As part of its earnings call, Apple revealed that it now has over 650,000 applications on the App Store. These include approximately 250,000 applications specifically optimized for the iPad according to Peter Oppenheimer. Having sold over 17 million iPads in the last quarter, we can only expect the number of optimized apps to increase.
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As part of its Q3 earnings report, Apple also revealed sales numbers for products across its portfolio. Not surprisingly, the iPad jumped 84% YoY to 17 million unit presumably aided by the launch of the Retina display enabled iPad 3.
Apple just announced its quarter 3 earnings for 2012 and the numbers appear to be slightly lower than the $37.4 billion expected by analysts. The Cupertino based company has reported quarterly net profits of $8.8billion which comes down to earnings of $9.32 per share.
Popular iOS and Mac email app, Sparrow was acquired by Google today. Sparrow CEO Dom Leca announced via the company blog that they will be joining Google to accomplish a ‘bigger vision’.
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Google’s Chrome browser on iOS has been getting rave reviews and currently ranks as one of the top free apps on Apple’s app store. With a 4.5 rating, a lot of users have been clamoring for a way to make it the default browser on their iOS device of choice.
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Judge Christopher Floyd from a UK court has ruled that HTC does not violate four patents as claimed by Apple. This includes the infamous slide to unlock claim. More interestingly, the judge says that three of the four patents are not valid.
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To maintain its dominance in the tablet industry, Apple intends to release a smaller iPad dubbed the iPad Mini sometime later this year. According to sources with knowledge of the plans, Apple intends to compete with the newly launched Nexus 7 and Microsoft’s upcoming range of tablets.
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AppleCEO Tim Cook made his first major appearance at a non-Apple event last nite at AllThings D10 Conference and spoke about a variety of topics when interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal. Watch the highlights of Tim Cook’s session below where he calls patent wars a pain in the ass and that its a incredible time at Apple with a couple of ‘decent’ quarters.He also says that the Patent system is broken.He also talks about how consumers are loving Siri on the iPhone 4S
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After the purported leak of an iPad version of Office in February , rumors have existed that the extremely popular software might be making an appearance on tablets soon. Speaking to a source , BGR reports that long awaited app might be making its debut on both the iPad and Android tablets sometime in November.
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FaceTime is one awesome feature if you work with multiple Apple devices such as the iPhone , iPad , iPod touch or Macs. You can experience video calls between these devices for free at a decent quality. The downside is that FaceTime for devices such as iPhone and iPad works only over a WiFi connection. The irony is the latest iPad supports 4G LTE networks with mind blowing speeds , yet you cannot have a FaceTime call. This might change and Apple might eventually allow FaceTime calls over 3G networks going by a screenshot in iOS 5.1.1 from a Romanian blog.
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Apple has announced the dates for the Apple World Wide Developers Conference – WWDC 2012. The conference is set to take place from June 11-15 at the iconic Moscone Center in San Francisco. An guess what tickets are already sold out ! What will Apple announce at WWDC ?
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Apple has reported 94% increase in Net profit Year-over-Year in their earnings for Q2 2012 that ended March 31, 2012. The company has reported a revenue of $39.2 billion with a net profit od $11.6 billion. The international sales in this quarter is 64% of the quarter’s revenue. They sold 35.1 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads, 7.7 million iPods and 4 million Macs during the quarter. Continue reading “Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads and 7.7 million iPods in Q2 2012”
Apple just announced that it has sold 3 million iPads since its launch on Friday , March 16th. The new iPad features a new Retina Display alongside an improved A5x chip with quadcore graphics. LTE capabilities are also included in this 3rd generation model.
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Cut the Rope is an amazing game, its really addicting once you start playing, it is one of the most downloaded games on Android and iPhone both, and now a sequel of this popular game is out on Android for everyone to download and it is called, Cut the Rope: Experiments.
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Great news! The 3rd Generation Apple iPad has just arrived in our office and we have some content lined up for you. First off we have the unboxing video.
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