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Mac OS Ken: 05.23.2013
Morgan Stanley: Current Quarter iPhone Sales on Track to Beat Expectations NPD: Nearly One in Three Smartphones Sold in the U.S. in 1Q Was Prepaid Cricket Offering Samsung Galaxy S4 for Up-Front Price of $55 Prepaid Wireless Carriers Combined Beat Big-Four Carriers in 2013 ACSI Jennifer Lopez Launches Verizon-Powered Viva Movil to Serve Latino Wireless Consumers KGI Securities Analyst: Expect No iWatch This Year Changes to Apple Online Store: Square Daddy-O German Apple Online Store Now...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.22.2013
Cook and Oppenheimer to Committee: Apple Supports Jobs and Pays Taxes and Does Not Break the Law The Verge: Cook Cool and Collected Before Senate Subcommittee Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Berates Senate Subcommittee for Dragging Apple Execs In Irish PM: Ireland Has No Special Tax Deal for Apple or Any Multinational Company iPhone Still Tops on ACSI, Though Competition is Gaining Apple Stays on Top of BrandZ List for 2013 Munster: NPD Mac Numbers Look Good (Though He Is Not Sure He Can Trust...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.21.2013
Apple CEO Heads to Washington to Face Tax Avoidance Questions Senator Carl Levin of Michigan Blasts Apple Ahead of Tuesday Hearing NYT: Apple Accused of Nothing Illegal in Tax-Avoidance Investigation Samsung Announces 276 PPI Display Panel Forrester: Macs Command Computers Among Loyalists and Devotees (Though Most Consumers are Free Radicals) AT&T to Allow FaceTime Over Cellular for Unlimited LTE Customers by Mid-June; 3G by End of Year F-Secure: 91-Percent of Mobile Malware Target at...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.20.2013
Apple Insider: MacBook Airs Drying Up Ahead of Haswell and WWDC Fortune: On the Cheers for 10-million Galaxy S4s in 30 Days and the Jeers for 5-Million iPhone 5s in Three Days iOS Gets Pentagon Approval for Secure DoD Networks iPad Deployment Expected to Save USAF More Than $50 Million Over Next 10-Years 9 to 5 Mac: Streaming Albums on iTunes Easy Picking for Pirates Reports: Sony the Fly in the iRadio Ointment Credit Suisse Analysts: Wearables Are the Next Big Thing Mac Roundtable Founding...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.17.2013
Politico: Cook to Share Apple Ideas on Comprehensive Tax Reform Before Senate Subcommittee Next Week Raymond James Analyst Calls for Cheaper iPhone or Bigger iPhone or Both Global Equities Analyst: Apple Has a Messaging Problem in India IDC: Windows Phone Takes Third-Place from BlackBerry for Worldwide Smartphone OS Market Share FLA: Foxconn Still Has Issues Complying with Chinese Labor Laws Regarding Working Hours CW to Land Ad-Supported Content App on Apple TV In Coming Weeks Haunting...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.16.2013
Verizon Offering $100 iPhone 5 to Select Featurephone Customers Apple Insider: AT&T Reportedly Offering Free iPhone 5 to Select Customers with iPhone 4S Trade-In Strategy Analytics: Nearly All the Profits in Smartphones Are Taken by Apple and Samsung Apple Says 50-Billionth iOS App Downloaded - Winner Not Yet Announced Tim Cook Expected to Testify on Corporate Tax Avoidance Before Congressional Committee Next Week DoJ Still Thinks Apple is Guilty in eBook Price-Fixing Case; Apple Still...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.15.2013
Gartner: Android Powered 75-Percent of Smartphones Sold Worldwide Last Quarter; iOS Powered 18-Percent Apple Seeks to Add Samsung Galaxy S4 to 2014 Patent Infringement Case Apple Faces Potential Class-Action Suit Over iPhone 4 Power Button New Siri Answers to Long Queries Encourage Brevity BlackBerry Plans to Make BlackBerry Messenger Available for Android and iOS This Summer iMore: If BlackBerry Messenger Gets Made, All of the Major Mobile Competitors Will Make Apps for iOS Apple Remembers...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.14.2013
Peter Misek: Just Another Financial Analyst When It Comes to iPhone 5S Report: Pegatron Picking Up Apple Business That Would Normally Go to Foxconn Up-Front Price for T-Mobile iPhone 5 Makes Surprising $50 Jump New York Attorney General Writes to Smartphone Makers About Battling Smartphone Theft TD Ameritrade: Individual Clients Rush Into Apple Shares on Low-Cost, Dividend and Share Buyback Plans ABC to Bring Live Local Streaming to iOS Apps (As Long As You Pay for Cable) Samsung Announces...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.13.2013
Munster Lowers Apple Target Thanks to Anticipated Lower-Margins for (Unconfirmed) Low-Cost iPhone AT&T Starts iPhone Sales Through New Pre-Paid Subsidiary “Aio” Samsung-Infringed Apple Patent Gets Tentative Rejection from USPTO Apple Wins Case Over Use of Term “iBooks” Apple Insider: Unnamed Source Says Big Changes Coming to AppleCare and AppleCare+ Apple Insider: Apple Rolls Out Two-Step Verification to at Least 13 More Countries Amazon Launches Photo Stream Competitor Cloud Drive Photos...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.10.2013
Apple Back Among Top-Five Smartphone Makers in China Bloomberg: Falling iPad Mini Demand to Push Pegatron Electronics Sales Down Fortune: Bloomberg Pegatron Piece an Odd Telling of the Tale Apple Opposes Google “Friend of the Court” Brief in Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Case Tuesday: Bloomberg Says Apple Seeks Documents from Google Related to Case Against Samsung Thursday: Businessweek Says Google Ordered to Reveal How It’s Searching for Documents Sought By Apple Related to Case Against Samsung...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.09.2013
T-Mobile Sells Close to Half-a-Million iPhone 5s in First Two Weeks of Availability T-Mobile Launches iPhone 5 Centered TV Ad Morgan Stanley Analyst Expects Production of Multiple New iPhones to Start in June or July Ex-Apple Ad Man Makes the Case for Multiple New iPhones iMore: An Entrepreneur Makes the Case for Apple in Wake of Walkley Prediction MacRumors: Sites See Spikes in Visits from iOS 7 Bloomberg Says Apple Exec Peter Oppenheimer Was Top Paid CFO for 2012 AT&T Drops Price of...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.08.2013
Philip Elmer-DeWitt Notes Change in Wall Street Journal Attitude on Apple Cannacord Genuity: Apple and Samsung Take 100-Percent of Cellphone Industry Profits in First Quarter of 2013 Google, HTC, Red Hat and Rackspace File Friend of the Court Briefs in Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Appeal WSJ: Legal Battles Between Apple and Samsung Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing (So Far) Munster Sees Vast Majority of Mobile Web Traffic Originating on iOS Devices (from Significant Minority of Top...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.07.2013
Barclays Raises Apple Target from $465 to $525; First Target Price Elevation of 2013 Fortune: Apple Widens Lead on Exxon Mobil as Most Valuable Publicly Traded Company Apple Lands Atop Barron’s 500 Apple Takes Sixth Spot on Fortune 500; First Time in Top 10 Bids on Coffee with Cook Back Up to $605,000 EC Investigating Possible Abuse of Standards-Essential by Motorola Against Apple in Germany Taiwanese University Sues Apple Over Video Compression Technology in FaceTime and QuickTime Amazon...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.06.2013
comScore: iOS Gains on Android in Q1; iPhone Widens Lead on Samsung Smartphones US Cellular to Start Sales of Apple Products (aka iPhones) Later This Year MetroPCS Not Getting iPhone Anytime Soon Despite T-Mobile Acquisition Business Insider: Customer Service a Key iPhone Feature Magazine Giant Hearst Hits One-Million Digital Subscribers One Quarter Later Than Expected Barnes and Noble Adds Access to Google Play to Color Editions of Nook Tablets Google: Tell Us if Google Now on iOS is...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.03.2013
IDC: iPad Sales Grow as Market Share Shrinks Apple Adds 256GB and 512GB Flash Options for iMac Line Apple Releases iPhone 5-Specific iOS 6.1.4 Update to Update Audio Profile for Speakerphone WSJ: Apple Devices Running iOS 6 and Samsung Galaxy Smartphones Expected to Receive USDoD Security Approval Soon T3: Less Than Half of 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4 Capacity Available to Users Trend Micro: Over 100 Legitimate Sites Compromised in Apple ID Phishing Expedition App Store Approaches 50-Billionth...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.02.2013
Wired: Why Apple is Borrowing Billions When It Already Has Billions More Bloomberg: iOS 7 May Or May Not Be Late Speculative Fiction Writer Peter Misek Says Large Screen iPhone Due in June of 2014 Apple Loses State of Maine Education Contract to HP Apple Scores Low in EFF Report on Government and User Data Protection Amazon Kindle Update for iOS Brings Improvements for Blind and Visually Impaired Users Path: Sort of Spamming for Friends American Airlines: iPad as Flight Bag Saves the Backs...
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Mac OS Ken: 05.01.2013
9 to 5 Mac: OS X 10.9 to Cater to Power Users and Borrow Some Core Functionality from iOS 9 to 5 Mac on the Rumored New Look for iOS: In a Word, Flat 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Looking to Deeply Imbed iOS in Cars Apple Seeds Fifth OS X 10.8.4 beat to Developers Apple Scores Highest in Latest Computer Technical Support Survey from Consumer Reports Next Round of Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Trial 2012 Set for November Apple and Other Tech Companies Take Possession of Kodak Patents Shaw Wu Out at Sterne...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.30.2013
KGI Analyst Predicts Lower Price for iPad mini “Allegedly Authentic” iPhone 5S Leak Helps Boost Apple Shares Apple Back to Being the Most Valuable Publicly Traded Company (for Now) KGI Analyst Expects Refreshed MacBook Air Sans Retina Display at or Around WWDC Bernstein Analyst Reiterates $600 Price Target and Outperform Rating on Apple Shares Despite iPhone Market Share Shrinkage ISI Analyst and Donald Trump Call for Larger Screen for iPhone SFPD Sting Poses Cops as iPhone Fences to Try to...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.29.2013
Yankee Group: iPhone Will Win Over Android-Powered Smartphones in U.S. Beginning in 2016 IDC: As Worldwide Smartphone Pie Gets Bigger, iPhone Slice Gets Smaller Bloomberg: One-Year-Old iPhone Deal Starts Bearing Fruit for China Telecom Apple Adds “Learn More About In-App Purchases” Section to App Store Apple Not Changing Behavior of VPN on Demand on Previously Shipped iOS 6.1 Devices Apple Contesting November 2012 VirnetX Verdict KGI Securities Analyst Expects MacBook Pros with Intel Haswell...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.26.2013
WWDC 2013 Tickets: Gone in 90 Seconds Apple Offers a Number of Developers a Second Chance at WWDC 2013 Tickets WWDC Alternative - AltWWDC - to Run at Same Time as WWDC in San Francisco iPad Takes Top Spot in Latest JD Power Customer Satisfaction Survey for Tablets Sprint Sells 1.5-Million iPhones in 1Q CY2013 AT&T Activates 4.8-Million iPhones in 1Q CY2013; iPhone Accounts for 80-Percent of Smartphones Sold in 1Q Apple Store Berlin to Open on Friday 3 May Apple Ordered to Pay $118,000 to...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.25.2013
Apple Announces Dates for WWDC - June 10-14 at Moscone West in SF; Tickets Go On Sale Thursday 25 April at 10AM PDT Apple Offers 150 Student Scholarships for WWDC (But You Have to Build an App to Qualify) 9 to 5 Mac: WWDC Will Likely Mark 230-Days Between Apple Keynotes Apple R&D Spending Up 33-Percent So Far in FY2013 Apple Opens “A Decade of iTunes” Section on Store to Celebrate Its First Ten Years NPD Group: iTunes Leader By Far in Online Video Sales and Rental Downloads Analysts Lower...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.24.2013
Apple Reports 2QFY2013 Results; Sees Record Revenue, iPhone and iPad Sales Apple More Than Doubles Capital Return Program; Dividend Increased and Share Buybacks Significantly Increased Get your free audio book at http://audiblepodcast.com/macosken
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Mac OS Ken: 04.23.2013
WSJ: Hey! Maybe Apple is a Software-Hardware Hybrid! Fortune: The Case Against the Cases Against Tim Cook Apple Earnings Call Set for Tuesday 23 April at 2PM PDT/5PM EDT Rumor: Citi Analyst Says Next iPhone “Delayed” to August or September Due to Production Issues Rumor: The Register Says Apple Has Returned Between 5-Million and 8-Million iPhones to Foxconn as Unfit to Sell Cricket Lowers iPhone Service Prices in Wake of T-Mobile USA iPhone Launch 9 to 5 Mac: $15 Checks in AntennaGate Case...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.22.2013
Raymond James Analyst: Investors Need to Stop Worrying Over Carriers and High-End Smartphone Subsidies Prepaid MVNO TracFone Adds 839,000 Customers in Same Quarter it Adds iPhone 5 Barclays Analyst Lowers Apple Target from $535 to $465 Apple Earnings Call Set for Tuesday 23 April at 2PM PDT/5PM EDT Penguin Offers Settlement to End Apple eBook Price-Fixing Charges in the European Union YouGov Says iPad Share of Tablet Market in UK Falls to 63-Percent RadioShack Starts Selling a Range of Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.19.2013
Verizon: Smartphone Sales Grow Year-Over-Year as Do Sales of iPhones in 1Q 2013 Fortune Calls Out Sister Site - CNNMoney - for Misleading Headline on Verizon iPhone Numbers Chitika: iPad Reclaims Web Traffic Share in US and Canada; Up to 81.9-Percent in March Microsoft Exec Indicates Small, Windows-Based Touch Devices Coming Soon Apple Scaling Back One-to-One Terms of Service Report: Brazen Pirate iOS App Store Out of China May Make International Move Jony Ive Makes Time List of 100 Most...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.18.2013
Apple Dips Briefly Below $400 on Apparent Bad News from Supplier Supply Chain Issue Could Actually Hint at New Apple Hotness BMO Capital Analyst Cuts Apple Target Because It Cannot Make 70-Percent of the Handset Industry Profits Forever Asymco: Apple Taking 45-Percent of PC Industry Profits Apple Extends Polycarbonate MacBook Bottom Case Coverage by Two-Years Report: Amazon Said to Have Purchased Siri Counterpart Evi Apple Makes New OS X 10.8.4 beta Available to Developers Apple App Store...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.17.2013
