Priceonomics, which keeps track of the resale value of items like cars, bikes and gadgets, published a report Wednesday that shows how the value of iPhones, Android phones and BlackBerrys hold up over time. Short answer: iPhones, even years-old models, retain their value the longest. Read More »
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Representatives from Change.org and SumOfUs.org will deliver petitions to Apple stores in several major cities Thursday with the names of 250,000 people who want the iPhone maker to develop “a worker protection strategy” covering the people who build its devices in China. Read More »
With $100B in cash, there have been quite a few whispers about an Apple dividend, starting when Tim Cook officially become CEO. But after years of wishful thinking on the part of longtime investors in Apple, it’s starting to look like it could actually happen soon. Read More »
Apple CEO Tim Cook said iCloud “is not just a product, it’s a strategy for the next decade.” What will that mean for a company trying to lead us all into the post-PC world? We look at possible future applications of cloud-based services from Apple. Read More »
Trying to count who sold the most smartphones is a difficult business. But based on clues from Samsung, IHS iSuppli says Apple was No. 1 in the last quarter of 2011 sales of smartphones, but Samsung took the crown for the year, with 95 million shipped.… Read More »
In his first full quarter as Apple CEO, Tim Cook delivered. For the first fiscal quarter of 2012 Apple posted its most impressive quarter yet: record revenue of $46.3 billion and earnings of $13.87 per share. The company also sold a record 37 million iPhones. Read More »
Apple’s e-textbook tools and platform announcement wasn’t a huge surprise. But what’s become more clear after hearing Apple’s pitch, which is aimed at K-12 school teachers, school districts, homeschooling parents, publishers and students themselves, is that the future of textbooks isn’t a book at all. Read More »
We’re here at Apple’s education event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The company is expected to launch a set of tools that allow self-publishing of textbooks and possible partnering with textbook makers to push a digital learning initiative. The event and our live… Read More »
CES and Macworld are hogging the event spotlight right now, but what about events for developers? Last year’s WWDC sold out quick, and this year’s probably will too, so you may want to plan on alternate conference and training opportunities in 2012. Here’s a list. Read More »
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