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Apple pricing

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Horace Dediu:

The evidence I see is that Apple does not change pricing but rather stakes out a specific price point as resonating with consumers given their positioning. They then doggedly stick to it. Competitors tend to exploit open price points or try to position with specs on the same spots Apple occupies.

Apple doesn’t do anything based on what its competition does, including price. Apple’s products are priced fairly and at what consumers can afford, and are willing to pay. The proof is the 37 million iPhones, 15million iPads, 15 million iPods, and 5 million Macs the company sold last quarter.

More iOS devices sold in Q1 than all Android devices

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Matt Richman:

On Apple’s earnings call, Tim Cook told analysts that Apple sold over 62 million iOS devices during the fourth quarter, which is about 4 percent more than all of the Android devices sold during the same time period.

Clearly Apple is screwed and Android is winning.

Dating site for Apple fans gets an iPhone app

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Diehard Mac & Apple fans often have a lot in com­mon — per­son­al­i­ties, cre­ative pro­fes­sions, a sim­i­lar sense of style and aes­thet­ics, taste, and a love for tech​nol​ogy. As Apple fans we love to hang out in cafés with our Mac­books and iPhones. Cupidtino is like that neigh­bor­hood café where the peo­ple are hip, decor is classy, con­ver­sa­tion is intel­li­gent and prices are rea­son­able. But it’s open at your con­ve­nience, folks are from around the world, and it’s less awk­ward to talk to someone.

If you’re going to meet someone with common interests, why not start off with an Apple fan.

Kodak sues Apple, HTC

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Kodak claims Apple’s iPhones, iPads, and iPods, and some of HTC’s smartphones and tablets use Kodak patents for transmitting images. Kodak is seeking to prevent further patent infringement from Apple and HTC as well as compensation.

Kodak is on its last leg.

Ferraris and Fords

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The consumer electronics market in 2012 can be easily summed up as Ferraris and Fords. Apple, of course, is the Ferrari of the tech market, while the competition is the Ford.

I’m not talking about speed, but rather the outlook on similar markets. [...]

Definition of a tech migraine

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That pain execs at HTC, Samsung, Google and RIM get when Apple announces a new product or initiative.

These are things they don’t want to blatantly copy, but because they want to keep up with Apple, they blatantly copy them anyway.

Acer commits most blatant ripoff of Apple yet

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Acer came up with a good idea. Let’s put pics, documents and media in the cloud and make them available to all of your devices… oh wait, that’s called iCloud. No matter, we’ll just steal the idea and call it AcerCloud. Oh and to save time, we might as well steal Apple’s presentation slide too [...]

Instashuffle

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Many thanks to Instashuffle for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed on The Loop. Instashuffle is a way to browse Instagram in an endless image stream. And it is now free. On the App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with iOS 5 and later.

Instashuffle [Sponsor]

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Instashuffle is a way to browse Instagram in an endless image stream. And it is now free. On the App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with iOS 5 and later.

Apple’s iOS vs. all Android phones this quarter

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Matt Richman:

Using those numbers, Apple will sell 59.38 million iOS devices, slightly less than devices running Android. But, if Apple does report “the largest blowout in company history”, then Apple will outsell every Android vendor combined.

Well that settles it, Android is winning.

Microsoft offers SkyDrive cloud storage for iOS

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In addition to an Xbox Live application and its Kinectimals game, Microsoft also recently began offering another software app for iOS – SkyDrive for iOS. The free app provides access to Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud-based storage system. SkyDrive requires you to … Continued

Tap Fish maker responds to Daily Show piece

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Last week Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” broadcast a segment on an iOS game called Tap Fish. They pitted the developer against a parent whose children ran up huge charges purchasing virtual goods inside the app. Now … Continued

Gameloft’s Six-Guns brings cowboys, vampires and werewolves to iOS

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If you’re looking for something akin to Red Dead Redemption for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, check out Gameloft’s new “freemium” release, Six-Guns. The game combines “Wild West”-era action with vampires, werewolves and witches. It’s a wide-open “sandbox” style … Continued

Apple lists top apps, music, movies of 2011

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Apple on Thursday posted iTunes Rewind 2011 and App Store Rewind 2011, which lists the best and top downloaded music, apps, TV shows, books, movies and podcasts of 2011. Apple’s top iPhone app of the year goes to Instagram, with … Continued

Understanding Apple’s endgame

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Whenever you bring up Apple or any of its products, the conversation inevitably goes to market share. So much so that it seems clear to me that some people believe that Apple thinks about market share when it releases products. … Continued