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for Apple Week.
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for apple week!!!!
Not exact matches
Apple apologized Thursday
for slowing down iPhones with older batteries without disclosing the practice to customers until last
week.
After using
Apple Watch extensively
for a
week it's become clear
Apple put a lot of work and effort into these.
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.
It's been an interesting
week for Apple and anyone who has been watching the soap opera surrounding its Qualcomm battle.
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.
Nothing quite captures the pangs of anticipation I feel
for next
week's
Apple event (the one on Tuesday, not Monday) than, perhaps, the subject of the company's latest video ad.
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.
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.
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.
Just last
week, the company faced headlines like this:
Apple's mostly white board says a call
for diversity is unduly burdensome and not necessary.
Just last
week, Ashton Kutcher slammed
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
for being critical of his «Jobs» film.
Indeed, much of WWDC, an annual
week - long conference where developers also sit through workshops and tutorials, so they can build better apps
for Apple's operating systems, is predictable.
Last
week, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi cut his fiscal - year earnings - per - share estimate
for Apple based on his team's analysis of supply - chain companies that «increasingly point [ed] to weakness.»
Last
week, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi cut his fiscal - year earnings - per - share estimate
for Apple based on his team's analysis of supply chain companies that «increasingly point [ed] to weakness.»
For example, last
week McDonald's announced it was replacing its 100 % juice with a less sugary, organic
apple juice in Happy Meals.
Shipping estimates
for new orders placed on
Apple's online store have now improved to just one to two
weeks.
Apple has since asked
for the method, but FBI Director James Comey said last
week that he was unsure whether he would comply with the iPhone maker's request.
Einhorn, fund manager
for Greenlight Capital, accused
Apple of cash hoarding earlier last
week and is encouraging shareholders to vote against
Apple's proxy because he thinks proposition two will kill the option of
Apple issuing preferred stock.
Well - known software developer Steve Troughton - Smith last
week found that
Apple mistakenly released software code
for its upcoming iPhone.
Apple forced the code - sharing website Github to take down a post containing leaked source code
for the iPhone's boot process this
week, as Motherboard first reported.
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:
Lead researcher Brian Wansink noted that
for a family that eats fast food once a
week, switching from french fries to
apple slices «could save your children almost three pounds of weight a year.»
Apple last
week announced it now has 38 million paying subscribers
for Apple Music, a little over half as many as Spotify's reported year - end 2017 total.
Apple, as it usually does, gave early access to a few reviewers to test the new rig
for a
week.
With that in mind, Cramer went over his game plan
for the coming
week, with earnings from
Apple, BP and other top companies.
Sales of the
Apple Watch to consumers set a record during the first
week of holiday shopping, and the current quarter is on track to be the best ever
for the product,
Apple Inc..
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.
(This is a drawback I experienced first - hand when I tried to go a
week using
Apple Pay
for every purchase in my small, Colorado town.)
The appearance came almost a
week after Cook took the stage
for Apple's latest special event, in San Francisco, where the company unveiled a host of new and updated products such as the iPad Pro and
Apple TV as well as two new smartphones — the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus — that went on sale
for pre-order over the weekend.
Although sales of
Apple's new iPhone 8 models appear to be slower than anticipated, Verizon is expecting a big pick up in sales
for the more expensive iPhone X, which will be available
for preorder starting next
week.
The rise of Tidal to the top was undoubtedly helped by West's decision to hold back the sale of his latest album on his website
for a
week, giving the new streaming site true exclusivity over competitors like Spotify and
Apple Music, and a golden chance to gain new subscribers:
Aside from the stock market, which will look to rebound following another turbulent
week of trading, much of this
week's excitement will be reserved
for the latest
Apple «special event», which is scheduled
for Wednesday and could offer first looks at some new smartphones, tablets and maybe even a new
Apple TV box.
Apple is counting on interest in new iPad models coming out this
week and a partnership with IBM, which will create new tablet software
for business users, to help shore up tablet sales in the coming month.
I saw one of these a few
weeks ago pull up to an
Apple shuttle stop - sit there
for a few then drove off.
For the past few
weeks, people have been tricked into visiting a phony website embedded with malware that can freeze
Apple computers, according to a report this
week by the cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes.
This
week,
Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB) announced that they would pay
for female employees to freeze their eggs.
Gigaom reports that
Apple is expected to announce its mobile wallet offer
for the new iPhone next
week, and today a consortium of top U.S. retailers including Walmart, Target and CVS announced that its payment system should launch in 2015.
This is how companies like
Apple have ended up with fanatical users who wait
for weeks in line to get their hands on the next product.
Starting on June 15,
Apple (AAPL) will require iCloud users to obtain app - specific passwords
for any third - party programs that access iCloud data,
Apple - tracking site MacRumors is reporting, citing a support e-mail the company sent to customers this
week.
Apple told courts last
week that its ability to bypass lock screens
for iPhones running iOS 8 or iOS 9 was limited because it had strengthened encryption methods.
Apple's main website
for developers remains shut after intruders tried to steal sensitive information last
week, forcing the iPhone maker to overhaul its database and server software.
For a company that could seemingly do no wrong up until a few short
weeks ago,
Apple «sdramatic reversal of fortune has jarred numerous analysts.
Apple (aapl) has been entirely responsible
for this
week's gains in the Dow Jones industrial average.
Rival company
Apple is also paying attention to facial recognition: Last
week, the tech giant acquired a patent
for a way to «detect faces using information in digital video feeds,» Bloomberg reports.
The tech giant is planning to release an iPhone this year featuring a 6.1 - inch liquid crystal display (LCD)
for just $ 550, KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo wrote to investors this
week, citing sources who claim to have knowledge of
Apple's plans.
Apple's recent earnings announcement last
week that revenue was $ 1.4 billion below expectations, and the drop in iPhone shipments compared to last year was certainly a wakeup call
for the company and its investors.
But I tested the new Surface Pro
for about a
week, and my take is similar: Microsoft's new device is a better bet
for most people than the
Apple iPad Pro.