Apple on TFTS - Page 7

In case you forgot, Apple held a special media event today in New York focused on textbooks and education, another business the company wants to reinvent. In addition to the iTuens U for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch, the company also launched iBooks 2 for iPad, a totally new eBooks [...]

Recently, we heard that that with iPad sales included, Apple’s market share in the computer business rises to 25% and that the company could sell 50 million tablets in 2012 alone, if not more. In other words the iPad still has no true contender out there, and the third-generation iOS [...]

With Apple’s big press event set to hit tomorrow, a report has already slipped out suggesting just what the fuss will be about. Tomorrow’s big announcement from Apple is said to be a textbook project, as we’d already sort of figured. But the Bliss textbook project–as it’s being called–is going [...]

Apple is committed to helping keep the environment safe by recycling electronic devices. With recycling programs in North America deemed a success, the company has opened similar programs in Europe, through which users can get cash back for old and/or defective devices sent in.

We’re getting awfully close to Apple’s first product launch of the year, the iPad 3 – not counting the new digital product that the company will unveil this week – and therefore we’re flooded with new iPad reports almost on a daily basis. Earlier today we heard that the iPad [...]

A short while ago we heard that Apple will not stop selling the iPad 2 once it launches the new iPad 3, but instead continue to offer it to interested customers for a cheaper price, a strategy that already works very well when it comes to iPhone sales.

What’s in a name? If you consider the value of a brand, accountants and business people actually put an amount to a company’s brand name, especially if mindshare and goodwill can bring in business. Apple, for one, has jumped to the eigth most valuable brand in the world in 2011, [...]

Steve Jobs was known for his hatred of the Android platform, to the extent of calling it a “stolen product” which he had vowed to destroy. However, fellow Apple founder Steve Wozniak isn’t so spiteful. In fact, he likes Android, and thinks the platform does some things better than Apple.

One of the more interesting and lesser-known items of last week’s CES show was the waterproofing system known as HZO Waterblock, in which a demonstration showed an iPhone 4 dropped into a fish tank yet continuing to work. And that demonstration certainly had a big impact, as the folks behind [...]

While the iPhone 4S and the Droid RAZR fight it out in stores to get the customer’s cash and attention, Apple and Motorola are also involved in a different contest, one that takes place in courts of law. The Cupertino-based iPhone maker has basically sued the main Android players in [...]