Monday, January 26, 2015




iPhone sales forecast at 73M for Q4 ahead of Apple Watch debut in March, 12" MacBook Air in Q1 - KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo







Apple may have shipped more iPhones to China than U.S. in Q4







Angela Ahrendts was the CEO who invigorated a dying international brand in a spectacular way, building luxury stores all over the world. 
She deserves everything that she would have received from Burberry had she stayed, which is what Apple gave her to come with them.
They can easily afford it, end of discussion.

Apple Offered Ahrendts Strong Incentives To Join





Angela Ahrendts recruiting US employees for China as new stores & initiatives revealed






Apple hired Burberry's VP of digital retail initiative, Chester Chipperfield, ahead of Watch launch





Westlake Apple Store officially opens its doors in Hangzhou, China (Photos)







Next!

Apple shows off stunning mural for its new Chongqing store






Video of next China flagship Apple Store and the artist that "wrapped the glass cylinder." 

In the new tradition of China Apple store grand openings, Apple posts video about future Jiefangbei store.





Handicapping Apple's earnings


Has a blow-out quarter already been baked in?





Apple captured half of U.S. mobile phone activations in Q4, demand still at record high







Look how many US buyers paid $100 more for the jumbo iPhone


Bottom line: Apple found a way to sell more units at a higher price





Investors should worry less about Apple product cycles, focus on loyal customer base, Piper Jaffray says






Including a significant portion of his stock options that vested,

Tim Cook's total pay for 2014 was over $100 Million





The WinTel hegemony is dying off at a faster pace than expected.

And it explains why IBM wants to partner with Apple - for survival.

New Apple partner IBM prepares for largest corporate layoff in history





After eating AMD & Nvidia's mobile lunch, Apple Inc could next devour their desktop GPU business


While rumors have long claimed that Apple has plans to replace Intel's x86 chips in Macs with its own custom ARM Application Processors, MacGPUs are among a series of potentially more valuable opportunities available to Apple's silicon design team, and could conceivably replicate Apple's history of beating AMD and Nvidia in mobile graphics processors—and Intel in mobile CPUs.





Sexy new renderings show the iPad Pro and 12-inch MacBook Air side by side






With Macs, iPads, and the cloud of course, see above. 

How Apple wants to remake the classroom






Inroads made by Apple Pay propel "Mobile Wallet" idea






Apple's HomeKit MFi program only began in November, chips still being finalized






Apple's OS X 10.10.2 to fix vulnerabilities exposed by Google's project zero







Adobe acknowledges critical remote vulnerability in Flash, exploits already in the wild







Intel to announce a new stylus alliance & standards in February






Line waiters were allowed to snooze indoors at the mall. 
They were given wrist bracelets to save their place in line.

Apple Store opening: Westlake basement panorama - we're sleeping, chatting, plenty of warm air, a good atmosphere 






The upper level of the West Lake (China) store is the spacious one. 





Westlake Apple Store officially opens its doors in Hangzhou, China (Photos)








Why did it take so long, over three weeks, to get the new poster art up here?

Priorities (see above)

Start something new wall art finally arrives at Keystone Apple Store





What could possibly be more inane than Google Glass? 

MS HoloLens!

I Bet My Life: Microsoft HoloLens perfectly targets its core competency


Without introducing HoloLens, Microsoft's post-CES product event—which droned on for two hours and twenty minutes—would have had nothing to show but a series of reminders that it is working on products that are increasingly irrelevant.









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