John Gruber on how different smartphone manufacturers negotiate with carriers: Android handset makers: Here are our phones. How would you like us to change them so that you will sell them? Microsoft: Here’s $200 million. Please sell our phones. Apple: Here is our new phone. It comes in black or white. We will let you [...]
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Negotiating with carriers
Jan 12
Apple has taken the wraps off the Fifth Avenue store glass cube with 75 less glass. Work on the 32-foot glass cube took almost four months to finish. Via AppleInsider
Apple opened its fifth Apple Store in China and its third in Shanghai today. Considered to be the largest in China, the store opened its doors to 500 customers waiting in line. The five-story retail store is located at East Nanjing Road and houses 300 employees ready to serve 40,000 customers per day. Apple is [...]
After vilifying and casting Apple as Big Brother during Google’s I/O conference last week… : If Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice. That’s a future we don’t want. …Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google, then backpedals: Well, [...]
Mark your calendars for April 8th. Apple has sent out an invitation to various media outlets for an event on April 8, 2010, 10 a.m. Pacific at the company’s Cupertino campus. The invitation shows the shadow of the number “4″ with the words “Get a sneak peek into the future of the iPhone OS”. One [...]
Steve Jobs turns 55
Feb 24
Today marks Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs’ 55th birthday. Happy birthday, Steve. More power to you.
Apple released EFI firmware updates for the MacBook and MacBook Pro as well as SuperDrive Firmware Update 3.0 MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.4 and MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.8 will eliminate the noise made by the optical disk drive during system startup and wake from sleep on MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. When installation [...]
The latest data from market research firm NPD Group shows Apple performing very well in U.S. PC sales for the month of October. The 21.5-inch iMac and 27-inch iMac are in first and third place, respectively, under the desktop category while the low-end 13-inch MacBook Pro took the top spot in notebook sales figures. Apple [...]
iPhone news mash-up
Dec 6
Just a quick rundown of iPhone-related news and bits for the past week or so. New iPhone in the horizon iPhone analytics firm, Pinch Media, has gotten the word out that the next generation iPhone is already in the wild. MacRumors says that Pinch Media’s iBart application for the iPhone has logged a device that [...]
I finally got my hands on a 5G iPod nano for review. The video camera plus the other new features makes the 5G iPod nano a great gift for the holiday season. Check out my review.
Just an update regarding the Apple Store Philippines regarding shipping times. Both 21.5-inch iMac models are now estimated to ship within 2 to 4 business days, the low-end 27-inch will ship within 3 to 5 business days while the quad-core iMac has an estimated shipping time of 5 to 7 days. The rest of the [...]
A study has revealed that after less than three years in the market, Apple has become the third largest smartphone maker in the world, shipping 7.04 million iPhones during the quarter which ended in September of 2009, thus grabbing 17.1% of the world’s smartphone market share. The same study from research firm Gartner also showed [...]
Apple last quarter sold more than 3 million Macs, 10 million iPods, and 7 million iPhones, resulting to what is considered to be the company’s most profitable fiscal quarter, earning $9.87 billion in revenue and a net profit of $1.67 billion. Revenues were up 24% and profits rose 46% when compared to last year’s fourth [...]
U.S. teens love Steve Jobs
Oct 14
For his entrepreneurial prowess, that is. A study by Junior Achievement, a non-profit youth organization focused on education, has revealed that Steve Jobs is the most admired entrepreneur among those surveyed. A group of 1,000 U.S children, aged between 12-17, gave Steve Jobs the top slot with 35% of the vote, with the two-thirds of [...]
