Those $40 magnetic smart covers bought to protect the iPad 2 are worth a collective $300 million for Apple in just the latest three-month period, a Wall Street analyst announced Monday. Half of that is pure profit for the tech giant.
Okay, we’ve heard before that Apple should or is going to get into the incredibly fractious TV set business. But another voice now suggests the Cupertino, Calif. tech giant needs iTunes to ensure success. Apple’s $65 billion in cash could go a long way toward that goal.
An increasing’App-etite’ means more iOS downloads, higher prices for Apple’s App Store. Along the way, apps are being downloaded at triple the rate of song tracks, one analyst said Monday.
Apple is reportedly seeking a second iPad manufacturer to help meet demand of the device when the rumored ‘iPad 2 Plus’ is introduced later this year.
Apple has launched two new TV ads for the iPhone that could potentially be the last to feature the iPhone 4. Demonstrating FaceTime and AirPlay, the ads continue the “If you don’t have an iPhone…” campaign which started back in March.
In a striking sign of how the iPad dominates the tablet market, Android phone owners will likely bypass tablets powered by Google’s Honeycomb for Apple, one Wall Street analyst told investors Friday.
A staggering number of unlicensed Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables are to be recalled, after HDMI Org, the firm that licenses HDMI cables, said that the product should not be sold.
Has Apple priced itself out of a potential $2.5 billion mobile ad market? As top-name advertisers flee iAd, the Cupertino, Calif. company cutting prices up to 70 percent. Is iAd in free fall?
A new Apple patent reveals an interesting new method of exchanging information between your devices through “metaphorical gestures” that would, for example, allow you to “pour” your files into your iPad by tipping your iPhone over it.
Do you love creepy dolls, their heads spinning around on crackling neck cartilage like Linda Blair, surrounded by crawling disembodied limbs, covered in Satanic tattoos and riding some sort of monstrous pony with stilted nightmare legs? Then you’ll love Nokia’s new ad for the N8 Pink!
No ad could better exemplify why Nokia is on the decline. An Apple ad for the iPhone focuses on the features and the apps, the experience of actually using the phone. Meanwhile, Nokia’s paying stop-motion animators to bring to life their LSD fever dreams.
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The iPad is becoming the perfect evening companion. Usage of Apple’s tablet peaks between 8pm and bedtime, with the PC relegated to the bleary-eyed early morning and mid-morning, new research finds.
Speculation that claims Apple is set to launch two new iPhones this September doesn’t look like it’s going to die down anytime soon. The latest report, citing information from a previously reliable source, claims that in addition to an all-new iPhone 5 this September, there will also be a low-end device, possibly based on the iPod touch.
Earlier today, we reported that Apple is invisibly filtering certain outgoing messages sent through their MobileMe email service.
Apple has now responded to that story, and while they admit that there is some level of filtering going on with MobileMe’s email service in order to protect users from spam, they are not censoring emails based upon political content.
As an alternative to the iPhone 5 mock-up we posted last week, Mac Magazine put together this great concept of what the iPhone 5 could look like.
Apple is invisibly filtering outgoing messages sent with its popular MobileMe webmail app based upon their content, Cult of Mac can exclusively confirm.
That means that if Apple doesn’t like the way you’ve written an outgoing email, they might just opt not to send it, and never bother telling you why.
A photograph of an iPhone prototype running on China Mobile’s 3G TD-SCDMA network strengthen rumors that Apple is set to launch the device on the world’s largest carrier — possibly as early as September.
It’s a wonder iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users have time for anything but click on the App Store icon. Apple announced Thursday 15 billion apps have been downloaded in the three years the iTunes store has been open.
If you turn on a television, you can’t miss ads for the iPhone or iPad. The same is true for Europe, where advertisements for the Apple devices are plastered everywhere. Now comes word the iPhone and iPad are two of the most-advertised mobile devices in Europe.
A federal judge Wednesday rejected Apple’s immediate bid to stop online retailer Amazon from using the “App Store” name, reports say. The iPad and iPhone maker had failed to prove “a likelihood of confusion” if Amazon continued using the name, a judge ruled.
Just a day after the much-anticipated JailbreakMe 3.0 website went live and over 1,000,000 iOS devices took advantage of the web-based hack, Apple has confirmed it will kill the exploit in an upcoming software update.
Following its report yesterday that promises a thinner, lighter iPhone 5 by the end of this year, The Wall Street Journal now offers us some information on Apple’s 2012 iPhone, which it says will boast a whole “new way of charging.”
Amazon appears confident about its rumored tablet’s chances against the iPad. In fact, the Kindle maker has ordered several million 10-inch units for the entire 2011 year.
Add Sprint-Nextel to the growing list of U.S. carriers that will offer the iPhone. The carrier is likely to gain the Apple handset by Christmas and it could be a big-seller, one analyst tells investors Wednesday.
Just as Apple recovers from the overwhelming launch demand of its iPad 2, one analyst says the company is preparing to release a second device before year end, with a high-resolution display dubbed the “iPad 2 Plus.”
It’s now a two-way race for control of the U.S. smartphone market and long-time No. 2 player Research in Motion finds itself being lapped by Apple.