Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/28/will-i-am-introduces-new-iphone-accessory-complete-with-camera-and-slide-out-keyboard/. The Telegraph is reporting that Will.i.am has introduced a new “i.am+” accessory. The accessory comes in several models: £199 C.4 “contemporary” and £299 V.4 “vintage”, which both work with the iPhone 4/4S. The device also comes with a slide-out keyboard and launches on December 6th. [...]
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Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/itunes-gift-cards-now-available-on-facebook/. Facebook announced yesterday that they are now offering iTunes Store digital gift cards on the company’s Facebook Gifts initiative. It goes without saying, that this makes it that much easier for users to give iTunes Store credits to their network of friends. AllThingsD chimes [...]
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Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/touch-and-go-apple-reportedly-back-on-top-in-smartphone-sales/. Kantar Worldpanel, a research firm, has released data on US smartphone sales. They found that the iPhone 5 managed to boost Apple’s numbers enough for the company to retake the lead, surpassing Android. For August through October, Apple took 48.1% of the market, with [...]
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Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/new-imacs-will-be-available-friday-november-30th/. Apple has announced that the new iMacs that they introduced last month, will go on sale this Friday, November 30th. The smaller, 21.5-inch model will be available immediately, via a variety of retail channels. The larger, 27-inch model will begin shipping in December. In [...]
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Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/27/cool-things-internal-apple-retail-video-leaked-see-it-while-you-can/. Over the past few years, Apple has become famous for its product videos with over-exposed white backgrounds and company executives explaining their latest creation. Well, an internal video, made almost identically to those promotional videos that accompany product launches, has surfaced on the web. [...]
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Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/16/apples-eddy-cue-working-to-improve-maps-google-working-on-native-app/. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is working to submit a standalone Maps app for iOS. Of course, Google is doing this due to Apple's switch away from Google's data when the company made the switch to an in-house solution when iOS [...]
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Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/16/isource-picks-of-the-week-88/. Here we are, another week has passed and it is time for us to once again promote Apple-related goodies that we think you might be interested in. From week to week we may pick iPhone and Mac accessories, iOS and Mac apps or just [...]
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Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/15/new-imacs-may-not-be-delivered-until-early-next-year-report-claims/. French site MacBidouille is reporting that Apple’s new iMacs, which were introduced last month, may not ship until early sometime next year. This is despite Apple’s claim that the smaller 21.5″ model would ship in November and the 27″ model would ship by the [...]
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Copyright © 2012 Alex Jordan. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2012/11/14/samsung-denies-reports-of-price-increases-on-ios-chips/. It was reported earlier this week that Samsung had raised the price of Apple’s A-series chips used in iOS devices. From the outside looking in, it would seem that this was a spiteful move, considering that Apple and Samsung are still embroiled in an [...]
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Chetan Sharma, an independent analyst, has suggested that text messaging is declining in the US. He found that mobile phone owners in the US, on average sent 678 text messages per month in Q3 of 2012. This was down from 696 text messages per month in Q2 of 2012. This doesn’t sound like a big [...]
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Fortune is reporting on research released by Retail Sails, which ranks Apple as the the top US retail chain in regards to sales per square foot. The report claims that Apple sells over $6000 in merchandise, per square foot. This is double the sales of runner-up Tiffany & Co. Apple was at the top of [...]
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Apple is now reportedly allowing a select group of their employees to spend up to two weeks working on jobs of their choosing. This initiative seems to be similar to Google’s policy of allowing their employees to spend 20% of their time working on other projects outside of their normal responsibilities. Some of these extracurricular [...]
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that China Telecom will be brining the iPhone 5 to their customers late this month or early next month, which could bolster Apple’s sales for the holiday quarter. Further driving home the point that the Chinese market is worth quite a bit to Apple, the report notes that China [...]
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MarketWatch is reporting on an article from Chosun Ilbo, a Korean newspaper, that Samsung has raised their prices of the A-series chips used in Apple’s iOS devices, by 20%. The report goes on to say that Apple at first refused the price increase, but could not find a replacement supplier to pick up the slack, [...]
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DigiTimes is reporting on a Chinese report from Commercial Times, wherein it is claimed that Apple will begin trial production of the iPhone 5S as early as next month. The report claims that low production yield of the iPhone 5 would be a driving factor behind the accelerated time table. Getting into specifics, the report [...]
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Here we are yet again with another weekly installment of iSource's Picks of the Week. This is our weekly roundup of the apps, accessories and other products that we found personally interesting, and we think you, dear reader, might also enjoy as well. Without further delay, here are this week's picks. ColorStrokes HD Picked by [...]
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Apple released an update to their Apple Store app yesterday. This new version now supports Siri and the ability to emial Passbook gift cards to friends from within the app. That said, the Passbook features in this app do not appear to be turned on by Apple yet. What’s coolest thing about this update, is [...]
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Horace Dediu of Asymco fame, has taken a serious look at Apple’s 2012 captital expenditures and has found that Apple has spent more money than they had previously let on. Specifically, Dediu found that Apple spent $2.3 billion more than they had originally forecasted on “product tooling, manufacturing process equipment and infrastructure.” Apple didn’t pay [...]
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SlashGear is reporting on an article from… Continue Reading Here Rumors Already Surface Regarding Display Supplier for Next-Generation iPad Mini alex jordan – isource.com
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As Apple began to shutter it’s MobileMe service over the summer in favor of their new(ish) iCloud service. Former MobileMe members using me.com or even mac.com email addresses will now also receive equivalent iCloud.com email addresses. This transition has been ongoing since Apple folded up the service in July. This transition seems to have completed [...]
