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Cupidtino, a dating service made for Apple fanboys and fangirls, launched its own iPhone and iPod touch app. Now the hot singles that Mac nerds tend to be can keep in touch with their potential matches on the go. The app includes most of the features of the website. Members can browse through fanboy and…
Apple suspended sales of the iPhone 4S at select stores in China after crowds of would-be buyers got out of hand. Thousands of people lined up in cold temperatures to be the first to buy the highly anticipated handset. When the Sanlitun store in Beijing didn’t open on time, the crowds became combative – fights broke out and people pelted the store with eggs. According to…
Apple did something different when the announced the iPhone 4S. Instead of terminating sales of the previous generation model, the iPhone 4, they continued selling it at a discounted price. They didn’t stop there though, they also kept on selling the now 30 month old iPhone 3GS. All that choice means the iPhone has all…
Apple posted its annual App Store Rewind, highlighting its picks for the best apps and games of the year, and at the top of the list for 2011 is the photo-sharing app Instagram. It’s been quite a wild ride for Instagram. The iPhone app of the year is a wildly popular photo-sharing application with great…
German Apple website, Macerkopf, supposedly heard from two independent sources that Apple is testing new processors and different screen resolutions in its next generation iPhone handset. Though we can’t substantiate them, these rumors do make sense. If Apple is launching a new handset in 2012, it would be testing different configurations right now and someone, somewhere out there…
This was a very tumultuous year around the globe with natural disasters, uprisings, crazy reality TV divorces and more, so what do you think was the most-searched for term on Yahoo in 2011? It was “iPhone,” the company said in a post. Apple’s iPhone is always something that garners a lot of traction online –…
Another day another Apple rumor, this one courtesy of Japanese news publication Nikkei Business. They say that Apple’s next generation iPad will not ship in the spring, like previous generations of the iPad, but instead will come out in the summer. Same story with the iPhone 5, which will ship in the fall just like…
Analyst Chris Whitmore and his team at Deutsche Bank did some research regarding Apple’s Black Friday sales this year. They assessed over 100 Apple retail stores and over 100 authorized Apple resellers, such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. Whitmore declared that about 75 percent completely sold out of iPhone 4S stock…
Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies, recently came back from a trip to Japan where he learned quite a few things about the future of Apple products. One of the major stories is that Apple has invested a serious amount of cash, upwards of $1 billion, into manufacturing equipment for one of Sharp’s display factories.…
Demand for the iPhone 4S stays very strong almost one month after its release. The vast majority of Apple stores are running out of iPhone 4S units on a daily basis, says one analyst. His name is Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank, and he took a poll of 30 different Apple stores, revealing that between…