Apple announced this morning that WWDC tickets are going on sale tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. PT. But are you a full-time student that loves programming for iOS or Mac OS X? If so, you may want to hurry up and take advantage of an offer the Cupertino corporation has listed on its website. (more…)
Apple on Wednesday morning announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place June 10th – 14th in San Francisco. The event will take place at its traditional Moscone West venue, with tickets going on sale tomorrow at 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern) for $1,599.
WWDC is a weeklong event that features hundreds of hands-on workshops and technical sessions by over 1,000 Apple engineers. The sessions cover a wide range of topics about iOS and OS X technologies. (more…)
Just moments ago, Apple announced its financial earnings results for the second quarter of the fiscal year. And for the second consecutive quarter, the Cupertino-based corporation posted record-breaking numbers with $43.6 billion in revenue thanks to strong sales in each of its main product categories.
During the three month period ending in March, Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones, 19.5 million iPads and just under 4 million Macs. In the year-ago quarter, comparatively, Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads and 4 million Macs. (more…)
Remember that time when late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said an iconic phrase that went something along the lines of, “you’re holding it wrong”? The year was 2010, and Apple had just recently debuted its flagship iPhone 4 that June. Unfortunately, due to an engineering mishap, the handset suffered from a major cellular data connection problem. Essentially, if you held the iPhone in your hand and gripped the sides in a certain way, the smartphone would instantly drop in bars and lose its reception.
The situation caused a lot of backlash from the Apple community, but Jobs and company refused to believe that the problem was as big as people made it out to be. Instead, they held a press conference where Jobs made that aforementioned remark, and offered affected customers with an opportunity to get a free “Bumper” case for their device. A year later, Apple would fix the problem when it released the iPhone 4S with changes to its antennuation. But not before a class action lawsuit was filed against Apple and won, and those people are finally getting their $15 checks. And that’s that.
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A quick reminder that Apple will be announcing its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year at 4:30 PM Eastern, with many Wall Street analysts on edge about how the Cupertino-based corporation performed during the three month period. Despite increasing sales and revenues from its products, Apple has been heavily scrutinized about its future outlook due to increasing competition and shrinking profit margins.
Yahoo Finance (via 9to5Mac) predicts that Apple will report upwards of $42.5 billion in quarterly revenues, based on analyst’s sales predictions of 36.5 million iPhones, 18.3 million iPads, 4.1 million Macs and 6.25 million iPods. In January, Apple posted its best quarterly financial results ever in the aftermath of a strong holiday shopping season. Yet, since that time, its stock has fallen from the $700 mark to around $400 per share.
We’ve known for a while now that Twitter doesn’t really care for third-party clients, and we have also known that Twitter doesn’t see a future for Tweetdeck — a fairly popular client that relied on custom panes to display tweets — on mobile.
Therefore, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Twitter will be killing off Tweetdeck for iPhone and Android, as well as Tweetdeck on Adobe AIR, on May 7th. From then on, the app will literally not work for anyone, due to the API ceasing to function correctly. In addition, the remaining Tweetdeck applications (which exist on platforms like Windows, Mac, and as a Chrome web app) will no longer offer support to post Facebook updates.
In the digital age that we live in, it has become increasingly commonplace for large corporations — Apple, Google, and the likes — to track everything about us. What we’re doing, and when we’re doing it. What we’re buying, and when we’re buying it. Who we’re friends with, and who they’re friends with. What we like, and what we dislike. Maintaining privacy in the online realm can be extremely challenging.
Having said all that, it’s unsurprising that Apple has officially claimed that it keeps the personalized data that you provide to Siri on record for up to two years. In other words, Siri doesn’t forget. While it’s unknown exactly what information Apple keeps on file, one can imagine that it might involve anything from your previous searches and commands to your personal contacts and messages. While the data is kept anonymous, it’s still a sobering situation. (more…)
Earlier in the week, case manufacturer Tactus shared photos of cases that were supposedly designed for the next generation iPad. These cases fell in line with what we expect from the next iPad, showcasing a slimmer design with smaller bezels. Today, that same company shared photos of what they say is the shell of the purported low-cost iPhone. (more…)
When Siri was launched alongside the iPhone 4S, it was truly a unique product in many ways. While voice assistants had existed in similar forms, Siri was the first mobile voice interface that truly worked – but that title didn’t last long.
Users on Android, long accustomed to having an incredibly feature-rich device, soon were provided with an alternative in the form of Evi. Evi, which was also available on iOS, has apparently been sold to Amazon for roughly $26 million. (more…)
The competitive rivalry between iOS and Android has now been going on for over five years, and the two software platforms continue to fight each other in a two-horse race for supremacy in the mobile space. No other mobile operating system even comes close. Not Windows Phone. Not BlackBerry 10. Not anything. So, who is winning the iOS vs. Android war?
Time reporter Harry McCracken has collected and compiled statistical data about iOS and Android from various research firms, with most of the information being from this past fourth quarter or later, to provide a glance at the battle from a numerical perspective. Based on numbers, and solely numbers, the mobile platforms war looks something like this. (more…)