Wednesday, June 4, 2014




Tim Cook lobs grenades at Android, sets up China showdown with Google






Apple's WWDC: the second day stories

The new Apple  The war with Google  The power of integration  What the press missed






Apple posts WWDC 2014 keynote to YouTube






Monday at WWDC: Apple delivers big surprises as most predictions ended up wrong







Wall Street expects Apple's WWDC announcements will leverage strength of connected platforms against Google






Apple drops Google for Bing as "Spotlight" provider in iOS 8 & Mac OS X Yosemite






WWDC: A new world of  possibilities






Netflix HTML5 streaming now available in Safari on OS X Yosemite





Stream to your friends' TVs: Apple bringing peer-to-peer AirPlay to Apple TV via iOS 8







OS X Yosemite's "Continuity" links apps and more across desktop and mobile






Big win for DuckDuckGo: Apple adding to Safari as private search option





Incredible after market for Apple products

EBay sees over $1 billion in Apple gadget sales every year

Hardware that everybody else made — that includes HP, Toshiba, Samsung, and Dell — totaled $1.19 billion during the same period, Hsiao noted.





Future Macs could loose the cables as Intel demos next generation wireless charging, docking & displays




Apple is mysteriously silent about its mass surveillance system for shoppers







John Oliver's brilliant net neutrality rant

Tuesday, June 3, 2014






Apple's WWDC is all about developers, developers, developers







Live #WWDC14 Massive lines for Apple keynote






Apple's WWDC: What the analysts are saying





Apple: Why I raised my stake by 14%







WWDC 2014 Apple puts its fighting boots on





Apple unveils Swift, a brand new Xcode programming language for developers






T-Mobile confirms support for Wi-Fi calling on iPhones running iOS 8



T-Mobile confirms support for Wi-Fi calling on iPhones running iOS 8



Incredible

PSA: The iDevices and Macs that will support iOS 8 and OS X 10.10






The desktop, flattened: OS X Yosemite in pictures






Mac, now answering the call for iPhone






Includes: SMS on Mac, Handoff, and Hotspot 






Good!

Apple's iOS 8 Camera app brings new shooting modes, developers given keys to manual controls






It's right in front of a major streetcar stop

Apple's new Portland store in pictures, and by the numbers







Survey says Apple gains "cool" among students with Beats deal






Buh-Bahye

Dell departs the Fortune 500



Dell departs the Fortune 500





Monday, June 2, 2014



Apple: App Store to lift services revenue, says Morgan Stanley






Apple grows carrier partners to 323 worldwide, up 15% since last October






Ahead of iOS 8 announcement iOS 7 adoption nears 90% for iPhone, 85% for iPad







Apple's Cue hints at major product announcements






What to expect when you're expecting

WWDC 2014 Prelude





Comment: Apple's very personal post-PC paradigm





Apple really, really must like Jimmy Iovine.

The one thing he has in common with Steve Jobs is a "reality distortion field"

Did Apple save Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine just in time?

PrivCo: Apple Acquiring Beats for "Unjustifiable" Valuation of $3 Billion

"After Beats took its manufacturing in-house in 2012 -- turning Beats into a low-margin electronics maker -- while at the same time buying back HTC's stake in the company with $265 Million in borrowed money due within 12 months, by 2013 Beats Electronics was a distressed business by any standard. New lenders were balking at Beats' plan to borrow more money to not just pay off its looming debts, but to pay Dre and Iovine a quarter-billion dividend to boot. The company was in a corner until Carlyle stepped in. And now Apple coming to the rescue as Dre's and Beats' final savior.
"As for the king's ransom Apple is paying, no traditional valuation measure applied to Beats as a business justifies the price. Although even CEOs become star-struck, they shouldn't ever become blind. We must assume Apple and Tim Cook have grand plans to which we're not privy to."



Apple paying less than $500 Million for Beats Music Streaming Service







Will.i.am Adams isn't listed as a shareholder above. 

Iovine must be paying him out of his cut through Interscope.

Adams produces a lot of Interscope's releases.

Will.i.am on Beats: 'We got it right'



Adams declined to identify the size of his stake in the Beats group, but acknowledged the windfall was significant. "I'm happy," is all he would say to Forbes
. "I'm freakin' very happy."

Adams said he was particularly thrilled for Iovine, who had been a long-time mentor.






Is Beats CCO Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails going to be an Apple employee?





Apple, Inc's WWDC is all about the D: Developers






Apple has a few more secret banners still under wraps at WWDC 2014






Nerd swag

WWDC attendees get 2014 jacket, $25 iTunes gift card






Possible OS X 10.10 names discovered in trademark filings, continue with California theme






It's the carriers' greed, not the phones in the US

Apple's iPhone sales could falter in China as government asks carriers to cut subsidies 






New Portland Apple Store gives employees some breathing room






St. Paul Schools fire Dell, hire Apple.

St. Paul schools to hand out iPads to students


The district would be largest in the state to put iPads in the hands of all students. It takes effect in the 2015-16 school year.

Among the other school districts in the state that have handed out iPads are Farmington, Rochester, Virginia, Watertown-Mayer, Wayzata and Spring Lake Park.

ST. PAUL, Minn.: St. Paul schools to hand out iPads to students | Technology | Merced Sun-Star



Goodbye to All That: Today Is Katie Cotton's Last Day at Apple





Apple officially appoints new CFO Luca Maestri as Peter Oppenheimer transitions out






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