iPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million
In just 3 days, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Apple sold over 1.7 million iPhone 4′s. This is truly an astounding feat. Apple has never had a more successful product launch, ever! Apple made the announcement today. Steve Jobs is quoted saying: “This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s [...]
Podcast Episode #025
iOS4 Installation and Usage iPhone 4 Discoloration Reviews Are Claiming the iPhone 4 is Seeing 35+ Hours Battery Life App Store Not Profitable for Apple Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days iPad Cases Apple: iPad case MARWARE: Eco-Vue for iPad MARWARE: Eco-Flip for iPad INCASE: Convertible Book Jacket Quirky: Cloak Tuff-Luv multi-view Napa [...]
App Store not profitable for Apple
According to MacStories.net, the App Store only contains 19% paid apps and of those apps, the average selling price is $1.49. Now that sounds pretty bad, but according to the article, apple makes $180M a year gross. Now that sounds like a lot, but Apple makes $33.7B a year gross. So not so much. Still, [...]
iPhone 4 Discoloration
In what has to be a huge downer, MacRumor is reporting some iPhone 4 discoloration issues. A number of readers in our forum have discovered that their iPhone 4s arriving today are exhibiting areas of brown or yellow discoloration on the highly-touted Retina display. Users in Apple’s own discussion forums are also beginning to notice [...]
Google Voice is Open to Everyone in the U.S.
TidBITS has reported that Google Voice is Open to Everyone in the U.S., which leads me to wonder whether Apple will ever get around to completing their review of the Google Voice app.
Reviews are claiming the iPhone 4 is seeing 35+ hours battery life!
TheNextWeb has an article about reviews of the new iPhone 4 that are claiming the battery life of the device is lasting as long as 38 hours of “heavy” usage. The claims of heavy usage included phone calls, games, Bluetooth headset usage, 3G and WiFi Internet access, etc. Considering that the phone uses the same [...]
Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days
Well, Apple seems to be keeping with it’s trend of selling a million, that 1,000,000, iPads a month. They have hit their 3rd million just 80 days after it’s introduction: Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days — CUPERTINO, Calif., June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Apple® today announced that it sold its three millionth iPad™ yesterday, [...]
iOS 4 installation and usage info
So, like a lot of other folks, I installed iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G yesterday. First off, I have to say, if you haven’t done this yet, and you own an iPhone 3G, make sure you have A LOT of time to do the upgrade. It took me 3+ hours to do the upgrade. [...]
Podcast Episode #024
Project Natal is officially Microsoft Kinect “The New XBox 360″ iPhone 4 pre-order disaster iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM New Mac Minis Microsoft Paying App Store Developers Angry Birds
New Mac Minis
Apple has refreshed the Mac mini line-up. The entry level mini retails for $699 and the high end is $999. Other than the following, the two systems are the same. $699 includes: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB of shared L2 cache; 2GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable up to 8GB; [...]
