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.
Arthur Levinson, formerly of Genentec, who has been on the board of directors of both Apple and Google, has chosen to resign from the Google board but will be staying on with Apple.
The United States Chamber of Commerce has replied to Apple’s defection over the Chamber’s environmental and climate change policy, taking shots at both Apple and CEO Steve Jobs.
The Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod, and iPhone maker has joined five other companies in defecting from the business group over its stand, or lack thereof depending on your viewpoint, on global warming and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This fall’s Mac refresh is turning into a fairly substantive affair. What pundits thought would be a simple speed bumping of the iMac and MacBook has turned into a wider ranging makeover of the company’s computer and input device product lines.
One of the things users like about the iPhone is its tight integration with Google maps, but it looks like Apple is moving towards a proprietary mapping system and away from Google.
An article that’s chock full of quotes from an Intel I/O division talking head, leads off with the words, “industry sources say.” Although chipzilla wonks can technically be referred to as industry sources in the same article in which they’re (more than likely) quoting them by name, it seems like a little face saving is going on here.
The Tokyo Game Show has had its share of new buzz, but Apple and their recent emphasis on iPhone and Touch games were a pervasive shadow on the mood of the show and its participants.
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.
There are seemingly more new rumors every day which make the appearance of an Apple tablet computer imminent, and many appear to further solidify the components in such a device.
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