Monday, November 4, 2013


 iPad Air is biggest selling iPad ever, 5X that of iPad 4 launch

This also means it's the biggest selling tablet ever to hit the stores

Treating the launch like an iPhone launch was a great idea

iPad Air Flies on First Weekend: Analysts
6 reasons it will be an "iPad Christmas"







Apple, MS et al sue Google, Samsung et al





Failed $4.4 billion bid for Nortel patents comes back to haunt 
Google and friends on Halloween

...Google has been proud of its own search engine patents, including the patent without which Google might not even exist today (the PageRank patent) or at least not be a monopolist. It now has to respect the work Nortel did in this area and which Google built on. It will have to pay up because Congress is not going to bail it out. The Rockstar Consortium is a co-plaintiff in all eight cases (Google and the OEM cases). Against Google, it is joined by its subsidiary NetStar Technologies, and by another subsidiary, MobileStar Technologies, against the device makers.






Chart of the day: Apple's hidden revenue stream


FORTUNE -- Until I read Daniel Eran Dilger's piece on Apple's deferred earnings Friday in AppleInsider I'd forgotten what a big deal these hidden earnings were just a few years ago.
Dilger explains with admirable clarity why Apple (AAPL) has been holding some revenue in reserve each quarter to account for such things as AppleCare, iTunes gift cards and free software.
"Apple's deferred revenues began rapidly building," he writes, "when the company initiated 'subscription accounting' in 2007 with the release of the original iPhone, a practice that set aside a portion of new income that the company did not officially, immediately recognize it in its earnings reports, even though the company had collected the money.
"Instead, Apple incrementally recognized a fraction of that deferred revenue each quarter over a two year period. The practice was designed to ensure that revenue wasn't counted ahead of delivering a full product, because in Apple's accounting, the iPhone wasn't finished until two years of software updates had been provided to the end user."




Which company would you rather own?





Apple Bears getting really desperate





The iPad mini is a Book; the iPad Air is a Magazine





Apple Just Bought 6 Companies in 4 Months





Probably why they hired Kevin Lynch and brought back the head of engineering, Bob Mansfield

When will iOS and OS X finally meet, or have they already?






Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top iOS engineering vice president leaves company after 23 years 





As our faith in the Cloud dims, Apple has doubled down with its Touch ID secure enclave





iPad Air: fastest iOS device ever





This is pretty incredible, the new iPad Air is the same thickness as the iPhone.

Holding it with one hand in the  Store while standing did get a little tiresome for my left wrist.

Review: Apple's fifth-generation iPad Air






75% of early iPad purchasers already own an iPad, early adopter upgrade cycle around 23 months





Apple iPhone 5c and 5s sell like hot cakes in India




iPad Air sells out in New York, Hong Kong, other parts of China





The secrets behind the new iPad air retina display revealed





Verkoop iPad Air Apple Store Amsterdam





Toronto Developer Teases Apple as Future Tenant


Toronto Developer Teases Apple as Future Tenant




Apple CEO Tim Cook backs Employment Nondiscrimination Act in WSJ opinion piece






The Macintosh TV was a cul de sac off the road to converged video

Released 20 years ago today, the $2,099 Macintosh TV sold only 10,000 units.





Don't Worry Be Happy Bobby McFerrin and Meher Baba

FAA Okays gadget use throughout flights





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