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MacBook Air begins to sell in China

by Matt Tinsley (Aug 31st, 2011)

Hot on the heels of last Friday's predictions by analyst Brian White of Ticonderoga Securities, the MacBook Air has gone on sale in China this week. According to MacWorld, all four versions of the latest mid-2011 MacBook Air went on sale in ...

Mid-2011 MacBook Air reportedly about to launch in China

by Matt Tinsley (Aug 26th, 2011)

Fortune's Apple 2.0 is reporting that the mid-2011 MacBook Air (launched just over a month ago in the US) is set to launch in China in the next week or so. According to analyst Brian White of Ticonderoga Securities, this week's Hong Kong launch of ...

Analyst: Sharp rise in iPad sales estimates

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 7th, 2010)

Yet again, more analyst news regarding the iPad impacting laptop and netbook sales. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that estimated sales of the iPad for 2010 have more than doubled to 11 or 12 million units sold this year, with 20 million iPads ...

TUAW bloggers post their Apple predictions for 2010

by Steven Sande (Dec 31st, 2009)

It's the end of another calendar year, which can mean only two things. First, every blog is going to be posting lists of 2009 retrospectives, and second, there are going to be a lot of posts filled with completely off-target predictions for 2010. ...

Apple, censorship, and cogs in the wheel: the Dalai Lama is expunged from Chinese App Store

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 31st, 2009)

It's being reported by PC World that Apple has begun censoring iPhone applications that contain any reference to the Dalai Lama in the Chinese App Store. At least five applications that contain references to the Dalai Lama have been banned: three of ...

Two broken promises from AT&T and Apple as 2009 comes to a close

by TJ Luoma (Dec 30th, 2009)

As I sit by the light of the Christmas tree in my mother's house with the vestiges of presents all around, it occurs to me that no matter how good Santa might have been to you, both Apple and AT&T left us lumps of coal for the end of 2009. You ...

Study: Android and iPhone users show same usage trends, heavy app usage

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2009)

A study put together by analytics firms comScore and Compete says that while Android and iPhone users probably aren't the same people, they certainly act like it. Usage patterns line up almost exactly across the board, differing by only a few ...

How early iPhone predictions fared in the face of reality

by Steven Sande (Dec 28th, 2009)

Harry McCracken over at The Technologizer published a fascinating piece this morning. In the face of the daily deluge of breathless speculation about what features the iTablet / iSlate / iWhatever will have, Harry went through a bunch of posts from ...

Could Apple be moving to a spectrum of operating systems?

by Steven Sande (Dec 27th, 2009)

I was eating a late post-Christmas breakfast this morning and perusing my email when I came upon a note from my friend and fellow Apple Consultants Network member Michael Kimble. Mike's been involved with Apple products since before the Mac arrived, ...

It's a Merry Christmas for AAPL shareholders, stock at all-time high

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 25th, 2009)

On December 14th, I posted an opinion piece sharing my thoughts that AAPL stock would hit $300 a share in a year (for which I received quite a lot of critical feedback). Two days later, on December 16th, Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued a report ...