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Weekend Poll: What apps did you discover via the 50 billionth download contest?

by Erica Sadun (May 17th, 2013)

On Wednesday, Apple sold its 50 billionth iOS app. TUAW was there keeping track of the excitement and monitoring the iTunes store. Many of our colleagues and readers used this contest as an opportunity to stock up on numerous free apps, to test and ...

Study: iPhone retains value better than top Galaxy models

by Steven Sande (May 15th, 2013)

The next time your Samsung Galaxy-toting friends try to annoy you, here's a piece of information you can throw back at them. According to a study published yesterday by investment bank Piper Jaffray, iPhones depreciate at less than half the rate of ...

Daily Update for May 14, 2013

by Steven Sande (May 14th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's ...

NPD Group: iTunes owns the internet video market

by Steven Sande (Apr 23rd, 2013)

We'll find out how Apple's financial fortunes are faring a bit later this afternoon, but for now, there's a report out of The NPD Group showing that Apple now dominates home digital video the way it does the digital music market. The numbers ...

Weekend Poll: Retina MacBook Pro

by Erica Sadun (Mar 23rd, 2013)

The MacBook Pro has always represented the best of business computing. With its powerful processors, superb screen sizes, and now Retina display, it's the belle of Apple's showroom. The MBP with Retina display has had a rougher time of things, ...

iPhone tops J.D. Power customer satisfaction survey again

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2013)

Make a little more room in the trophy case: the iPhone has topped J.D. Power and Associates' consumer satisfaction survey yet again in the category of wireless smartphones. For the ninth study in a row, Apple has earned the top numbers, ...

Apple is Fortune 'World's Most Admired Company' for 2013

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2013)

For the past 30 years, Fortune has compiled a list of the World's Most Admired Companies. This year, as with the previous five years, Apple took the top spot in the ranking. The ranking is compiled from results of an annual poll of business ...

Consumer spending on mobile games tops that for portable consoles

by Steven Sande (Feb 21st, 2013)

The market for dedicated portable game consoles from Nintendo and Sony appears to be shrinking due to competition from iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Data from IDC and App Annie shows that fourth-quarter 2012 consumer spending on game ...

Chitika: All versions of iOS 6 now account for 83.1% of iOS traffic

by Steven Sande (Feb 13th, 2013)

The folks at Chitika have just released the results of a study looking at iOS version distribution post-iOS 6.1.1. The numbers are quite amazing; all versions of iOS 6 (6.0, 6.1.0, 6.1.1) now account for 83.1 percent of all iOS traffic. At ...

Weekend Poll: What's up for Apple this Spring?

by Erica Sadun (Feb 8th, 2013)

Normally as February and March roll around, our minds start drifting towards iPads and OS X. Until this past year, when Apple seemed to reset its iPad clock in October, we saw new hardware ticking by each Spring. Late Winter is also usually the ...

Apple falls from the privacy trust tree

by Steven Sande (Jan 29th, 2013)

Over the past few years, Apple has been perched atop the list of the 20 most trusted companies for privacy. The list, published annually by the Ponemon Institute (link to PDF), is based on a survey in which participants are asked to name companies ...