Munster Sees $300 Contract-Free iPhone Coming This Fall (and It Could Wreck the iPhone Party) WSJ Says Microsoft Eyeing Parts for a Smartwatch Communications Expert Says Apple Silence Is Currently Hindering the Company Symantec: Android Saw Most Malware in 2012, Though iOS Had Largest Number of Vulnerabilities Weird Suit Sees Apple Sued for Patent Violation NPD: iTunes Still Rules U.S. Digital Music Sales; Less Than 40-Percent of Consumers Think Owning Music is Important Apple Store on...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.16.2013
WSJ: Source Says Foxconn Hiring as Production of Next iPhone Nears Apple Reportedly Replacing Some Third-Gen Apple TVs with Wifi Issues NPD: AirPlay Most Used Screen Mirroring Solution (Though Almost No One Is Using It) Scam in China Raises Questions Around Leniency of Apple Return Policy and Rising Quality of iFakes Bloomberg/Businessweek: Apple Employs Four of the Top Five U.S. Executives in Terms of Pay Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting Goes to New York Times for Apple Critical...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.15.2013
Gartner and IDC Wildly Split on Mac Sales Estimates for 1Q CY2013 Bernstein Analyst Thinks PCs Slowing But Not Dying; Expects Decen Mac Sales Growth for 1Q CY2013 IHS iSuppli: Netbook Shipments to Hit Zero by 2015 RBC Capital Analyst Lowers Apple Target to $550 on Near-Term iPhone and iPad Weakness Morgan Stanley Analyst Lowers Apple Target to $600 on Near-Term iPhone Weakness Smartphone Trade-In Program Triples iPhone Sales in India T-Mobile USA: First Day of iPhone Sales Was Gangbusters...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.12.2013
Clayton Morris joins us to talk the state of smartphones today on this special edition of Mac OS Ken
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Mac OS Ken: 04.11.2013
The Telegraph Ties Apparent Foxconn Shortfall on Alleged Lackluster Sales of Apple Gear IDC: First-Quarter PC Drop Worst in 19-Years of Tracking Wells Fargo Analyst Thinks Disappointing iPhone Sales May Be Backed Into Apple Share Price T-Mobile Tries to Entice Customers of Other Carriers with iPhone Trade-In Offer Korea Times: Secret Sources Say TSMC - Not Samsung - to Produce Apple A7 Processor Apple Licenses Undisclosed Technology That Once Belonged to Palm for Insignificant Amount of...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.10.2013
WSJ: Secret Source Says Apple and Yahoo in Early Talks Over Deepening Yahoo Integration in iOS Apple Releases Second beta of OS X 10.8.4 to Developers Code Monkeys Find References to 802.11ac Gigabit Wifi in Latest 10.8.4 beta Fortune Dubs Brian White The Marco Polo of Apple Analysts Apple on Top in Latest Piper Jaffray Teen Survey Credit Suisse Analyst Likes iPad Strength; Anticipates New iPhone 27-inch iMacs Land on Apple Refurbished Store (But May Not Represent Huge Savings) iMessage and...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.09.2013
Canalys: Google Play Accounts for 51% of Apps Downloaded in 1Q; Apple App Store Accounts for 74% of App Revenue App Store Wrongly Identifies Some Apps as Offering In-App Purchases Raymond James Survey: iOS Stickier Than Any Other OS/Device Combo USPTO Conditionally Changes Stance; Grants Apple Request for iPad mini Trademark MacDaily News Source Says Mac Pro Announcement Planned for This Month Apple to Change iOS VPN Handling to Comply to Court Loss to VirnetX Apple Apparently Looking to...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.08.2013
T-Mobile Starts Pre-Orders for Its iPhone 5; Plans Deliveries for Friday 12 April Apple Revamps Online Store to Make it More Touchy-Feely-iOS Friendly MTel Sues Apple for Alleged Patent Infringement Tied to All But Audio Communication on iThings and Macs Plaintiffs in Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Case Denied Class-Action Status (for Now) Support for Office for Mac 2008 Ends This Week Apple Makes Age Ratings More Prominent on App Store on iOS Devices
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Mac OS Ken: 04.05.2013
comScore: iPhone Widens Smartphone Lead in the States; iOS Narrows Gap Between it and Android France Telecom CEO Says Next iPhone May Be Too Pricey for European Consumers DEA Says iMessage Encryption Too Strong for Eavesdropping Apple Pulls Classic Bookstore App From App Store in China for Selling Content Banned by Chinese Government Cost of Apple Spaceship Campus Rumored to Approach $5 Billion Samsung Putting 1400 Experience Shops in Best Buy US Locations by This Summer
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Mac OS Ken: 04.04.2013
Brian White Predicts iTV with Smaller iTVs and One Ring to Rule it All ISI Group Analyst: Apple Has to Release a 5-Inch or Greater iPhone! It Has to! And Woe Be Upon Apple If It Does Not! Fortune: iOS Still Tops in Mobile Web Traffic Best Buy Discounts 3rd-Gen iPad While Walmart Discounts 16GB Wifi iPad mini MacMall Discounts 4th-Gen iPad and Some iPad minis Taiwan FTC Investigating Apple Over Pricing of iPhones Sold By Taiwanese Carriers Lodsys is Back with In-App Purchase Suit Against...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.03.2013
Reuters: Apple Apology More Than Appeases Chinese Media Goldman Sachs Removes Apple From Conviction List But Maintains a Buy Rating Wall Street Journal: Secret Sources Say Production of Next iPhone to Start This Quarter; Low-Cost iPhone Could Hit by Second Half of 2013 Gruber and Ritchie Say Work on iOS 7 Underway But Running Behind Apple Initiates Significant Price Cuts on iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S in Brazil Topeka Capital Markets Analyst Sees Signs of iWatch This Year on Far East Trip USPTO...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.02.2013
Tim Cook Apologizes to China for Perceived Arrogance; Makes Changes to Reseller and Warranty PoliciesCiti Analyst Figures Chinese Anti-Apple Media Blitz Could Cost Apple $13B in SalesFidelity Contrafund Cuts Apple Position by 10-Percent in First Two-Months of 2013Apple to Hold 2QFY2013 Earnings Call on Tuesday 23 AprilKantar Says iOS Loses Lead in Smartphones in the States to Android in Its Latest SurveyApple Releases First beta of OS X 10.8.4 to DevelopersRefurbished eBay Apple Store Purged...
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Mac OS Ken: 04.01.2013
Samsung Says Apple Could Win Bigger Damages in Trial Do-OverUSPTO Denies Apple Request to Trademark Term iPad miniCNETs Greg Sandoval Takes iRadio Rumors with Him to The VergeReport: Apple Hires New Head of iAds for EAMEThe Next Web: iOS Developers and Hackers Fall Prey to a Messages/iMessage AttackState-Owned Chinese Animation Studio Sues Apple for Allegedly Selling Its Movies Without AuthorizationFortune: Apple Warranties for US and China Do MatchChinese Consumer Watchdog Group Backed by...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.29.2013
Facebook Holding Android Press Event Next Week; Fabled Facebook Phone Expected by Many Rumor: Samsung to Get Dedicated Store-in-Store Areas in Select Best Buy Locations Apple Releases Refined and Streamlined Find My Friends App for iOS Apple Issues Update for Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor Apple Launches Online Final Cut Promo Aimed at Video Pros Apple Releases Apple Launches New iPad and iPad mini Promotional Page Apple Highlights Parents Guide to iTunes in UK App Store After Rash...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.28.2013
Shaw Wu Sees T-Mobile USA Adding iPhone as a Big Deal for Apple Munster: iPhone 5 Launch Saw 5x the Number of Twitter Mentions as the Galaxy S4 Launch Pacific Crest Analyst Lowers iPhone and iPad Sales Expectations for Current Quarter Apple Thinks Judge Koh Made $85 Million Error in Award Owed by Samsung Apple Sued by Chinese Firm for Alleged IP Infringement Related to Siri Fortune: Chinese People Not Buying Chinese Apple Bashing Reuters: Popularity Helps Buffer Apple from Chinese...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.27.2013
T-Mobile USA to Start iPhone 5 Sales on 12 April Under new Uncarrier Plan TechCrunch: T-Mobile Uncarrier Walks and Quacks Like a Carrier (Mostly) Munster Sees Gloom for First Half of the Year for Apple Followed by Boom in the Second Half IDC Says Apple Gained on Samsung in Electronics Sales in 4Q CY2012 comScore: Counting Mobile Puts Apple Online Properties in the Top 10 with U.S. Users Report: Apple Strengthening Premium Reseller Expansion as Passage to India First Chapter of Authorized...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.26.2013
CNET: Source Says T-Mobile Will Talk iPhone at Uncarrier Event Today Apple Offers Free Next-Day Shipping on All iPhones Through US Online Store Chevy Runs Ads Touting Siri Eyes-Free Integration on the Sonic Macworld UK: Apple Adds Trojan.Yontoo.1 to XProtect.plist Forbes: Annual Chinese TV Investigative Program Lambasts Apple Over Warranty Policies in China Apple Responds to Chinese TV Accusations and Gets Lambasted by Chinese Newspaper China Daily: Apple Pursuit Lures 20,000 Students Into...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.25.2013
Early Friday: Glaring Vulnerability Found in Apple ID Security Mid-Friday: Apple Acknowledges Apple ID Security Issue Late Friday: Apple Patches Apple ID Insecurity Doctor Web Warns of Tracking and Ad-Injections Malware for OS X: Trojan.Yontoo.1 Apple Buys Indoor-GPS Company WifiSLAM Apple Adds In-App Purchases Notification to Titles in App Store Strategy Analytics: iCloud Top Cloud Service In Terms of Users in US SMH: Microsoft and Adobe Execs Fail to Satisfy Australian Parliament in IT...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.22.2013
Apple Tops JD Power Smartphone List for 9th Consecutive Survey comScore Puts Amazon in Second in Tablets in the US Behind Apple and Ahead of Samsung Apple Hits 75-Percent Renewable Energy Use at Corporate Locations and 100% at Data Centers Apple Offers Two-Step Verification for Apple ID Apple Kicks Skeuomorphic Elements Out of Podcasts App for iOS Apple Sends Podcasters New Requirements for Album Art and Streaming Settings Apple Rejecting Apps Accessing UDID Starting May 1; Requiring New...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.21.2013
Canacord and Credit Suisse Analysts Positive on Apple Thanks to Belief in Low-Cost iPhone iPhone Sales Help China Telecom Beat Analyst Expectations for Most Recent Quarter IHS Expects Samsung to Significantly Widen Its First-Place Hold on Cellphones Worldwide in 2013 DRM-Firm Intertrust Sues Apple for Alleged Infringement of 15 Patents New Passcode Vulnerability Found in iOS 6.1.3 Affecting iPhone 4 Only Apple Updates GarageBand for iOS with Minor Tweaks and Added Audiobus Compatibility...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.20.2013
Apple Fixes Passcode Vulnerability and Improves Maps in Japan with Release of iOS 6.1.3 iOS 6.1.3 Kills evasi0n Jailbreak; Credits evad3rs with Discovery of Four-of-Six Vulnerabilities Patched Apple Updates Apple TV Software to v5.2.1; Includes Revamped Hulu-Plus App, More Music in the Cloud Topeka Capital Markets Analyst Suggests Apple Do What Financial Analysts Keep Saying Apple Should Do Bernstein Analyst Believes In the Positive Effect of an iWatch on Apple Shares (Despite Not Having Any...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.19.2013
Apple Up Over 5-Percent and Samsung Down Nearly 5-Percent Since Introduction of Galaxy S4 TMO: Apple Up Based on Belief of Analysts That Apple Will Increase Dividend Gazelle CEO Says Trade-Ins of Samsung Phone Up Huge Since Galaxy S4 Event (Though Not So Much iPhones) Morgan Stanley Analyst Predicts Unspecified “Killer Feature” for Next iPhone T-Mobile USA Holding Some Sort of Press Event Next Tuesday BlackBerry CEO Says the iPhone User Interface Has Gotten Old IDC: Traditional PC Sales...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.18.2013
Apple Launches “Why iPhone” Page in Wake of Samsung Galaxy S4 Event Gruber and Siegler Think Schiller Goofed Going After Samsung and Android Ahead of Galaxy S4 Event Apple Shares Rise on First Day After Samsung Galaxy S4 Event Shaw Wu Believes in the Low-Cost iPhone in 2013 and the Bigger iPhone in 2014 Sound Technology Powerhouse THX Sues Apple For Alleged Patent Infringement in Consumer Electronics Apple Loses Legal Bid for iFone Trademark in Mexico TMO: Apple Faces Class-Action Suit Over...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.15.2013
Apple Releases OS X 10.8.3 to the Public; Security Updates for Lion and Snow Leopard Apple Issues SMC Update for 15-Inch MBP with Retina Display Apple Adds VESA Mount Adapter Option with Latest iMacs Apple Puts Fourth-Gen Full-Sized iPad and iPad mini in Refurbished Store Samsung Officially Announces 5-Inch Galaxy S4 for April Launch USITC Postpones Samsung/Apple Patent Decision; Appears to Mull Ban of Sales of iPhones and iPads BTIG Analyst: Signs Against Apple Says It’s a Good Time to Buy...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.14.2013
Schiller Slams Android to the Wall Street Journal Andy Rubin Steps Aside as Head of Android; Chrome OS Developer Takes the Robot Reigns Pew Research Center: One-in-Three Teens in the States Has a Smartphone Kantar Media: Samsung Spent the Most in US Smartphone Advertising in 2012 IDC: Apple Second-Largest Smartphone Vendor in India by Revenue Thanks to Sales Shift to Mom-and-Pop Shops MacRumors: Training Docs Indicate Mac, iPad and iPhone Sales Headed to Staples in the States Judge Says...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.13.2013
The Speculative Fiction of Peter Misek Takes Many Sad Turns Barclays Analyst Thinks Apple Will (or Should) Give More Money Back to Shareholders IDC: iPad to Fall Under 50% in Tablets in 2013 as Android-Tablets Rise Video Server Ooyala Says Two-Thirds of Its Mobile Video Viewers Came Via iPhone in 2012 Semiconductor Analysis Firm Says A5 Processor in Apple TV Still Made By Samsung Apple Seeds Another OS X 10.8.3 beta to Developers Apple Makes Multiple Improvements to iOS Maps App Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.12.2013
