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ABC's iFactory report shows life at Foxconn

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 22nd, 2012)

Update: You can now watch this full episode on ABC.com. (US only, of course) I just finished watching the ABC Nightline report cleverly named iFactory: Inside Apple. ABC's Bill Weir was given unprecedented access to Foxconn, where iPhones, iPads and Macs are assembled. If you've been following ...

Study: iPad holds value longer than Kindle

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2012)

Electronics retailer Gazelle has been calculating up the various values of used electronics, and the firm has found that the iPad will hold its value way better than the Amazon Kindle has so far. The Kindle e-readers have only held, at the most, about 33% of their price after a year of use, while ...

Good Technology report shows Apple still dominates enterprise activations

by Chris Rawson (Jan 26th, 2012)

Good Technology's quarterly report on device activation statistics among its Fortune 500 clients has been released. Just like previous quarters, the results show a marked dominance of iOS device activations in enterprise environments. In the consumer arena, Android has been running away with the ...

Over a quarter of photos now taken with smartphones, according to NPD

by Mike Schramm (Dec 22nd, 2011)

I'll 'fess up -- on our wish list earlier this week, I was the one who asked (reasonably, I thought) for an Apple Camera. I've been shopping for a DSLR lately, and while the quality of some cameras are great, the interfaces are pretty terrible. I really do wish that Apple would step in and ...

NPD: Outside of the iPad, TouchPad's fire sales make it number one

by Mike Schramm (Nov 22nd, 2011)

Analysis firm NPD has released one last report on tablet computers before the holiday season officially kicks off, and something crazy is happening to that market. Outside of the iPad (which of course is currently dominating the space), the next big contender goes to ... the HP TouchPad, a ...

Apple, China groups meet to discuss environmental concerns

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 16th, 2011)

Environmental concerns continue to plague Apple and its suppliers in China. Earlier this year, Apple was singled out in an environmental report called "The Other Side of Apple," which detailed health, environment and safety issues at Chinese manufacturing facilities. Apple met with some of its ...

Report: iOS and Android apps fighting for retention, not discovery

by Mike Schramm (Oct 31st, 2011)

The latest Flurry report has an interesting insight for app developers. Over the last few years, as apps have gained more and more attention and users, discovery has been one of the biggest issues developers face: Most devs spend a lot of their time post-release just trying to tell as many ...

Report suggests iTunes store coming to additional European countries

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 28th, 2011)

A report from Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita claims Apple is preparing to launch its iTunes music store in ten new countries throughout Europe. These new additions may include Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and seven other unnamed locations. If Rzeczpospolita's report is correct, this ...

Apple holds talks with Chinese environmental group

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 26th, 2011)

Apple is a socially responsible company and holds its suppliers and manufacturers accountable for their environmental practices. Despite these efforts, a Beijing-based environmental group continues to accuse the company of using suppliers that are polluting the environment in China. Apple ...

Report suggests AirPlay affecting iTunes online movie share

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 24th, 2011)

At least, that's the conclusion research firm IHS came to upon seeing growth in Apple's online video sales. Apparently Apple, up against competition from Walmart (Vudu) and Amazon, saw its market share go up from 64.9% in the first half of 2010 to 65.8% in the first half of 2011. Not exactly ...

Report: Not much has changed in the growing smartphone market

by Mike Schramm (May 20th, 2011)

It's that time of the month again -- another report is out from Millenial Media about advertising on the smartphone platforms, with more conclusions about what the market's been up to lately. This month, the big news is... that there's not a lot of big news at all. Apple continues to sit on top ...

Tap Tap Tap developer says 5% of Camera+ users make in-app purchases

by Chris Ward (Apr 6th, 2011)

So yes, says Tap Tap Tap boss John Casasanta, US$70,000 isn't to be sniffed at, but it still represents only 5 percent of Camera+'s 2 MILLION users using the in-app purchase facility to buy the $0.99 "I (heart) Analog" effects pack. Well, whether or not you sniff at 70 grand depends rather on ...

Distimo finds higher prices, slower growth in the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2011)

Distimo has released its latest publication, containing an overview of the various app stores currently running, and the findings about the Mac App Store are quite interesting. While Apple's newest App Store is not quite up to the speed of the mobile platform, it's growing quickly -- the ...

Apple re-working iPad 2 inventory shipments strategy

by Mike Schramm (Mar 16th, 2011)

Apple is apparently trying to slow down the iPad 2 madness. A new report from AppleInsider claims that the company has instituted a new policy with iPad 2 shipments, requiring stores to keep received iPad 2 units in store for up to a day before actually releasing them for sale. That actually ...

iAds more effective than TV advertising, Nielsen finds

by Mike Schramm (Feb 3rd, 2011)

Nielsen is reporting, according to the results of a new survey, that Apple's iAds for Campbell's soup products were more than twice as effective as television advertising for the same product. Nielsen says that customers who saw ads for Campbell's in Apple's operating system were five times as ...