Apple designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its online services include iCloud, iTunes Store, and App Store. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. Apple is the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization.
Apple’s slowing iPad sales met Apple’s own expectations but nobody else’s apparently. Sure, slowing growth rates aren’t necessarily a good thing but there are several reasons to explain why iPad sales… Read more »
Two very different companies — Apple and Microsoft — posted financial results this week. Apple is clearly the iPhone company, selling 35.2 million iPhones in the quarter ending 28 June, a… Read more »
As the battle for the mobile enterprise heats up, Apple is well-positioned to attract the attention of developers who are finding it increasingly difficult to make money in consumer apps. Read more »
PlaceMe uses every sensor in the phone to track your activity. Now PlaceUs is doing the same except it’s tracking the combined activity of a family or small group of friends. Read more »
Apple announced its fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, which saw iPhone sales grow nearly 13 percent year-over-year. However, iPad sales saw a drop from the same quarter a year ago. Read more »
A new Apple patent, applied for in 2011 and approved on Tuedsay, includes several drawings and descriptions of an Apple smartwatch idea labeled “iTime.” Read more »
Patent trolling is alive and well deep in Texas where a judge just rejected Google’s request to invalidate old messaging patents under the Supreme Court’s new standards. Read more »
Apple is asking suppliers for a record first production of its new iPhone, says the WSJ. While last year’s initial production run of iPhone 5s and 5c phones was in the… Read more »
We’re now transitioning to a new economic model where the exploding scale of both mobile and cloud has shifted real value to the services that connect us. At the same time… Read more »