Friday, May 23, 2014



Apple Shares hit a new 52-week intra-day high on Thursday.

Big investors still haven't joined in, some are still shorting AAPL

Smart money bet against Apple just before it hit a 12-month high







Jonny Evans reading the WWDC tea leaves

Apple has big plans for WWDC 2014


There's plenty of evidence to support this:

  • The two-hour keynote
  • The date: Keynote, June 2; 7-1 stock split, June 9.
  • Apple hasn't yet announced the content of dozens and dozens of WWDC sessions. The company is being blatant about this, giving these sessions names like, "No comment", "This one is sealed", "To be announced", "Shhh, can't tell you", "You'll never guess".
  • Click on any of them and Apple says: "The title and description of this session will be revealed after Keynote on Monday June 2. Check back to view the updates schedule."




Apple Gets Most Sales Per Square Foot, Tiffany Third



Apple averages $4,551 in sales per square foot of retail space in the last 12 months, according to eMarketer Retail. The company's stores feature a sleek, minimalist design with rows of iPads, iPhones and MacBooks on display.




The Apple Store circa 1998

The online Apple Store's humble beginnings





Apple Could See a Flurry of Upgrades With the iPhone 6






Apple could save over $1B on alleged Beats deal with international acquisition - report





Comment on Ken Segall's Macworld UK article this week

Think Different: Portrait of a petulant Steve Jobs

It wasn't easy to get Jobs to record the words to Apple's famous ad.





Most of the real talent in Silicon Valley either started at or passed through Apple

Creator of Apple's Core Animation leaves for new role, likely at Facebook






Not to worry though, that 26% figure is almost exactly what was gained by T-Mobile
 
Verizon really ate AT&T's lunch this year, and they were very cold and indifferent towards promoting Apple's iPhone.

iPhone accounts for over half of Verizon's smart phone sales.

Apple's share of AT&T's shipments fell 26% year over year





Verizon will really love all the iPhone 6 subscribers, so they better start showing Apple some respect.

Verizon announces VoLTE, getting ready for the iPhone 6 and iOS 8






Apple Stores will soon run on renewable energy





Former Apple designer nabs fresh funding to make photo-blogging on the iPad a delight






Apple invents a new Robotic Arm Testing System for the iPhone and introduces a new iPhone Antenna that Adds NFC






Pixelmator releases version 3.2 'Sandstone' with 16-bit support and new Repair Tool






The Revenge of Vinyl

As Streaming surges, record stores turn the indie knob up to 11






hp is cutting a total of 50,000 jobs, and considering moving back into the founder's garage







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