Category: iPod
November 5, 2009
As Apple rolls into what looks to be yet another record setting holiday shopping quarter, on the heels of the company’s most profitable quarter ever, giving an accolade to the man who’s listed by name among the patent and trademark docs for the iMac, iPod and iPhone seems a safe bet. Shallow praise for the father of the Jesus phone?
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Posted in Amusing, Announcements, Apple, Steve Jobs, iPhone, iPod, imac, news, opinion | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
October 30, 2009
Apple has filed a patent for a device that seems to be an iPod Bluetooth headset, with an order of other capabilities on the side, that has a bit of a SyFy Channel taste about it.
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Posted in Apple, iPod, news | No Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
October 29, 2009
Forget Dell and Google, the only company standing between the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone maker and the top tech company valuation is Microsoft. Steve Jobs’ fortunes and those of his company have skyrocketed over the last year, whereas the rest of the industry, including Redmond, have declined.
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Posted in Apple, Macintosh, Microsoft, Windows, iPhone, iPod, news | 6 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
October 23, 2009
Even at the time, people realized how important the iMac was for Apple. However, when Apple hit the market with the iPod, many pundits dismissed it out of hand as too expensive and too limited — FireWire and Apple only. Now, as media player that could closes in its first decade, it still claims an over 70 percent market and turned out to be just the first of a whole family of products that changed music, computing and mobile phones.
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Posted in Apple, Steve Jobs, iPod, iTunes, news | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
October 21, 2009
For the first time in the history of the two giants of Silicon Valley, the market capitalization value of Apple passed that of Google, just a few weeks after the Google CEO left Apple’s board of directors.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPod, news | 2 Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
October 19, 2009
As expected our favorite fruit company has delivered its best ever quarter for Macs and iPhones, resulting in revenues of nearly $10 billion and a $1.67 billion profit. So, even as the recession bites deeply and unemployment rises, the company’s growing legion of customers continue to single out Mac, iPod and iPhone as being the value leaders in every category where Apple competes.
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Posted in Announcements, Apple, MacBook, Macintosh, OS X, Steve Jobs, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, news, snow leopard | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
October 19, 2009
When Apple Inc. announces earnings today, many financial analysts expect them to beat market expectations on the back of strong iPhone, iPod, and Mac computer sales.
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Posted in Announcements, Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPod | No Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
September 27, 2009
One connector for your mouse, display, network and storage that’s more than 20 times faster than USB and three times faster than eSATA? Say goodbye to the dozen or more cables and connectors we currently use (and hate)— that sounds very, very Steve Jobs to me.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Macintosh, OS X, Rumors, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, news | 3 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
September 25, 2009
In the years since Greenpeace singled out the company, pimping the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone maker’s high-profile name and products to push its agenda, Apple has moved aggressively to seize the initiative and is now trying to change terms of the debate.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, MacBook, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, Macintosh, Steve Jobs, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, imac, news, opinion | 3 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
September 23, 2009
When the one-time smartphone market leader announced its Pre handset could sync seamlessly with iTunes, some pundits speculated that Apple might allow the infraction, giving their dominant digital music marketplace a competitive veneer. So much for that bit o’ wishful thinking.
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Posted in Apple, Free Software, Mac, Mac software, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, iTunes, news | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson