Most Apple (AAPL) rumors will eventually come true -- if you wait long enough.
The hot one this weekend, launched by AppleInsider and embellished by the sites that feed like pilot fish on its scraps (see here), is that the company has told its resellers that supplies of iMacs -- Apple's most popular desktop computer -- will be "constrained in the immediate future."
"A sign," writes AppleInsider's Katie Marsal, "which this late MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 31, 2009 6:58 AM ET
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here's five grand worth of Apple (AAPL) news in charts and lists released over the past couple of days.
1. Web Brands. Apple scored No. 10 in Nielson Online's ranking of the top Web brands based on the number of unique visitors each site drew in December 2008 -- which isn't bad considering Apple.com's focus is so much narrower than the brands it's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 30, 2009 12:35 PM ET
For much of last year, AT&T (T) Mobility's websites seemed to be promoting every cell phone in their arsenal except for the iPhone -- as if the company wasn't sure the revenue coming in from iPhone users was worth the steep bounty it was paying Apple (AAPL) for each sale.
No more.
Today when you visit its website, a promo for the iPhone 3G ("Now Available Online!") is often the first thing MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 28, 2009 12:12 PM ET
In the end, they split it down the middle.
On Tuesday, International Business Machines (IBM) announced that it has resolved the lawsuit against a newly appointed senior vice president at Apple Inc. (AAPL) that was, for a brief moment last November, the hottest story in technology -- a bi-coastal drama that pitted one of the world's largest and most established computer companies against one of the brashest.
The case involved Steve Jobs' MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 27, 2009 3:10 PM ET
Good news is hard to come by these days, so here's a nugget about a business that's found a silver lining in the economic clouds.
I grabbed breakfast this morning with Serguei Sofinski, CEO of Intermedia, a privately held software-as-a-service company that sells a browser-based version of Microsoft (MSFT) Exchange e-mail that customers use for a pay-as-you-go monthly fee. Sofinski's business isn't immune to the economic climate – he didn't see MORE
Jon Fortt - Jan 27, 2009 2:53 PM ET
Tim Cook must have known.
One day before Apple's acting CEO told Wall Street analysts that his company would not stand for having its intellectual property "ripped off" -- a remark clearly aimed at certain iPhone-like features of the Palm Pre -- the U.S. Patent Office awarded Apple Patent No. No. 7479949.
This 358-page document, originally filed on Sept. 5, 2007, is the mother of all iPhone patents. Signed by 21 Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 27, 2009 7:47 AM ET
Where was the new iMac that Apple watchers expected Steve Jobs -- or rather, Phil Schiller -- to unveil at Macworld?
In a report to clients issued Monday, Kaufman Bros.' analyst Shaw Wu says it will be out before March, or June at the latest, and he offers three reasons that the refresh of Apple's best-selling desktop machine is running behind schedule. According to his latest supply chain checks:
Apple hasn't yet MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 26, 2009 1:30 PM ET
The bad blood between Apple (AAPL) and Palm (PALM) that bubbled to the surface last week has a history that long predates Palm's launch of the Pre, a smartphone that flatters Apple more sincerely than any of the other iPhone imitators.
When asked at Apple's earnings call last Wednesday how the iPhone was going to going to stay ahead of competitors nipping at its heels, you could hear the heat in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 26, 2009 11:53 AM ET
The famous Ridley Scott "Big Brother" commercial -- shown once on Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 22, 1984 -- was only a teaser.
The Mac's real 25th birthday dates from Jan. 24, when the machine went on sale and a dapper-looking Steve Jobs -- dressed in double-breasted blazer and green bow tie -- unveiled it at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts near Apple (AAPL) headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
You're likely see MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 24, 2009 5:08 AM ET
I'm not sure I buy it, but Slate's Karim Bardeesy makes an interesting -- if slightly tongue-in-cheek -- case that Apple owes it to the country to join the ranks of the money changers.
The situation is dire, he says. The giant banks that took those taxpayer billions last fall aren't lending it out, and credit is getting desperately tight. "If only someone, some company could step up as an MORE
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