Shortages of iMacs and Mac Pros signaled long overdue product updates
[UPDATE: Apple, as expected, released new iMacs and Mac Pros Tuesday. The iMacs start at $1,199. The Pros start at $2,499 and can be configured with up to 12 processing cores. Press releases, with specs, here and here.
There's also a new $999 27-inch Cinema Display (specs) and a $69 wireless multi-touch trackpad accessory for desktop Macs.
Last -- and least MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 27, 2010 8:16 AM ET
There may be less to the Copyright Office's iPhone ruling than meets the eye
Image: Today's iPhone
If you pay full price for a piece of hardware -- say an iPhone -- it seems only fair that you should be able to do with it whatever you want. Hit it with hammer. Drop it in a blender. Mess with its operating system. You bought it. You own it.
The cat-and-mouse game hackers MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 26, 2010 5:27 PM ET
How the Apple CEO may have changed the course of the hit ABC show with one comment back in 2005.
by Patricia Sellers, editor-at-large
from left to right Carlton Cuse, Barry Jossen, Damon Lindelof, and Anne Sweeney
Steve Jobs, as we know, has dramatically changed computers, movies, music, mobile phones, and more. Turns out, the Smartest CEO in Tech -- as Fortune calls the Apple (AAPL) boss in the current issue -- MORE
Jul 26, 2010 1:56 PM ET
Yes, says a Romanian mathematician. But not as much as Microsoft.
Click to enlarge: Source: Nicolae Mihalache Ciurdea
Having run-up an even $100 (62%) over the past year, it's hard to think of Apple as a bargain at $259.10 a share. But that's how you should look at the stock, according to a historical analysis of Apple's share price sent to us over the weekend by Nicolae Mihalache Ciurdea, a Romanian mathematician MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 26, 2010 11:21 AM ET
By centering its strategy around the smartphone, and with Google as a partner, the company may just have a chance.
by Laura Rich, contributor
Not too long ago, it was Motorola-who? The Razr's leadership had fallen off, and Nokia was gobbling up mobile handset market share. The revenue losses were devastating -- down $2.35 billion from Q4 2007 to Q4 2008. Internally, the mobile division at Motorola (MOT) was a mess, racing MORE
Jul 26, 2010 11:11 AM ET
A new rumor today says Google is frantically putting together a deal which would grant the company license to sell music directly.
Google is said to be in "accelerated" talks with the Harry Fox Agency, which is the largest owner of mechanical music licenses in the Unites States, to build out its Music store. A mechanical license is described as:
Within the music industry, a mechanical licence gives the holder permission to create MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 26, 2010 9:50 AM ET
YouTube videos -- some wild, some less so -- document iPad's launch in 9 countries Friday
iPad customers in a Hong Kong mall. Video: neonpunch via YouTube
For future anthropologists who may someday write doctoral theses on how different cultures greeted the arrival Apple's (AAPL) tablet computer, we submit as evidence the videos below the fold.
The iPad launched in nine countries Friday, but how that launch was greeted varied widely.
There were MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 25, 2010 11:57 AM ET
Changes to the developer agreement may signal a new means of paying for apps in Google's mobile OS.
On Friday, Internet legend Tim Bray announced on the Android developer blog big changes to the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA):
Please note that we have updated the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA). This is in preparation for some work we're doing on introducing new payment options, which we think developers will like.
In MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 25, 2010 11:47 AM ET
Analysts either don't believe Apple's revenue guidance, or they're deliberately low-balling it
Click to enlarge. Source: AAPLinvestors.net
Anybody who follows its earnings reports can tell you that Apple (AAPL) guides conservatively, under-estimating its forward-looking numbers to demolish them at the end of the quarter.
Only once in the past 23 quarters -- in the summer of 2006 -- did it miss its revenue guidance, by 0.7%. In the other 22 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 25, 2010 6:13 AM ET
Short answer: it's a pain. That's good for Apple and Amazon, but not many others.
Left to right: Living Social's Tim O'Shaughnessy; Gilt's Susan Lyne; Slide's Keith Rabois (Photo: Matt Slaby, Fortune)
Consumers badly want to help buying stuff on the Web. It turns out it's not as easy as we'd think it'd be by 2010.
Gilt Groupe's Canadian customers, for example, run into so many roadblocks using their credit MORE
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