Third Sample of Apple TV A5 Processor Found to Be Significantly Smaller; May Not Be Made by Samsung Fortune: Apple Supply Chain Checks Give Financial Analysts Renewed Cause for Concern Apple Insider: Apple Supply Chain is Hiring Analyst Appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg Boost Apple Shares by End of Trading Day Apple Opposes Delay of Second Samsung Case Pending First Samsung Appeal Judge Koh Allows Second Apple/Samsung Case to Proceed as Planned Samsung Exec Blames Windows 8 and Microsoft...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.11.2013
Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies talks wearable computing on this special edition of Mac OS Ken
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Mac OS Ken: 03.08.2013
JP Morgan Analyst Expects iPad mini to Force Lower Prices for Competing Tablets UBS Analyst Calls for Apple Analysts Day and More Cash for Shareholders Cloud Services Provider Egnyte Says iOS Dominant in the Enterprise; Taking Share from Android Phil Schiller Tweaks Google’s Nose on Android Vulnerability Via Twitter Appthority Report Says iOS Apps Less Careful with User Personal Data Than Apps for Android Three Samsung 3G Standards Essential Patents Deemed Invalid in UK Court Apple Far-East...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.07.2013
comScore: Apple Widens Lead on Samsung in Smartphone Sales in the States; Second-Place iOS Grows While Others Shrink Ads Say iPhone 5 Headed to Utah-Based Regional Carrier Strata Networks Citigroup Analyst Lowers Apple Target to $480 on iThing Concerns Berenberg Bank Analyst Cuts Apple Target from $800 to $360 (and Should Probably Not Be Listened to About Apple) Barclays Analyst Expects Growth Drivers for Apple in H2CY2013; Lowers Apple Target to $530 Fortune: Bullish Cross-Inspired Losses...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.06.2012
iMore Says iPhone 5S Targeted for August; Possible iPad and iPad mini Refreshes in April Yankee Group Survey: iPad Dominant in Intent-to-Buy Survey IDC Expects PC Sales to Drop at Least 1.3% This Year Apple Updates Its Education-Only iMac The Mac Observer: Apple Drops Price on 768GB Flash Storage Option for iMac by $400 Shipping Times for 21.5-Inch and 27-Inch iMacs Drop to “Within 24 Hours” at Apple Online Stores in U.S. and Canada Apple Seeds 13th Build of OS X 10.8.3 to Developers (Really...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.05.2013
Bloomberg Winds Up the Apple Watch Story (Again) The Verge: Current iWatch Prototypes Facing Battery Life Issues Apple Ends Monday Down 2.42% Despite Bloomberg iWatch Watch Fortune: Philip Elmer DeWitt on the Hard Crash of Bullish Cross Ben Bajarin: Control of the Reality Distortion Field Has Passed to Wall Street (and It’s Being Used Against Apple) All Things D: Title of Most Valuable Company Shifts Back from Apple to Exxon Mobil Gartner: Revenue for Sales of Mobile Apps to Hit $25 Billion...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.04.2013
Judge Koh Cuts Award from $1.05 Billion to $600 Million in Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Case Lawyers in Locationgate Legal Case Move for Class-Action Status Credit Suisse Analyst Lowers EPS Expectations for 2013 and 2014; Maintains Outperform Rating on Apple Shares Rules Changes at Apple Require Execs and Board Members to Hold Significant Amount of Apple Shares Until Retirement Einhorn Drops Lawsuit Against Apple Apple Blocks Older Versions of Adobe Flash Player in Safari to Protect Against...
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Mac OS Ken: 03.01.2013
NPD DisplaySearch Says Display Orders Shifting Heavily Toward iPad mini Over Full-Sized iPad Corning Exec Says Flexible Displays Likely Three-Years Out UK Judge Who Once Ruled Against Apple in Favor of Samsung Now (Kind of) Working for Samsung Florian Mueller Wonders Whether Samsung/Judge Tie-Up Might Stir Calls for Reform Samsung Loses Data Transmission Patent Case Against Apple in Japan Apple Tops Annual Fortune List of World’s Most Admired Companies for Sixth Straight Year iTunes U...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.28.2013
Apple Insider: Votes Go as Expected at Apple Shareholders Meeting Apple CEO: Share Price Drop is a Bummer But Apple is Focused on Great Products and Long Term CNET: Cook Addresses Competition, Market Share and the Silly Lawsuit at Apple Shareholders Meeting Fortune: Color and Clarification on Kass - or - Something Hinky This Way Comes: Part II SEC Filing Shows Cricket May Miss Year-One iPhone Sales Commitment by 50% 13 MLB Teams to Accept iOS Passbook Mobile Tickets This Season Samsung...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.27.2013
Good Technology: iPad Trouncing Android Tablets in Big Business Pentagon Goes “Platform Agnostic;” Plans to Add 100k iOS and Android Devices to Service in Next 12-Months Doug Kass and Apple Shares: Something Hinky This Way Comes Apple Adds Name to Supreme Court Arguments Against California Same-Sex Marriage Ban Apple Offers Settlement in In-App Purchases Lawsuit Staples Starts Sales of Accessories for iPad, iPhone, iPod and Mac and Sales of Apple TV Android Execs Dismisses Google Retail Talk...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.26.2013
NPD Numbers Show iMac Sales Up 31% Y-o-Y in US in January Needham and Company Analyst Cuts Apple Target to $710 Cult of Mac Says iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 Breaks Evasi0n Jailbreak MacTech 2013 BootCamps to Feature Office for Mac Accredited Support Professional Program Australian Federal Court Adds Second Judge to Apple/Samsung Case Forbes Rumor Mongers Against Samsung in Favor of Apple Samsung Sends Invitations to 14 March Press Event to Unveil Galaxy S4 in NYC Samsung Folds Bada into Tizen with...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.25.2013
Greenlight Capital Wins Ruling in Proposal 2 Lawsuit Against Apple Apple Formally Pulls Proposal 2 From Shareholder Meeting This Week Fortune: IDC Says Samsung Barely Beat Apple in Smart Connected Devices in 4Q 2012 Morgan Stanley Analyst Believes in the Low-Cost iPhone New York Post: Apple Working with NYPD to Track Down and Recover Stolen iThings Apple Seeks Maps Ground Truth Data Specialist for Australia Bloomberg: Hong Kong Telecoms Company Seeks Judicial Review of SIM-Locking iPhone 5...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.22.2013
CNBC Runs Idiot Story on Apple Shares Versus Google Share Complete with Idiot Analysis NBC.com and Other NBC Sites Hacked to Deliver Malware Thursday Computerworld: Fake Security Reports on Chinese Cyber-Espionage Used in Targeted Cyber Attacks Apple Experiences Multiple Issues with Online Services on Thursday MacNN: beta 2 of iOS 6.1.3 Deals with Passcode Lock-Screen Vulnerability Judge Koh Orders Apple and Samsung to Slim Down Their Cases Ahead of 2014 Trial Fortune: Foxconn Hiring Freeze...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.21.2013
FT Says Foxconn Halts Hiring Across China Due to Reduced Orders for iPhone 5 Foxconn Tells Bloomberg That Hiring Freeze Due to Higher Than Expected Worker Retention UBS Analyst Says If Hiring Freeze at Foxconn is Bad Then It Was Likely Caused by HP Weakness, Not Apple Apple Shares End Wednesday Down 2.4% on Foxconn Hiring Freeze Story Strategy Analytics: iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S Each Beat Samsung Galaxy S III in Worldwide Sales Last Quarter Investigators Think Apple/Facebook/Twitter Hackers...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.20.2013
Apple Says It Was Hacked in a Limited, Non-Damaging Way; Ships Updated Fix for Java Apple Releases Java for OS X 2013-001 1.0 to Address Vulnerability Exposed in Apple Hack Apple Releases Java 10.6 Update 12 for Snow Leopard Machines Cult of Mac Says Forums of iPhone Development Site Seem to Be Source of Apple Hack Intego Finds New OS X-Based Malware Called Pint-Sized Apple Issues iOS 6.1.2 Fixing Exchange Issue; Leaving Passcode and Lock Screen Vulnerabilities Unaddressed Cult of Mac:...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.19.2013
Flurry: China to Pass U.S. as Largest Market for iOS and Android Devices this Month Morgan Stanley Says a $330 iPhone mini in China Could Grab Apple an Extra $2.4-Billion Citigroup Analyst Thinks Lack of Innovation and More Tablet/PC Hybrids Will Hurt iPad in 2H2013 Apple Stops Mac Pro Sales in EU Ahead of New Safety Regulations U.S. and E.U. Members Look at Closing Tax Shelters Used by Apple and Other Multinational Corporations Forbes Brings Word of Yet Another iOS 6.1 Vulnerability Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.18.2013
Apple Insider: Mr. Munster Thinks It Is About Time for an Apple Media Event 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Seeks Engineering Manager for Apple TV Executive Tweets Indicate Sale of Apple Products Heading to Staples in the States Chitika: Web Use for Samsung Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 Nearly Equal for First Part of February 9 to 5 Mac: iOS 6.1 Allows Changes on Devices Set Up for “Don’t Allow Changes” MacNN: Rumor Has iOS 6.1.2 Hitting with Exchange and Passcode Fixes This Week Apple Appeals Ruling Over...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.15.2013
Report: Meteorite Explodes 30,000 Feet Above Urals in Russia; Causes Damage Apple Acknowledges Exchange Issue in iOS 6.1, Offers Temporary Fix Ahead of Next Update iOS 6.1 Bug Found to Give Anyone Access to a Passcode-Protected iPhone Apple Acknowledges iOS 6.1 Passcode Vulnerability and Promises Fix in Future Update Apple Updates iMove for iOS to v1.4.1 with Minor Fixes Apple Sends Eleventh beta of OS X 10.8.3 to Developers Morgan Stanley Analyst Says Microsoft Could Be Leaving $2.5B on the...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.14.2013
Jefferies & Co. Analyst Peter Misek Re-Rolls Apple Television Talk Cult of Mac: Misek is the DigiTimes of Financial Analysts Apple Insider on Jefferies & Co. Apple Television Talk The Loop on Apple TV Event Next Month: Nope The Mac Observer Does a 204-Word Story on Jim Dalrymple One-Word Story Shares of German TV Maker Spike on Flimsy Apple Takeover Rumor Firecore Updates Jailbreak for Second-Gen Apple TV Original xBox Architect Says Apple Could Crush Game Consoles with Current Apple TV...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.13.2013
Tim Cook Spends an Hour with Goldman Sachs Computerworld: Apple CEO Shoots Down Idea of Cheap New iPhone Munster: Apple CEO Comments Indicate Cheap New iPhone Hear the Full Goldman Sachs Conversation at investor.apple.com Citi Analysts Concerned Over Perceived Collapse of Full-Sized iPad Business Motley Fool Calls iWatch a Failure While Morgan Stanley Calls it a Cash Cow
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Mac OS Ken: 02.12.2013
Topeka Capital Markets Analyst Expects a Low-Cost iPhone for Emerging Markets as Soon as June Pacific Crest Securities Analyst Says Low-Cost iPhone Idea Violates Core Principles of Apple Vodafone UK Elaborates on iOS 6.1 and iPhone 4S 3G Issues Apple Issues iOS 6.1.1 Specifically to Fix iPhone 4S Issues Apple, Adobe and Microsoft Called by Australian Parliament to Explain High Price for IT Down Under Tim Cook Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference This Morning Tim...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.11.2013
Wall Street Sees Apple Response to Einhorn as Positive Raymond James Analyst Sees Massive Growth Potential for iPhone in India Canalys Says iPhone 5 Did Not Grow Market Share in China in 4QCY2012 (Fails to Mention Only Two-Weeks of Sales in 4QCY2012) MacNN: Some iPhone Users Experiencing Issues Since Updating to iOS 6.1 Electronista: Vodafone UK Suggests iPhone 4S Owners Skip iOS 6.1 AT+T LTE Network Not Ready for Wireless Emergency Alerts Home Depot Dropping Replacing 10,000 Manager and...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.08.2013
Apple Insider: Apple’s Disappointing Quarter Still Beats the Rest in the U.S. Apple Shareholder Sues to Get More Cash Out of the Company for Investors Apple Responds to Shareholder Concern with Press Release Apple Stock Pops on Response to Einhorn Issues Sprint Reports Sales of 2.2-Million iPhones in 4Q 2012 Apple Releases AirPort Utility 6.2 for OS X and AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update 7.6.3 Apple Updates Aperture to v4.04 Adobe Issues Flash Player Patch to Combat Two...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.07.2013
comScore: Apple and Samsung Grow Smartphone Share in 4Q CY2012 as OS Gains a Tiny Bit on Android Canaccord Genuity Analyst: Apple and Samsung Took 103-Percent of Cellphone Profits in 2012 Chitika Sees Slight Resurgence in iPad Web Traffic Since Christmas Canalys: Apple Tops in PCs in 4QCY2012 (If We Count Tablets as PCs) Apple Announces Download of 25-Billionth iTunes Tune Apple Spotlights Self-Published Authors in New “Breakout Books” Section of iBookstore Apple Seeds beta of iOS 6.1.1 to...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.06.2013
Barrons: Shaw Wu Says Apple Needs to Make a Phablet Fortune: Shaw Wu Says Apple Needs to More Aggressively Court the Mid-Range Phone Market Apple Starts Sales of 128GB iPad with Minor Wait Times Microsoft Announces 11 New Retail Locations So Far for 2013 Apple Re-Issues KB Document Against Jailbreaking Poking Under the Hood Reveals Hidden Radio Buttons in iPad Version of iOS 6.1 Apple Hiring for Apparent Russian Online Store Apple Hiring for 10 Positions in iOS Maps WSJ Says Apple PR More...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.05.2013
Morgan Stanley Analyst Thinks Next iPhone Will Look Exactly Like iPhone 5 Barclays Analyst Thinks Apple Needs to Make iPhone Phablet to Protect Margins While Making Low-Cost iPhone for Emerging Markets StatCounter: iPhone Takes Global Mobile Internet Usage Lead in January for First Time Ever Last Week: Apple Updates iOS to v6.1 Last Week: iOS 6.1 Update Brings Security and Bug Fixes and Something New for Siri to Do Last Week: Apple Updates Xcode to v4.6 Last Week: Apple Updates Apple TV...
