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I found CNN's recent report on Foxconn's poor working conditions at a manufacturing plant in China to be astoundingly irritating. Not because they used "Apple" in the headline and focused on the iPad to snag attention. I was irritated because the story, both in print and the video version, totally missed obvious points in order to try to paint Foxconn working conditions as terrible.
Avid is well-known for its chops as a maker of professional video editing suites, but on Thursday it grabbed some notice in consumer circles with a new offering for Apple's iPad 2. Avid Studio, available from Apple's App Store for a limited time at $4.99, brings a solid set of video editing tools to the iPad.
A week after Apple revealed record-breaking sales numbers that drove its value to new heights, the company's fans were shown a bleaker image of Cupertino in a recently published news series. The iEconomy series paints a picture of harsh working conditions in some overseas facilities that manufacture Apple products.
After Apple announced that it had "reinvented" textbooks at its education media event in New York earlier in the month, I knew I had to take one for a spin myself. I downloaded the new iBooks 2 iPad app and launched it to get to the refreshed iBooks Store. I tapped the big "Introducing Textbooks" graphic and started looking.
Since the middle of this week, the buzz about Apple hasn't been so much its record earnings as disclosures of the working conditions its overseas workers endure, as detailed in a recent report, which touched on worker deaths, inhumane working conditions, disregard for workers' health, the use of underage workers, and suggestions that Cupertino cares only about cutting costs and maintaining product quality.
Apple surprised Wall Street Wednesday when it revealed it was sitting on cash reserves of nearly $100 billion. Now the question is, what will the company do with it? Apple's successful product lines, which include the iPhone and iPad, have been gushing bucks for months. That's allowed it to build a sizable war chest.
The iPhone 5 is headed toward production for a summer debut, according a recent report. The information comes from an anonymous source: apparently the same Foxconn employee who last fall accurately disclosed that Apple was planning a revamped iPhone 4, the 4S, rather than the iPhone 5.
Lately I've found myself more frequently irritated and dissatisfied with my Mac than ever before. This is a weird feeling, made all the more powerful by the fact that Mac OS X Lion is the most useful operating system ever. With a simple two-fingered swipe on my Magic Mouse, I can flick my entire screen to a whole new desktop view, and with a swipe in the other direction, go back.
Few expected Apple to slouch through the 2011 holiday season, but the numbers the company released Tuesday went well beyond the performance most Wall Street watchers had expected, reporting record sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs in Apple's first fiscal quarter of 2012.
Apple on Tuesday revealed exactly how explosive holiday sales were for its iPhone 4S. The latest version of the company's smartphone packed enough dynamite to double Apple's earnings in its first fiscal quarter of the year and blow the company right past its previous sales records. The company reported a rise in net income to $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per share, compared to a net income of $6 billion a year ago.
Apple's release of some new tools for the education market has the potential to transform both the teaching and learning experiences in the nation's schools, according to an academic at the forefront of bringing technology to the college campus.
Apple has entered the textbook world with free apps for creating and managing e-textbooks. Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller took the stage at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City Thursday to present iBooks 2 for iPad, a product that manages digital textbooks, and iBooks Author, a tool designed to help authors produce textbooks for the iPad.
At first, I was surprised to see the flurry of blog and comment traffic recently over Scott Forstall, the Apple "CEO-in-waiting," as portrayed by a new book about Apple coming out next week. I thought, What's wrong with current CEO Tim Cook? Is he going somewhere? Didn't he just get a bunch of new compensation packages worth hundreds of millions of dollars?
The latest rumor in the flood of speculation about the next version of Apple's tablet, the iPad 3, is that it will be equipped with a high-definition screen, a faster processor, and the ability to work with next-generation wireless networks. The iPad 3 reportedly is slated for a March debut.
The app that won Apple's coveted iPad App of the Year award, Snapseed by Nik Software, has made it to the Mac App Store and therefore, Mac OS X. Not only is this cool for photography-loving Mac users, it's cool because it brings some awesome filter and editing effects to the masses.
Apple, in its typical cryptic way, announced Wednesday that it was holding a press event next week on "education." It's anyone's guess what Apple will be announcing at the event scheduled for Jan. 19 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But if a recent report is accurate, Apple will be pulling the wraps off a new initiative into digital textbooks.
Because Apple has this pesky rule against running apps on iOS devices that direct you away from Apple's ecosystem to buy competing products without using Apple e-commerce engines to handle the transaction -- and shuffle 30 percent of the sale to Apple's bank account -- it's has been a bit harder to buy Amazon.com-based Kindle e-books to read on an iOS device through the Kindle app.
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show is well underway in Las Vegas this week, and as usual, Apple isn't displaying any wares at the convention. But the company's presence is still palpable at the show, as its competitors in the tablet, smartphone and computer arenas show their latest products and invite inevitable comparisons. Even the field of TVs is rife with Apple rumor.
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide book series solved the problem of interplanetary language barriers with a Babel fish -- a little telepathic alien leech-like animal you stick in your ear that instantly translates any spoken language via pure brain waves. In the real world, about the closest we can get to that are online tools like Google Translate.
I thought for sure that Apple's next big media splash without Steve Jobs would be all about an Apple iPad 3. So I was surprised to hear about an upcoming media-focused event slated for the end of this month in New York. There's a smattering of reports that don't actually directly cite anyone on the record, but the nature of the reports and event lead me to believe they're basically true.
