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GameStop CEO talks iOS devices
The videogame retailer has started accepting trade-ins of used Apple products -- and that may mean a bigger change for their business.
By Daniel Roberts, reporter
FORTUNE -- The news that GameStop stores are buying used Apple devices alongside traditional consoles and video games hit the Web this week and went viral almost immediately. Many bloggers began stating outright that the chain will also sell new Apple devices, such as the iPod MORE
Sep 9, 2011 3:34 PM ET -
Stevie Jobs, aka Stevie Wonder
FORTUNE -- When Steve Jobs stepped down in August as Apple's CEO for health reasons, it got us thinking about the arc of his spectacular career. His product presentations became rock star events that continually disrupted the industry. --Anne VanderMey
Here are a few of our favorite facts about Steve.
1.7 MB: The memory of Apple's Lisa in 1983 -- enough for one or two photos. The PC's price tag? $10,000. MORE
Sep 9, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Steve Jobs' real legacy: Apple Inc.
Without hype or fanfare, Steve Jobs has been quietly making sure his beloved company is built to last.
FORTUNE -- The last time Apple chairman Steve Jobs appeared in public before resigning as chief executive in late August was not at one of Apple's meticulously choreographed product launches. It took place in the unremarkable chambers of the Cupertino City Council, where Jobs made an unannounced appearance in June to unveil plans MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Sep 8, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: A peek at Amazon's new Kindle
Fortune's curated selection of the long weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
"I am TechCrunch and TechCrunch is me." -- Michael Arrington (The New York Times)
* David Carr over at The New York Times looks at TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's path to becoming a venture capitalist and how his latest move -- Crunch Fund -- further complicates TechCrunch's editorial MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 6, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon Kindle, Android, AOL, Apple, Cover Flow, Gamestop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Jonathan Ive, Jony Ive, Justin Bieber, Michael Arrington -
Text of Beijing embassy cable on Apple's China crackdown
Who knew the U.S. government kept such close tabs on Apple's dealings with China?
On Tuesday, CNN.com reported that in 2008 Apple (AAPL), in an attempt to crack down on the proliferation of fake Chinese iPods and iPhones, recruited the team that had helped Pfizer (PFE) shut down factories turning out bogus Viagra pills.
The piece, by CNN's Mark Milian, was based on a detailed memo obtained by Wikileaks and singled out on MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 30, 2011 8:01 AM ET -
How Apple works: Inside the world's biggest startup
From Steve Jobs down to the janitor: How America's most successful - and most secretive - big company really operates.
Editor's note: This article appeared in the May 23, 2011 issue of Fortune magazine. A shorter version of it originally appeared on Fortune.com on May 9, 2011.
FORTUNE -- Apple doesn't often fail, and when it does, it isn't a pretty sight at 1 Infinite Loop. In the summer of 2008, when MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Aug 25, 2011 10:59 AM ET -
Corporate antibodies: Why Apple is immune
Horace Dediu puts his finger on the difference between Steve Jobs and Léo Apotheker
In a wide-ranging rumination that takes its starting point in 2001 -- when HP (HPQ) was courting Compaq and Apple (AAPL) was launching the iPod -- Horace Dediu's Critical Path podcast Tuesday touched on everything from Renaissance painting to the death of the HP TouchPad at the hands of CEO Léo Apotheker.
But for me the heart of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 24, 2011 10:29 AM ETPosted in: 5by5, Antibodies, Apple, Asymco, Compaq, Critical Path, Hewlett-Packard, Horace Dediu, iPod, Léo Apotheker, Nokia, Steve Jobs, TouchPad -
Eating Apple's dust
Why can't HP, Dell, Sony or Samsung compete with the iPad and MacBook Air?
The old conventional wisdom was that any advantage Apple (AAPL) gained in the marketplace was necessarily short-lived. Competitors licensing widely available operating systems -- from Microsoft (MSFT) or Google (GOOG) -- would soon undercut Apple's premium pricing and steal its market share. Case in point: The army of Android phones that now commands roughly 50% of the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 14, 2011 9:59 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, iPod, Jason Cross, Jen-Hsun Huang, MacBook Air, Microsoft, Motley Fool, PC World, PCs, Sony, Tablets -
How the iPad is like hybrid corn
Charlie Wolf invokes "Diffusion of Innovations" in raising his Apple price target to $540
In Everett Rogers' classic text on how innovations percolate through societies, he describes how hybrid corn, despite 20% higher yield and resistance to drought, took two decades to become ubiquitous in the farms of Iowa. High-tech innovations spread more quickly these days, but they too follow Rogers' S curve, from early adopters to mainstream use to late MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 6, 2011 7:47 AM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, Charlie Wolf, Diffusion of Innovations, Everett Rodgers, Google, Hybrid corn, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mobile, Needham & Company, smartphone, Tablets -
Today in tech: Airbnb's horror story
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"Consoles today are 40% of the game industry, so what do we really have? We have a new hardware platform, and we're putting out software every 90 days. Our fastest growing platform is the iPad right now, and that didn't exist 18 months ago." -- Electronic Arts CEO MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 28, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Airbnb, Brian Chesky, Electronic Arts, iPad, iPod, John Riccitiello, Scott Belsky, TechCrunch
