Thursday, November 15, 2012






This could be a reason AAPL is tanking this AM

Google buys 1,023 IBM Patents to Bolster Defense of Android




Is the iPad mini replacing PCs

Analyst: iPad mini 'less cannibalistic' than expected

A survey suggests that Windows PCs, not 10-inch iPads, will be its primary victim




Apple's Patently Profitable Portfolio

Apple's Patently Profitable Portfolio - Seeking Alpha




Is Siri really Apple's future?

"Obviously, no new platform as far-reaching as Siri comes without issues and risks. It also doesn't help that the two commercial online successes Apple has had, iTunes and App Store, were done in another era of technology and still contain vestiges of many operational shortcomings. More recent efforts such as MobileMe, Ping, Game Center, iCloud, iTunes Match, Passbook, etc., have been less than stellar. Regardless, Siri stands as a monumental opportunity both for Apple as a transactional money machine and for its users as a new paradigm of discovery and task completion more approachable than any we've seen to date. In the end, Siri is Apple's game to lose."





Apple to distribute another $2.5 billion to shareholders via Thursday dividend


"Over the next three years, Apple has stated that its buyback and dividend plans will distribute $45 billion from its cash pile, with quarterly dividends handing out $2.5 billion per quarter."




Two major holidays, Christmas, and Chinese new year

iPhone, iPad sales to surge over next two quarters, says analyst




Where's the Nexus hijackings?

Thieves grab 3,600 Apple iPad minis from JFK Airport





Sony ends 8 years of resistance, finally brings its music to Apple's iTunes in its native Japan





Bug in Apple's iOS 6.0 triggers multiple downloads of podcasts, audio streams, causing data overages





Google will soon be working for the man, the Korean man, that is.

Anyone know how much Google has spent on Android?  $20 Billion?

"Brilliant strategic move or the second coming of Microsoft Online Services? Time will tell. Cause Google sure won't."




So, Microsoft has done a 360 and is now following Apple's model of software/hardware integration.

Steve Ballmer hints Microsoft plans to build more hardware




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