While 2011 was a year full of momentous moments for Apple, 2012 has the potential to outshine it all, especially in hardware. It will be the first full year in which Apple must steer its gigantic ship without Steve Jobs, and the pressure to surprise and delight will be intense.
Every year around this time, droves of pocket-cam photogs are turned into newly minted DSLR users. If someone in your life is generous enough to give you one of these relatively large, complex cameras during the holidays, and if you've never had a chance to use one very extensively before, then the dozens of new features and controls at your fingertips might be a little confusing.
Morgan Stanley is decidedly bullish about Apple's near future. It will sell more iPhones and iPads than expected over the next few quarters, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty told clients in a research note. Her findings were based on the results of an AlphaWise survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers over the age of 18, conducted the week after Thanksgiving.
2011 was a big year for Apple fans. Maybe not as big as the introduction of the iPhone or iPad, but a lot of amazing things happened, and the company gathered an astounding amount of momentum. Of course, 2011 was also the year Apple CEO Steve Jobs died.
Microsoft has begun rolling out a SkyDrive app for iOS devices and Windows phones. SkyDrive, which offers online document storage and file-sharing, is available only to users with a Hotmail account. SkyDrive for the iPhone will be available in 32 languages worldwide.
Apple announced Monday that the Mac App Store hit 100 million downloads since its January launch. The store, which is the online retail source for product upgrades and apps for Mac computers, doesn't quite get the traffic that Apple's iOS App Store achieves, and it has quite a way to go before hitting the 10 billion downloads that the Android Market has hit.
Apple is rumored to be deep in negotiations to purchase embedded flash controller maker Anobit for between $400 million and $500 million. The deal would make strategic sense for Apple, according to Brian Marshall, an analyst at the ISI Group. However, it would have little effect on the flash industry overall, said Paul McWilliams, editor of Next Inning Technology.
I never beat the original "Infinity Blade." I liked the game, thought it was worth the money, spent many a joyful moment slashing away at a never-ending parade of uglies. But come on, that game was kind of hard. You're trying to kill a God King, and that's not an easy thing to do, even for a thirtieth-generation sword-swinger.
When I stumbled across the iPhone and iPad game "Blood & Glory," I instantly got the feeling that it was like "Infinity Blade," the popular fantasy slasher fighting game. That alone wasn't enough to pique my interest, but when I saw that it was free, sported lush graphics, and had an eye-popping 43,000 customer ratings with a five-star average, I had to download the 111 MB beast and take a look for myself.
Microsoft has begun rolling out a SkyDrive app for iOS devices and Windows phones. SkyDrive, which offers online document storage and file-sharing, is available only to users with a Hotmail account. SkyDrive for the iPhone will be available in 32 languages worldwide.
Apple announced Monday that the Mac App Store hit 100 million downloads since its January launch. The store, which is the online retail source for product upgrades and apps for Mac computers, doesn't quite get the traffic that Apple's iOS App Store achieves, and it has quite a way to go before hitting the 10 billion downloads that the Android Market has hit.
Samsung just got a gift from the top of its wish list. Australia's high court has lifted the ban on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, just in time for holiday sales. The ruling ended a legal dispute with Apple over alleged patent violations. The saga began in April when Apple launched legal actions against Samsung in several countries, claiming the Galaxy Tab 10.1 copied the iPad.
Xbox gamers can access their Xbox Live accounts from their iPhones and iPads now that Microsoft launched the My Xbox Live app for iOS. Access to Xbox Live has been available on Microsoft's Windows Phone platform since it launched more than a year ago, but this is the first time Microsoft is offering the app on a competing system, although third-party apps have allowed at least partial capability before.
This year marks the first holiday season in which Apple's iPad has had serious competitors in the tablet market, though it doesn't seem like Apple is up for any surprises before the year ends. Sales appear to be strong heading into the holiday season, even with the Kindle Fire tablet on the scene, though its patent battles, especially with rival Samsung, are as heated as ever.
The Kindle Fire is a great little media-consuming tablet, of this there is no doubt: If you're a happy Amazon.com customer, a Fire will likely warm your heart. You can buy, rent and stream TV shows and movies from Amazon, buy and stream music, surf the Web, check email, and read lots and lots of books
A while ago I ran into a little photo effects app that helped me make drop shadows and those cool reflection photos that Apple popularized -- you know, the ones that make the iPhone look as if it is sitting on a shiny white tabletop, with a faint reflection below it. To make that reflection happen with a more robust photo-editing tool took many steps.
There's a new rumor circulating this week: Microsoft is working on a version of its Office business suite for the iPad, along with a Mac OS X Lion version, according to The Daily, citing unnamed sources. The Lion version will be available via the Mac App Store. About freaking time!
As a happy iPad owner, I've been messing around with a Kindle Fire, and for the most part, I like what I'm experiencing. The Kindle Fire is a solid tablet with a generally pleasing interface. While it doesn't compare to an iPad in a real direct way -- apples to apples, oranges to oranges -- it's a tablet, and more importantly, it has the potential to capture the hearts and minds of at least some Apple-loving users.
When Apple pulled its popular "Texas Hold'em" game from the App Store, I was moderately surprised, but then again, it's not like Apple was actively developing the game over the years. And besides, after racking up $100 million or so against the Artificial Intelligence engine, it's been a long time since I've actively played it.
Apple's mammoth new store in New York's Grand Central Station probably won't be open before Black Friday, but with momentum in the PC market, renewed patents and continuing strength across its ecosystem, the company looks strong heading into one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
