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CES 2013: FileMaker celebrates half a million iOS downloads

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2013)

FileMaker was here in attendance at the Digital Experience event last night at CES in Las Vegas, and they had some big news to announce: The company has reached a full half million iOS downloads for its database-driven software solutions. That's a big milestone for the company, and while iOS ...

Ex-WSJ publisher: Apple's 30% profit sharing ebook agency model is not a conspiracy

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 23rd, 2012)

As Apple prepares to go to trial to fight the US Department of Justice's claims that the Cupertino company conspired to fix ebook prices with publishers, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Crovitz has an interesting oped in today's paper which he says that Apple's 30% profit ...

GameStop iOS trade-ins a big success

by Mike Schramm (Dec 29th, 2011)

GameStop recently started taking trade-ins on iOS hardware, and it turns out the decision was a great one for the company: President Tony Bartel said in a statement that the program "has exceeded our expectations," especially citing lots of post-holiday traffic, as people bring in their old ...

Tim Cook: Tablets will outsell PCs (no kidding)

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope has been talking to Apple's higher-ups lately according to BI (including COO Tim Cook), and that they're extremely bullish on iOS devices, even more so than they've been in the past. That's hardly surprising -- not only would you expect Apple executives to be ...

iPads at TJ Maxx were bought at retail

by Mike Schramm (Nov 22nd, 2010)

Just in case you missed it, here's a resolution to the whole question of where those iPads at TJ Maxx came from. A high tech tablet isn't really the usual fare for the discount clothing retailer, and Steve Jobs himself confirmed that the chain wasn't an "authorized reseller" of Apple's magical, ...

Thieves drive truck through Apple retailer's wall

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2010)

We've heard of quite a few robberies at Apple Stores (and in its own twisted way, the idea makes sense -- despite the adage that 'crime doesn't pay,' laptops and iPhones are certainly easy to carry and very resellable), but this is probably the most brute force way we've seen it done. A set of ...

Apple sells 250k Apple TVs in six weeks

by Keith M (Oct 19th, 2010)

While Apple TV sales were apparently not published in Apple's quarterly earnings release, during the much-ballyhooed investor conference call yesterday, Steve Jobs noted that as many as 250,000 Apple TVs have been sold since its debut last month. To put that number into perspective, in the first ...

Estimate: Top 1000 iPad apps making $372k a day

by Mike Schramm (Apr 21st, 2010)

Here's an interesting look at just how big the iPad app market might be. Vimov, the makers of Weather HD, have used their own sales numbers to put together an analysis of what the top 1,000 iPad apps on the App Store are pulling in, and they've come up with a series of estimated sales for each ...

Woz to buy two iPads

by Mike Schramm (Mar 30th, 2010)

Newsweek chatted with one Steve Wozniak the week before the iPad launch, and unsurprisingly, he's going all-in on the new device, and planning on picking up (at least) two, one WiFi and one 3G. He's ordered them up online already, but he says he'll still be stopping by an Apple Store on Friday ...