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Mac OS Ken: 02.04.2013
Apple Announces 128GB 4th-Gen iPad with Retina Display Wired Wonders Why the 128GB iPad The Verge: 41GB of Microsoft Surface Pro Taken Up with Pre-Installed Software and Recovery Partition Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs Analysts Positive on 128GB iPad News Baird & Co. Analyst Will Power Drops Rating and Price Target on Apple Fortune: William Power is Ever Changing on Apple Shares IDC: Apple Increases Tablet Sales But Loses Market Share Worldwide in 4Q CY2012 iPad mini Wait Time Drops to 1-3...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.29.2013
Ken gets the flu!
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Mac OS Ken: 01.25.2013
All Things D: Apple Shares Down 11-Percent on Fourth-Most-Profitable Quarter Posted by Any Company Ever Financial Analysts Lower Apple Price-Targets; Still Bullish on the Cupertino-Company Tim Cook Holds Post-Earnings Town Hall Meeting with Apple Employees Apple Insider Notes Sharp Price-Drops for MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs at Big Authorized Resellers This Week AT&T Activates Over Eight-and-a-Half-Million iPhones in 4QCY2012 Strategy Analytics Puts Apple in Second in Smartphones and Third...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.24.2013
Apple Reports Record Quarterly Earnings; Record Sales for iPad and iPhones Analysts Voice Tepid Support After Apple Numbers Hear the Apple Earnings Call Online for Yourself at http://investor.apple.com
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Mac OS Ken: 01.23.2013
Verizon Sold a Record 6.2 Million iPhones Last Quarter, Though Only Half Were iPhone 5 Apple-Tracking Financial Analysts Pleased with Verizon iPhone Sales Numbers Apple Webcasting 1Q FY2013 Earnings Call Today at 2pm PST/5pm EST Kantar Worldpanel ComTech: iPhone Takes 51.2% of US Smartphone Sales in Last Quarter of 2012 Survey: Majority of UK iPhone Owners Do Not Look Past Top 25 App Lists in App Store Munster Reasserts His Belief in a Full-On Apple Television in 2013 Report: Apple Launching...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.22.2013
Report: Production of 9.7-inch iPad Displays Slows to a Crawl at Sharp; No Drop at LG or Samsung Report (Three Times Removed) Has Apple Working on a 4.8-inch Phablet to Be Released By June iPad-mini Shortages Persist While Full-Sized iPad Supply is Plentiful Barrons: Wells Fargo Analyst Sees Better Second-Half of 2013 in Store for Apple While UBS Analyst Looks to Apple’s “Next Big Thing” UBS Analyst Lowers Apple Target from $700 to $650 Based on New CIRP Survey Silicon Valley Execs -...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.18.2013
Intel Sees Quarterly Profit Fall 27% on Weak PC Demand Apple Gets Early Release Window for 20 Heart Publication Magazines on Newsstand Rolling Stone Hits the iOS App Store (for iPad Only) Rewind: Rolling Stone Publisher Says it Could Be Decades Before He Bring His Titles to iOS (a Year-and-a-Half Ago) Apple Gets Rights to Release the Last Three Episodes of “Downton Abbey” to Season Pass Holders Ahead of Broadcast MacNN: Apple TV Goes on Sale in South Africa Today Amazon Launches HTML Version...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.17.2013
Global Equities Analyst Sees iPhone Display Cuts as Sign Apple is Moving to IGZO Displays Analysts from Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Others Continue AAPL Defense Pacific Crest Analyst Cut AAPL to Sector Perform; Sees Market Saturation at High-End and Nothing Truly New on the Horizon KGI Securities Analyst Expects All-Retina Display MacBook Pros and Retina Display iPad mini in 2013 Apple Launches Installment Payment Options for Consumers in China Apple Launches Back-to-School Promotion...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.16.2013
DisplaySearch Analyst Says Aggressive iPhone 5 Launch Likely Reason for Display Order Cuts Shaw Wu Thinks “iPhone 5 Demand Remains Robust” ChangeWave: 50% of Survey Respondents Plans to Buy an iPhone in the Next 90-Days; 71% of iOS Users “Very Satisfied” ChangeWave: Intent to Buy a Samsung Smartphone Rises to 21% Among Survey Respondents TechCrunch Makes a Mobius Strip of Analyst Notes Analyst Numbers Indicate iPad Outsold Surface RT in December-Quarter by at Least 20-to-1 Judge in Apple v....
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Mac OS Ken: 01.15.2013
Business Insider: WSJ Story Was One-Month Old; Crushed Apple Shares Anyway Barrons: Bulls Run Against WSJ Story Apple Launching WiFi + Cellular 4th-Gen iPad and WiFi + Cellular iPad mini in China on Friday 18 January Gartner Estimates Mac Sales Rose 5.4% in Holiday-Quarter 2012 Versus Holiday-Quarter 2011 TMO: The First Lightning-Compatible iThing Accessories Show Up at Apple Retail Apple Insider: Third-Party Resellers Running Out of Thunderbolt Displays Samsung Says Sales of Galaxy S...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.14.2013
Cook Tells China That China Will Be Top Apple Consumer at Some Point Translation Trouble: Reuters Removes Schiller Story Dismissing Cheaper iPhone Translation Take Two: Reuters Says What Schiller Is Said to Have Really Said Forbes: Removal of First Reuters Story Practically Proves Development of Low-Cost iPhone WSJ Says Apple Cuts iPhone 5 Display Orders Canaccord Genuity Analyst Estimates 48.2-Million iPhones Sold in December-Quarter Topeka Capital Analyst Expects Updated iPad and iPad mini...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.11.2013
Build your own site with Squarespace yourself? Go to Squarespace.com/macosken, click "enter an offer code" under pricing and use the offer code macosken1 TC Watch: Captain Cook Takes a Meeting With China Mobile Schiller Seems to Shut Down Cheap/Less-Expensive iPhone Talk Munster Cuts Apple Price Target to $875 on Margin Concerns Related to Cheaper iPhone that Schiller Indicates Apple is Not Targeting TUAW: Tim Cook Says iPad mini with Wifi plus Cellular Available in China By End of Month...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.10.2013
Build your own site with Squarespace yourself? Go to Squarespace.com/macosken, click "enter an offer code" under pricing and use the offer code macosken1 Verizon Activates 9.8-Million Smartphones in 4QCY2012 with “Higher Mix of Apple Smartphones” T-Mobile USA CEO Says iPhone Sales to Start in 3-to-4 Months Bloomberg: Secret Source Says Apple Working on Cheaper iPhone for Developing Markets Munster: Low-Cost iPhone Could Add $6.5 Billion to Apple Revenue This Year (!?!) NPD DisplaySearch:...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.09.2013
Build your own site with Squarespace yourself? Go to Squarespace.com/macosken, click "enter an offer code" under pricing and use the offer code macosken1 WSJ: Apple May or May Not Intro Lower-Cost iPhone Later This Year Strategy Analytics: iPhone Tops 2013 Intent-to-Buy Survey in U.S. TMO: AT&T Sees Record Quarter for Smartphones; Record Sales of iPhones and Androids T-Mobile USA Has 1.9-Million iPhones On Its Network (Up from 1.7-Million 30-Days Ago) T-Mobile USA Strengthens Its Network...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.08.2013
Build your own site with Squarespace yourself? Go to Squarespace.com/macosken, click "enter an offer code" under pricing and use the offer code macosken1 Apple Announces 40-Billion Downloads in App Store, 2-Billion Downloads in December and 500-Million Payment Methods On-File Neil Mawston: 2013 Will Be the Year of the Phablet Business Insider: Apple is Nowhere in Phablets (But May Be on the Way) Rewind: Topeka Capital Analyst Says Apple May Go Bigger and Smaller in Next Round of iPhones...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.07.2013
NPD: MacBook Sales Down 6% in U.S. for Holidays 2012 Versus Holidays 2011 Fujitsu Limited to Miss Annual Sales Expectations on “Weak” Windows 8 Demand Forrester Sees Growth for Apple in the Enterprise in 2013; Stagnation for Windows-Based Machines RBC Analyst Sees Robust Growth for Apple in 2013; Muted Growth for Tech Sector The Telegraph: On Analysts and iPhone minis WSJ: Retailers Complain to States Attorneys General Over Walmart Ad-Practices Tied to Holidays and iPhone 5 TUAW: Corning to...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.04.2013
Bernstein Research Analyst Says Apple Growth is Slowing (Though There’s Still Plenty in the Tank) Evercore Partners Analyst Expects December Quarter Sales of 50-Million iPhones and 24-Million iPads Chitika Insights Sees 7% Market Share Drop for iPad Over the Holidays (Kind of) Barnes and Noble Says the nook Took a Beating in Holiday Sales comScore: Apple and Samsung Grow Cellphone Share in US While Everyone Else Sees Shrinking Shares Wednesday: Rumor Has Apple Considering Buying...
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Mac OS Ken: 01.03.2013
Telsey Advisory Group Analyst Expects Something “We Haven’t Even Thought of Before” from Apple Munster: Apple Has a Future in Wearable Computers Last Week: Left Field Rumor Has Apple and Intel Making a Smartwatch Topeka Capital Markets Names Apple Share Top-Pick for 2013; Expects New and Different iPhones in May/June Period Apple 1Q Fy2013 Conference Call Set for 23 January Flurry Analytics Says Worldwide Mobile App Downloads Hit 1.76-Billion in Last Week of 2012; Over 50-Million iOS and...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.31.2012
Happy New Year!
