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Warren Buffett speaks out on Apple's cash pile

by Mike Schramm (Mar 4th, 2013)

Warren Buffet was on CNBC yesterday, and the famous investor had some opinions about Apple, its stock price and the enormous pile of cash it's sitting on lately. His basic thoughts, not surprisingly, were just for Apple to keep making money. "The best thing you can do with a business is run it ...

Punch Quest now costs a dollar, Bastion is universal

by Mike Schramm (Nov 14th, 2012)

Here are two big updates to really great games on iOS. First, Punch Quest (which is one of my favorite iOS games this year so far) started out as a freemium title, given away for free with a number of in-app purchases to support it financially. But developers Rocketcat Games have said in the ...

Solar Walk updated, on sale now

by Mike Schramm (Aug 15th, 2012)

During WWDC, we got a chance to see an upcoming Solar Walk update from the folks at Vito Technology, and that update is now available. It adds a redesigned information screen that's easier to access and more filled out, as well as a greatly improved graphics system. There are also preset ...

Sprint slashes iPhone 4S price to $149 with contract

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Aug 6th, 2012)

We may not know exactly when the next iPhone is set to debut, but a deal's a deal: Sprint is already offering a bargain price on the soon-to-be-surpassed iPhone 4S. All Things D's Ina Fried reports that Sprint has cut the price of the iPhone 4S to $149 and is waiving its activation fee for ...

Orbitz profiles Mac users with pricier hotels, here's how to block

by Michael Rose (Jun 26th, 2012)

Let's try a little Gedankenexperiment here. Imagine that you sell widgets of all kinds; some are drab and functional but cheap, while others are shiny and a bit more expensive. You're looking to improve the sales of your shiny, high-margin widgets by getting them in front of the type of consumers ...

Apple, Microsoft asked to explain pricing to Australian government

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2012)

Apple and Microsoft are among a few tech companies going before the Australian Parliament this week, asked to explain what many are seeing as price gouging in the Australian market. Here in the US, for example, Apple's Mac OS X Server 10.6 sells for $499, but in Australia, the same software ...

AAPL flirts with $600 today

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 15th, 2012)

Apple's stock soared on Wednesday and now it is poised to cross the US$600 mark. As noted by CNN Money, the stock hit $600 once and has fallen back down to $598 at the writing of this post. As The Wall Street Journal points out it took Apple 34 trading days to jump from $400 to $500 and a mere 23 ...

Lots of apps on sale for Valentine's Day: Dungeon Defenders, Quarrel, more

by Mike Schramm (Feb 14th, 2012)

Yes, it's Valentine's Day, but even if you're lonely and forlorn without love, there's good news: A bunch of iOS developers have put their apps on sale! The great Quarrel Deluxe is available for only 99 cents. Don't pass this one up if you haven't grabbed it yet -- it's a really quality word game ...

Valentine's Day app sales underway: Treasures of Montezuma, Hanging with Friends, Order and Chaos Online

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

Romance is almost in the air (even, if you're as single as I am, though you might not care), and that means what every holiday seems to mean around the App Store: More sales! With all these great deals on apps, you can either enjoy one with your sweetie, or use them to distract you from your ...

Goldman Sachs sees iPad demand slowing

by Mike Schramm (Nov 16th, 2011)

Almost two years after the iPad launch, Goldman Sachs reports that demand is slowing down, just as the holiday shopping season begins. "While improving holiday demand into late November could certainly push the momentum in the other direction, we believe it is prudent to assume the iPad is ...

8 GB iPhone 3GS now free with contract, iPhone 4 price dropped

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2011)

With the announcement of the new iPhone 4S today, Apple has also dropped the price on the previous versions of the iPhone. The iPhone 3GS version with 8 GB of memory is now down to the low, low price of absolutely free (as long as you're willing to sign up on a two-year contract with the ...

Refurbished iPads now just $299

by Mike Schramm (Aug 22nd, 2011)

Apple's got a new price on a refurbished iPad (that's an iPad 1, not the latest 2), and it's likely the lowest official price you'll ever pay for the tablet. $299 is the new magic number, for a 16 GB iPad Wi-Fi. Of course, that presumes that the unit will come back into stock, but it likely ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Haunted Manor: Lord of Mirrors

by Mike Schramm (Jun 24th, 2011)

We've posted about Big Fish Games before. It's a casual gaming company that has produced a ton of titles for the PC already, and it's in the process of both bringing those over to iOS and creating an original library of titles for Apple's mobile devices. This weekend, Big Fish is having a sale ...

Doing the Math: At $29.99, Mac OS X Lion was WWDC's most expensive product

by Chris Rawson (Jun 6th, 2011)

Our own Dave Caolo pointed out something that took the rest of the TUAW team aback: at US$29.99, Mac OS X Lion was the most expensive product discussed at WWDC today. It's not as though the next version of the Mac's operating system had a lot of pricing competition at the keynote. iOS 5 will be ...

AT&T hikes early upgrade prices

by Steven Sande (Apr 4th, 2011)

Mobile phone carriers have always had early upgrade pricing. In other words, if you purchase a phone with a two-year contract but want to get a newer model after a year, you generally pay a surcharge to do so. Over the weekend, AT&T quietly raised its early upgrade pricing by US$50 across ...