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Weekly Recap: App Store, Emoji, Advertising and Black Friday



Advertising Budgets, Commercials and Retail Stores

Another Apple commercial showcasing the iPhone 3G’s speeds was banned due to “misleading claims.” Also, Apple and Microsoft’s advertising budgets were compared to each other, and Apple’s notebooks get dipped in a little more green.

READ → – Apple Ad Banned in Britain, Black Friday Sales Have Begun
READ → – New Apple Commercial Shows Intentions With Going Green
READ → – Apple’s Entire Ad Budget: $486M, Compared to Vista’s $300M
READ → – Apple Retail Stores Will Now Match Competitors’ Prices
READ → – Apple Store Munich Opening December 10th, Bavarian iPod Patterns

Emoji Icons, Thoughts for the $25 billion, and Free Software

Thanx to a clever developer, users outside of Japan have been made privy to the use of Emoji icons. The debt-free cash Apple has saved in the bank could be used for…. and Steve Jobs quietly replies to another email.

READ → – How to Enable Emoji Icons Outside of Japan
READ → – How Apple Could Spend Its $25 Billion Cash
READ → – Five Places Microsoft Gets It So Wrong
READ → – Steve Jobs Sends High School Student Free Software

App Store Situations and Lawsuits

It’s no surprise that the way Apple runs the App Store has left a lot of people baffled. This weekend was no exception as Google admitted to breaking some App Store rules, and BdEmailer was approved. As usual, Apple’s legal team is still hard at work.

READ → – Apple Surprisingly Approves Landscape Email App BdEmailer
READ → – Google Admits to Knowingly Breaking App Store Rules
READ → – Apple Sends Cease and Desist Email to Public Wiki Site, Bluwiki
READ → – Patent Infringement Lawsuit Targets iPhone and Mobile Web Surfing

Speculation, Analyst Opinions and Black Friday

Apple is investigating graphics issues in their Macbooks. Former Beatle Paul McCartney thinks that record labels are holding up the Beatles/iTunes deal, and the good old netbook rumor resurfaced, this time from a different source. Additionally, Apple was expected to release its “deepest” and most significant Black Friday deals yet. While the deals offered were at a nice discount, nothing was especially surprising or different from previous years.

READ → – Apple Is Investigating Gaming, Browser Related Graphics Errors
READ → – Beatles iTunes Deal Stalls, Runs Into Further Delays
READ → – Analyst Weighs In On Apple’s Future, Netbook, iPhone, Macs
READ → – Analysts Maintain Strong Buy Ratings for Apple (AAPL) Stock
READ → – Apple Announces Black Friday Event on November 28th
READ → – Analysts says Apple’s Black Friday deals aren’t good enough

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