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Apple's first store in South Australia to open on Saturday

by Michael Grothaus (May 21st, 2013)

Apple has announced that its next Apple store will open at Rundle Place Centre in Adelaide, South Australia this Saturday. It will be the first Apple Store in South Australia. This will bring the number of Apple's retail stores in Australia up to 20. Rundle Place Centre is a four-story shopping ...

Apple announces 50 billionth app download, contest winner

by Dave Caolo (May 16th, 2013)

Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio hit the App Store lottery yesterday by downloading the 50 billionth app to be served by Apple's App Store. Namely, it was Say The Same Thing by Space Inch that allowed Brandon to collect his prize, and what a prize it is: an App Store gift card with US$10,000 on ...

Minecraft Pocket Edition hits 10 million downloads

by Mike Schramm (May 3rd, 2013)

Mojang has announced that the Pocket Edition of its extremely popular sandbox game Minecraft has also reached 10 million downloads, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that the app is being sold for a premium price of $6.99. The original PC version of Minecraft hit 10 million sales back ...

iPad commands lion's share of tablet market despite Samsung's gains

by Yoni Heisler (May 2nd, 2013)

The latest Q1 2013 research data from IDC shows that the market for tablets is absolutely booming, growing 142.4 percent year over year. To put that into context, IDC notes that the 49.2 million tablets shipped during the first three months of 2013 is greater than the number of tablets shipped ...

Older model iPhones remain popular

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 23rd, 2013)

Apple is poised to announce its quarterly earnings today and everyone is wondering how many iPhones and iPads the company sold. Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) took a close look at the iPhone market and broke sales down by device. According to CIRP's survey data and reported by ...

Apple drops prices on refurbished second-, third-gen iPads

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 23rd, 2013)

Those of you looking to get your hands on a qualified refurbished iPad might want to check out the Apple store online. Apple has dropped prices on second- and third-generation models. The discounts apply to only the WiFi+3G and WiFi+Cellular models and not the WiFi-only models. Interested ...

Rumor: Amazon's Goodreads purchase cancelled a possible Apple partnership

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2013)

The Wall Street Journal says that before Amazon's purchase of the Goodreads service earlier this year, Apple was planning to possibly integrate the social reading-recommendation service into its own iBookstore. Apple and Goodreads, says the WSJ, had been talking for a year or more about ...

iTunes maintains its music download dominance as Amazon plays catch-up

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 17th, 2013)

Nearly 10 years after the iTunes Music Store first opened up for business, iTunes remains the market leader in digital music downloads. According to a research report published by the NPD Group earlier this week, iTunes accounted for approximately 63 percent of all digital music downloads in ...

Apple sells 5% of PCs world-wide, makes 45% of the profit

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2013)

Talk to people who are PC fans and they'll point out that while Apple controls the smartphone market in many respects, the company still only has a small fraction of the global PC market. But as Horace Dediu at Asymco points out, any other PC maker in the world (like Dell, HP or ASUS) would ...

GAME in the UK to sell iPads

by Dave Caolo (Apr 5th, 2013)

UK retailer GAME is ready to begin selling iPads. Not just iPads, but a whole army of tablets, each ready to fly into the arms of credit card-wielding consumers. Like other video game / console chains, GAME has struggled a bit as more and more consumers purchase downloadable games it has ...

Apple Brazil cuts price on iPhone 4, iPhone 4S

by Steven Sande (Apr 2nd, 2013)

Brazilian iPhone fans have something to cheer about today. The prices for both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S have been reduced to a much more reasonable level than before, although they're still much more expensive than the carrier-subsidized phones we're used to here in North America. An 8 GB ...

Apple to triple franchise stores in India

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 26th, 2013)

The India Times is reporting that Apple plans to triple the number of franchisee stores it has in the country to 200 locations by 2015. Speaking under the conditions of anonymity, some of the 17 Indian franchisees told the India Times that Apple has asked the franchisees to dramatically scale ...

Study: Higher resolution smartphone screens mean more in-app purchases

by Dave Caolo (Mar 21st, 2013)

The results of the study discussed in this post seem obvious when you think about it, but at least there's some empirical data to back it the findings. A study conducted by Pocket Gems suggests that people whose smartphones (including iPhones) have high-resolution screens are more likely to buy ...

iPad minis, 4th gen models in Apple's refurb store

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 15th, 2013)

Apple has listed refurbished iPad minis and fourth-generation iPads on the Apple store online for the first time. The devices are being sold at 6 percent and 10 percent off of retail, depending on the model. They all come with a one-year, limited warranty. All refurbished iPads also come with ...

Apple suppliers had a very tough February

by Mike Schramm (Mar 11th, 2013)

February is usually not a great month for the companies that supply Apple with its iOS and Mac device parts (Chinese New Year usually falls right in that month, and production in China always take a big downturn as people celebrate there). But this particular past February was especially bad, ...