Over a half-billion apps downloaded since July 11 launch. The last time Apple mentioned a milestone, back on Dec. 6 of last year, the company was celebrating the availability of the 10,000th application, as well as 2.3-million daily and over 300-million total downloads.
There are as many questions as answers about Apple’s fate without CEO Steve Jobs. It seems that most investors are very nervous about the prospects.
There are severe rumblings on the Steve Jobs front, and other Apple financial news is not very promising, but at least is still mixed. Apple’s share of the U.S. computer market fell by 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Despite the lack of public lovin’ given Apple’s WYSIWYG template-based website creation tool at Macworld San Francisco, there’s plenty of new stuff in iWeb ’09 to talk about. Plus, get your iWork ’09 user guides here!
So Steve Jobs finally allowed himself to be seen as human. He took a leave of absence from Apple to address his health today. Frankly, this has been a long time coming. I am in awe that he postponed the inevitable for such a long time. He must have been busy training one heck of a replacement and back up team. I can’t wait to see how they do.
Apple and a host of others chose not to participate in the group’s annual survey that unabashedly claims specific products and companies are more or less green, without actually testing one single product.
For those that have been wondering when we would see new browsers on the iPhone, stop asking; the time is now. But are these really new browsers?
The Miami, Florida-based Mac clone maker’s defense is a moving target that gets more farcical with each new court filing. And, lord knows the company’s most-recent legal justifications for why it should be allowed to pirate “bundle” OS X with its white box personal computers kind of makes you wonder if they are just stalling until they can get out of town.
Customers are generally very happy when their Chipotle meal is ordered, prepared, and eaten in a hurry. They were surprised when the Chipotle iPhone app was removed from service equally quickly.
As many Mac loyalists are happy to point out, 2008 has been one of the best years ever for Macintosh sales, and much of it is due to the Mac OS X Leopard operating system. Leopard has taken the market share from near 7 percent in 2007 to nearly 10 percent of the market share (9.63 percent) by the time December 2008 rolled around. Part of those sales have been due to the Mac OS itself and part have been consumer reaction to Vista. That’s huge growth for this segment of the computer industry in just one year. Will Microsoft’s copycat operating system change that?
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