting Poses Cops as iPhone Fences to Try to Deter iTheft Google Now Lands on iOS as Part of App Update for Google Search Updates to Square Register Make it More Restaurant Friendly Apple Wins Case Against Patent Troll Golden Bridge Technology Coffee with Cook Still Stands at $600,000 |
Mon, 29 April 2013
Yankee Group: iPhone Will Win Over Android-Powered Smartphones in U.S. Beginning in 2016 IDC: As Worldwide Smartphone Pie Gets Bigger, iPhone Slice Gets Smaller Bloomberg: One-Year-Old iPhone Deal Starts Bearing Fruit for China Telecom Apple Adds “Learn More About In-App Purchases” Section to App Store Apple Not Changing Behavior of VPN on Demand on Previously Shipped iOS 6.1 Devices Apple Contesting November 2012 VirnetX Verdict KGI Securities Analyst Expects MacBook Pros with Intel Haswell Processors at or Near WWDC Apple Promises “Week-of” WWDC Videos for Registered Apple Developers Not in Attendance Apple Announces the Return of Developer-Focused Tech Talks for Fall of 2013 Apple Submits Minor Revisions to Spaceship Campus Plans to City of Cupertino Apple Sends Out Mailer Updating Neighbors on Spaceship Campus Plans HP Begins Sales of Android-Based Slate 7 for $169.99 Coffee with Cook Bid Up to $600,000 (for Charity) |
Fri, 26 April 2013
WWDC 2013 Tickets: Gone in 90 Seconds Apple Offers a Number of Developers a Second Chance at WWDC 2013 Tickets WWDC Alternative - AltWWDC - to Run at Same Time as WWDC in San Francisco iPad Takes Top Spot in Latest JD Power Customer Satisfaction Survey for Tablets Sprint Sells 1.5-Million iPhones in 1Q CY2013 AT&T Activates 4.8-Million iPhones in 1Q CY2013; iPhone Accounts for 80-Percent of Smartphones Sold in 1Q Apple Store Berlin to Open on Friday 3 May Apple Ordered to Pay $118,000 to Three Chinese Authors for Copyright Infringement Get your free audio book at http://audiblepodcast.com/macosken |
Thu, 25 April 2013
Apple Announces Dates for WWDC - June 10-14 at Moscone West in SF; Tickets Go On Sale Thursday 25 April at 10AM PDT Apple Offers 150 Student Scholarships for WWDC (But You Have to Build an App to Qualify) 9 to 5 Mac: WWDC Will Likely Mark 230-Days Between Apple Keynotes Apple R&D Spending Up 33-Percent So Far in FY2013 Apple Opens “A Decade of iTunes” Section on Store to Celebrate Its First Ten Years NPD Group: iTunes Leader By Far in Online Video Sales and Rental Downloads Analysts Lower Targets But Remain Positive in Wake of Apple 2Q FY2013 Earnings Call Coffee with Cook: Current Bid for Charity Stands at $175,000 Get your free audio book at http://audiblepodcast.com/macosken |
Wed, 24 April 2013
Apple Reports 2QFY2013 Results; Sees Record Revenue, iPhone and iPad Sales Apple More Than Doubles Capital Return Program; Dividend Increased and Share Buybacks Significantly Increased Get your free audio book at http://audiblepodcast.com/macosken |
Tue, 23 April 2013
WSJ: Hey! Maybe Apple is a Software-Hardware Hybrid! Fortune: The Case Against the Cases Against Tim Cook Apple Earnings Call Set for Tuesday 23 April at 2PM PDT/5PM EDT Rumor: Citi Analyst Says Next iPhone “Delayed” to August or September Due to Production Issues Rumor: The Register Says Apple Has Returned Between 5-Million and 8-Million iPhones to Foxconn as Unfit to Sell Cricket Lowers iPhone Service Prices in Wake of T-Mobile USA iPhone Launch 9 to 5 Mac: $15 Checks in AntennaGate Case Are in the Mail USITC Rules in Favor of Apple in Last Complaint Brought by Motorola Apple Pledges $8 Million to Earthquake Relief in Wake of Saturday Earthquake in China Apple Sponsoring Lennon Educational Tour Bus (Still) Flashback: Lennon Educational Tour Bus Rolls Into Macworld 2005 Get your free audio book at http://audiblepodcast.com/macosken |
Mon, 22 April 2013
Raymond James Analyst: Investors Need to Stop Worrying Over Carriers and High-End Smartphone Subsidies Prepaid MVNO TracFone Adds 839,000 Customers in Same Quarter it Adds iPhone 5 Barclays Analyst Lowers Apple Target from $535 to $465 Apple Earnings Call Set for Tuesday 23 April at 2PM PDT/5PM EDT Penguin Offers Settlement to End Apple eBook Price-Fixing Charges in the European Union YouGov Says iPad Share of Tablet Market in UK Falls to 63-Percent RadioShack Starts Selling a Range of Apple Accessories Apple Says It Holds Anonymized Siri Requests for Two-Years Get your free audio book at http://audiblepodcast.com/macosken |
