Microsoft plans to file an amicus brief on behalf of
Apple this week in its court battle with the Department of Justice and the FBI, a spokesperson for Apple told the E-Commerce Times.
Not exact matches
This
week,
Apple's Qualcomm battle took a rather interesting turn, when a host of the company's competitors, including Google and Samsung, announced that they back the iPhone maker
in its chip battle.
High - profile luxury carmakers Ferrari, Mercedes - Benz, and Volvo are predictably driving the deluxe dashboard touchscreen trend and they're showing off
Apple's long - teased CarPlay feature
in select models for the first time at this
week's Geneva Motor Show.
This
week, Trump told the Wall Street Journal that
Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to build three plants
in the U.S.
in the coming years, but Cupertino has not made any announcements.
Not all of them were fully functional, but keep
in mind as I write this review the app store hasn't gone live yet and
Apple Watch is still nearly three
weeks away from launch.
The arguments for participating
in such off - the - record briefings are fairly obvious, just as they were for technology titans like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who got roped into a tech summit with Trump at the Trump Tower last
week.
Juxtaposing Uber's bad
week, Lyft capitalized on the moment by donating $ 1 million to the ACLU over the next four years, and
in conjunction, surpassed Uber by jumping to
Apple's fourth most downloaded app.
And the Wall Street forecasts that
Apple met were a result of
weeks of analysts reducing their projections based on fears the higher priced iPhones might scare off some customers, particularly
in emerging markets.
The iPhone X has been
Apple's top selling device every
week since it came out last fall and was the best selling phone model
in China, Cook noted multiple times on the call, as he sought to combat the negative narrative some analysts were pushing.
Over the last several
weeks in the lead - up to
Apple's earnings report on Tuesday, a slew of reports said the iPhone is
in trouble.
The short film reached 6.5 million YouTube views less than two
weeks after its September 2013 premiere, while the free game reportedly topped 500,000 downloads within about six
weeks of landing
in Apple's App Store.
The additions come a few
weeks after
Apple announced it was cutting the price of its streaming devices (
in Canada) to $ 89.
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In a note to investors this
week, KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo said that iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus pre-orders are sluggish because of strong demand for
Apple's upcoming iPhone X.
In this week's installment, focused on fitness, Wristly founder Bernard Desarnauts reports that in a pool of 1,300 Apple Watch owner
In this
week's installment, focused on fitness, Wristly founder Bernard Desarnauts reports that
in a pool of 1,300 Apple Watch owner
in a pool of 1,300
Apple Watch owners:
Since the company alerted reporters last
week to a «secretive» event coming up on Tuesday
in Cupertino, California, there's been little else to discuss
in the world of tech — except for some stolen celebrity photos that were reportedly taken from
Apple's iCloud service.
But I've read a few briefs
in my career and based on the one the Department of Justice filed last
week and the one
Apple filed yesterday,
Apple vs. FBI looks like a slam dunk for
Apple.
As Lindzon writes, «Jason has taken a few
weeks away from running Mahalo into the ground to write «The Case Against
Apple -
in Five Parts.»
And Cook repeatedly noted that
Apple's holiday quarter this year has only 13
weeks compared to 14
weeks in the year - ago quarter.
FORTUNE — Last
week, the Financial Times reported that
Apple (AAPL) is
in talks to acquire the trendy headphone and music streaming service Beats Electronics for $ 3.2 billion.
Investors were dismayed by the earnings report, causing
Apple's shares to drop 3 %
in midday trading on Friday to $ 162.35, on top of losing 7 %
in the previous two
weeks.
«
In fact, during the first week of holiday shopping, our sell - through of Apple Watch was greater than any week in the product's histor
In fact, during the first
week of holiday shopping, our sell - through of
Apple Watch was greater than any
week in the product's histor
in the product's history.
Three days later this
week,
in China, news surfaced that the country has removed from a central government purchase list some of the largest U.S tech firms implicated
in the very affairs revealed by Snowden, including most notably Cisco Sistems (CSCO), but also
Apple Inc (AAPL), Citrix Systems (CSTX), and Intel's (INTC) McAfee security business.
In the note, which was earlier reported on by
Apple - tracking site 9to5Mac, Kuo said pre-order shipment dates after initial orders are placed usually stands around three to six
weeks.
