Apple said in a statement that it had temporarily suspended sales of all iPhones at its five mainland China stores for the safety of customers and employees. The phones will still be offered online, through Apple’s official partner, Unicom, and at authorized resellers. The statement did not say when Apple stores would resume selling the iPhone 4S.
The crowd threw eggs at the store when it didn’t open. Who goes to buy a phone with a pocket full of eggs?
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There are already huge queues outside of China’s five official Apple stores in readiness for tomorrow’s launch of the iPhone 4S. At the two stores in Beijing, and the three in Shanghai, there are clearly lines stretching hundreds of meters, with reports of hundreds of queuers at each, snaking around city blocks.
The iPhone 4S will be available online, but that hasn’t deterred many Chinese from braving the sub-zero temperatures to line up at Apple Retail Stores.
If you think iPhone sales in the US are huge, wait until Apple fully breaks into a market of one billion people.
We all know Apple will have an “education based” announcement next week in New York City. But care to lay a fiver on what they will announce? Well, Paddy Power, Ireland’s largest bookmaker, is laying odds on what hardware will be revealed.
The easy money is on eTextbooks at 1-6 odds with a new Apple HDTV going off at 8-1. Your best bet might be for a new “Apple Teacher Robot.” Forty to one odds? Might be worth it!
Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph was at CES this week challenging all comers to take the “Smoked by a Windows Phone $100 challenge.” According to The Verge, Microsoft had 30 wins, 3 losses, and 1 draw.
Too bad I wasn’t there to take the challenge. Ben is a good friend, but I’d still beat him.
Here are two videos — one win, one loss for Microsoft.
I have spoken friends of mine who have been long-time Blackberry fans, and they aren’t holding their breath for any miraculous event where the company will suddenly bounce back.
This is a key point. Not even RIM’s loyal followers believe there is a chance in hell the company can recover from its embarrassing missteps over the last few years. Even at its worst times, Apple’s core customers believed in the company.
Target has confirmed its plans to launch “store-within-a-store” concepts for Apple products in 25 of its stores around the United States. The announcement comes alongside a broader effort called “the Shops at Target” that will offer special focuses on certain products.
Seems strange considering everyone is supposedly within 50 miles of an Apple Store, but the more the merrier I guess.
Update: As pointed out in the forums, I misspoke in the post. Only 90% of people are within 50 miles from an Apple Store, not everyone.
From “thousandfold echo” comes the reason why you turn your phone off at concerts:
Until today I’ve never been to a concert where a cellphone stopped the orchestra in the middle of a piece, but now I can check that awful milestone off the list.
That would be embarrassing enough. But to have the conductor stop the orchestra and chastise you from the stage? Mortifying.
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Shakie is an expressive motion controlled percussion instrument for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Pellets create sounds and rhythms as you move and shake them. Shakie’s built in pellets include maraca, shakers, tambourine, castanet, bells and spoon.
Apple on Wednesday sent out an invitation to The Loop and other media outlets to attend a special event being held in New York City next week.
Apple says the event will be about an education announcement and will take place on January 19 at the Guggenheim Museum. The event begins at 10:00 am ET and The Loop will have live coverage.
“Differentiation is positive, fragmentation is negative,” Schmidt said during an appearance here at the Consumer Electronics Show. “Differentiation means that you have a choice and the people who are making the phones, they’re going to compete on their view of innovation, and they’re going to try and convince you that theirs is better than somebody else.”
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No one is defending the argument that folks like Samsung copy everything that Apple does. Or that Apple doesn’t copy certain trends sometimes. But the amount of shameless copying and blatant efforts of coming up with unoriginal marketing jargon going on at CES are just too much for me.
I think Federico summed up many people’s CES experience.
We broke down the trajectories of 17 tablets from CES 2011. In the final tally, I think you could say one is a qualified success (the Asus Eee Pad Transformer), one did OK (the Motorola XOOM), and several flopped (Dell Streak, RIM Playbook) or made no impact (Coby Kyrus, Cydle M7 Multipad, Naxa NID-7001). Nine never were heard from again.This is why it’s OK to ignore CES. Most of the product announcements (the majority in this case) lead nowhere, and if some product is really important, you’ll hear about it via some other avenue.
In a roundtable with reporters at CES, Sony’s Kaz Hirai responded to a question about recent comments attributed to gaming division head Andrew House by stating that “Andy is absolutely right in that we are not making any announcements at E3.”
Sony has long held to a “10 year life cycle” philosophy for its home game consoles, which would push out the end of the PlayStation 3’s life to around 2016 (it was introduced in Japan late in 2006). Typically there’s overlap – the PSOne existed long into the PlayStation 2’s production run, as the PS2 did for the PS3 – so we can expect Sony to make announcements and product introductions long before then. But just not at this year’s E3, which happens in June.
“The key reason we didn’t have the iPhone in the past is we are on different band than globally the market was,” Humm said. “That is something which will change over time. Chipsets are also evolving to be able to allow for more bands.”
T-Mobile USA uses a different part of the GSM spectrum than AT&T and other GSM carriers.
In a separate article, T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm told AllThingsD that “there is no second AT&T deal around,” though the company did net cash, spectrum and a data-roaming agreement.
The once-dominant corporation founded by Michael Dell has seen a growing crop of tablets and smartphones entice consumers away from PCs. But Dell learned from the hastiness of some of its peers and understands better now how consumers value the “ecosystem” of a tablet as much as the hardware, chief commercial officer Steve Felice said.
Good that Dell finally realized what Apple knew for years — ecosystem counts.
Corel has introduced AfterShot Pro, a new digital photography editing and organization application compatible with Mac OS X, Windows and Linux operating systems. The software ships at the end of the month and costs $99. A trial version is now available for download.
AfterShot Pro is aimed at digital photographers who work with digital photos in RAW format. It helps you organize your photos, adjust them, make changes to the photos’ corresponding EXIF and IPTC metadata, and lets you apply non-destructive changes to the images. You can selectively edit photos using “Regions” and “Layers,” use external software to perform more extensive integration, export images, and perform batch processing routines.
In other words, Corel is aiming squarely at the same market that Apple and Adobe target with Aperture and Lightroom, respectively.
AfterShot Pro’s introduction comes on the heels of the news that Corel has acquired Bibble Labs, a developer of RAW image workflow software, and Corel noted in the press release announcing AfterShot Pro’s release that it is based on Bibble’s technology.
Upgrade pricing is available if you own Lightroom, Aperture, Bibble Pro or Lite or Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.
Apple Inc. said it acquired Anobit Technologies Ltd., an Israeli company that makes a flash-memory drive part for the iPhone and iPad, confirming a press report from last month.
The acquisition has been rumored since December, when Israeli tech news site Calcalist first reported the transaction. This is the first direct confirmation from Apple itself, however. Apple acknowledged the acquisition, but didn’t provide further details.
Anobit’s technology makes flash memory work faster and more reliably. With more of Apple’s product line turning to flash storage and increased pressure from other phone, tablet and now “ultrabook” vendors, Anobit will help Apple maintain a competitive edge.
