Tim Cook Visits Foxconn iPhone Plant
Now everybody’s going.
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Could Apple’s WWDC 2012 start on 11 June, with iOS 6 debut?
OS X Mountain Lion too
Apple could be planning its next Worldwide Developer’s Conference to run from 11 – 15 June, launching iOS 6 for iPhone, ipad and iPod touch, and releasing the final version of OS X Mountain Lion in the process.
An eagle-eyed tipster has informed?Cult of Mac that the Moscone Center in San Francisco, [...]
Tim Cook’s Latest Promise to Apple’s Employees
Horace Dediu:
Therefore Apple’s $10 billion dollar pledge is not only a commitment to shareholders that the dilution will be eliminated. It’s also a signal to employees: for at least three years, Apple will continue to offer shares as compensation and will do so in a ratio of 1:4 of wages.
This seems like a good use [...]
iPad Sales
AT&T press release:
On Friday, March 16, AT&T set a new single-day record for its ipad
sales and activations, demonstrating robust demand for the new
ipad on the nation’s largest 4G network, covering nearly 250
million people.
That’s just AT&T — and Verizon has the bigger LTE network. Tim Cook, during this morning’s analyst conference call, <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/19/new-ipad-launches-to-record-weekend-in-sales/”>said Apple itself [...]
Apple to reinvest billions to buy… Apple
Initiates share repurchase scheme
Apple is to invest $10 billion dollars over the next three years in a share repurchase programme. Essentially, that means iit is investing some of the large amounts of cash sitting in its coffers in buying stock in itself.
The company will also be making regular dividend payments to its existing shareholders. It [...]
Apple’s cash: Company to reveal plans for $100 billion bank balance
Pots of gold for everyone?
Apple has said that it will use its open conference call this lunchtime (19 March) to detail what it plans to do with the large piles of cash it currently has sitting in the bank. The announcement follows a number of calls from investors.
“Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s [...]
Dialing for Dollars
Apple PR:
WHAT: Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, will host a conference call to announce the outcome of the Company’s discussions concerning its cash balance. Apple will not be providing an update on the current quarter nor will any topics be discussed other than cash.
9a ET. Shareholder dividend? Or a Judge Smails-style [...]
Sir Jony Ive: Apple rivals have ’scant regard’ for users
ipad designer speaks up
<img class="" src="http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/images/FsYf/jony-ive-blasts-apple-rivals-0.jpg?20120313-151404" alt="Sir Jony Ive: Apple rivals have 'scant regard' for users. Tablets, ipad 3, Tim Cook, Jonathan Ive, Apple, Samsung, ipad 0″ />
Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, has stated that Apple’s rivals in the tablet arena are always going to be playing second fiddle because [...]
The iPad Is Unbeatable
Farhad Manjoo, writing for Slate:
Let’s say you’re Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Larry Page, or Intel’s Paul Otellini. How are you feeling today, a day after Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the new ipad? Are you discounting the device as just an incremental improvement, the same shiny tablet with a better screen and faster [...]
★ Only Apple
“Only Apple could deliver this kind of innovation, in such a
beautiful, integrated, and easy-to-use way. It’s what we love to
do. It’s what we stand for. And across the year, you’re going to
see a lot more of this kind of innovation. We are just getting
started.”
That was Tim Cook, closing yesterday’s event introducing the new retina display [...]
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