Rene Ritchie on the Ramifications of a 4-Inch iPhone Display
There are numerous ways Apple could change the physical size of the iPhone, but none of them are painless or easy fragmentation-wise. Rene Ritchie does a good job here analyzing Apple’s options.
My money remains on changing the aspect ratio and keeping the pixel density the same. Going from the current 3:2 aspect ratio 960 × 640 display [...]
Bullish Cross Initiates Rare Buy Rating on Apple
Andy Zaky:
Now here are the reasons why we believe its time to buy Apple and
why we feel the valuation is incredibly attractive today. At
$533.52 a share, Apple trades at 13x last year’s earnings and at
only 10.56x our expect October earnings. Those are incredibly low
valuations even for Apple. At the November 25, 2011 lows, Apple
traded at [...]
WSJ Says Apple Is Switching to 4-Inch iPhone Displays
Lorraine Luk and Juro Osawa, reporting for the WSJ from Hong Kong:
The new iPhone that Apple Inc. is expected to unveil this year is
likely to have a larger display than its current models have, with
the company ordering bigger screens from its Asian suppliers,
people familiar with the matter said.
The new screens measure at least 4 inches [...]
Google to take on Apple by giving early Android access to other smartphones
No more Google Nexus
Google’s next version of Android could arrive on as many as five different manufactured smartphones as it changes its approach to launching new operating systems.
In the past Google has always tested the water by saddling with one manufacturer to produce the first smartphone on a new Android platform, as part of the [...]
Fact-Checking DigiTimes
Harry McCracken:
But the thing is, Digitimes isn’t just wrong some of the time.
When it comes to the big Apple stories, it’s wrong most of the
time. Sometimes wildly so. It’s reported that its sources had said
that Apple was going to release MacBooks with AMD processors,
iMacs with touch screens, iPhones with built-in projectors and
ipads with OLED displays. [...]
Glenn Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable: ‘I’m Not Sure I Know What AirPlay Is’
Brian X. Chen, writing for the NYT Bits blog:
AirPlay, a software tool included with Apple’s ipads and iPhones,
is widely viewed as being potentially disruptive to the cable
industry, because it makes it easy for people to view a broad
variety of Internet content on a television. Time Warner Cable’s
leader, however, hasn’t heard of it.
Zero surprise.
Update: Anyone else [...]
Businessweek on Apple’s Dominance in Hollywood Product Placement
You can’t fake cool.
Update: I’m not sure what Businessweek’s headline means, though: “Apple, the Other Cult in Hollywood”. I think they’re comparing Apple to Scientology, but who the hell knows.
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John Paczkowski Confirms New iOS Maps App
John Paczkowski:
We’ve independently confirmed that this is indeed the case.
Sources describe the new Maps app as a forthcoming tent-pole
feature of iOS that will, in the words of one, “blow your head
off.” I’m not quite sure what that means, and the source in
question declined to elaborate, but it’s likely a reference to the
photorealistic 3-D mapping tech [...]
iOS 6 Maps
Speaking of Mark Gurman, he had a piece today on a major update to the Maps app in iOS 6:
According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline
feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps
application. Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on
iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app [...]
iCloud ‘Beta’ Website Briefly Shows Web Apps for Reminders and Notes
Federico Viticci:
Available at beta.icloud.com, I managed to grab a screenshot
before Apple quickly pulled the website and started redirecting it
to iCloud’s public website. The beta page showed a testing
environment, and I was able to see the Notes icon in the
background, as tweeted by Troughton-Smith.
Over at 9to5Mac, Mark Gurman found references to an even more intriguing subdomain: [...]
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