Fri, 19 April 2013
Verizon: Smartphone Sales Grow Year-Over-Year as Do Sales of iPhones in 1Q 2013 Fortune Calls Out Sister Site - CNNMoney - for Misleading Headline on Verizon iPhone Numbers Chitika: iPad Reclaims Web Traffic Share in US and Canada; Up to 81.9-Percent in March Microsoft Exec Indicates Small, Windows-Based Touch Devices Coming Soon Apple Scaling Back One-to-One Terms of Service Report: Brazen Pirate iOS App Store Out of China May Make International Move Jony Ive Makes Time List of 100 Most Influential People 2013 List |
Thu, 18 April 2013
Apple Dips Briefly Below $400 on Apparent Bad News from Supplier Supply Chain Issue Could Actually Hint at New Apple Hotness BMO Capital Analyst Cuts Apple Target Because It Cannot Make 70-Percent of the Handset Industry Profits Forever Asymco: Apple Taking 45-Percent of PC Industry Profits Apple Extends Polycarbonate MacBook Bottom Case Coverage by Two-Years Report: Amazon Said to Have Purchased Siri Counterpart Evi Apple Makes New OS X 10.8.4 beta Available to Developers Apple App Store Cited in Chinese Media as a Purveyor of Porn Scaffolding Coming Down Outside of Apple Store in Berlin iSteve Is Up on Funny or Die |
Wed, 17 April 2013
Munster Sees $300 Contract-Free iPhone Coming This Fall (and It Could Wreck the iPhone Party) WSJ Says Microsoft Eyeing Parts for a Smartwatch Communications Expert Says Apple Silence Is Currently Hindering the Company Symantec: Android Saw Most Malware in 2012, Though iOS Had Largest Number of Vulnerabilities Weird Suit Sees Apple Sued for Patent Violation NPD: iTunes Still Rules U.S. Digital Music Sales; Less Than 40-Percent of Consumers Think Owning Music is Important Apple Store on Boylston in Boston Closed in Wake of Monday Bombings Apple Puts Mothers Day Promotion Front and Center in US Online Store Apple Updates iPhoto and Aperture with New Photo Stream Functions and Bug Fixes Apple Releases Minor Xcode Update Apple Steps Up Hiring for Oregon Datacenter Time Warner Cable to Start Streaming Channels and VOD Through iOS App Outside of the Home Beginning Today Facebook Talking About Bringing Home to iOS (or - You Know - Not - Whatever) |
Tue, 16 April 2013
WSJ: Source Says Foxconn Hiring as Production of Next iPhone Nears Apple Reportedly Replacing Some Third-Gen Apple TVs with Wifi Issues NPD: AirPlay Most Used Screen Mirroring Solution (Though Almost No One Is Using It) Scam in China Raises Questions Around Leniency of Apple Return Policy and Rising Quality of iFakes Bloomberg/Businessweek: Apple Employs Four of the Top Five U.S. Executives in Terms of Pay Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting Goes to New York Times for Apple Critical Series MacDailyNews Is Less Than Impressed with Pulitzer Decision |
Mon, 15 April 2013
Gartner and IDC Wildly Split on Mac Sales Estimates for 1Q CY2013 Bernstein Analyst Thinks PCs Slowing But Not Dying; Expects Decen Mac Sales Growth for 1Q CY2013 IHS iSuppli: Netbook Shipments to Hit Zero by 2015 RBC Capital Analyst Lowers Apple Target to $550 on Near-Term iPhone and iPad Weakness Morgan Stanley Analyst Lowers Apple Target to $600 on Near-Term iPhone Weakness Smartphone Trade-In Program Triples iPhone Sales in India T-Mobile USA: First Day of iPhone Sales Was Gangbusters Apple Opens Chinese Language Support Community Forums; Urges Developers to Localize Apps Internationally Shaw Wu Is Into the Idea of Deeper Yahoo Integration in iOS Apple Prepared to Settle Early iPhone and iPod touch Complaints Related to Moisture Sensors UK Office of Fair Trading Investigating In-App Purchases Aimed at Kids Apple Forced By Australian Court to Finish Construction on a Store It Does Not Plan to Use Former Apple Execs Leave JCPenney in Wake of Ron Johnson Departure |
Fri, 12 April 2013
Clayton Morris joins us to talk the state of smartphones today on this special edition of Mac OS Ken |
Thu, 11 April 2013
