Apple crushed earnings in the first quarter. Photo: Bryan Derwalla/Wired.com There’s no slowing the Apple sales train. The company released its first-quarter earnings results to shareholders on Tuesday, blowing away analyst expectations and beating sales records across multiple categories. Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the first quarter of its [...]
The Apple TV set-top box integrates streaming TV and movie rentals and Netflix streaming. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com It’s a little too soon to start making predictions about Apple’s next iPhone. And the iPad 3 seems all but figured out, if reports are to be trusted. But there are some seriously [...]
Newsstand, a new feature of iOS 5, is hitting it big with traditional media publishers thanks to its windfall delivery of new digital subscriptions. Newsstand appears as a folder on the iOS home screen, funneling all your digital magazine and newspaper app subscriptions into a single location. It provides easy access [...]
A screenshot of Infinity Blade II on the iPhone 4S illustrates the fine graphical detail enabled by Apple's A5 processor. Image: ChAIR Entertainment If the last two weeks of mainstream press coverage are to be believed, the only relevant features in Apple’s new iPhone 4S are Siri, the phone’s remarkable digital [...]
Neither high-tech nor fancy, Apple’s campus bike is nonetheless perfect for its job. Photo Everaldo Coelho This bike is the Apple campus bike. The photo, taken by designer Everaldo Coelho, shows one of the bikes apparently used to get around at Apple’s HQ at One Infinite Loop, Cupertino. If you [...]
Ker-ching! The App Store has proved to be quite successful Apple’s App Store has served 15 billion application downloads, the Cupertino, California company announced Thursday. According to the official numbers, in just three years the store has gone from zero to 425,000 apps, 100,000 of which are iPad-native. Those are [...]
By Chris Foresman, Ars Technica The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals — Promise’s Pegasus RAIDs — started shipping on Tuesday. Using the RAIDs with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac, though, requires a rather expensive $50 cable that is only available from Apple. We dug into the design of the cable to find out why Apple [...]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud at WWDC 2011. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com Apple CEO Steve Jobs set off a bomb in Silicon Valley on Monday, and companies all over the world are still assessing the damage. The new features in iOS 5 and Mac [...]
After less than three years of existence, Apple’s App Store has accumulated half-a-million mobile apps. The iTunes App Store, which launched in the summer of 2008, surpassed the 500,000 milestone Tuesday morning, according to 148Apps, an iPhone app reviews blog that has been tracking the store closely. To be clear, [...]
Apple's iPhone includes a small tray that holds the SIM card. Photo courtesy of iFixit Apple wants future iPhones and iPads to be even thinner, according to a report, and to do that, the telecom industry will need to use smaller SIM cards. That’s what Reuters heard from European carrier [...]