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- Six years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone
- Apple now locking App Store screenshots to cut down on scamming
- Apple slashes $49 Thunderbolt cable to $39, adds new $29 option
- Anobit founder on pressures at Apple: everything has to be amazing
- Samsung looks to China as Apple cuts chip orders
- iPad Inc: Apple tablet earns more than McDonald’s on Fortune 500
- Tablets to crush notebooks in 2013 as PCs become trucks
- CES 2013: $150 Pebble smart watch starts shipping January 23
- Why your iPhone should always be locked
- Verizon activates 9.8M smartphones in Q4 amid a ‘higher mix’ of iPhones
| Six years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone Posted: 09 Jan 2013 04:57 PM PST
As I look around and I see all of the touchscreen smartphones and tablets on the market, I think, it’s hard to believe that Apple started all of this 6 years ago. That’s right, 6 years ago today, Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld ’07 and unveiled the long-awaited iPhone. Now, you can argue that there were smartphones before the iPhone, even touchscreen phones. But you can’t say that Apple didn’t change the mobile landscape forever that day in the Moscone Center. And as tribute, we’ve got videos of the keynote and more after the fold…(...) "Six years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Apple now locking App Store screenshots to cut down on scamming Posted: 09 Jan 2013 04:07 PM PST
Have you ever downloaded an app on your iPhone or iPad, and it didn’t look anything like the screenshots in the App Store? If so, you wouldn’t be alone. Switching screenshots after Apple has approved an app has become a popular tactic for scammers. But we have some good news this afternoon. Apple announced to developers today that, starting this week, all App Store screenshots will be locked after they are approved. And they’ll stay that way until a developer submits a binary for an app update…(...) "Apple now locking App Store screenshots to cut down on scamming" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Apple slashes $49 Thunderbolt cable to $39, adds new $29 option Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:13 PM PST
As is the case with the new Lightning I/O, part of the reason why Apple’s official Thunderbolt cable costs fifty bucks is the authentication chip and electronics inside the connector on each end of the cable. So if you’re in the market for a Thunderbolt cable, there’s some good news: Apple has generously slashed the price of the 2-meter Thunderbolt cable by ten bucks, from $49 to $39. And in order to appeal even more to price-conscious buyers, the company is adding a new 0.5-meter cable to the mix, priced at $29…(...) "Apple slashes $49 Thunderbolt cable to $39, adds new $29 option" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Anobit founder on pressures at Apple: everything has to be amazing Posted: 09 Jan 2013 01:10 PM PST
Apple snapped up Israeli startup Anobit, a fabless designer of flash memory controllers, in December 2011 for a reported $390 million. It was a typical acqui-hire, a talent-related acquisition, that brought Anobit’s engineers under Apple’s wing to improve the efficiency of flash storage in its products. For the first time since the transaction, former Anobit CEO Ariel Maislos, who left Apple last month for personal reasons, has shared a few juicy details on what it’s like to be working for the man and how Apple goes about its engineering process…(...) "Anobit founder on pressures at Apple: everything has to be amazing" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Samsung looks to China as Apple cuts chip orders Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:40 AM PST
Samsung is preparing for the day Apple – its rival and largest customer – stops placing orders with the South Korean corporation. Ahead of a CES keynote speech, a Samsung executive said it is looking to court Chinese smartphone makers which use the company’s own Exynos-branded chips. After a string of contentious court battles, Apple is planning to untangle itself from Samsung, finding new suppliers. Although Apple is expected to spend $80 billion with Samsung for everything from CPUs, flash memory and flat screens, the paycheck could shrink 80 percent by 2017, according to a Wall Street analysis…(...) "Samsung looks to China as Apple cuts chip orders" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| iPad Inc: Apple tablet earns more than McDonald’s on Fortune 500 Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:55 AM PST
Has all the gloom-and-doom talk about the iPhone and iPad gotten you down? Are you worried Apple’s three-year-old tablet is a bit long in the tooth – especially against Samsung and other Android devices? Well, turn that frown upside down. The iPad isn’t going away. Indeed, one analyst says iPad sales are bigger than McDonald’s, Nike and many other Fortune 500 companies. In 2012, iPad sales reaped $32 billion, amounting to 60 percent of tablets sold. If the iPad was a company, it would be eleventh largest tech firm in the United States, says Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi. We won’t see a repeat of that in 2013, however. No, the iPad is expected to rake in an astounding $46 billion and grow 75 percent…(...) "iPad Inc: Apple tablet earns more than McDonald’s on Fortune 500" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Tablets to crush notebooks in 2013 as PCs become trucks Posted: 09 Jan 2013 09:57 AM PST
The argument over whether tablets should be classified as PCs could soon be moot. Shipments of devices such as Apple’s iPad are expected to overtake notebook PCs in 2013. The cause: tablet (iPad) shipments are growing by double-digit percentages while PC demand is falling off a cliff – even in emerging markets…(...) "Tablets to crush notebooks in 2013 as PCs become trucks" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| CES 2013: $150 Pebble smart watch starts shipping January 23 Posted: 09 Jan 2013 09:31 AM PST
The Pebble project has gone a long way since its early Kickstarter days. In fact, last April it became Kickstarter’s most highly funded project to date. Nine months later, the customizable electronic-paper watch gets its release date as the company just confirmed in a media conference that the E-Paper Watch will be shipping to its backers on January 23…(...) "CES 2013: $150 Pebble smart watch starts shipping January 23" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Why your iPhone should always be locked Posted: 09 Jan 2013 08:59 AM PST
Los Angeles-based stand-up comic, actor and writer Chris D’Elia is funny as hell and he sat down with Conan O’Brien to talk pranks involving reaching someone’s unlocked iPhone and tweeting out something very embarrassing, probably involving your parents. Your video is right past the fold…(...) "Why your iPhone should always be locked" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
| Verizon activates 9.8M smartphones in Q4 amid a ‘higher mix’ of iPhones Posted: 09 Jan 2013 08:34 AM PST
Verizon announced it activated 9.8 million smartphones during the holiday 2012 fourth quarter. In a statement to federal regulators, the nation’s largest carrier said there was a “higher mix of smartphones”, causing some observers to believe the wireless provider sold more than 5.3 million iPhones during the three-month period. Rival AT&T yesterday told the Securities and Exchange Commission it sold 10 million smartphones during the fourth quarter, prompting one analyst to suggest the Dallas-based carrier sold at least eight million Apple handsets…(...) "Verizon activates 9.8M smartphones in Q4 amid a ‘higher mix’ of iPhones" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. |
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