Microphones Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple now the number one buyer of microphones in the world

by Mike Schramm (Jan 19th, 2012)

Apple purchased a whopping 349 million micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) microphones last year to put in all of its various iOS devices, which means it is now the biggest purchaser of such microphones in the world. That number grew 173 percent from 2010 to 2011, putting Apple up over ...

Macworld 2010: Hands-on with the Blue Mikey

by Mike Schramm (Feb 12th, 2010)

Blue Microphones are on the show floor here at Macworld, and they invited us by their booth to take a look (and a listen) at the newest version of the Blue Mikey iPhone microphone. And with most of Blue's products (I have a Snowball that I use for podcasting, and it works and sounds great), it's ...

Macworld 2009: Blue Microphones

by Michael Rose (Jan 9th, 2009)

Good audio starts with a good microphone, and plenty of Mac podcasters depend on the effective and economical offerings from Blue. There are devices to fit most needs and most budgets in the Blue Microphones product line, and the company is beginning its string of three consecutive trade show ...

O'Reilly posts iPod microphone shootout

by Erica Sadun (May 22nd, 2007)

Over at O'Reilly, Mark Nelson tested all three major iPod microphone add-ons and wrote about his results. He tried out the Belkin TuneTalk stereo, the Griffin iTalk Pro, and the XtremeMac MicroMemo. When all was said and done, all three solutions performed well despite the fact that they were all ...