Wikileaks this
week contacted major tech companies including
Apple and Google, and required them to assent to a set of conditions before receiving leaked information about security «zero days» and other surveillance methods
in the possession of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Earlier this
week, Bill Gates described those early days at Microsoft and at rival
Apple,
in an interview with The Wall Street Journal:
Its launch will likely come alongside the launch of
Apple's latest iOS iteration, which typically launches about a
week before its new iPhone
in the fall.
For example, last
week McDonald's announced it was replacing its 100 % juice with a less sugary, organic
apple juice
in Happy Meals.
And, last
week,
Apple obtained a permit to test - drive three driverless cars
in California.
In the meantime, this
week brought fresh evidence of China's rising prowess as the country's two tech giants, Alibaba and Tencent, reported record quarterly earnings, prompting the New York Times to point out that the two companies now rank alongside
Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon as the world's most highly valued companies.
«While trying to extract information from (
Apple) management is like squeezing «water from a rock,» we did speak with AAPL CFO (Peter Oppenheimer)... and found the conversation helpful,» ISI analyst Brian Marshall
in a note to clients a few
weeks ago.
Apple's forecast came
in contrast to Wall Street's concerns over iPhone demand
in recent
weeks.
Two
weeks after Cheyer and his co-founders, Dag Kittlaus and Tom Gruber, launched Siri as an app
in the
Apple store
in February 2010, Jobs called their office — unannounced.
«We've never been
in this situation before, where
Apple has announced two devices coming out within six
weeks of each other,» an official at one carrier said.
Startups help typhoon - ravaged Filipinos, meet a 23 - year - old YouTube media mogul, the
Apple of grocery stores sprouts
in San Francisco, Nest's Tony Fadell on his life's work, the key to leadership, Dropbox sets its sights on businesses, startup lessons from the NASCAR... This
week's notable news and tantalizing tidbits for entrepreneurs:
Developing their case
in only a matter of
weeks after
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad concept to the public, Buckley and Dalton learned some valuable lessons that any entrepreneur can put to use when getting a business up and running.
(It should come as no surprise that I have been using
Apple's new iPhone 6 Plus
in recent
weeks, which I'm sure helped contribute to the feeling.)
The survey, which polled 1,002 U.S. adults, also highlighted the fact that the DOJ and
Apple legal battle has become a hot topic
in the public sphere, with 75 % of respondents saying they have heard a lot about it since the news came out last
week.
Just a few
weeks ago, the Black Eyed Peas member spoke at an
Apple media extravaganza
in San Francisco where he showed off an updated version of the group's song Where Is the Love?
LATEST
APPLE PAY DEVELOPMENTS: Last
week,
Apple announced a number of forthcoming changes to
Apple Pay, including synchronization with rewards cards and its launch
in the UK next month.
It doesn't quite have the shock appeal of the Pope's unannounced TED Talk this
week, but a few hours ago, a passerby
in California saw a white Lexus fitted out with self - driving equipment emerge from an
Apple facility
in Silicon Valley and shared those images with Bloomberg.
At its Worldwide Developers Conference this
week in San Francisco,
Apple said it will equip new iPhones and its other mobile devices with a kill switch that allows users go online and deactivate the devices if they are lost or stolen.
As of this writing on Wednesday,
Apple shares were down 6 % on the Nasdaq and about 30 % from their 52 -
week high
in February last year.
Apple has confirmed two separate cyber incidents
in recent
weeks, most recently a malware that subjected users to unwanted ads after they downloaded an application.
Xiaomi's products outsell the iPhone
in China, and the company's newest smartphone, unveiled earlier this
week, could put the company even farther ahead of
Apple.
Apple executives at this
week's Mobile World Congress
in Barcelona, Spain, told Efrati that
Apple will soon let third - party companies help advertisers target their ads to specific users, like they can on Facebook.
Apple this
week confirmed that it will repatriate its nearly quarter - trillion - dollar cash hoard and pay $ 38 billion
in taxes on it.
With that
in mind, Cramer went over his game plan for the coming
week, with earnings from
Apple, BP and other top companies.
Apple's Tim Cook has taken to Twitter to condemn the fatal shootings of black men
in Minnesota and Louisiana this
week.
And unless you didn't mind waiting
weeks for it to ship from
Apple, you had to be
in line at the store to get it before anyone else.