Apple should get a jump on the tablet competition Wednesday by dropping the price of the iPad and expanding its distribution, an analyst said today. Not that he expects Apple to follow his advice.
"They're not going to drop the price, that's not going to happen, maybe not until later this year," said Stephen Baker, an analyst with retail research firm NPD Group.
It appears that after seven months, Apple is still having difficulty coming to terms with the fact that hackers are targeting iTunes accounts to purchase apps and artificially inflate the revenue received, particularly apps originating from the developer account of “Hongbin Suo”.
Apple seems to be set to release a cheaper iPhone after the company's executives made some uncharacteristically frank comments during an analyst meeting with Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi. Chief operating officer Tim Cook appears to have all but confirmed a cheaper iPhone is in the works.
Developers have noted an interesting feature in progress within the Mac OS X Lion release - the ability to continue an application poised to crash.
When Lion encounters an app that raises an exception and fails to properly handle it (essentially throwing an object in the air and filing to catch it), it now offers the user the choice of either allowing the app to crash or a new option of continuing to allow the app to run.
This week, Apple is widely expected to introduce the next version of its popular iPad.
Apple’s media invitation to the San Francisco event features an iOS calendar icon for March 2, its upper-right corner peeled away to reveal the edge of an iPad. That not only removes any questions over the focus of Apple’s announcement, but also poses a challenge to Motorola, whose Android-based Xoom tablet just hit store shelves.
Apple's lead designer Jony Ive is said to be on the cusp of cashing in some $30 million in stock options, and eyeing a move back to his home country of the U.K.
According to the Times of London (behind a paywall, via TUAW), Ive, the senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, was given a "golden handcuffs" option grant in 2008. Since then, the amount has grown so much that Ive's profits could amount to $30 million in U.S. dollars.
The benchmark results for Apple's latest MacBook Pros are in—and they’re impressive. In testing conducted by Macworld Lab, the laptops released Thursday turned in Speedmark scores between 13 and 53 percent faster than the systems they replace.
Apple’s new line of MacBook Pro laptops released yesterday (Feb. 24) comes with Thunderbolt, an advanced data port that, according to one security expert, could also serve as a gaping hole for hackers.
In appearance and function, a Thunderbolt port — a high-speed interface for connecting external devices such as hard drives, video cameras or display monitors — is similar to a USB port.
It's enough to make an Apple fanboy weep, but iFixit has gone out and bought a brand new 15-inch MaBook Pro 2011 and pulled it to bits.
According to the spudger-wielding nutcases at the gadget repair web-site, the MacBook gives up its secrets a lot easier than some Apple hardware, forsaking the irritating panatlobe screws it sometimes favours for good old Philips jobs.
Apple on Thursday released a developer preview of Mac OS X Lion, which takes some of the best ideas the company has conceived for the iPad and brings them back to the Mac for the eighth major release of the flagship operating system due this summer. The beta also reveals a handful of previously undisclosed features such as AirDrop and FileVault. Among Lion's core features are:
