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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Could the MacBook Air offer a future for notebooks? That’s the belief of one Wall Street analyst who says notebooks could make a comeback with tablets coming out on the losing end.
If you were on the fence about whether or not to pay $199 for an iPhone 4 from Verizon Wireless with the iPhone 5 around the corner, will another $50 off get you to commit. A new rumor says that Verizon is planning on dropping the price of the iPhone 4 to $150.
Apple became the latest target of the infamous hacker group Anonymous over the holiday weekend as user data of visitors to a website were released on Twitter.
In a sign patents are playing an increasing role in protecting marketshare, Apple and a group of other companies paid an ‘unprecedented’ $4.5 billion to keep Nortel patents away from Google. How will the 6,000 patents be used? First stop, sue the pants of Android, experts predict.
It’s become a pattern for consumers – word of a new Apple device puts the brakes on purchases of the current version. Verizon Wireless is now seeing that as Apple fans hold off buying the iPhone 4 to wait for the iPhone 5.
Should tablets be classified alongside notebooks as Mobile PCs? HP has its fingers crossed and hopes no as the rising popularity of the iPad could see a new mobile PC king crowned in 2012.
Apps, those tiny games and other bits of code on your iPhone or iPad, are adding up to serious money. After doubling to $14.1 billion this year, revenue from apps will generate more than $36.7 billion by 2015. But can web apps cash-in on this goldmine?
Apple — not Android — has the momentum in the United States, a new study finds, and their powerhouse move was the Verizon iPhone, which flattened domestic Android growth.
Sync versus streaming. Essentially, that is the difference between how Apple, Amazon and Google view the cloud. However, a closer looks finds iCloud could pay off big for the Cupertino, Calif. company looking to cash-in on the falling price of flash memory.
Are iPad component makers too busy fulfilling Apple orders to build any competitors? That’s appears to be the case for Amazon, where at least one parts maker may already be too busy churning out iPad displays to build a tablet version of the Kindle.
We start out with two hardware deals and an offer to protect your MacBook Air. First up is a number of Mac mini desktops, beginning with a 2.4 GHz unit for just $599. Next is several MacBook Pros, starting at $899 for a 2.4GHz unit with a 13.3-inch screen. Finally, there is a MacBook Air sleeve from Belkin for just $13.
Along the way, we also check out a Bluetooth keyboard case for your iPhone 4, a micro SIM card for your iPad or iPhone and “Brush Pilot 2” for the Mac. As always, details on these items and many more can be found at CoM’s “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.
Will the venerable white MacBook become a victim come Apple’s Mac OS X ‘Lion’ upgrade? Experts are calling ‘unusual’ constrained availability of the $999 MacBook in both the U.S., Europe and online, and with the $999 MacBook Air Apple’s new entry-level bread winner, some wonder if Apple will kill off the plastic MacBook line once and for all.
As we prepare to welcome iOS 5 to our devices, a look back finds iOS 4 is used by nearly all iPhones just a year after its release. Unveiled a year ago for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G, iOS 4 is on 95.59 percent of Apple handsets, an advertising firm announced Wednesday.
Will Apple offer two handsets later this year, the iPhone 5 and an unknown option? So far, the answer to the question is yes, no, and both — and its only Wednesday.
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Contrary to yesterday’s rumors, a new analyst report suggests that the iPhone 3GS will remain the low-end iPhone even after the iPhone 5 drops in September… making it the first iPhone to spend over three years on the market.