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Just earlier today we noted that news was making the rounds that Apple might be seeking to shift their Mac product line away from Intel processors, to an ARM-based chip. AllThingsD has since reported on all the things Apple would likely have to tackle to make such a transition a reality. The report goes on [...]
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Bloomberg released a report yesterday which claimed that Apple is considering dropping Intel CPUs in their Mac product lines in favor of in-house designed chips. Last year a similar report emerged claiming that Apple was considering ARM processors for future MacBook products. Since 2010, Apple has been using their own custom chip designs in iOS [...]
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Apple has announced that they sold over three million iPad (4) and iPad minis over the launch weekend. As to be expected, Apple did not break down the sales number and identify which model sold the most. If I had to wager, it would be the shinny new iPad mini. Here is the announcement from [...]
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Welcome to another edition of iSource’s weekly list of Apple accessories and apps. This is our little slice of the internet wherein we promote anything Apple-related that has caught our eye and we think our fine audience might like. Without further delay, here is this week’s picks: SongzaPicked by Thomas I’m not usually one for [...]
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We received word earlier today that the fine folks at iFixit have begun to teardown the iPad mini in order to shed some light on the components driving the device. The first interesting thing they found, was that Samsung produced the display driver chip. It is uncertain as to whether Samsung produced the display itself [...]
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Late yesterday Apple launched a page [iTunes Link] on the iTunes Store accepting donations to the American Read Cross toward Superstorm Sandy relief efforts. The donation page is accessible on both the iOS and desktop versions of the iTunes Store, gives users the opportunity to donate at $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, and $200 levels. Apple will [...]
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With the one year anniversary of the launch of iTunes Match coming up, Apple is sending out emails reminding users who signed up for the service, that their credit cards will be charged for $24.99 on November 14 for the next year’s worth of service. Here is that email text in full: Continue to enjoy [...]
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CNET is reporting that an Apple spokesperson has stated that iTunes 11 will ship by the end of November. Apple originally planned for iTunes 11 to ship sometime in October, but obviously had to push back the release for one reason or another. In the statement released by Apple, the company is wanting to take [...]
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I’m not going to pretend to know everything that goes on at Apple. I have no little birdies on the the inside, and at times I find the internal politics far less interesting than the products that the company produces. However, when something bubbles to the surface, in regards to an internal struggle that might [...]
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It was revealed in Walter Isaacson’s biography that the late Steve Jobs had been working on designing a yacht for his family since 2009. Sadly the ship was not completed before Jobs passed last year. Nonetheless the project has been completed and the ship was christened “Venus” with Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs and their three [...]
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When Apple made the iPad mini available for preorder early Friday, the white model sold out within a mater of minutes. However, the black model managed to hang around a bit longer. That is, until today. Apple’s online store is now quoting a two week shipping timeframe for new orders placed for both the white [...]
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We had such an exciting week here at iSource, that we had to push back our weekly Picks of the Week post. So, here we are, and many of our contributors have expressed what they believe is the most exciting things announced at the iPad Media event held on Tuesday. The New iMacPosted by Joe [...]
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Let me start off by saying that the iPad mini is a super exciting little device. I understand why Apple finally entered this market. Competitive pressure, mostly the lower price point, forced Apple to create this device. This of course suggests that people were actually buying tablets of a similar size from other manufactures at [...]
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Apple has just announced their financial results for the third calendar quarter of 2012 and fourth fiscal quarter for 2012. Apple posted $36 billion in revenue, and $8.2 billion ($8.67 per diluted share) in profit for the quarter. Compare this to the year-ago quarter wherein the company saw $28.27 billion in revenue and profit of [...]
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One of the lower-key innovations Apple introduced yesterday was the new Fusion Drive introduced in the new redesigned iMacs. Apple’s website outlines how the new technology works: With Fusion Drive in your iMac, disk-intensive tasks — from booting up to launching apps to importing photos — are faster and more efficient. That’s because frequently used [...]
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Yesterday, amidst a flurry of other product updates Apple updated Final Cut Pro X featuring functionality that was promised back in April. Going all the way back, Final Cut Pro X was released without certain functionality that pro customers demand. Apple has since promised and delivered updates meeting these demands. In April Apple noted what [...]
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Today, Apple announced today that there are over 1.5 million books on the iBookstore and 400 million books have been downloaded since the store’s inception. To help further grow the store, Apple introduced a series of improvements to iBooks. First, over 40 new languages will be supported in this new version, including Korean and Japanese. [...]
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Apple has just announced a series of updates to their Mac lineup. The company has introduced a new 13-inch MacBook Pro, a refreshed Mac Mini, and an all new iMac. 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Apple has introduced a new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, to go along with Apple’s existing 15-inch model that was introduced in [...]
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It is being reported by several media outlets that Apple has added a new “Apple Events” icon to the Apple TV home screen. This new icon reveals that Apple will be streaming today’s scheduled media event live. At this time it remains to be seen if Apple is only going to stream the event on [...]
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It has been previously reported that Apple will be focusing on the education market with the introduction of the iPad mini. It was also reported that Apple would focus on their iBooks offerings. Bloomberg Businessweek has now outlined Apple’s efforts in this market, and that education will indeed be a theme of tomorrow’s event. The [...]
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9to5Mac released a pair of reports late last week with one outlining new part numbers for a tweaked iPad (3) and one outlining the pricing scheme for the “iPad Mini”. So lets dig in. The first report notes that half of the (previously discovered) part numbers are in fact for tweaked iPad (3) which is widely [...]
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9to5Mac reported late last week that they have received pricing information for the soon-to-be-released13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. The report claims that the entry-level model will be priced somewhere around $1699, which is $500 over the non-Retina model Apple is keeping around. If this tidbit of information holds true, an odd pricing scheme will emerge. The [...]
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