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Apple Sold 3 Million iPads In Under 4 Days


Apple has sent out a press release saying that they have sold 3 million new iPads in under four days of availability. This means that it is the “strongest iPad launch yet.” Apple did not announce the first sales weekend for the iPad 2 as they were in short supply at the time.
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Apple Announces New Textbook Experience For iPad Called iBooks 2


Today Apple SVP of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller announced that the company is launching a new application called iBooks 2. Schiller described iBooks 2 as a “new textbook experience for the iPad.” When you open the app, textbooks appear on the shelf. When you open a textbook, it will appear in the full screen and it can be paired with embedded video content. Using multitouch, you can navigate the textbook pages and manipulate 3-D models.
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Apple Mac App Store Apps Surpasses 100 Million Downloads


Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in under one year. The Mac App Store has thousands of free and paid apps, which you have access to with your iTunes username and password.
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Apple Sells Four Million iPhone 4S Devices In First Weekend


Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced that they have sold over 4 million iPhone 4S devices. The company launched the device three days ago on October 14th. In the first five days of its release, over 20 million customers signed up for iCloud as well. The iPhone 4S will be available in 22 more countries on October 28 and over 70 countries by the end of the year.
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Apple Announces New Line Of MacBook Airs


Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced a new line of MacBook Air laptops. The new line of MacBook Airs have a new generation of processors, Thunderbolt I/O technology, flash storage, backlit keyboard, and the Mac OS X Lion operating system. The new MacBook Air starts at $999 and is available for order today.
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Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion On The Mac App Store For $29.99


Today Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has released Mac OS X Lion on the Mac App Store. The new operating system can be purchased for $29.99. Some of the new features include Multi-Touch gestures, full screen app support, Mission Control, LaunchPad, and a redesigned version of the Mail application.
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Apple To Announce Future Of iOS and Mac OS At WWDC


Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) sent out a press release that discusses what they plan to announce at the annual WWDC event. It is unlikely that Apple will release a new iPhone in June as the press release indicates that there will be a focus on the changes in iOS and the Mac OS.
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Molinker Gets Banned From iTunes App Store For Fake Reviews

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Molinker Inc. was one of those Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone application developers that produced a bunch of limited functionality apps and stuck them in the store. They made over 1,000 apps and got caught scamming the application review system. All thousand of their applications were taken down from the Apple App Store too.

The phony reviews were caught by a friend of the person that runs the Iphoneography blog. He or she noticed that about 90% of the reviews on Molinker applications were made by the same group of people. Most of those people had very bad grammar indicating that the fake reviews were outsourced to people in overseas firms. MobileCrunch points out that the application NightCam Pro had about 42 out of 44 5-star reviews were fake.

iPhoneography and the friend of the blog that caught the phony reviews sent a 5 paragraph e-mail to Apple VP Phil Schiller.

Molinker was the second largest (in terms of app quantity) App development company to get banned from the App Store. The first was Khalid Shaikh’s Perfect Acumen development company.

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APPLE OFFICIALLY SURPASSES 100,000 APPS


Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has officially announced today in a press release that the App Store on iTunes has surpassed 100,000 applications. These 100,000 applications have been downloaded well over two billion times. The applications are divided up into 20 different categories which includes travel, games, finance, and medical.

“The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world,” stated Apple SVP of Worldwide Product Marketin Philip Schiller. “The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating.”

Over the summer, the iPhone OS 3.0 was released and developers began to add push, in-app goods, MMS, copy and paste, and shake to shuffle features into their applications. Over 2 billion push notifications have already been delivered to iPhone customers.

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Apple Hires Michael Tchao As VP of Product Marketing

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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has hired Michael Tchao as the VP of Product Marketing. Tchao was one of the original developers of the Apple Newton PDA. Tchao joined Apple this past Monday as the VP of product marketing. Tchao will be reporting to Apple SVP Phil Schiller. Tchao joins Apple after leaving about 15 years.

Tchao’s most recent job was at the Nike Techlab as the general manager. Nike Techlab designs armbands and sneakers for the iPod. It is uncertain what Tchao will be working on specifically at Apple. Tchao had convinced former Apple CEO John Sculley to make the Newton a consumer device. After that device failed to take off, Tchao parted ways with the company. “He’s got the scars and the great ideas,” stated a former Apple employee in an interview with The New York Times.

This may indicate that Apple is making a tablet computer after all. An Apple tablet with App Store download capabilities would be awesome.

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