Author: Yoni Heisler

A recent article in Forbes tacitly argues that Apple would do well to take a page out of Facebook’s playbook and start snatching up companies instead of, you know, returning money to shareholders. While Facebook recently spent $19 billion to acquire…

Delving deep inside Apple’s quarterly earnings report, Horace Dediu of Asymco writes that revenue from Apple’s iTunes/Software/Services group increased by 34 percent year over year.

Indeed, as we pointed out earlier, revenue Apple derived from its…

Like clockwork, every month Apple fails to enter a new product category provides just another opportunity for analysts to trot out the same tired claim that Apple has lost its innovative edge. Never mind the fact that innovation doesn’t abide by …

When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPod in October of 2001, the device was greeted with a rather tepid response. Indeed, a number of fan reactions taken from a 2001 MacRumors message board have taken on a life of their own.

As an example, there’s …

After years of speculation, Apple this weekend announced that the iPhone will finally be landing on China Mobile beginning on January 17. With more than 760 million subscribers, China Mobile is, by a wide margin, the largest carrier on the planet. …

AZCentral is reporting that the Gilbert Public School Board voted to approve a tax break for Apple, thereby clearing the way for Apple to open up its planned sapphire-manufacturing plant in Mesa, Ariz. Under terms of the agreement, Apple will buy the…

In the latest installment of crazy folks suing Apple for absurd reasons, we have a class-action suit against Apple alleging that Apple’s missteps with its Maps app for iOS rendered the device unworkable. Specifically, the suit alleges that Apple is gui…

Apple today posted a report outlining the number of requests it has received from Government entities seeking information about individual users and/or specific devices. The report reflects all of the information Apple is legally allowed to divulge whi…

Spotify version 0.9.0 dropped today for iOS and includes a number of welcome updates.

In addition to the usual bug fixes and inclusion of additional language support (Japanese, Russian and Indonesian), the app update also introduces upcoming tour deta…

T-Mobile today released its earnings for Q3 2013 and posted sales of 3.6 million smartphones under its T-Mobile brand. Notably, 15 percent of those sales were iPhone devices, meaning that T-Mobile sold approximately 540,000 iPhones during its most re…

The iPad Air debuted last week to glowing reviews. Thankfully, and in stark contrast to the iPhone 5s, iPad Air supply was reportedly plentiful throughout the weekend.

With Apple’s most recent and incredibly thin tablet now out in the wild, the rese…

With the iPad Air set to hit stores on Friday, initial reviews of Apple’s latest flagship iPad began rolling in Tuesday evening and, suffice it to say, they’re overwhelmingly positive.

Here’s a sampling of iPad Air reviews from around the web.

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Apple today made a number of sweeping iPad announcements. Naturally, Apple also took the opportunity to announce new iPad covers and cases.

First, Apple announced new iPad Smart Covers made of polyurethane that will be available for both the iPad mi…

A Kickstarter campaign to reunite the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club humbly began last week with a project goal of US$16,000. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Kickstarter campaign had easily eclipsed its $16,000 target with approximately $3…

Google today rolled out a Google Maps for iOS update that features enhanced navigation options along with language support for both Arabic and Hebrew.

The update is version 2.3.4 and checks in at a respectable 12.8 MB. The full changelog for the updat…

In early August, Apple was on the receiving end of some good news as the Obama administration vetoed an ITC import ban on older models of the iPhone and iPad.

While Apple was lucky enough to avoid an import ban on its products, the same can’t be sai…