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Apple Resellers Given Hints to Stop Resupplies?

Apple may be prepping resellers for coming product updates as they have been  quietly given subtle hints to stop orders of Mac-minis, MacBook Pros, iPods and Cinema Displays, reports MacRumors.

This may be coming in connection with the rumored Apple event set for September 9th, that may bring us more than just new iPods. Details remain [...]

[Feature] True Copy-and-Paste Should and Will Only Come From Apple

Copy-and-paste has been a long missing and heavily debated feature on the iPhone. Many analysts have speculated about the reason for its absence, and recently OpenClip.org even offered up a third party framework to allow copy-and-paste between applications on the iPhone. The core feature however will remain missing until Apple officially introduces the way [...]

Apple Acknowledges 3G Reception Issues; Last Update Improves 3G Communication

Despite Apple’s recent accolades from the American Customer Satisfaction survey released this week, Apple is still struggling to hedge consumer complaints regarding the recent induction of the iPhone 3G and MobileMe to their ongoing arsenal.

Apple released a software update this week that “partially fixes” the connection issues that have caused a global uproar for those [...]

Apple Gives Mobile Me Subscribers An Additional 60 Day Extension

All Mobile Me subscribers have been given an additional 60 day extension. In an email sent out tonight, Apple explains the following:

We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users’ patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day [...]

Former Apple Employee Blogs About Apple Internals (Again)

Former Apple Emlpoyee, Chuq von Rospach has blogged about Apple’s internals before. Having worked on Apple’s email lists for many years, Rospach understand certain aspects of the company, and lucky for us, he blogs about them too.

Blogging in response to the on-going 3G Network issues people are having with the iPhone 3G, Rospach had lunch [...]

[Feature] Does Apple Have a Dark Cloud Over Its Head That Won’t Go Away?

Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has some of the strongest brand reputation and customer loyalty in the world. The silicon valley tech giant has an extremely solid foundation of users and an enormous amount of general trust from their devoted customers. But since July 9th, Apple has had a rather large cloud hanging over its head.

This past [...]

Former Apple Employee Spills The Beans on Apple’s Internal Internet Projects

Chuq von Rospach, a former Apple employee who worked behind the scenes on Apple’s email lists, for a very, very long time, spills the beans on what it’s like to work for Eddy Cue, the new head of the Mobile Me team, who is reporting directly to Steve Jobs.
The following is taken from Chuq von [...]

Sprint Execs Love the Instinct; Dismiss iPhone as a Threat

Sprint Execs have learned to love the Instinct handset. In fact, the only time you see them without one in their hands, is when someone nearby has an iPhone they’re playing with.

In Sprint’s second-quarter performance discussions with Wall Street analysts this morning, the company’s execs made it abundantly clear that they are not threatened by [...]

[Image] 2009 Apple Cinema Displays; What We’d Like to See

Earlier today we reported about a rumor that new Cinema Displays are set to be released at the upcoming MacWorld conference in San Francisco scheduled for January, 2009.

The below concept art represents some nice changes that Apple could make to bring the Cinema HD Displays up to speed. Aside from the obvious LED changes that [...]

[Feature] Apple’s Communication Lacking; Should Call Google for Some Mobile Me Help

We have been given public apologies from Apple, 3 blog posts from David G., and seen a leaked internal e-mail where Apple CEO Steve Jobs calls Mobile Me a disaster. When are we going to see the leaked email where Apple asks Google for some Mobile Me help?

Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) controls nearly 80% of the [...]

Apple; $20.8 Billion in Cash, No Public Plans and a lot of Speculation

Apple’s heaping pile of cash continues to sit around accumulating low level interest. While most shareholders claim to be bothered by the lack of this money’s use. The debt-free Cupertino based technology company claims to be preserving their flexibility, by letting the sum build up.

“Apple Inc. (AAPL) shareholders haven’t had much to carp about, with [...]

Is Apple Planning a Solid State Drive Option in All Upcoming Notebooks?

Amidst all of the ongoing hoopla regarding Apple’s upcoming notebook overhaul, not much attention has been given to the possible inclusion of Solid State Drives, which would cement the need for the custom chipsets we’ve recently been hearing about.

We’ve already seen various third parties install Solid State Drives into Macs where Apple doesn’t offer the [...]

Steve Jobs Doesn’t Owe You Anything; His Health Should Stay a Private Matter

I am sick of hearing analysts and whiny Wall Street pundits clammoring about how Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ health is not a private matter. The bottom line, in fact: His health is entirely a private matter, and should remain that way.

For the sake of a fair disclaimer, let me start off by stating that I [...]

Macbook Touch? Think Again. Completely Re-vamped Notebook Line Instead?

A recently republished rumor from our friends over at MacDailyNews about an upcoming Macbook Touch has recently attracted major attention across the web. So much so, that even the Wired Gadget Lab, not particularly known for endorsing or spreading mac rumors, has written about the elusive device as well. However, amongst all of the ongoing [...]

Source Close to Apple Says Steve Jobs’ Cancer has NOT Returned

Arik Hesseldahl reports on BusinessWeek.com that he has spoken with a source very close to Apple, who has been very well informed about Apple’s Senior Executive members in the past. The source states that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has in fact, not had a return of pancreatic cancer.
After the earnings call last night I talked [...]

Apple’s Stock Price After the Q3 Earnings Call. Time to Buy? YES!

Apple held a quarterly conference call at 2pm Pacific Time yesterday to report recent earnings, future financial goals and give their shareholders, the public and the media some insight into how the company is doing during this economic downturn.

Before the conference call, Apple shares (AAPL) were trading at around $166-$172/share, even hitting $189 on [...]

Japan and iPhone: Afraid to Commit

By now we all know that the iPhone 3G was a huge success on it’s debut weekend.  Now the question is:  Will its international popularity hold up, or did first weekend sales boom due to curiosity for the sleek device?
With Apple announcing 1 million iPhone 3G sales in the first three days, they neglected to [...]

Apple Business Models; Rest of the World Should Take Notice

Today, an article published in Advertising Age online caught my eye: Written by guest columnist David Murphy, it explores the possibility of applying the lessons learned from Apple’s success (mainly that of the iPhone) to other business models, specifically that of the auto business. The author presented the question: What would [...]

Apple: iPhone “Copy-and-Paste” a low-priority; Turn-by-Turn GPS too Complicated

Apple has officially gone on record stating that copy-and-paste for the iPhone is not a top priority, thus attempting to rationalize its absence from the current iPhone OS.

Apple product head Greg Joswiak, in an apparent attempt to clear things up about the iPhone’s lack of copy-and-paste, has said that the absence of this feature was [...]

Apple share targets hit $287. Still relatively low.

Apple, Inc. (Stock ticker: AAPL) has been on a financial tear since unveiling the iPhone in June, 2007. Exactly a year ago yesterday the stock closed at $125.09, today it hovers in the low $180’s. Within the last year, Apple’s stock price rose as high as $202.96 before it was pummeled all the way back [...]