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Mac OS Ken: 12.28.2012
Flurry Analytics: 17.4 Million New Portable Devices Activated Worldwide on Christmas Day Distimo: App Store Downloads Up 87% on Christmas Day; App Store Revenues Up 70% Buzzfeed: First Tweets from iPads Rule Tablets on Christmas Day RW Baird Analyst Says Holiday Sales of Surface RT Seemed Weak at Best Buy and Staples Fortune Runs Pictures of Packed Apple Store and Practically Empty Microsoft and Sony Stores from one Mall on Christmas Eve Microsoft Announces Six New Retail Locations to Start...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.26.2012
Today we talk with Taz Goldstein about his new book Hand Held Hollywood's Filmmaking with the iPad and iPhone
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Mac OS Ken: 12.24.2012
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech: Sales of iPhone Top 50% Market Share in the States Heading Into the Holidays Distimo: The Real App Money is Still in iOS The Mac Observer: Change to App Store in China Blocks Government Censors Apple Sees Second Fine Over AppleCare in Italy; Irons Out AppleCare Issues with Italian Antitrust Authority Apple Seed 10.8.3 beta Two-Days After Previous 10.8.3 beta NASA Releases Free iBookstore Title - Hubble Space Telescope: Discoveries The Wall Street Journal Hits...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.21.2012
CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at http://www.crashplan.com/ Wells Fargo Analyst: Investors Fail to Appreciate the Role and Strength of Apple Customer Service Munster Sees Notable Siri Improvement from iOS 5 to iOS 6 Apple Puts “Most Favored Nation” Clause with Publishers on 5-Year Hiatus in EU as Part of EC Settlement The Verge: EC Set to Charge Samsung with Breach of Antitrust Rules Apple Appealing...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.20.2012
CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at http://www.crashplan.com/ USPTO Preliminarily Invalidates Apple 915 Pinch-to-Zoom Patent Groups Including Apple, RIM, and Samsung Buy Kodak Patents for $525-Million Focus Taiwan: Secret Source Says Hon Hai Testing Apple Television, Not Likely to Ship in 2013 Piper Jaffray Names Apple Its Top Internet-Sector Pick for 2013; Reiterates Overweight Rating and $900 Target...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.19.2012
CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at http://www.crashplan.com/ Raymond James Analyst Things iPad May Be Bigger in Big Business Than We Realize Penguin Settles in eBook Price-Fixing Case with US DoJ Settlement Leads EU to Drop Antitrust Probes Against Apple, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan Over Alleged eBook Price-Fixing Samsung Drops Injunction Applications Against Apple in...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.18.2012
CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at http://www.crashplan.com/ Former Apple CEO John Sculley Thinks Apple is Taking iThings to Twice-a-Year Updates Asymco’s Dediu Could See the Sculley Scenario Canaccord Genuity Lowers Apple Target to $750; Maintains Buy Rating on Apple Shares Morgan Stanley Analyst Still Incredibly Positive on Apple Sterne Agee, ISI and Topeka Capital Analysts All Say Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.17.2012
CrashPlan: Automatic, offsite, data backup. You're data's protected and accessible by you – anytime, anywhere. Find out more at http://www.crashplan.com/ Lack of Lines for iPhone 5 Launch in China Freaks Peter Misek Out Citi Cuts Price Target and Rating on Apple Shares Due to Supply Chain Changes Misek Hears of Supply Chain Changes Too (Though That Does Not Worry Him) UBS Analyst Lowers Apple Target on Supply Chain Chatter, Concern over iPhone 5 in China Apple Says It Sold Over 2-Million...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.14.2012
Munster: Interest in Buying iPhone 5 Sees Significant Rise Post-Launch Fortune: Survey Shows Interest in Buying Surface RT Sees Significant Decline Post-Launch NPD DisplaySearch: iPad mini Seems to Be Outselling iPad This Holiday Season Google Maps App is Back in iOS App Store Slate: The Google Maps App is a Win for Apple Apple Returns Duplicate Track Finder in Minor iTunes 11.0.1 Update Apple Adds New SMS Trojan to Malware Blacklist for OS X Apple Rolls Out More Detailed System Status Page...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.13.2012
Shaw Wu Raises Sales Expectations for iPhone and Lowers Them for iPad NPD DisplaySearch: Apple Grabs 84% of Mobile PC Market in 2Q 2012 (If We Count iPads as PCs) Goldman Sachs Analyst Thinks Intel Building A-Series Processors for Apple Would Be a Ba Idea for Intel Apple Insider: Movies Lighting Up for Majority of Recently Opened iTunes Stores Business Insider Challenges Google Chairman’s Assertion that Android is “Pretty Clearly” Winning Over iOS Doctor Web Finds New Trojan Targeting OS X...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.12.2012
Strategy Analytics: Apple Devices Now Account for 27% of LTE Devices Worldwide iPhone 5 Tops Time List of Best Gadgets of 2012; 15” MBP with Retina Display Lands at Sixth 9 to 5 Mac: Suddenly Every Store Has a $150 iPhone 5 (Kind of) FTC Displeased with States of Mobile Application Stores and Privacy Safeguards for Children Morgan Stanley Analyst: Apple Television Set Could Be a $13 Billion Opportunity for Apple (If They Actually Build a TV Set) Apple Opening Stores in China, Hong Kong,...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.11.2012
Most Agree That App Tiles on Apple TV Were Technical Glitch, Not Early Leak Speculative-Fiction Writer Peter Misek Drops Apple Price target to $800 Topeka Capital Analyst Sees Surge in Apple Supply Chain as Good News for Apple Credit Suisse Thinks TSMC Will Start Producing A-Series Processors for Apple by Mid-2013 Apple Insider: Some Pre-Ordered 27-Inch iMacs Shipping Earlier Than Originally Estimated China Unicom: Pre-Orders for iPhone 5 Hit 300,000 Fortune: Numbers Making Black Friday...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.10.2012
In Apple TV: Potential for Appy Holidays 9 to 5 Mac: Bluetooth Keyboard Pairing Coming in Next Apple TV Software Update Bill Palmer at Beatweek Thinks Apple will Go Full-on Television Rather Than Stick with the Hobby Puck Maynard Um Thinks Apple will Go Full-on Television Rather Than Stick with the Hobby Puck iPhone 5 Listed as In-Stock for a Number of Apple Online Stores Friday: BestBuy Offers $25 Gift Card to People Who Buy an iPhone 5 (with a 2-Year Contract) Sunday: BestBuy Offers $50...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.07.2012
Apple CEO Calls TV “an Area of Intense Interest” for Apple The Pros and Cons of Made-in-America Macs Early Thursday: T-Mobile USA and Apple Enter Deal to Sell an Apple Something in 2013 Later Thursday: T-Mobile Getting iPhone in 2013; Dropping Subsidies for Smartphones in 2013 (Though It May Not Look That Way to iPhone Buyers) RBC Analyst Sees Apple/T-Mobile iPhone Tie-Up Adding 4-5 Million Additional iPhone Sales in First Year of Deal Shipping Times for iPad mini Drop to One-Week in the...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.06.2012
China Mobile President Says Technology and Business Have Kept iPhone Off of His Carrier (So Far) Apple Translates "Start Developing iOS Apps Today" Into Chinese Canalys: 25 Developers Made Half of Mobile App Revenue in First 20 Days of November Mossberg Says “Find Duplicates” Feature Returning to iTunes 11 Soon iPodNN: iTunes, App Store and Mac App Store See Sporadic Access Issues Worldwide on Wednesday 9 to 5 Mac: Russian iTunes Store Accidentally Directs Users to Porn and Escort Sites...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.05.2012
Shaw Wu Ups iPhone Sales Estimates and Lowers Mac Sales Estimates for the Current Quarter Electronista: Apple Raises iPhone 5 Purchase Cap in the States from 2-Per-Customer to 10-Per-Customer Barclays Capital Analyst Makes Case (Again) for Low-Cost iPhone for Developing Markets NPD Says Black Friday Consumer Electronics Sales Off 5.6% (Though They Don’t Count iPads, Kindles, Surfaces, Smartphones or Video Games) Apple Updates iWork Titles for iOS and OS X Dockster Trojan Targets Macs Through...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.04.2012
China Unicom Sees 100,000 Pre-Orders for iPhone 5 on First Day of Availability Apple Launching iPhone 5 in 50 New Countries Before End of 2012 Wait Times for iPhone 5 Drop to 2-to-4 Business Days on Apple Site Canaccord Genuity Sees Sales on 47.5 Million iPhones in the December Quarter Yahoo!: iPhone 5 Second Most Searched Term in U.S. in 2012 Yahoo!: Amazon Kindle Most Searched for Gadget in UK in 2012; Third Overall Apple Launches iTunes Store in Russia, Turkey, India, South Africa and 52...
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Mac OS Ken: 12.03.2012
Apple to Start Sales of New New iPad and iPad mini on 7 December; iPhone 5 on 14 December Mixed Reaction from Analysts to iPad/iPhone China Announcement comScore MobileLens: Apple Takes Second in Cellphone Sales in the States for First Time Ever iFixIt Busts Open a New 21.5-Inch iMac and Finds a 3-Out-of-10 Repairability Rating Shipping Time for 27-Inch iMac Jumps from 2-3 Weeks to 3-4 Weeks in First 24-Hours of Pre-Orders 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Allowing Third-Party Retailers to Sell $15 to $500...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.30.2012
Apple Releases iTunes 11 iTunes 11 Lets Users Redeem iTunes Gift Cards Through Computer Camera Apple Releases Version 5.1.1 of Apple TV Firmware Apple Updates Remote App for iOS to Version 3.0 Merrill Lynch Analyst Thinks T-Mobile USA Could Announce Deal to Sell iPhone Next Week WSJ: iPhone 5 Launch in China Appears Imminent Apple Starts Sales of Unlocked iPhone 5s in the States Apple Pays Harley-Davidson for Use of “Lightning” Trademark Apple Puts Shrunken Front Cover of The New Yorker and...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.29.2012
Barrons: Citi Sees Marked Improvements in Availability of iPhone 5 and iPad mini ABI Research Says iPad Lineup Accounts for 55% of Tablets Shipped in 3Q 2012 Sales of Samsung Galaxy Phones Banned in the Netherlands for Violating iOS “Bounce Back” Patent (Maybe) Apple Reportedly Sourcing iPad and MacBook Pro Batteries from Chinese Firms After Samsung Split Time Warner CEO Hopes Apple Makes a Full-On Television Bing: iPhone 5 Most-Searched Term in U.S. in 2012 Working Apple-1 Sells a Auction...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.28.2012
Research Firm Puts iOS at Top of US Smartphone Market for Three-Months ENding in October IDC: iOS and Android to Knock BlackBerry from Top Spot in Business This Year Apple Releasing New 21.5-Inch iMac This Friday 30 November GM Says Siri “Eyes Free” Mode to Land in Two Chevy Vehicles Early Next Year Bloomberg Report Says Apple Has Fired the Guy in Charge of Maps in iOS Barclays Bank Deploys Over 8,500 iPad Across UK Apple Releases Thunderbolt Firmware Update 1.1 for 2012 MacBook Pro Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.27.2012
TMO: Mr. Munster Now Expects a Full-On Apple Television in November 2013 Business Insider: Mr. Munster Expects Unsubsidized $200 iPhone for India and China in 2014 Fortune: Mr. Munster Sees Increased Foot Traffic for Apple Retail on Black Friday and Similarities Between Microsoft Store and a Ghost Town IBM: Online Shopping Up Significantly Over Thanksgiving Holiday with iThings Representing in a Huge Way Raymond James Analyst: Valuable Tablet Shoppers Shop Via iPad Nielsen: Kids Clamor for...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.21.2012
The Thanksgiving No Show Show
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Mac OS Ken: 11.20.2012
Fortune: Merrill Lynch Analyst Issues Positive Note on Apple While Lowering Price Target on Company’s Shares Topeka Capital Analyst Calls Recent Apple Sell-Off “Insanely Insane” Apple Ends Trading Monday Up $38.05 to Close at $565.73 All Things D Sources Say New iMacs Still Shipping This Year (And Supply Will Still Be Constrained) 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Opens Refurbished Equipment Store on eBay iTunes Match Suffers Monday Morning Outage on the Heels of Sunday iMessage and FaceTime Failures 9 to 5...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.19.2012
Bloomberg: Apple and Motorola Mobility Consider Binding Arbitration to Settle FRAND Licensing Issues Samsung Files to See Terms of Apple-HTC Settlement U.S. Magistrate Judge Allows Samsung and Apple to Add New Products to Existing Patent Lawsuit IDC Analyst: iPad Sales Increase in China After iPad Trademark Settlement with Proview Apple Closing Messages beta for Lion; Suggests People Upgrade to Mountain Lion iMessage and FaceTime Take a Sunday Nap Australia Sends Apple a Bill for $28.5...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.16.2012
Morgan Stanley Analyst Thinks Apple Will Sell More iPhones and iPads in the Next Six-Months Than Wall Street is Expecting Credit Suisse Analyst Reiterates “Outperform” Rating on Apple on Computer/Tablet/Smartphone Strength Jeffries and Co Analyst Sees Something Involving Apple and TV as “Imminent” Single Source Rumor Has New iMacs Pushed to 2013 USA Today: Survey Shows Significant Number of Windows Users Making Their Next Purchase an Apple Purchase (Though Not Necessarily a Mac) HP PC-Exec...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.15.2012
Samsung Mobile Exec Says His Company Not Pursuing HTC-Style Settlement with Apple Munster: 20-Percent Increase in A-Series Processors May Eventually Cost Samsung Processor Production for Apple Fortune: Financial Analysts Still Like Apple Fundamentals; Stand by Their Targets S&P Capital IQ Analyst Ups Apple Rating from “Buy” to “Strong Buy” Gartner: Android Increases Lead Over iOS in Smartphones; Apple is Third-Largest Cellphone Maker on the Planet Lawyer Sues Microsoft Over 32GB Surface RT...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.14.2012
Fortune: The Man Who Made “The Bear Case for Apple” Is Suddenly in an Apple Buying MoodUBS Hardware Analyst Says Apple Execs Say There are “More Frontiers to Conquer, More New Categories to Create”CNET: Analyst Says Android Tablets Will Overtake iPad in Terms of Sales in First Half of 2013Chetan Sharma: Apple Currently Earns 95% of Global Profits in Tablets and Over 70% of Global Profits in SmartphonesApple Stops Physical Sales of AppleCare in Italy and Modifies Offering OnlineNokia Plans to...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.13.2012
Some 9 to 5 Mac Readers Informed That Their LTE iPad mini Will Arrive This Friday Wait Time for iPhone 5 Drops to 2-3 Weeks on Apple.com Apple Asks iPhone Owners to Reboot Their Phone Before Making an Appointment with the Genius Bar Apple Seeds betas of iOS 6.1 and Apple TV Update to Developers CNET: Passbook to Get Better Explanation in iOS 6.1 Apple Issues Aperture 3.4.3 to Fix Serial Number Requirement Issue Apple and HTC Settle Lawsuits; Enter 10-Year IP Licensing Deal Shaw Wu Guesses...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.09.2012
