Thursday, December 4, 2014





JMP raises Apple price target to $150 on 'exceptionally strong' demand for iPhone, iPad






Intel can't get it together, and if they ever do, they'll continue to make a 65% gross margin, so why wouldn't Apple eventually want to roll their own chips for Macs? 

Apple: JMP ups target to $150 on 'Explosive' iPhone potential






More on that Kantar report

"Huge" iPhone 6 sales drive iOS to 40% smartphone market share in Australia, U.S., U.K., Japan, & Germany









"iPhone 6 Plus has dominated US phablet sales since its launch






The iPhone 6 Plus will be Huge in China this Spring






Here's Apple's next great business





Apple CEO Tim Cook to be namesake of Alabama anti-discrimination bill






LA United School District can't get it together, so parents are taking matters into their own hands to purchase new Macs

LA's Palms middle school uses crowd-funding to purchase new computers






Look What Apple Pay has done for this bloke's startup

Apple Pay partner Stripe valued at 3.5 Billion in new funding


"We are less than 10 percent of the way there," he said. "Building a platform that others can build a meaningful business on top of, we are talking about a multidecade horizon."




Apple patent No. 8,903,519: Five ways to protect a falling iPhone





Apple Pay adds issuers L&N Federal Credit Union, UW Credit Union and M&T Bank






"Here's how Jimmy Iovine convinced Apple to buy Beats."








Badgering Steve Jobs when he was days away from dying

Steve Jobs: "I don't know what the claims in the case are"





Photographer Doug Menuez Narrates a Brief Video of Steve Jobs






Steve Wozniak on Apple, the computer revolution, and working with Steve Jobs






Apple to hold in-store Apps for (RED) event with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump






Woman tracks stolen iPhone to Starbucks; employee asks her to leave





Like I said before: Whatever the outcome of this appeal, this case is going to the Supreme court next

Samsung appeal against Apple's $930M award for patent infringement begins today







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Wednesday, December 3, 2014



Apple's iOS devices accounted for 78% of record setting Cyber Monday mobile sales







Huge iPhone 6 sales put Apple on course for record quarter






New products, "innovative services" lead Barclays to hike Apple price target by 17% to $140






Why even Apple is surprised by the enormous demand for the iPhone 6






Outside Causeway Bay Hong Kong Apple Store


In Hong Kong people were selling iPhones out of suitcases directly outside the Apple Store and I couldn't figure it out





I'd say that something was rotten in Seattle and that there was a quid pro quo between the regulators and Amazon

"I'd do it again," says the man at the center of Apple's e-book case


The elephant in the courtroom on Dec. 15, he writes, will be Amazon — "the much admired and greatly feared discounter, which is not a party in the case. Yet the unposed question hovering over the proceedings will be: Did the regulators target the right bully?"



'I'd do it again,' says the man at the center of Apple's e-book case




This was 2011 and Jobs was very ill and dying of cancer.

Steve Jobs gave a hilarious response about an iTunes competitor when he was under deposition in 2011







The Feds take away iPads from underprivileged kids.

FBI raid seizes 20 boxes of documents on LAUSD iPad program



Deasy readily acknowledged that the project was an expensive draw from bond funds. But he said there was no other way to pay for what he called a civil rights imperative — to provide low-income students equal access to technology in the nation's second-largest school system.






Apple's iPhone Crushes Samsung's Galaxy by More than 6 to1 in Japan and Samsung Sells their Fiber Optic Business to Corning





Searching for Mac SEO tools? Put SEO Powersuite in your tool chest.






Heard these guys on NPR the other day - truly a throwback to the 60s soul bands and the Blues Brothers of the late 70s

St. Paul and the Broken Bones: A soul band with church roots















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Tuesday, December 2, 2014



Apple fell 6.4% Monday AM, the commentators must find reasons


As Apple still struggles to meet iPhone 6 demand, Canaccord raises price target to $135


Apple's Stock Dive Is Just a Blip on Its Way to Being Worth $1 Trillion






The thing to remember here is that artists were getting Zilch, nada, nothing from people using Napster, and that was everybody.

Jobs introduced the 99 cent song, which was raised to 1.29 eventually 

It was still not a good situation.

That essentially rolled things back to the 50's when kids bought 45 rpm singles, not albums, but it stemmed the tide. 

Artists, their managers and labels would like to return things to the 70s when kids bought vinyl LP albums that could only be copied by cassette with inferior sound quality reproduction. 

Labels want the power and money back that they had in the 70s through the 90s, before Napster, dictating unfair terms to Artists and their managers, and making bazillions of $$$ in the process.

That's what's at stake here, but not fully addressed.

Steve Jobs saved everyone's bacon, but it was doled out  in single songs with the labels still holding their onerous contracts over the Artists.

The onerous contracts with the labels were not Jobs fault, but he busted up the album into singles again sending things back to the 50s.

Steve Jobs shouldn't be on trial, EMI, Sony, and Warner should be on trial, and streaming royalties should be completely re-valued and adjusted to return artists, musicians, and writers a greater share of the pie for their creations and contributions that live-on forever in the digital cloud.

This trial is a long way from that.

Steve Jobs on trial in Oakland







Apple's Eddy Cue speaks out on iBooks price fixing ruling: 'It's just not right'







Using an iPhone to develop a watch app

All in the wrist: Devs embrace future of Apple Watch apps






Samsung declines to shake up management amidst shrinking smartphone profits









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Monday, December 1, 2014





Blueprint of Apple's "iPad Air Plus," details of iPad mini 4 reportedly outed in Japanese mag - Rumor



Mac Fan：2015年1月号にiPad Air Plusの原寸大図面を掲載？ | Rumor | Macお宝鑑定団 blog（羅針盤）





Apple Store logos go red for World Aids Day








Thanksgiving sets historic milestone: mobile drives more than half of all shopping traffic.





Tale of the tape: Apple v Android on Black Friday
US online sales were up 9.5% Friday, according to IBM. 22% of those sales were made from iOS devices





Apple's iOS once again decimated Android when it comes to data that matters






Steve Jobs has won 141 patents since his death


Jobs' first patent in 1983 is titled "Personal Computer." 


Of the 484 inventions that bear Jobs' name, more than 30% were awarded after his death.

Steve Jobs Still Wins Plenty of Patents | MIT Technology Review



Either way, this is going to the Supreme Court next.

Apple v Samsung: Patent war reaches key appeals court


This guy, Clayton Christensen, was thoroughly discredited years ago on just about everything he predicted about personal computers and mobile devices. I have no idea why Horace Dediu thinks he's a demigod. 

Apple and the crisis of disruption





Yet another billion dollar business - Apple Pay






Convenience - Apple Watch's killer feature






UBS survey finds 10% of consumers want a smartwatch, expects 24M Apple Watch sales in fiscal 2015






And I still haven't found what I'm looking for U2

Desk: A painless writing and blogging tool for Mac






Caution: They are still working out the kinks in iCloud.

How to manage your iCloud security and Apple Pay settings from the Web






2014's biggest shocker: Vinyl records are making a comeback





50 stunning photos that made you appreciate earth in 2014


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