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Apple Sold 3 Million iPads In Under 4 Days

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:46:49 +0000

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.

“The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold?the strongest iPad launch yet,” stated Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Philip Schiller. “Customers are loving the incredible new features of iPad, including the stunning Retina display, and we can’t wait to get it into the hands of even more customers around the world this Friday.”

Apple Announces New Textbook Experience For iPad Called iBooks 2

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:30:23 +0000

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.

Textbooks in iBooks 2 also support note-taking, highlighting, and Q&A features at the end of each chapter. As you take notes and highlights, flash cards are created. Each textbook will have free samples, but the full versions will cost about $14.99 or less. Apple’s current textbook partners include Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton Mifflin. These three companies account for 90% of all textbooks.

A large number of Apple products are being used by schools. About 1.5 million iPads are currently being used by educational institutions and schools. Around 1,000 universities and colleges participate on iTunes U, which has free lectures, videos, books, and podcasts. There is over 500,000 pieces of educational audio and video material on iTunes U, which have been downloaded over 700 million times.

[GigaOM]

Apple Mac App Store Apps Surpasses 100 Million Downloads

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:34:03 +0000

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.

Apple also announced that the Apple App Store has over 500,000 apps and over 18 billion apps have been downloaded. Customers download about 1 billion apps per month.

“In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,” stated Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Philip Schiller. “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.”

[Apple Press Release]

Apple Sells Four Million iPhone 4S Devices In First Weekend

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:09:49 +0000

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.

“iPhone 4S is off to a great start with more than four million sold in its first weekend—the most ever for a phone and more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “iPhone 4S is a hit with customers around the world, and together with iOS 5 and iCloud, is the best iPhone ever.”

Apple Announces New Line Of MacBook Airs

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:35:48 +0000

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.

“Portable, affordable and powerful, MacBook Air is the ultimate everyday notebook,” stated Apple SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller. “MacBook Air features our most advanced technology and is an ideal match for Lion, especially with its new Multi-Touch gestures, full-screen apps, Mission Control and Mac App Store.”

The MacBook Air is available in 11 and 13-inch models. The Air measures at 0.11 at it’s thinnest point and 0.68 inches at it’s thickest. The 11-inch MacBook Air weighs 2.38 pounds and has 5 hours of battery life. The 13-inch MacBook Air weighs 2.96 pounds and has 7 hours of battery life.

The trackpad of the new MacBook Air laptops support Multi-Touch. The multi-touch trackpad allows scrolling, tapping, pinching-to-zoom, and swiping left/right to turn pages and switch between full screen apps.

[Apple PR]

Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion On The Mac App Store For $29.99

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:33:20 +0000

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.

“Lion is the best version of OS X yet, and we’re thrilled that users around the world can download it starting today,” stated Apple SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller in a press release. “Lion makes upgrading a Mac easier than ever before; just launch the Mac App Store, buy Lion with your iTunes account, and the download and install process will begin automatically.”

Some additional features integrated into Lion include:

Resume – Apps that are closed are exactly where they left off when opened again.
Auto Save – Documents are constantly saved as you work.
Versions – Each document has the history saved as people create them so previous versions can be restored if necessary.
AirDrop – P2P wireless connections can be set-up with Macs that are nearby.

Lion OS X requires an Intel-based Mac with at least a Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of RAM.

[Apple PR]

Apple To Announce Future Of iOS and Mac OS At WWDC

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:07:56 +0000

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.

“At this year’s conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS,” stated Apple marketing head Phil Schiller. It is likely that a delayed iPhone 5 announcement could mean that we may see an LTE version released around the same time. With so much speculation and hype about the new iPhone coming out in June, Apple is also letting investors know what to expect as well.

[Loop Insight]

Molinker Gets Banned From iTunes App Store For Fake Reviews

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:14:15 +0000

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.

APPLE OFFICIALLY SURPASSES 100,000 APPS

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:57:35 +0000

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.

Apple Hires Michael Tchao As VP of Product Marketing

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:53:07 +0000

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.