Shaw Wu Expects Disparity Between Supply and Demand for iPhone 5 to Shrink Soon BTIG Analyst Expects Disparity Between Supply and Demand for iPhone 5 to Shrink Soon Munster Sees First Signs of Supply/Demand Balance for iPhone 5; Expects Apple Stock to Even Out Soon Oppenheimer Analyst Sees Apple Shares Pulling Out of Slump Soon Topeka Capital Analyst Sees Strong Sales for Apple in Supply Chain Numbers Apple Shipping First Round of Pre-Ordered LTE iPad 4s and iPad minis Next Week Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.08.2012
Hon Hai Chairman: iPhone 5 is Still Hard to Produce CNN/Money: Market, Mixed iPad mini Reviews and Executive Shakeup Pull Apple Shares to Five-Month Low Apple Named Most Innovative Company for Third Consecutive Year in Booz & Co Global Innovation 1000 Study Canalys: Apple Drops Out of Top-Five Smartphone Makers in China in 3Q (Though Number of iPhones Sold Still Grew Y-o-Y) Apple Found Guilty of Violating Four VirnetX Patents in FaceTime; Ordered to Pay $368 Million Apple Wins Ornamental...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.07.2012
TUAW: Fourth-Gen iPad Listed as “In Stock” in US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Singapore Bloomberg: Apple Working Toward Ditching Intel Inside Macs for Self-Designed ARM Processors Shaw Wu Sees Apple’s Eventual Move from Intel to ARM as Sensible (Perhaps Inevitable) Verizon Closing Its Android/BlackBerry App Store Federal Judge Tosses Apple Patent Case Against Motoroogle in Wisconsin Developer Build of iOS 6.1 Gives Siri the Power to Buy Movie Tickets in the States Cult of...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.06.2012
Apple Sells Three Million iPad minis and Fouth-Gen iPads Combined on Launch Weekend for Both Devices All Things D’s Peter Kafka Upset with Apple for Not Breaking Out iPad mini Sales Numbers The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple Upset with Peter Kafka for Being Upset with Apple for Not Breaking Out iPad mini Sales Numbers Business Insider’s Jay Yarow Upset with Jim Dalrymple for Being Upset with Peter Kafka for Being Upset with Apple for Not Breaking Out iPad mini Sales Numbers Fortune: Analysts Largely...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.05.2012
NYC 5th Ave Store: TMO Weighs the Length of the iPad mini Line NYC 5th Ave Store: Piper Jaffray Analyst Says iPad mini Launch Line the Third-Longest in Four Year; Topeka Capital Analyst Says All Sold Out in Two Hours and Ten Minutes Barrons: R.W. Baird Analyst Unfazed by Shorter Lines for iPad mini KGI Analyst Says Less Than a Million iPad minis Sold Last Weekend WOuld Still Put it on Top of the Mid-Size Tablet Market BTIG Analyst Says If iPad mini Sells Under 3-Million Units in First...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.02.2012
Munster Sees Relatively Slow Start for iPad mini, Though Significant Acceleration to Follow Business Insider: Apple Providing Shuttle Service for NYC Fifth Avenue Store Employees for iPad mini Launch Apple Changes Ship Dates for Pre-Ordered Cellular iPad minis to “Mid-November” iFixit Tears Up an iPad mini: Tough to Get Into and Tougher to Repair Apple Releases iOS 6.0.1 Apple Ships First betas of iOS 6.1 and Xcode 4.6 to Developers Apple Updates Safari, iPhoto and Aperture for OS X Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 11.01.2012
iTunes Teams with American Red Cross to Collect Donations for Superstorm Sandy Relief Effort Apple Shares Close Under $600 In First Day of Trading After Reorganization Announcement Barrons: Analysts Still Positive on Apple Despite Executive Shuffle (Except for Enderle Award Winner Trip Chowdry) Reviews Out for iPad mini; Mostly Positive with a Grumbling or Two on Price and Screen Resolution Asustek CFO Says Monthly Nexus 7 Sales “Close to 1 Million” Units a Month Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD/iPad...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.31.2012
Shaw Wu Sees Executive Changes at Apple as Positive Gene Munster Sees Cook and Ive in for the Long Haul Brian White and Bill Power See Changes at Apple as “Natural Evolution” Apple Pushes iTunes 11 to (Probably Late) November Washington Post: Pentagon Adding iOS and Android Devices to Its Mobile Mix 9 to 5 Mac: iPad with Retina Display Ship Times Slip to One Week Canaccord Genuity Analyst Sees Apple Selling 101.6 Million iPads in FY2013 Ballmer: Nobody Has Made a Tablet Customers Want Until...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.30.2012
Apple Ditches iOS Lead Forstall and Retail Chief Browett WSJ: Sources Say Forstall Fired Over Refusal to Sign the Mapology Cult of Mac: Forstall Role as “Advisor” Likely Just to Keep Him Out of the Job Market Tim Cook Emails Apple Employees on Executive Changes All Things D: The Big News is Jony Ive’s Ascendence Over Hardware AND Software Design GigaOm: The BIG Big News is Tim Cook Branding Apple as His Own Forstall and Browett Pictures Already Pulled from Apple “Executive Profiles” Page
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Mac OS Ken: 10.29.2012
Wifi-Only iPad mini Shipping Time Slips from 2 November to “Two Weeks” Amazon Says Sales of $199 Kindle Fire HD Pop After Announcement of $329 iPad mini Amazon Posts Self-Leaning Chart Comparing Kindle Fire HD Versus iPad mini on Front Page of Amazon.com MarketWatch: Gazelle Sees Devices Trade-Ins Rise 700% After iPad mini Announcement; NextWorth Sees iPad Trade-Ins Rise 1,000% DMCA Exemption Not Extended to Tablets or Smartphones Purchased Next Year A New Round of Countries to Receive...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.26.2012
Fortune: Financial Analysts Weigh-In on Tuesday Apple Event Barrons: Other Financial Analysts Weigh-In on Tuesday Apple Event Part I Barrons: Other Financial Analysts Weigh-In on Tuesday Apple Event Part II CNET: Yet Another Weighs-In on Tuesday Apple Event TMO: Shaw Wu Thinks Apple Knows What It’s Doing with iPad mini Pricing Daring Fireball: iPad mini Priced at “Gamble” Rather Than “Sure Thing” Electronista: No GPS for Wifi-Only iPad mini Apple Posts External Schematics of iPad mini and...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.24.2012
Apple Streams iPad mini Event Live; Adds Apple Events Channel to Apple TV Apple Intros iBooks 3.0 Apple Updates iBooks Author to Version 2.0 Apple Introduces Updated Mac mini and Mac mini Server Apple Insider: Fusion Drive Explained Apple Intros New iMacs with Thinner Form Factor, Fusion Drive and No Optical Drive Apple Intros 13-Inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display Apple Intros 4th-Gen iPad and iPad mini CNET: Some Apple Store Accepting 3rd-Gen iPad Returns if Purchased in Last 30-Days
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Mac OS Ken: 10.23.2012
Paid-Content Goes Live in iBookstore for 17 New Countries One Day Before Anticipated iPad mini Event Bloomberg/Businessweek Says iPad in Education to Be Major Focus of San Jose Apple Event US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Dropping BlackBerry for iPhone Gartner VP: iPads to Outnumber BlackBerries at Work by 2014 Rumor: Apple and VMWare Working on Cloud-Based iWork Suite for iPad Fortune: 44 of 64 Analysts Thinks Mac Sales in 4Q Beat Mac Sales in 3Q JP Morgan Analyst Says iPad mini Will...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.22.2012
Fortune Looks at the Many Unknowns and Great Expectations for the Tuesday Apple Event Gruber Sees $249 to $299 as a Sensible Starting Price for iPad mini KGI Analyst Estimates iPad Mini Components to Run from $195 at the Low End to $254.50 at the High End Price-Comparison Site Says Consumers Choose Black iThings Over White iThings by 70% So Far in 2012 Evercore Partners Analyst Expects Apple to Phase-Out iPad 2 Soon Electronista: Apple Event Could Include Release Date for iTunes 11 iMore:...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.19.2012
Fortune: Pro and Indie Analysts Combined Expect iPhone Sales of 26.4 Million Units for 4QFY2012 Fortune: Pro Analysts Expects 17.6 Million iPads Sold for 4QFY2012; Indies Look for Sales of 19.23 Million Verizon Sells Just 651,000 iPhone 5s Last Quarter Due to Supply Constraints, Not Demand Verizon (and Perhaps Sprint) iPhone 5 Owners See Strange Time Shifts on Their New Phones Apple Loses UK Appeal; Will Have to Run “Samsung Didn’t Copy iPad” Ads Judge Koh Says Apple Cannot Seek Additional...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.18.2012
Musnter Sees Growth for Apple with iPad mini Despite Likely Traditional iPad Cannibalization Janney Montgomery Scott Analyst Ups Apple Price Target on iPad mini Expectations WSJ: Anonymous Foxconn Exec Says “iPhone 5 is the most difficult device that Foxconn has ever assembled” iFixIt: New iPod nano Gets Middle-of-the-Road Third-Party Repairability Rating iFixIt and Greenpeace Bash EPEAT for Giving Green/Gold Certification to Ultrathin Laptops Apple Reportedly Holding Made for iThings...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.17.2012
Apple Sends Out Invitations for 23 October EventApple Insider: Secret Source Says Apple Will Launch 12 iPad mini Configurations in 2 Colors for Total of 24 ChoicesMicrosoft Starts Ads for SurfaceMicrosoft Begins Pre-Orders for Surface for Windows RT UnitsAlleged Schillergram Says 5th-Gen iPod touch Too Thin for an Ambient Light SensorABI Research: App Sizes Hulk Out with iOS Move to Retina DisplaysMacworld UK: Apple May Leverage Passbook as Payment Method in Its Retail StoresApple Pushes...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.16.2012
Barrons: Pacific Crest and R. W. Baird Analysts Still Very Bullish on Apple Macworld UK: Rumor Has New iMac Making the Stage at (Also Rumored) 23 October Apple Event 9 to 5 Mac: Rumor Has New Mac mini Making the Stage at (Also Rumored) 23 October Apple Event EPEAT Verification “Clarification” Makes Way for Ultrathin and Unibody Laptops in Program TMO: Apple Moves to Separate Its Manufacturing from Samsung Amazon and Apple Notify Customers of Possible Store Credit in eBook Case Settlement All...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.15.2012
All Things D: Sources Say Apple Holding iPad mini Event on 23 October Reuters: Sources Say Apple Holding Event on 23 October (Probably for iPad mini) Topeka Capital Markets Analyst Sees Stacks of Third-Party iPad mini Accessories Ready to Roll CNET: Alleged European Retailer Inventory Shows iPad mini Starting at €249 9 to 5 Mac: Source Says Apple will Launch 13-Inch MPB with Retina Display at 23 October Event ChangeWave Survey: Maps Issues in iOS 6 No Issue for Would-Be iPhone 5 Buyers...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.12.2012
Topeka Capital Markets Analyst Says iPad mini Could be Next Big Thing in China Apple Issues 1.0.1 Software Update for New iPod nano iFixit: New iPod touch Not Friendly to Third-Party Repair Apple Apparently Using Crazy-Recyclable Material Inside iPod touch and iPod nano Packaging Apple Wins Stay Against Sales Ban on Some iThings in South Korea Appeals Court Overturns Apple Requested Sales Ban on Samsung-Made Galaxy Nexus WSJ: Apple Poaches Chip Designer from Samsung Google Chairman Talks iOS...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.11.2012
Bloomberg: Fragility of Aluminum Casing May Be Source of iPhone 5 BottleneckPacific Crest Analyst Says iPhone 5 Putting Sizable Dent in CompetitionUN Telecoms Group Hosts Patent Roundtable to Discuss Effectiveness of FRAND-Based LicensingConsumer Advocacy Groups in Italy Announce Class-Action Suit Against Apple Over AppleCareIHS iSuppli: Yearly PC Shipments Likely to Fall for First Time Since 2001IDC and Gartner: Apple Share Grows in Shrinking 3Q PC Sales NumbersGartner Gives Top-Spot in...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.10.2012
Sterne Agee’s Shaw Wu: Concerns Over Apple Are Overdone Munster Sees Increased Ownership of iPhones and iPads Among U.S. Teens Apple Starts Shipping Pre-Ordered Lighting-to-30 Pin Adaptors Apple Starts Shipping Pre-Ordered iPod touches and iPod nanos NPD DisplaySearch Analyst Says 13-Inch MBP with Retina Display Still on the Way Apple Wins Additional Slide-to-Unlock Patent EC Says Ebook Settlement with Apple and Four Publishers Could be Finalized in the Next Couple of Months Patent Troll...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.09.2012
Barrons: Analysts High on iPhone 5 Despite Low Supply in U.S. Topeka Capital Markets Analyst: iPhone 5 Sold Out in Hong Kong; Mainland China Seems to Be Prepping for iPhone 5 in December Developers Spot - What Appears to Be - a New iPhone 4 in the Wings Topeka Capital Analyst: iPad mini May Trump iPad in Terms of Design and May Start Off in Short Supply Apple Insider: Mac mini Supply Drying Up Ahead of a Possible Refresh Fortune Examines One Possible Reason for Apple’s $50 Drop Over the Past...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.08.2012
WSJ Says Apple Looking to Crank Out 10-Million iPad minis This Quarter MacRumors: Developer Spots Apparent Third-Gen iPad Revision in App Analytics Logs iMore: Revised Third-Gen iPad Ready to Roll to Consumers Consumer Reports: iPhone 5 is the Best iPhone Yet (But Not the Best Smartphone) China Labor Watch Says Foxconn Workers Making iPhone 5 at Zhengzhou Plant Went on Strike on Friday Foxconn Says There Were Altercations, But No Strike Zhengzhou Official Says Foxconn Strike Was About 100...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.05.2012
Piper Jaffray Analyst Lowers Last-Quarter iPhone Sales Estimates by 2.2 Million Units; Says It’s Irrelevant to Apple Shares Macworld UK: Carrier EE Lighting the UK’s First 4G Mobile Network on 30 October iPodNN: It Looks Like TV Shows have Landed on Apple TV and in iTunes in the Cloud in Germany Apple Issues Supplemental Updates for Lion and Mountain Lion as Well as a Plethora of Printer Driver Updates Google Adds Street View to iOS Accessible Maps.Google.com Spend an Hour with Steve Jobs...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.04.2012
ComScore: iPhone Grabs 34.3% Smartphone Market Share for August in U.S. iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 Deemed Two of the Top Six Eco-Friendly Phones by iFixIt and HealthyStuff.org Wedge Partners Analyst Sees Worry Over iOS 6 Maps App as a Buying Opportunity Bloomberg Says Ditching Google Maps in iOS was Steve Jobs’ Idea Apple Reportedly Tapping Retail Employees to Help Fix iOS 6 Maps App Indications that Apple May Want to Ditch Intel Inside Macs at Some Point Bloomberg/Businessweek Sources Say Bob...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.03.2012
Sterne Agee: iPhone 5 Sales Only Limited by Supply; Mapocalypse Not Dampening Demand Pew Survey Shows iPad Market Share Dropping from 81% in 2011 to 52% in 2012 (But Tablet Ownership Doubled) Motorola Mobility Withdraws One of Two ITC Complaints Against Apple Center for Democracy and Technology Praises Apple for Privacy Controls in iOS 6 Developers Behind Software for Flip Mino Look for Second Chance with Givit Video Sharing App for iOS Interbrand Names Apple the Second-Most Valuable Brand...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.02.2012
Fortune: Secret Someone Says Invitations for iPad mini Event to Go Out on 10 October Apple Announces 4Q FY2012 Earnings Call for Thursday 25 October Microsoft Reportedly Building News Organization for Retooled MSN Portal Topeka Capital Analyst: October has Been “Rocktober” for Apple Share for Eight of the Last Nine Years 9 to 5 Mac: Some AT&T Customers Seeing Same Cellular Drain When Connected to Wifi Seen By Some Verizon Customers Gizmodo: Alleged Apple Support Email Says Purple Halo or...
