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Why I cut the (cable) cord
Watching TV and movies at home doesn't mean having to shell out a lot for cable. At least, not anymore.
FORTUNE -- For years, access to a large selection of TV and movie content meant shelling out for cable. If you wanted premium content from channels like HBO or Showtime, there were extra fees, and if you sought to record those shows via DVR, you paid more still. When all was MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 20, 2012 11:23 AM ET -
An Apple TV set in 2012?
The hardware is the easy part. The trick is to get Hollywood on board
"Apple enters markets to reinvent them," wrote Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster in a note to clients Tuesday reiterating his oft-repeated conviction that Apple's (AAPL) next big thing is an Apple-branded television set.
To be sure, Munster has scaled back his expectations since he predicted that the company would sell 6.6 million Apple TV set-top boxes in 2009 and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 1, 2012 7:02 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Eddy Cue, Hollywood, iPhone, iTunes, Piper Jaffray, Steve Jobs, television, Television set, Tim Cook -
Steve Jobs' disruptive best-of-television service, revisited
As rumors of a "real" Apple TV heat up, ideas that could upend the industry resurface
In late 2009, the Wall Street Journal ran a story that sent shivers through the television industry.
Quoting unnamed sources familiar with Apple's (AAPL) negotiations, the Journal reported that CBS (CBS) and ABC (DIS) were seriously considering Steve Jobs' plan to offer TV subscriptions over the Internet.
One form those subscriptions might take, according to these sources, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 28, 2011 4:23 PM ETPosted in: ABC, Apple, Cable television, CBS, iTunes, Shaw Wu, Sterne Agee, Steve Jobs, television, Wall Street Journal, Walt Disney -
Today in Tech: Mark Zuckerberg apologizes (again)
Fortune's curated selection of newsworthy tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you every day.
* Facebook, which is inching closer to an IPO, reached a settlement with the FTC after the federal government accused the social networking champ of engaging in "unfair and deceptive" practices regarding privacy, including the act of making user information public without warning or consent. Facebook will now MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 30, 2011 10:30 AM ET -
Apple's Black Friday savings by the numbers: 7% to 16%
Biggest savings on Macs. Best deals on accessories. But beware the malware.
Apple (AAPL) posted its Black Friday sale prices at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time Friday and they were exactly as rumored.
The savings on Apple-branded products range from a high of 15.94% on $69 accessories like the Magic Trackpad to 7.02% -- less than the sales tax in 25 states -- on the $299 Time Capsule 2TB.
A guide to the best deals:
WARNING: MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 25, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Black Friday, iMac, iPad, iPod touch, iTunes, MacBook, Magic Trackpad, malware, Microsoft, Time Capsule, Trojan, Windows, Worm -
iTunes Match is immediately over-subscribed
Apple advises would-be users to come back in an hour
Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Match service, which missed its October deadline, went live Monday morning and promptly became over-subscribed. Visitors were advised to come back in an hour. I'd give it a day or two.
The $24.99 per year service scans the music in your iTunes library and matches it to the music available on the iTunes store. Songs that don't match are MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 14, 2011 1:16 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Why the Kindle Fire is good for Apple
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* Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes met with Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer. According to Reitzes, the company believes Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet could actually be good for them, fueling further fracturing, or fragmentation, of the Android platform and driving potential consumers to the iPad. (Business MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 4, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
Bizzaro valuations: Amazon (P/E = 100) vs. Apple (14)
Even after Tuesday's free-fall, Amazon's shares cost seven times more than Apple's
It's never been adequately explained to me why Amazon's (AMZN) shares are so expensive and Apple's (AAPL) so cheap.
Both stocks were punished after reporting their most recent quarterly earnings. Apple fell $23.62 (5.6%) last week when the company came in with iPhone sales that were lower than analysts expected, reducing profit growth to 54%. Amazon fell $10.46 (4.4%) Tuesday MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 26, 2011 7:21 AM ET -
Steve Jobs and Me: A journalist reminisces
Fortune contributor Brent Schlender shares some of the stories and personal photographs he collected during more than two decades as Steve Jobs' chronicler and confidant.
FORTUNE -- Most of us who wrote in depth about the brilliant career of Steve Jobs sooner or later came to realize that we were complicit in the making of a modern myth. You simply couldn't avoid it. And while it is true that Jobs was MORE
Oct 25, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Steve Jobs: 'My worst and stupidest staging event'
Among the highlights of the excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs in the current issue of Fortune is the story of how Jobs repaired Apple's (AAPL) relationship with Microsoft (MSFT) just in time to get Bill Gates to participate in his 1997 MacWorld keynote. Jobs waited until the end to introduce, after a dramatic pause, Apple's new partner and investor. Suddenly Gates' face appeared, to boos and catcalls, on a giant screen.
"That was my MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 24, 2011 12:40 PM ET
