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Motorola asked Apple for a 2.25% royalty rate for each iPhone and iPad
As part of the ongoing legal battle between Motorola and Apple, the Wall St. Journal reported recently that Motorola asked Apple to pay 2.25% in royalties for each iPhone and iPad sold – an exorbitant royalty rate that would easily reach into the billions of dollars. What makes the request particularly sickening is that the [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4 and iPad 2 temporarily removed from sale in Germany
Friday, February 3, 2012
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The Verge reports: Apple has been forced to remove its 3G iPad 2, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4 devices from the online German Apple store today, following a dispute with Motorola Mobility … Update: It appears that Apple has successfully convinced a court in Germany to suspend enforcement of this injunction, according to AllThingsD. It’s unclear at [...]
Continue reading...Apple will announce the iPhone 5 at WWDC 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Relaying a report from Daiwa Securities in the Commercial Times, Digitimes reports that Apple will unveil its next-gen iPhone at WWDC 2012, scheduled for June 2012. The iPhone 5 will continue to utilize glass to glass (G/G) touch panel technology which will benefit current touch panel suppliers TPK Holding and Wintek, the paper quoted the [...]
Continue reading...Samsung sold slightly more smartphones in 2011 than Apple
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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Apple this past quarter shipped a whopping 37 million iPhones, setting a new quarterly record as iPhone sales grew 128% year over year. The achievement was enough for Apple to slightly edge out Samsung with respect to smartphone sales during the recent holiday quarter. A few days ago, Samsung reported shipping 36 million smartphones as [...]
Continue reading...iPhone sales in China poised to reach 60 million units a year – Analyst
Monday, January 30, 2012
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In the wake of Apple’s stellar earnings announcement last week, shares of APPL have skyrocketed into the $450 range. In doing so, Apple has surpassed Exxon as the most valuable company in the world. What’s scary, though, is that Apple still has plenty of room for grow. Apple’s share of the phone and PC market [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4s significantly more popular than iPhone 4 and 3GS
Monday, January 30, 2012
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Following the release of the iPhone 4S, Apple for the first time made one of its older iPhone models – the 3GS – available for free to consumers on contract. With many Android models available at cheap pricepoints, Apple was clearly trying prevent a price umbrella over competing products. Now it’s to be expected that [...]
Continue reading...New York Times publishes detailed look into the dangers associated with iPhone and iPad manufacturing abroad
Sunday, January 29, 2012
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The New York Times last week published an extensive piece highlighting the human costs associated with manufacturing Apple products, kicking things off with the retelling of an explosion in May 2010 at a Foxconn factory that killed two individuals and injured over a dozen more. Describing the working conditions abroad in China, the Times writes: [...]
Continue reading...AT&T activates 7.6 million iPhones, 80.8% of all smartphone activations
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Apple’s not the only company with record breaking iPhone news this week. AT&T earlier today reported their earnings for the December quarter and noted that they actiavted 7.6 million iPhone 4S devices during that period, a figure significantly higher than the 4.2 million iPhone activations Verizon reported recently. The 7.6 million iPhone activations represents an [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 with 4-inch screen set to begin production – Rumor
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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The Apple blogosphere is still aflutter with Apple’s outstanding earnings results from the December quarter, but a new iPhone rumor managed to sneak into the news stream today courtesy of Seth Weintraub. Citing a reliable source at Foxconn, Weintraub writes that iPhone 5 production is set to begin and that sample devices are already making [...]
Continue reading...Contextualizing Apple’s incredible iPhone sales figures
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Apple reported yet another blowout quarter this afternoon, thanks in large part to over 37 million in iPhone sales. The figure in and of itself is certainly impressive, but when you contextualize the figure while looking back at Apple’s annual iPhone sales since 2007, we can really see the extent to which Apple’s iPhone is [...]
Continue reading...iPhone sales top 37 million as Apple records record-breaking quarter
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Apple last quarter had a slight misstep when its earnings fell short of analyst expectations for the first time in years. Of course, the delayed release of the iPhone 4S had something to do with revenue coming in below expectations. But during last quarter’s earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook boldly predicted that December [...]
Continue reading...Verizon reports 4.3 million in iPhone sales during December quarter
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Verizon today released its earnings results from the December quarter and reported a loss of $2.02 billion, or $0.71 a share. During the same quarter a year-ago, the US-based carrier reported a loss of $2.64 billion. Apple wise, Verizon sold an impressive 4.3 million iPhone devices. All told, smartphone sales for the quarter came in [...]
Continue reading...PostSecret app for iOS removed due to user abuse
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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Postsecret is one of those websites worth checking in on regularly. In case you haven’t yet had the pleasure of perusing the site, Postsecret provides an avenue for people to anonymously express their inner most secrets and thoughts to the world via postcards that they send in via snail mail, which are subsequently scanned and [...]
Continue reading...The problem with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 sales strategy
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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I don’t want to needlessly bash on Microsoft here, but I simply don’t get all of the hoopla surrounding Windows Phone 7. Sure, it’s a huge upgrade from Windows Mobile, and sure, it offers a unique UI, but overall, it doesn’t grab me. Truthfully, I’m sort of perplexed at the heaps of praise that seem [...]
Continue reading...Analyst sees iPhone 5 with larger screen and 4G connectivity as huge growth driver for Apple in 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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According to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, Apple’s biggest growth driver in 2012 will be the iPhone 5, a product that doesn’t officially exist yet, but one that Wu claims will feature 4G LTE technology along with “a sleeker, thinner form factor, and a slightly larger screen.” Now 4G smartphones are already plentiful in the [...]
Continue reading...Don’t fret, Sprint doesn’t throttle iPhone users
Monday, January 9, 2012
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Coming to the iPhone party late, Sprint found itself unable to stop subscriber churn customers flocked to AT&T, and more recently, Verizon. Apple was subsequently able to leverage the popularity of the iPhone to extract some favorable terms from Sprint when the nation’s third largest carrier finally did agree to get into the iPhone game. [...]
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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