Monday, January 27, 2014



Apple Inc.'s record $57.6 billion quarter

Shares tumble $50 after-hours on disappointing iPhone sales and Q2 guidance.






Calls to replace Tim Cook are going to grow, warranted or not.

Notes of interest from Apple's Q1 2014 conference call




  • As of this month, 80% of iOS devices are running iOS 7, making it the most popular operating system in the world.
  • Apple ended the quarter with $158.8 billion in cash, up $12 billion sequentially from the previous quarter.
  • iPod sales declined by 52 percent in the December quarter.
  • With the China Mobile iPhone launch, last week was the best week for activations Apple has ever had in China.
  • Cook admitted that demand for the new iPhone lineup, in particular the mid-range iPhone 5c, was "different than we thought"







Apple is moving on-shore with mfg.

Foxconn Plans to Open Advanced TV Display Plant in US

Mr. Gou said Sunday Hon Hai is studying the feasibility of building an advanced 10th-generation panel manufacturing plant in the U.S. Such facilities can churn out liquid display screens larger than 60 inches. He said it is currently difficult to ship large TV screens to the U.S. from Asia. from wsj

Foxconn Plans to Open Advanced TV Display Plant in US - Patently Apple




Foxconn successfully tested Sapphire covers for future iPhones





Happy 3th Birthday Mac ad appeared as a double page centerfold spread in all major newspapers on Friday




Homage 

Apple's 30 years is reminiscent of Here's to the Crazy Ones, but does it rank up there with the 1984 Super Bowl ad that introduced the Mac?

Video: 30 years of Mac








30 years later, the Mac is mostly screen






Apple has the mac to thank for its next generation of devices






iPhone photos and video of other people recording history with their iPhones, including this one from Tim Cook

Apple celebrates 30 years of Mac with live concert at company HQ


Tim's view


Mindy's view







iFixit goes back to the future, tears down original 128K Mac




On the WSJ's "iPhones to come out with bigger screens" story






Apple does more to protect your password, study of top 100 sites finds





US DOJ argues against Apple motion to remove e-book antitrust monitor






Tim Cook: "We have a gag order on us right now" and will 'absolutely' press Congress for more transparency over surveillance






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Friday, January 24, 2014



Apple celebrates 30 years of Mac with special webpage, video 1984 - 2014








Thirty Years of Mac Timeline





Apple's Macintosh has forced the world to change for 30 years






Apple's Macintosh: 30 years doomed




The Macintosh Is 30, and I Was There for Its Birth


Steve Jobs leans on the new Macintosh personal computer following a shareholder's meeting on January 24, 1984




Tim Cook, Craig Federighi talk 30 years of Mac, secrecy, and sapphire crystal in ABC interview






Hmmmm?

WSJ: Apple to launch two larger iPhones this year, scrap iPhone 5c






Update may bring games, controller support to Apple TV this spring








How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter?






Handicapping Apple's quarterly earnings and revenue: Q1 2014





Apple tops Samsung as world's largest chip buyer in 2013



yada yada yada...

Crazy New York fund manager just wants his picture in the press, and there is no better way to do that than linking himself to Apple.

Carl Icahn gives Apple the world's most obvious product advice


Carl Icahn gives Apple the world's most obvious product advice - Jan. 24, 2014



The Apple Inquisition




BlackBerry's Big Pentagon Win Was Only a Mirage

BlackBerry investors didn't read the fine print. Those 80,000 BlackBerry phones weren't new orders, but simply a rash of leftovers from the Canadian company's glory days.





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Thursday, January 23, 2014




Time Magazine: A brief history of what Apple 'must do'



A brief version of McCracken's brief history:
  • 1985: Apple must open the Mac architecture.
  • 2005: Apple must release the iPhone.
  • 2009: Apple must do a netbook now.
  • 2009: Apple must embrace the online version of Google Voice.
  • 2010: Apple must announce the Verizon iPhone.
  • 2011: Apple must launch NFC in the iPhone 5.
  • 2012: Apple must deliver the iPad Mini.
  • 2013: Apple must make an iPhone with a bigger screen.
  • 2013: Apple must buy Netflix.
  • 2013: Apple must announce touchscreen Mac computers soon.
  • 2013: Apple must fire Tim Cook.



"Apple Must…": A Brief History of People Instructing the Company to Do Things






How does Apple even deal with this courtroom nonsense?






Analyst: Apple's 'iPhone 6' design 'locked down' with 4.8" display, 802.11ac Wi-Fi






The most intriguing theory is that the entire body of the iPhone will be made of glass with rounded contours, part of it being transparent, a window.

Apple patent filing offers peek at future sapphire applications








Foxconn executives jailed on suspicion of taking kickbacks from iPhone parts suppliers






Belgian retailer claims Apple planning to release Mac mini update soon






AAPL spiked briefly and went back down after his purchase.

The Icahn effect: round 3





Apple's iPhone 5c boasts most available advertised memory, Samsung Galaxy S4 declared 'biggest memory hog'






I hope it's capable of floating, most of Holland is at or below sea level.

Apple rumored to be planning $2.7B European data center in the Netherlands






That awkward moment when Bill Gates discovers Jimmy Fallon uses a Mac (video)





Besides their greed, paranoia and stupidity, Quark had/has a psycho for a CEO

How QuarkXPress became a mere afterthought in publishing





Apple debuts shortened "sound verse" and "light verse" iPad TV ads





Photos show painstaking building restorations completed at Apple's new Brisbane, Australia store







This little Lithuanian startup keeps making steady gains on Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop.

Pixelmator 3.1 gains dual-GPU & 16-bit image support with Apple's new Mac Pro



It's difficult to find a way to work Vilnius, Lithuania and San Jose, California into the same sentence. One is the 14th century capital of a small Western European republic, while the other is some 400 years its junior and sits at the heart of California's Silicon Valley.

Pixelmator was born in 2007 when brothers Saulius and Aidas Dailide went searching for an OS X-native image editor and came up empty handed. Already on the lookout for a new project, the duo — veteran Mac developers — decided they could fill the void. 





Why Apple Is Ignoring Google's Tactics


Sergei Brin in his pimped out Tesla


Brin buying the state of California from Governor Brown 


Larry Moe and Curly


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