The Telegraph Ties Apparent Foxconn Shortfall on Alleged Lackluster Sales of Apple Gear IDC: First-Quarter PC Drop Worst in 19-Years of Tracking Wells Fargo Analyst Thinks Disappointing iPhone Sales May Be Backed Into Apple Share Price T-Mobile Tries to Entice Customers of Other Carriers with iPhone Trade-In Offer Korea Times: Secret Sources Say TSMC - Not Samsung - to Produce Apple A7 Processor Apple Licenses Undisclosed Technology That Once Belonged to Palm for Insignificant Amount of Money by Apple Standards Report: Apple Taps SpaceDonut Campus Designer Foster + Partners to Design New Retail Stores Tim Cook #1 on Out Magazine’s Power List for Third Year Running |
Wed, 10 April 2013
WSJ: Secret Source Says Apple and Yahoo in Early Talks Over Deepening Yahoo Integration in iOS Apple Releases Second beta of OS X 10.8.4 to Developers Code Monkeys Find References to 802.11ac Gigabit Wifi in Latest 10.8.4 beta Fortune Dubs Brian White The Marco Polo of Apple Analysts Apple on Top in Latest Piper Jaffray Teen Survey Credit Suisse Analyst Likes iPad Strength; Anticipates New iPhone 27-inch iMacs Land on Apple Refurbished Store (But May Not Represent Huge Savings) iMessage and FaceTime Experience Five Hours of Trouble on Tuesday |
Tue, 9 April 2013
Canalys: Google Play Accounts for 51% of Apps Downloaded in 1Q; Apple App Store Accounts for 74% of App Revenue App Store Wrongly Identifies Some Apps as Offering In-App Purchases Raymond James Survey: iOS Stickier Than Any Other OS/Device Combo USPTO Conditionally Changes Stance; Grants Apple Request for iPad mini Trademark MacDaily News Source Says Mac Pro Announcement Planned for This Month Apple to Change iOS VPN Handling to Comply to Court Loss to VirnetX Apple Apparently Looking to Strengthen AuthenTec Staff with Jobs Ad for Melbourne, FL Design Center Former Apple Retail Exec Ron Johnson Out as CEO of JCPenney |
Mon, 8 April 2013
T-Mobile Starts Pre-Orders for Its iPhone 5; Plans Deliveries for Friday 12 April Apple Revamps Online Store to Make it More Touchy-Feely-iOS Friendly MTel Sues Apple for Alleged Patent Infringement Tied to All But Audio Communication on iThings and Macs Plaintiffs in Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Case Denied Class-Action Status (for Now) Support for Office for Mac 2008 Ends This Week Apple Makes Age Ratings More Prominent on App Store on iOS Devices |
Fri, 5 April 2013
comScore: iPhone Widens Smartphone Lead in the States; iOS Narrows Gap Between it and Android France Telecom CEO Says Next iPhone May Be Too Pricey for European Consumers DEA Says iMessage Encryption Too Strong for Eavesdropping Apple Pulls Classic Bookstore App From App Store in China for Selling Content Banned by Chinese Government Cost of Apple Spaceship Campus Rumored to Approach $5 Billion Samsung Putting 1400 Experience Shops in Best Buy US Locations by This Summer |
Thu, 4 April 2013
Brian White Predicts iTV with Smaller iTVs and One Ring to Rule it All ISI Group Analyst: Apple Has to Release a 5-Inch or Greater iPhone! It Has to! And Woe Be Upon Apple If It Does Not! Fortune: iOS Still Tops in Mobile Web Traffic Best Buy Discounts 3rd-Gen iPad While Walmart Discounts 16GB Wifi iPad mini MacMall Discounts 4th-Gen iPad and Some iPad minis Taiwan FTC Investigating Apple Over Pricing of iPhones Sold By Taiwanese Carriers Lodsys is Back with In-App Purchase Suit Against Disney |
Wed, 3 April 2013
Reuters: Apple Apology More Than Appeases Chinese Media Goldman Sachs Removes Apple From Conviction List But Maintains a Buy Rating Wall Street Journal: Secret Sources Say Production of Next iPhone to Start This Quarter; Low-Cost iPhone Could Hit by Second Half of 2013 Gruber and Ritchie Say Work on iOS 7 Underway But Running Behind Apple Initiates Significant Price Cuts on iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S in Brazil Topeka Capital Markets Analyst Sees Signs of iWatch This Year on Far East Trip USPTO Invalidates Rubber Banding Patent Apple Attorney Says Rubber Banding Patent Claim Far from Snapped Apple Claims 80,000 New Jobs Tied to iOS Apps Over Last 12-Months Maker of Hearing Aid HearPod Sues Apple Over Use of Name EarPods |
Tue, 2 April 2013
Tim Cook Apologizes to China for Perceived Arrogance; Makes Changes to Reseller and Warranty Policies |
Mon, 1 April 2013
Samsung Says Apple Could Win Bigger Damages in Trial Do-Over |