Apple seems to have no desire to sell cheaper smartphones, according to a report from Citigroup technology analyst Richard Gardner.
Meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer yesterday, Citigroup analysts discussed a variety of topics with the two executives, notably the smartphone market.
Asked about the sustainability of Apple ‘s average selling prices and margins for (more…)
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Smartphone users chomping at the bit for the next iPhone could get a taste of it by June.
The latest rumors about Apple ‘s flagship phone suggest that the iPhone 5 could be announced in June at Apple ‘s next Worldwide Developers Conference. This latest report comes from analysts at Daiwa Securities as reported by the Chinese newspaper Commercial Times.
The folks at 9to5Mac are predicting (more…)
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Just a few months before his death, Steve Jobs was envisioning a major refinement to the iPhone camera as he met with the CEO of a company expanding the boundaries of photography.
Though the iPhone 4S camera delivered improvements in megapixels, sharpness, and performance, Jobs as usual wanted to push the envelope even further, according to 9to5Mac’s advance peek at a new book called “Inside Apple ” (more…)
The ITC has given a preliminary ruling that Motorola does not infringe on several of Apple ‘s patents, among them key multi-touch patents.
The plot thickens in the Apple vs Motorola war. To recap, Motorola sued Apple late in 2010, claiming that Apple infringed on 18 of its
. Among those were some essential patents which won a
over in Germany last month. In October of 2010,
, claiming that they violated numerous software patents, including several (more…)
Thunderbolt cables.
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The cable for charging and transferring data from iPhones, iPods and iPads could soon undergo another major shift, switching to technology that could speed up both tasks.
In a freshly published patent application, picked up by Patently Apple this morning, Apple details a new type of cable that blends together increased power and faster data transfer technologies, including (more…)
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Apple may have sold more than 12 million iPhones in the U.S. alone during the last three months of 2011, says Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley.
Sales heated up across all three of the phone’s U.S. carriers. Although Verizon kept pushing its new 4G LTE phones, the carrier racked up record iPhone sales of 4.2 million for the quarter, more than double the number sold in the previous quarter.
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Apple is expected to ship as many as 30.3 million iPhones this quarter, says investment firm Susquehanna.
That estimate is up from the firm’s prior projection of 27.1 million. And for Apple ‘s full fiscal 2012 year, which started in October, the company could ship as many as 111.4 million iPhones, up from Susquehanna’s previous estimate of 104.4 million.
The changes to the forecast stem from (more…)
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Despite the growth of Google’s Android Market, Apple ‘s App Store is still the top dog among mobile app stores.
Looking at different app stores this past year, research firm Distimo found that Apple ‘s iPhone app store alone generated four times the revenue seen by Android Market. Apple ‘s iPad store came in second in the sales race.
The standings were compiled by looking at the total revenue (more…)
Steve Jobs talks up the A5 processor at an Apple event in March.
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The processor running in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is being produced in Texas, a new report claims.
According to Reuters, citing sources, Samsung is producing the Apple A5 processor at a new 1.6-million-square-foot factory in Austin. The facility, which went into full production earlier this month, cost Samsung $3.6 billion. (more…)
Last month, we found out that U.S. Cellular - the sixth largest
. It was revealed by US Cellular’s CEO Mary Dillon.
Fierce Wireless reports that while speaking at the UBS 39th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference, TDS (parent to U.S. Cellular) CEO Ted Carlson has this excuse to give why U.S Cellular does not offer Apple ‘s iPhone :
“We’re never going to say never about the iPhone . The iPhone for us would need to be at (more…)
