May 2013
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207 Days of Silence →
Apple has been silent for 207 days now. No new products. No new services. No new apps. Only incremental updates and bug fixes. 207 days of nothing. Is this silence about to be disrupted by a big “bang” at the WWDC 2013?
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Apple TV to get first network television app with... →
The CW Network is bringing its shows to the Apple TV with a new app, reports Deadline. That makes it the first TV network to make its content directly available to viewers on the set-top box rather…
I call this: market experimentation. Apple is definitely testing a lot of things with its Apple TV: markets, TV app designs, APIs, etc.
[Update]: Is Apple ready for ATV SDK announcements at...
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Made In USA?
If Apple does assemble Macs in the US, I would expect it to be a low sales, easy to manufacture models like the Mac mini.
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Mobile malware exploding, but only for Android →
Malware targeting mobile devices is rapidly growing in both the number of variants found in the wild and in their complexity and sophistication, but the only platform being actively targeted is Google’s Android, which researchers now say is resembling Windows on the desktop PC.
More and more obvious that Android is just a glorified and repeating story of the PC story.
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Daring Fireball Linked List: As of Today, Every... →
I would have liked Gruber to say why he thinks Apple doesn’t do iTunes for Android (beside the obvious problem of platform fragmentation). Is it a marketing choice? Would this be perceived as a failure to dominate with iOS? Is it because the lack of engagement of Android users wouldn’t add much to Apple’s bottom line?
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On Facebook Home Apparent Failure →
Beside a great design, there must be a need to fulfill. Apparently, Facebook Home wasn’t on anybody’s wish list.
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Surge in Apple's iOS 7 Usage Revealed in Web... →
While websites and developers have been seeing low levels of hits from iOS 7 devices for several months, as of last week we noticed a significant…
I’m still waiting for the first iOS 7 spy shots (real or fake)…
Anonymous asked: hi, i am writing an essay about apple's organisational culture after steve jobs' death. can you tell me something about that? Thank you!
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Bill Gates thinks your iPad is frustrating without... →
Frustrated with your iPad’s lack of Office and no physical keyboard? Probably not but that doesn’t stop Bill Gates from believing it. Serving as the lone hero for Microsoft’s compromise PC-tablet (…
Being stuck in the old days.
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J.P. Morgan: The ‘Budget’ iPhone Would Kill... →
Apple has a history of pricing its budget devices well beyond the consensus on what the device “needs” to be priced at to be competitive. The iPad mini launched at $329, when analysts said it needed to launch at $249 to compete with the likes of the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7. The iPad mini is now the most popular 7-inch tablet in the world. Likewse, the iPod nano launched at $199, when analysts...
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TV as we know it will morph into something else where channels will be replaced by apps. And who is well positioned for this?
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NYT article accuses Apple of not doing enough to... →
Smartphone manufacturers and wireless carriers could be doing a lot more to counteract iPhone and other mobile device thefts, security experts and industry observers say in a New York Times report that singles out Apple.
Next up: Apple’s responsability of the global warming.
April 2013
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The Next Killer Feature in Smartphones →
For a long time now, our smartphones have been getting more and more, well, smart. They do more things. You probably havenât beaten your phone at chess in years. And the race to cram increasingly granular, eventually useless, features into them has defined the past few years of phone making. Except the next big waypoint wonât be some technological marvel like week-long battery life. Itâs...
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iPhone 6 Killer Feature →
If the statement reported by BGR is true about the 2014 iPhone aka the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 5S, don’t expect the latter to have fingerprint scanner in it. This will be one of the killer feature of next year iPhone beside a larger display.
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“In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe...”
– BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins during an interview at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles yesterday.
Oh boy. Heins may want to check with Apple on their tablet business, because it sure seems like a good model.
There are some quotes that I’m pretty sure will come back to bite someone in...
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Daring Fireball Linked List: The Latest Knock on... →
So people keep buying older and cheaper iPhone models and some think it is a bad thing for Apple’s bottom line. Let’s hope these guys aren’t the same who ask Apple to do a cheaper iPhone. Remember, the iPhone 4 is currently selling for 0$ on contract.
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A World Without Android →
Certainly a valid point of view. Carriers have a love and hate relationship with Apple. Someone else would have given what they wanted in order to get market share an compete against Apple.
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“97% of iOS users can use Google Now (iOS 5.0+). 25% of Android users can use...”