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Mac OS Ken: 10.01.2012
Tim Cook Apologies for the Mapocalypse Apple Launches Small Section of Third-Party Map Alternatives in App Store Apple Softens Website Wording Describing Maps in iOS 6 Forbes: Pleasure and Displeasure with the Apple Maps Apology Computerworld: Pleasure and Displeasure with the Apple Maps Apology Munster Stands By 49-Million iPhone Sales Estimate for December Quarter Apple Loses $10 Billion in Market Value on Day of Mapology Forbes: Does Apple Have a Scott Forstall Problem? (Maybe, But It...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.28.2012
iPhone 5 Wave 2 Takes Communicator to 22 More Countries Six US Regional Carriers Start iPhone 5 Sales Today (Some with $50 Discounts) UBS Analyst Lowers Holiday-Quarter iPhone Sales Expectations to 38-Million Units Due to Supply Constraints Some Users See Purple Halo and Purple Flare in Pictures Taken with iPhone 5 Apple Approval Process May Make iPhone 5 Lightning Accessories Slow to Arrive B of A Testing NFC-Free Payment System for iPhone and Android Phones Urban Outfitters CIO Says Chain...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.27.2012
Security Researcher Finds Previously Undiscovered Zero-Day Vulnerability in Java 5, 6 and 7 iPhone 5 Gains First of Many Required Approvals for Sale in China The Verge: Lack of Turn-By-Turn for iOS Turned Apple Off of Built-In Google Maps Barclays Analyst Says Apple Needs to Address Maps Issue (Though He Seems Unclear on How) NYT: Street View Coming to Google Maps Web App “In Two Weeks” Free 20GB of iCloud Storage for MobileMe Transplants Ends Sunday 30 September Amazon Seeks to Have...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.26.2012
Bloomberg: In-Cell Displays and Qualcomm Chips Two Possible iPhone 5 Pinch Points IHS iSuppli Analyst: iPhone 5 Geometrically More Complex Than Previous iPhones Phil Schiller Says Scuff, Scratches and Marks on Aluminum Devices are Normal Stealing of Apple Kit Up 40% in NYC in an Otherwise Low-Crime Year Google Chairman Says His Company Has Not Built a Standalone Google Maps App for iOS; Wishes Apple Had Kept Them Around WSJ: Restrictions Required Apple to Build Special Maps App for China...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.25.2012
Apple Says 5-Million iPhone 5s Sold on Opening Weekend Munster, Bachman and Wu on Seeming iPhone 5 Numbers Shortfall Apple Stock Sees Only Slight Dip on Gap Between iPhone 5 Sales Expectations and Actual Numbers Apple Insider: Apple Reportedly Starting Personal Pickups for iPhone 5 in the States Consumer Reports: iPhone 5 a “Notable Improvement” Over iPhone 4S, Though iOS 6 Maps are Currently Lacking AP: Verizon iPhone 5s Shipping Unlocked and Staying Unlocked According to Verizon Rep Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.24.2012
Piper Jaffray Analyst: iPhone Sales Expected to Reach 8-Million Units This Past Weekend; Store Lines 83% Longer Than Last Year Piper Jaffray Analysts: Small Percentage of AT&T Customers Switching to Verizon with iPhone 5 Business Insider: Did Apple Make Enough iPhone 5s to Meet Huge Demand? Or Was Demand Lower Than Expected? iMore: Thieve in UK, Japan and Tennessee Make off with iPhone 5s Scuffgate! Reports of iPhone 5s Showing Up with Scuffs and Dings iFixIt Teardown of iPhone 5 Reveals a...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.21.2012
Apple Issues Statement on Mapocalypse (Not My name for it, Nor Apple’s) ZDNet: Apple Started Seeking Additional Software Engineers for iOS Maps App Last Week TechCrunh: Lack of Public Transit Directions in iOS 6 Maps App Opens Opportunities for Developers Apple Issued EFI Firmware Updates for 2012 MacBook Air and 2012 MacBook Pro and an SMC Update for Late-2010 MacBook Air Apple Takes Xcode 4.5 Out of beta Cult of Mac: Apple Requiring Screenshots Optimized for iOS 5 for All App Updates Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.20.2012
Apple Releases iOS 6 Nearly Universal iOS 6 Gripe: Apple Maps App Fortune: iPhone 5 Review Are Out; Overwhelmingly Positive AT&T CEO Says “a Lot” of People Seem Willing to Pay Unsubsidized Price for iPhone 5 Wednesday: Lines Forming at Apple Stores for Friday’s iPhone 5 Launch CNET: Publicity Seekers Started Lining Up at Apple NYC Cube Last Thursday 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Updates the iOS Apps GarageBand, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Cards, iMovie, Find My Friends, iPhoto, iTunes U and Remote iLounge:...
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Mas OS Ken: 09.19.2012
Shipping Times for New iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Slip to 3 to 4 Weeks Apple Closes About $700 Sterne Agee Analysts Ups iPhone Sales Expectations for Second Time in a Week Fortune: A Number of Analysts About to Go “Underwater” on Apple Price Targets Apple Opening Five New Stores Between Thursday and Saturday 9 to 5 Mac: Secret Source Says Apple Looking to Build Datacenter of Unprecedented Size in Hong Kong Apple Tops 2012 American Consumer Satisfaction Index for Computers and Tablets Temporary...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.18.2012
Apple Says 2-Million iPhone 5s Pre-Ordered in First 24-Hours, Doubling Record Set by iPhone 4S AT&T Says iPhone 5 Its Fastest Selling iPhone Ever Apple Insider: Financial Analysts Rev Current Quarter iPhone Sales Expectations in Wake of Apple Sales Release Piper Jaffray Analyst: 6-Million iPhone 5s Sold Through Next Weekend a “Worst Case Scenario” Apple Shares Break $700 in After-Hours Trading Report: Apple Tapping Pegatron for 50% to 60% of iPad mini Production Apple Updates Remote Desktop...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.17.2012
Fun With Numbers Without Numbers: The iPhone 5 Pre-Order Sell Out Edition TMO Analysis: Apple’s “Blown Away” Comment a Not So Thinly Veiled Message to Wall Street Maynard Um Expects Better Sales in First Three Days of iPhone 5 Than First Three Days of iPhone 4S Munster: iPhone is Rolex in a World of Timex Smartphones Apple Releases Lightning to Micro USB Connector as Required by EU Law Apple Posts Publicly Accessible “Blueprint” of iPhone 5 to Its Developer Site Bloomberg: Siri Co-Founder...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.14.2012
iPhone 5 Ship Times Slip to Two Weeks After 1 Hr 17 Min of Pre-Orders Wired: iPhone 5 Not a “Worldphone;” Three Makes Required for Global Footprint iPhone 5 on Sprint and Verizon Will Not Support Simultaneous Voice and Data EVen When Connected to LTE Cult of Mac Explains the Lack of Simultaneous Voice and Data on Sprint and Verizon iPhone 5 U.S. Pay-As-You-Go Carrier Cricket Says It’ll Have iPhone 5 on 28 September A Number of U.S. Regional Carriers Confirm iPhone 5 for 28 September Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.13.2012
Apple Introduces iPhone 5 Apple Seeds iOS 6 and Xcode 4.5 Golden Masters to Developers Apple Calls for iOS 6 App Submissions Engadget: iPhone 5 Employs Apple-Designed nano-SIM Standard TUAW: A Bit About the 9-Pin Dock Connector - AKA “Lightning” Apple Introduces New iPod touch and iPod nano Engadget: iPod Classic Lives on Unchanged Apple Redesigns EarBuds Into EarPods; Available Now Apple Shows Off iTunes 11 for October Release (More on That on Friday) Apple Outs iTunes 10.7 with Support for...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.12.2012
A conversation between Macworld/iWorld friends about the next iPhone
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Mac OS Ken: 09.11.2012
FedEx Preps Employees for Surge of Shipments from 21 September to 24 September AT&T Touting 4G/LTE Coverage Ahead of New iPhone Announcement Sprint Touting 4G/LTE Coverage Plans Ahead of New iPhone Announcement T-Mobile Begins “Unlocked and Unlimited” Push Ahead of Anticipated iPhone Release Reports: AntiSec UDIDs Likely Stolen from App Support Firm BlueToad, Not the FBI Piper Jaffray Analyst Expects Record September-Quarter for Mac Sales Despite Apparent Slowing in Growth Apple Insider:...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.10.2012
TechCrunch: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Decked Out for the Wednesday Apple Media Event MacRumors: Yerba Buena Center Display May Hold Hints of “Taller” iPhone WSJ: Secret Sources Say Next iPhone Will Support LTE Apple Tops JD Power Smartphone Satisfaction Rankings for Eighth Consecutive Survey Verizon CEO Makes Case for Samsung (and Any Other Company) to Be the Third Big Mobile OS Behind Android and iOS Computerworld: Analysts Say Kindle Fire HD Won’t Burn the iPad CNET: Apple Working on...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.07.2012
Wu Reiterates Buy Rating and $780 Target on Apple Shares on iPhone 5 and iPad mini Expectations Judge Koh Denies Apple Motion to Rearrange Hearing Schedule on Galaxy Tab and Samsung Phones In Germany: Four Apple v. Samsung Trials Set for Between Now and the End of October Reuters: South Korean FTC and EU Regulators Both Investigating Samsung for Alleged Standards Essential IP Abuse Amazon Drops Price on Ad-Supported Kindle eReader to $69 Amazon Intros Self-Illuminating Kindle Paperwhite...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.06.2012
Apple Says It Did Not Give Hacked UDIDs to FBI or Any Other Organization Wired: So who the Heck is the NCFTA? Nokia Intros Budget-Minded Windows Phone 8 Lumia 820 Nokia Intros Windows Phone 8 Flagship Lumia 920 Nokia Fakes Key-Feature Demo at Lumia 920 Launch Ballmer Declares This “The Year for Windows” Motoroogle Outs Three New Phones at NYC Event Google Chairman Says 1.3-Million Android Devices Activated Every Day The Verge: Amazon May Announce a Phone of Its Own at Press Event Today Cult...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.05.2012
Apple Sends Out Press Event Invitations for Next Wednesday 12 September with "5" in the Text 9 to 5 Mac Expects new iPods to Share Stage Time with New iPhone Next Week TechCrunch: Picture Shows Next iPhone May Still Be Called “New iPhone” Despite “5” in Press Invitation Piper Jaffray Analyst: Assuming a September Launch for the Next iPhone, The Street’s iPhone Sales Expectations May Be Low Wedbush Securities Analyst Ups Apple Target to $885 on September iPhone Launch, iPad mini Next Quarter...
