June 2010

iPhone 4 Sales Top 1.7 Million

June 28, 2010
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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 [...]

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Podcast Episode #025

June 25, 2010
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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 Leather case Acase Leather Flip Book Jacket/folio

iPad Writing Apps

Pages (iPad Only) Notebooks for [...]

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App Store not profitable for Apple

June 23, 2010
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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, the [...]

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iPhone 4 Discoloration

June 23, 2010
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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 [...]

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Google Voice is Open to Everyone in the U.S.

June 23, 2010
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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.

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Reviews are claiming the iPhone 4 is seeing 35+ hours battery life!

June 23, 2010
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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 processor [...]

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Apple Sells Three Million iPads in 80 Days

June 22, 2010
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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 [...]

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iOS 4 installation and usage info

June 22, 2010
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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. [...]

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Podcast Episode #024

June 18, 2010
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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

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New Mac Minis

June 17, 2010
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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; a slot-load [...]

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