04/14/2010
New York Times
Apple is tightening its already firm grip on what software can run on the iPhone and its other mobile devices, as shown by its recent changes to the rules that outside programmers must follow.
The company is locked in a battle with other cellphone makers, particularly those using Google’s Android operating system, for [...]
01/25/2010
New York Times
Apple’s move to open up the iPhone to outside programmers in 2008 started a software-writing frenzy. Giant companies and bedroom tinkerers alike rushed to get their applications into the App Store and onto the phone’s 3.5-inch touch screen.
Ge Wang, co-founder of Smule, which makes music apps like Ocarina, said a tablet “could [...]
01/19/2010
Wall Street Journal
HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc.
HarperCollins is expected to set the prices of the e-books, which would have added features, with Apple taking [...]
12/29/2009
EE Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In January 2007 Steve Jobs stole the spotlight from the crowd at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas when he announced the iPhone at MacWorld in San Francisco. Analysts say Jobs could pull a second scene stealer this year if Apple debuts an expected mobile tablet device.
A combination Apple [...]
12/22/2009
San Francisco Chronicle
Apple is looking at disrupting the cable TV industry much the way it did the music industry. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks with big TV networks like ABC and CBS to create paid subscription services that package broadcast and cable shows on an either a la carte basis [...]
12/02/2009
AppleInsider
Though Apple striking a deal with the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., Verizon, would be ideal, competitors T-Mobile and Sprint are more likely to carry the iPhone in 2010, one analyst believes.
With 89 million total customers, Verizon is the top prize in terms of the four major U.S. carriers. Apple is currently in [...]
11/19/2009
Barron’s
Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi this morning weighed in with a fascinating look at the under-appreciated boost Apple (APPL) gets from a highly attractive licensing arrangement for 3G radio patents held by Qualcomm (QCOM).
With the iPhone, he notes in a research report, Apple will take an estimated 9% of the global handset market in [...]
11/13/2009
Macworld – Online
Apple may be feeling the Android heat. The company has changed the way it deals with iPhone app developers letting them now keep closer tabs on how their software is proceeding through Apple’s strict App Store review process. Many see the move as yet another step by Apple to keep app store developers [...]
10/26/2009
Financial Times – San Francisco Bureau
The Apple iPhone, which has been setting the bar in touch-screen smartphones, could soon be overtaken by an army of Google-powered handsets.
Android-based phones – handsets that use the open source Google mobile operating system – are on the march as non-iPhone carriers look for a rival to Apple’s device.
Since its [...]
10/23/2009
All Things Digital
Analysts mulling over Nokia’s IP infringment suit against Apple seem to be of two minds about how the action will play out. There are those, like Neil Mawston at Strategy Analytics and Ben Wood at CCS Insight, who warn that Apple (AAPL) is on dangerous ground here at best. It’s almost impossible to [...]
