That’s a Blank, All Right
Jack Schofield, writing for ZDNet UK, “Apple Briefs Bloggers, Blanks New York Times”:
Apple has a track record of playing favourites with publications,
so that a handful of journalists get treated like royalty while
the plebs consider themselves lucky if they can extract a “no
comment”. Of course, these very select American publications
retain their editorial independence, but there’s always [...]
Jumping to Conclusions
Erik Wemple of The Washington Post notes this exclusive Mountain Lion-announcement-day interview the WSJ scored with Tim Cook and somehow concludes that Apple is giving The New York Times reduced access because of the Times’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?pagewanted=all”>“iEconomy” investigative reporting series. Problem is, The Wall Street Journal has been Apple’s favorite publication for exclusive leaks and [...]
Farhad Manjoo: Apple’s Stock Price Is Still a Bargain
Farhad Manjoo:
Not only is Apple not peaking, it is likely not even close to
reaching its potential earnings in its two biggest markets,
smartphones and tablets. Indeed, I suspect that one of the reasons
Apple’s share price is so low is that it has been difficult, on a
purely perceptual level, for investors to understand the financial
opportunities the company [...]
Transcript of Tim Cook’s Appearance at Goldman Sachs Technology Conference
Regarding Apple TV:
Apple doesn’t do hobbies as a general rule. We believe in focus
and only working on a few things. So, with Apple TV however,
despite the barriers in that market, for those of us who use it,
we’ve always thought there was something there. If we kept
following our intuition and kept pulling the string, we might [...]
Dixons Apparently Sucks
Ben Rooney, writing for the WSJ:
Presumably Mr. Browett interviews really, really well, and perhaps Apple CEO Tim Cook has yet to visit a PC World or Currys (Dixon’s face of retail in the U.K.), but the two retail experiences are poles apart.
Apple stores are the epitome of tasteful design, with no visible cash registers, highly [...]
Apple Hires Dixons CEO John Browett to Lead Retail
James Davey and Poornima Gupta, reporting for Reuters:
Apple chief Tim Cook, making his first high-profile hire since
taking the helm of the world’s largest technology company, lured
the well-regarded industry executive to fill a critical post once
held by Ron Johnson, another outsider who left Target Corp to join
Apple in 2000. […]
Browett, Dixons’ CEO since 2007, was previously [...]
Dixons chief John Browett jumps ship to Apple
Brit joins as SVP of retail
Apple has announced that John Browett is joining the company as senior vice president of retail, a position previously held by Ron Johnson who left last year to become CEO of JC Penney.
Browett leaves his position of chief executive of Dixons Retail, a role he has been in since 2007, [...]
New York Times Goes Deeper on Chinese Apple Factory Working Conditions
Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, reporting for the New York Times:
“Apple never cared about anything other than increasing product quality and decreasing production cost,” said Li Mingqi, who until April worked in management at Foxconn Technology, one of Apple’s most important manufacturing partners. Mr. Li, who is suing Foxconn over his dismissal, helped manage the [...]
iPad 3: Review of rumours, features, pictures and specs
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The ipad 3 is probably the most hotly anticipated product of the year with the only other possible contenders for the title the iPhone 5 or the Nintendo Wii U. Frankly, we’re champing at the bit to get our hands on any [...]
Apple posts first quarter results: More than doubles profit year-on-year
Profit more than Google’s entire revenue
Apple, under the leadership of Tim Cook, has reported record sales for iPhones, ipads and Macs in its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended 31 December 2011. These sales have helped the company earn a record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion, with a net profit of [...]
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