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Mac OS Ken: 09.04.2012
CNET: Hacker Group Posts 1-Million Apple UDIDs Out of 12-Million Allegedly Lifted from FBI Laptop 9 to5 Mac: Genius Bars Running Out of Replacement Units of iPhone 3GS MacRumors: 27” iMacs Grow Scarce at Apple Online Store Macworld UK: Industry Analyst Expects New Look for New iMac Apple Adds Four Samsung Devices - Including Galaxy S III - to Next US Patent Case Apple Argues for Infringing Samsung Phone Fight Ahead of Galaxy Tab 10.1 Injunction Hearing Tokyo Court Says Samsung Did Not...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.31.2012
Oracle Pushes Emergency Update for Java 7 Fixing Zero-Day Exploits Korean Times: Samsung Has a Good Plan, a Bad Plan and a Surprising Plan in Wake of Last Week’s Verdict Reuters: Secret Peeps Say Apple CEO and Google CEO Holding Behind-the-Scenes IP Discussions DisplaySearch: Use of In-Cell Display Panel Could Give Next iPhone Significantly More Battery Space App That Tracks U.S. Military Drone Strikes Rejected by Apple Three Times Amazon: Questionable Claim of “Sold Out” Kindle Fires and...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.30.2012
Macworld: Second Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in Java 7 Polish Security Firm: Oracle Has Known About Java 7 Exploits Since April (Because We Told Oracle About Them) Possible New iPhone Hint: Apple is Buying iPhone 4S Off of Customers Apple Seeds Second beta of OS X 10.8.2 to Developers Apple Adds Live Shopping and Service Help to Online Stores in Brazil, Germany, Spain and the UK Samsung Shows Off ATIV S, the First Windows 8 Phone HTC Chairperson: Samsung Loss No Reasons for HTC to Settle...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.29.2012
WSJ: Secret Sources Say Samsung Talking Carriers About Removing Potentially Infringing Apple Technology from Its Smartphones Samsung Smartphone Ban Hearing Moved to 6 December; 20 September Hearing to Focus on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Injunction Marketwatch: Samsung Smartphones Flood Resale Market Post San Jose Ruling Apple and Motorola Mobility Settle Patent Violation/FRAND-Licensing Case in Germany IHS iSuppli: Smartphones to Make Up 54% of Cellphones Sold Annually by Next Year The Telegraph: Apple...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.28.2012
Cross-Platform Zero-Day Vulnerability Found for Java 7; Affects Windows, Linus and OS X Samsung Bashes Apple for Litigiousness Post Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Verdict Google Issues Statement Defending Itself, Bashing Apple and Leaving Samsung Hanging Out to Dry Samsung Seeks to Have Galaxy Tab 10.1 Temporary Injunction Dissolved; May Seek Damages Due to Sales Block Apple Seeks Ban on Eight Samsung Phones Based on San Jose Court Win Samsung Sees Biggest One-Day Share-Price Drop in Five Years...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.27.2012
Jury in Apple v. Samsung v. Apple Finds in Apple’s Favor; Awards Damages of $1.049 Billion Samsung Issues Response/Rebuke Statement Post-Verdict Tim Cook: Suit Against Samsung Was About Values Apple’s Official Statement Mirror’s Cook Memo Apple Seeks Preliminary Injunction Barring Sale of Patent-Infringing Samsung Products Wired: Effects of the Apple Over Samsung Victory Long-Term USITC Clears Apple of Two Counts of Patent Infringement Against Motorola Mobility and Asks Judge to Reconsider a...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.24.2012
Apple Releases OS X 10.8.1 with General Stability Fixes Apple Seeds First beta of OS X 10.8.2 to Developers Gruber Expects Two Apple Fall Events, One for New iPhone and One for iPad mini The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple Backs Gruber’s “Two Fall Event” Assertion Walmart Drips Price of 16GB iPhone 4S to $148 with a New Two-Year Contract Amazon Holding Press Event on 6 September in Santa Monica, California Likely Tied to New Kindles DoJ Responds to Apple Complaint Against eBook Settlements with...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.23.2012
Needham and Co. Analyst Ups Apple Target from $620 to $750 Piper Jaffray Survey: Half of U.S. Consumers Don’t Feel the Need for 4G/LTE Connectivity; Plan to Get the Next iPhone AT&T on FaceTime Over 3G: Because We Don’t Have to Forbes: Five Reasons Why Google Android versus Apple iOS Market Share Numbers Don't Matter China Telecom Adds 8.35 Million New Subscribers in June Quarter; Credits iPhone 4S for Growth Electronista: 27-Inch iMac Supply Dries Up Ahead of Possible Refresh AppleSeed...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.22.2012
Apple and Samsung Make Closing Arguments; Case Goes to the Jury Samsung Investing $4 Billion to Upgrade Austin, TX Plant That Makes Chips for Smartphones (Including iPhone) TechCrunch: Secret Source Says Verizon Block-Out Staff Vacation from 21 September Through 30 September Electronista: German Carrier Sends Out Email Promoting Arrival of Next iPhone in September TUAW: Consumer Advocacy Group Not Sure AT&T FaceTime Lure to Mobile Share Data Plans Conforms to FCC Rules comScore: Android Has...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.21.2012
CEOs of Apple and Samsung Meet; Fail to Reach Resolution CNET: Judge Koh Concerned Over Potential Jury Confusion in Verdict Phase FBR Capital Analyst Sees Apple Selling 250 Million “iPhone 5s” Over Product Lifecycle iPodNN: A Number of Resellers Running Out of iPod nanos 9 to 5 Mac: German Rewards Program Unable to Deliver “Old” iPod nano Ahead of Expected Refresh Walmart Sells $100 in iTunes Credit for $80 (Plus Your Email and Physical Addresses) The Loop: Apple Boasts 50,000 Genius Bar...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.20.2012
Apple and Samsung Unable to Narrow Their Case Further; Almost Definitely Headed to Jury Verdict Google-Owned Motorola Mobility Brings Seven Charges of Patent Infringement Against Apple Before the USITC WSJ: Apple Joins Google, Samsung, LG and Others in Bidding for Kodak Patent Portfolio iPhone Developer/Hacker Reveals SMS Vulnerability in Every Version of iOS Apple Suggests Using iMessage and Being Careful in Face of SMS Vulnerability AT&T to Make FaceTime Over Cellular Free for Customers...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.17.2012
WSJ Fleshes Out Details on Apple’s Alleged Set Top Box Discussions Bernstein Analyst Uncertain About Apple Working with Cable Companies on Set Top Boxes ISI Group Analyst Reiterates Buy Rating on Apple Shares After Conference Call with CFO SEC Filing Shows Apple’s Sense of Urgency in Buying AuthenTec Apple Files for Patent for “Illuminated Trackpad” Apple Says It Screwed Up in Attempts to Restructure Staffing at Retail Apple Lawyers Not Smoking Crack Say Apple Lawyers Samsung Rests Its Case...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.16.2012
Munster: A New iPhone Launch This Quarter Could Add 6-10 Million in Unit Sales Investor.com Looks at Investment Plays Into the Next iPhone Besides Investing in Apple WSJ: Sources Say Apple Talking With Cable TV Service Providers About Some Kind of TV Something Judge Lucy Koh Urges Apple and Samsung Execs to try Again for a Settlement Apple Calls DoJ Settlements with Publishers in iBookstore Case “Unfair, Unlawful, and Unprecedented” Apple Seeds New Build of OS X Lion 10.7.5 to Developers...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.15.2012
iMore: iPad mini Will Be Thinner and Lighter Than iPad, Though Not Much SmallerIHS/iSuppli: iPad Extends Tablet Lead to Just Under 70-Percent Worldwide in 2Q CY2012Dell, Lenovo and Samsung Announced as Early Vendors for Windows RT MachinesEngadget: Rumor Has Microsoft Surface Tablet for Windows RT Starting at $199Gartner: Android Widens Its Lead Over iOS in SmartphonesSprint Selling 16GB iPhone 4S for $149 and Tossing $100 Gift-Card in as a BonusBusiness Insider: Apple Matching Sprint Gift...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.14.2012
iMore: Secret Source Says Pre-Orders for Next iPhone to Start on 12 September (at Least in the States) BGR: Secret Source Says AT&T Gearing Up to Launch Next iPhone in Third or Fourth Week of September Target and Best Buy Drop Prices on Current iPhones MacRumors: Secret Source Says Apple Matching Other Retailers’ Lower iPhone Prices in its Brick-and-Mortar Stores Microsoft Licensing Some of Apple’s iOS Design Patents in Deal That Includes “Anti-Cloning” Clause Apple Offered Samsung Design...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.13.2012
A look at one journalist's unfortunate run-in with a social engineering hack and ways people can protect themselves with information security professional George Starcher.
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Mac OS Ken: 08.09.2012
IDC: iPhone Grows 27.5% Y-o-Y in 2Q; Controls 16.9% of Smartphone Market Worldwide NPD: iPhone Grabs 31% or US Smartphone Market in 2Q; Samsung Takes 24% iPad Dominates the Tablet Space in China (Not as Big as It Might Be) Apple Offering Refurbished iPad with Retina Display at $50 Discount Fortune: Munster and Reitzes Weigh the Full-On Apple Television Possibilities Jefferies & Co. Analyst Makes Up a Story About Samsung Buying RIM or Licensing BlackBerry 10 Bernstein Analyst Makes Up a Story...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.08.2012
Munster: Google/Apple Split on iPhone Springboard Signals “Phase Three” of the Smartphone Wars Juniper Research: BYOD Tablets and Smartphones to Reach 350 Million Units in the Enterprise by 2014 Bloomberg Looks at the Ridiculously Symbiotic Relationship Between Apple and Samsung Acer Chairman and CEO Urges Microsoft to Abandon Surface Tablet Plans Barclays Capital Analyst Sees Zero PC Growth for 2012 Thanks to Tablets and Confusion Around Windows 8 and Ultrabooks Creative Strategies’ Tim...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.07.2012
Apple Releases iOS 6 beta 4, New Xcode 4.5 beta, and Device-Specific iOS Builds 9 to 5 Mac: Hey! Where’d the YouTube App Go in iOS 6 beta 4? Apple Confirms Removal of Built-In YouTube App in iOS 6 Business Insider: Apple Adds (Though Does Not Explain) “Bluetooth Sharing” to iOS 6 beta 4 Sprint Cuts $50 Off the Cost of iPhone 4S Ahead of Expected Refresh iMore: Secret Source Says All iOS Devices Get Smaller Dock Connector Next Month (Even the 9.7-Inch iPad) Raymond James Analyst Unimpressed...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.06.2012
Email Between Apple Execs Indicates Steve Jobs was (Eventually) Okay with the Idea of a 7-Inch iPad Schiller Talks Exponential iPhone Growth and Risk of the iPad at Samsung Trial RBC Analyst Says Apple Could Sell 40 Million iPad-minis in Year One 9 to 5 Mac Sources Say AT&T Stores Dropping Computers and Checkout Counters for iPads (Eventually) Business Insider: Secret Sources Say Apple Considering a Purchase of Social-Commerce Site “The Fancy” Apple Offers Mac Integration Certificate...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.03.2012
This Week’s Show Sponsored by Vimov - Makers of the Recently Updated Weather HD 2 JP Morgan Analyst Still Worried Over iPhone Sales While Reiterating “Overweight” Rating on Apple Shares Barclays Capital Analyst is REALLY Excited About the iPhone After the Next One Shaw Wu Surprised by 12 September iPhone Rumors, But Has No Problem Believing Them eBay Says Smartphone Trade-Ins Up 70% Since 12 September iPhone Stories Started This Week New President of Sharp Says His Firm Starts Delivering...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.02.2012
This Week’s Show Sponsored by Vimov - Makers of the Recently Updated Weather HD 2 NPD DisplaySearch Expects 7.85-Inch Panel Production for “iPad mini” to Start This Month Topeka Capital Markets Analyst Thinks Record July for Wintek Means Work on “iPad mini” has Begun ComScore: iOS Gaining on Android (Though Android is Still Growing) Business Insider: Apple Only Has Apple to Blame If iPhone Sales Are Weak This Quarter BGR: Sources Says AT&T Retail is Steering Customers Away from iPhone, an...
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Mac OS Ken: 08.01.2012
This Week’s Show Sponsored by Vimov - Makers of the Recently Updated Weather HD 2 Bloomberg and Reuters Buy Into Talk of Apple Event on 12 September The Loop: Jim Dalrymple Says “Yep” on 12 September iPhone Event Canalys: Apple No. 1 in PCs (Again (If We Count iPads as PCs (Again))) and There’s a Rough Year Ahead for the Windows World Google Delays Nexus Q Shipments While it Tries to Give the Device More to Do Hulu Plus Lands on Apple TV Appeals Court Says Samsung Can Keep Selling the Galaxy...
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Mac OS Ken: 07.31.2012
This Week’s Show Sponsored by Vimov - Makers of Weather HD, Which Gets a Really Pretty Update Today Apple Says OS X Mountain Lion Downloaded Over 3-Million Times in First Four Days Apple Seeds Lion 10.7.5 beta to Developers iLounge: Secret Source Seems to Confirm Mid-September iPhone Announcement All Things D: September 12 Date for Apple Event “Confirmed” Strategy Analytics: iPhone Gains Share and Android Loses Share in 2Q CY2012 Versus 2Q CY2011 Jury Selected in U.S. Apple v. Samsung Trial...
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Mac OS Ken: 07.30.2012
This Week’s Show Sponsored by Vimov - Makers of Weather HD, Which Gets a Really Pretty Update on Tuesday iMore: Secret Sources Says New iPhone and iPad Mini to be Announced on 12 September Best Buy Reduces iPhone 4 Price to $49.99 (with New 2-Year Contract) Apple Agrees to Buy Biometrics and NFC Firm AuthenTec for $356 Million Apple Purchase of AuthenTec Could Be Slowed by Shareholder-Related Investigation NYT: Apple Was Thinking About Investing in Twitter at One Point and May Think Again...
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Mac OS Ken: 07.27.2012
Apple v. Samstuff: Court Documents Show Apple Pulling in 49-58% Gross Margins on iPhone and 23-32% Gross Margins on iPad Apple v. Samstuff: Court Documents Reveal Prototype iPhones and iPads Apple v. Samstuff: Samsung May Try to Use Sony-Inspired iPhone Design Exercise Against Apple in Trial Apple v. Samstuff: Documents Show Awareness by Samsung Employees of Similarities to Apple Products, Perhaps Enough to Confuse Consumers Apple v. Samstuff: Documents Show Google and Designers Warning...
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Mac OS Ken: 07.26.2012
Apple Releases Mountain Lion 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Re-Issues Up-to-Date Promo Codes for Mountain Lion RoaringApps.com Shows Application Compatibility with Mountain Lion Before Making the Upgrade Apple Issues MacBook Air Firmware Update 1.6 to Bring Mountain Lion’s “Power Nap” to Mid-2011 MacBook Airs Apple Releases Safari 6.0 Apple Updates iWork, iPhoto, iMovie and Aperture Apple Updates iWork for iOS Titles to v1.6.1 to Add iCloud Synchronization Apple Updates Xcode, Remote Desktop and iTunes U...
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