Monday, January 25, 2016



Apple Breaks iPhone Sales Record in India in Q4






Cook takes the bull by the horns

Newsmaker: Tim Cook, Apple CEO






2016 expected to be a big year for Apple's MacBook lineup, upgrades to arrive in coming months






"iPhone 5se" likely to have faster A9/M9 chips & always-on Siri, come in 16/64GB capacities






Apple experiments with ultra fast Li-Fi for light-based wireless data


Recent versions of iOS have been found to contain references to Li-Fi, an experimental high-speed wireless networking protocol that uses pulses of light to transmit data and is being marketed as a long-term replacement for Wi-Fi.






Apple execs Phil Schiller, Greg Joswiak, others might testify in upcoming Samsung damages retrial






New Apple TV ad Promotes the Future of Television with 3D App Icons Popping to Life






4,000 Apple employees evacuated amid possible security threat in Cork







Apple to open 33rd Chinese Apple Store in Qingdao on Jan. 30






Apple Pay adds over 50 more US card issuers as merchant support waits






Hermes, Apple begin selling exclusive Apple Watch collection online [u]







Apple to launch 4" iPhone and iPad Air 3 in first half of 2016, analyst says


As for quarterly shipments, Kuo models iPhone sales at 77 million for the three-month period ended in December. The number sits at the midline of Wall Street expectations, just below Apple's high-side guidance of 77.5 million units.







Hmmm?

Apple's 'Project Titan' chief to reportedly leave company, car team under pressure






Daimler recently met with Apple in California for "Concrete Talks"






In case there was any doubt Apple is working on the next major computing platform







The prophets of doom and nay-sayers are back, sucking and feeding off Apple, as is their wont.

Looking for signs that Apple's runaway growth is waning






Ma Bell has always provided the government with carte blanche wiretapping, why stop now?

AT&T CEO won't join Tim Cook in fight against encryption backdoors






Ballmer chalks up another embarrassing high-profile failure for his old company.

Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown


Microsoft Surface Pro tablets stopped working on the sidelines of a major U.S. football game today, causing a spectacular black eye for the struggling product just as its maker was performing an advertising blitz for the hybrid tablet device integrated into the game itself.





It looks like the EU countries are in a tax settling mood right now, but it doesn't look like it's being applied very evenly.

Apple paid more than twice this to Italy. 

Maybe Apple made more than twice the money?

Google Agrees to pay £130 million in a Tax Settlement with UK for using Apple-Like Tax Avoidance Structures






The fast follower:

Larry Page's "obsessions" are to obsessively copy everything Apple does and makes as soon as possible and to cheapen the experience, leaving the user vulnerable to attacks.

He is merely following the Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer book on "How to be huge assholes and feed off Apple."

How Larry Page's obsessions became Google's business







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Saturday, January 23, 2016




Apple could announce record profits close to $18 Billion Tuesday, a world record for any public company ever






Apple made more revenue from iPhone in a single quarter than Google has ever made from Android





Apple is one of Google's biggest suppliers. Perhaps the biggest. 




Why Goldman Sachs thinks Apple is a "compelling" buy




Apple creeping up toward their first million unit quarter in India. 

I think revenue could surprise. Several markets, including China, up more than the street believes.



Apple is not facing an $8 Billion Irish/EU tax bill, nothing like it


Informed gossip all along has been that if the Commission rules against Ireland in this matter then the country will be asked to reclaim some $200 million from the company in past tax not paid. There will be no fine: and that sum will cover the decade, so some $20 million a year. Real money, yes, but not a considerable sum for a company the size of Apple.





Apple's Tim Cook meets with EU antitrust chief ahead of decision on Irish taxes







Apple Analysts scramble ahead of next week's earnings report






Apple's Supreme Court Brief Points to the Lower Court making a crucial legal error that could hurt the Digital Economy Long Term






Apple's A10 chip is very good news for AAPL


It only gets better from here
I'm excited to see the improvements that Apple will make in the A10 relative to the A9, but I can't help but be even more excited to see what the A11 and A12 bring. TSMC confirmed on its most recent earnings call that its next-generation 10-nanometer technology will go into mass production by the end of 2016 and that its 7-nanometer technology should start volume production in the first half of 2018.
This means that Apple will enjoy the benefits associated with moving to new manufacturing technologies for both the A11 (iPhone 7s) and the A12 (iPhone 8). As impressive as I expect the A10 to be, I fully expect the A11 and A12 to be game changers in terms of mobile chip performance. 





The Lifting of Western Sanctions against Iran Opens the Door Wide-Open for Apple






China UnionPay cards purportedly shown working with Apple Pay as launch looms






Buying Sharp is about Apple, actually, and they may be a partner.

Foxconn bid for Sharp is part of strategy to diversify





Apple announces it will discontinue iAd App Network for developers on June 30th







Where are the Mac mini and Mac Pro upgrades?

Apple needs to release all of these, but I suspect that it is Intel holding things up.

Where is Apple's 5K Thunderbolt display?






The cafeteria's exterior was already covered with glass when this January Youtube video was posted.

I think that the large piece of glass (upper right) is for half of the roof of one of the atriums.

Apple Campus 2 construction January 2016



Sliding glass doors and the fact that the cafeteria faces northeast is why there won't be any awnings on this section outside the ring.

The roof's ridge line structures will allow indirect sunlight in to the whole building, which can be seen in this illustration below.


The San Francisco Union Square flagship store will have similar sliding glass doors.


The plan above:

The recent progress below, 2 years 3 months into construction:

Apple Campus 2: Official construction photo January 2016




Apple to spend $80M on Campus 2 visitor center






Apple employees reveal the 19 best things about working for the world's most valuable company






Using technology that Eric Schmidt et al stole from Oracle!

This doesn't count the fact that they stole the iOS source code to create Android

Google's Android revenue $31 billion over OS's entire lifetime, Oracle lawyer says







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Friday, January 22, 2016




Apple could announce record profits close to $18 Billion Tuesday, a world record for any public company ever


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