– @franktisellano
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OS X 10.9 to Bring Enhancements to Finder, Safari,... →
9to5Mac shares some details on Apple’s upcoming OS X 10.9 operating system, noting that the update will focus in large part on…
Less and less low hanging fruits?
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“Prior to iPad mini 2 launch, Apple might roll out a more affordable iPad mini to...”
– KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
He doesn’t get it. Apple don’t fight at the low end. The iPad mini is still in pretty much high demand. Why is it so hard to understand?
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Loyalty Gives Apple the Edge Over Android →
I think Apple’s strengths are twofold: brand loyalty and the ecosystem. Both combined creates a powerful juggernaut that isn’t easy to compete against. Having great hardware alone isn’t enough (Samsung), having services isn’t enough (Google), having loyal users alone doesn’t cut it.
Apple has both and listening to Tim Cook’s comments on the last conference...
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What The WWDC 2013 Logo Hints About The Future Of... →
Personally, my interpretation of this year WWDC icon is this: rounded squares are representing apps. They are obviously stacked on top of each other. I would say they become a whole by being connected to each other hence producing something greater than the sum of its parts. The blended color reflects this. On iOS this could mean a more complete and full feature inter-app communication APIs.
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Anonymous asked: What do you expect we will see at WWDC?
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#WWDC 2013 →
In only three days, one year ago, Apple was announcing WWDC 2012 dates. Anxious to see when WWDC 2013 dates will be made public.
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iPhone sales projections are now so low it’s... →
Pretty much everything we read about Apple in the technology and finance press is ridiculous these days.
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Is Apple Looking For A Replacement For CEO Cook? -... →
Tell me something: what kind of drugs this guy is using?
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"Apple's focus on customers will seed future... →
These days, “analysts” seems more interested in generating page hits than looking intelligent. Tim Cook and his team focus will serve Apple well in these tumultuous times.
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On iPhone Naming Scheme →
Agreed. Lets call the next iPhone, the iPhone 6. I always felt weird about the iPhone naming scheme used by Apple.
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Flooding the Market with Android →
I explain the market share of Androïd by the systematic dumping of Androïd devices by mobile operators. How? They give (literally) smartphones to people who just don’t care about apps and mobile surfing. Many of them just want to place calls or send text messages. This explain why Androïd users seem to be less engaged, why profits aren’t there and why the vast majority of developers...
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Apple's Stubborn Attitude →
Completely agree with this. Essentially, but refraining to allow trials, demos and the like in its App Store, Apple is forcing developers to lower their price in order to entice users to buy their apps.
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On Apple Storing Siri's User Requests for Two... →
I’m in shocked. Really? I hope that Apple keep my requests to Siri so it can improve it of valid statistical samplings.
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BlackBerry 10 launch by the numbers: Over 50%... →
Ouch.
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Nearly six months without any major announcement from Apple. A record?
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Will it Ever Top? →
Samsung, is there an end in sight for the ever increasing side of your smartphone?
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The App Store - In Need of a Major Cleanup →
OK Apple, now that you’ve removed AppGratis, why not look at the other thousands of really useless apps that just don’t generate sales as you seems to be unable to fix discoverability problems in your store. Thank you.
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PC Sales Slip - PC Companies With Them →
Look at HP, Dell. What do they offer in the tablet space? How much are they present in the tablet space? If HP, Dell and the like doesn’t beef up their offerings in this area, they risk extinction. Period.
More and more people are buying cars, less and less trucks.
Oh, and speaking of dinausors, maybe, just maybe Office in 2014 doesn’t matter anymore. And here goes one of the most...
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Executive found to run Apple Retail; looks... →
parislemon:
Erica Ogg for GigaOm:
Ron Johnson is out as CEO of J.C. Penney. After less than two years on the job, it’s not quite clear what the next step would be for him. Luckily for him, it just so happens that Johnson’s former employer, Apple, has an opening for someone with his qualifications: SVP of Retail.
Yes, that’s Johnson’s old job, the one that he held for more than 10 years. And...
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On iPhone naming schemes →
iPhone naming schemes isn’t an obvious thing. But Apple seems to have fixed this with the iPad. Why not with the iPhone?
Phil Schiller already said that it doesn’t want Apple to be too predictable. What does it mean for the next iPhone?
“Today, we’re introducing the new iPhone” (aka iPhone 5S or iPhone 6)
“Today, we’re introducing the seventh...
