7
Aug
Posted on 2010 under Apple |
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The Register has this to say about on of the new Apple patent filing: Apple has apparently lifted the look-and-feel of an iPhone app from German developer FutureTap and used it in a software patent application, putting that developer in a sticky situation.
“I can’t really judge whether the inclusion of a 1:1 copy of our start screen in someone else’s patent is legal,” wrote FutureTap founder Ortwin Gentz in a posting on his company blog. “I just have to say, it doesn’t feel right.”
Here is that screenshot:
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Apple,
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21
Jul
Posted on 2010 under Apple |
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Apple announced their Q2 2010 financial results a while back. Very cool numbers – iPhone 4 and iPad have pushed the number to greater heights. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $15.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, compared to revenue of $9.73 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.83 billion, or $2.01 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
Quarterly iPhone unit sales reached 8.4 million, up 61 percent from the year-ago quarter, and the company also sold 9.41 million iPods during the quarter, representing 8 percent unit decline over the year-ago quarter. The company also sold 3.27 million iPads during the product’s launch quarter.
“It was a phenomenal quarter that exceeded our expectations all around, including the most successful product launch in Apple’s history with iPhone 4,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad is off to a terrific start, more people are buying Macs than ever before, and we have amazing new products still to come this year.”
“We’re really pleased to have generated over $4 billion of cash during the quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the fourth fiscal quarter of 2010, we expect revenue of about $18 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $3.44”
Conference Call Highlights
- CFO Peter Oppenheimer going over quarterly results: highest quarterly revenue ever, surpassing most recent holiday quarter.
- Driven by iPad launch, as well as strong iPhone and Mac sales.
- Detailing Mac sales: Record of 3.47 million beats last holiday quarter by over 100,000; outgrew market in both desktop and portable segments.
- iPod sales down slightly, but iPod touch up 48% year-over-year. MP3 player market share still over 70%.
- iTunes Store revenue over $1 billion in revenue this quarter.
- iPhone: Over 1.7 million iPhone 4s sold in five launch countries, iPhone average selling price of $595.
- Passed cumulative sales of 100 million iOS device sales during the quarter.
- 3.27 million iPads sold in 10 countries during the quarter, average selling price of $640.
- Retail revenue up 73%. Mac sales units up 38%, half sold to new-to-Mac customers. Opened four U.S. stores, 2 in Australia, and 1 in Canada during the quarter. Record 60.5 million customers served.
- Gross margin of 39.1, well above guidance. Strong performance due in part to smaller-than-anticipated effect of iPad and iPhone margins.
- Cash and marketable securities up to $45.8 billion.
[via - Macrumors]
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Apple,
iPhone 4
14
Jul
Posted on 2010 under Apple, Rumors |
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AppleInsider has something exciting to report - Apple is drumming up excitement amongst its retail employees, hinting this week that something revolutionary will soon be introduced within its international chain of brick-and-mortar shops.
The news was shared with employees via an internal news bulletin, according to people familiar with the matter. However, details were scarce outside of text that teased the unknown product or service would be innovative enough to make a ‘big’ impact.
According to those same people, the internal article text was supplemented by a collection of video clips that featured Apple Retail employees reciting phrases such as “It’s coming!,” and “It’s going to be big!”
[via - AppleInsider]
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Apple
20
Apr
Posted on 2010 under Apple, iPhone 4 |
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Gizmodo finally got a formal letter from Apple:
And Gizmodo goes on to say – This phone was lost, and then found. But from Apple’s perspective, it could have been considered stolen. I told them, all they have to do to get it back is to claim it—on record. This formal request from Apple’s legal department is that claim. It proves—if there was any doubt in your mind—that this thing is real.
To read Gizmodo’s formal reply, click here…
[via - Gizmodo]
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Gizmodo,
Apple
27
Mar
Posted on 2010 under Apple |
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Gizmodo has shares some interesting pictures of Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt sharing some thoughts at a coffee shop in Pal Alto. Looks like they are getting along well. Gizmodo has done Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt’s Body Language Analysis as well. Its pretty interesting:
I thought Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt looked a little tense during their meeting today, and body linguistics expert, Janine Driver, who used to be an officer for the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, agrees. Awkwardness: confirmed.
[via - Gizmodo]
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Google,
Apple
13
Mar
Posted on 2010 under Apple |
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The US trademarks tribunal has rejected Apple’s claim to the letter “i”. If this claim was accepted, small companies wouldnt have been able to use this alphabet.
[via - TiPb]
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Apple
18
Feb
Posted on 2010 under iPhone Duniya |
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By now we all know Apple doesnt like Google. This wasnt the case a few years back. Apple used to love Google for their brilliance and how they defeated Microsoft in the web space. And Google loved Apple’s brilliance in the retail space. I am sure not many would know the story behind how these long term friendship turned hostile. Check this pictorial timeline, brilliantly created by GigaOM:
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Google
18
Feb
Posted on 2010 under AppStore |
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Looks like the US ITC is getting tougher against Apple and Research In Motion. Yesterday Diane Bartz from Reuters. reported that the U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an investigation of Research In Motion and Apple smartphones that contain digital cameras after receiving a complaint from Eastman Kodak Co.
“The trade body on Wednesday said it voted to open an investigation [U.S. ITC case number is 337-TA-703] after Kodak alleged patent infringement by Canada’s Research In Motion Ltd., maker of BlackBerry smartphones, and Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone,” Bartz reports. “‘The products at issue in this investigation are smartphones with built-in cameras,’ the agency said in a statement.”
Bartz reports, “Kodak said it wants compensation for the use of the technology and is open to talks with Apple and RIM. But it is asking the ITC to prevent Apple and RIM from importing infringing devices, including certain mobile telephones and wireless communication devices featuring digital cameras.”
[via - Reuters]
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RIM,
Apple,
Kodak
20
Jan
Posted on 2010 under Apple, Rumors |
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Looks like the iPhone wont have Google as the default search engine sometime in the future. Macrumors shared this interesting rumor – BusinessWeek sources have reported that Apple and Microsoft are currently in negotiations to replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone with Microsoft’s Bing.com.
The talks have reportedly been underway for weeks.Businessweek cites the increasing rivalry between Google and Apple as one of the reasons behind the discussions. “Apple and Google know the other is their primary enemy,” says one of the people, who’s familiar with Apple’s thinking. “Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle.”
[via - Macrumors]
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Google,
Apple,
Microsoft
