Samsung, Nokia and Qualcomm have been trying for years to squeeze money
out of Apple in patent lawsuits, with a university ultimately hitting the jackpot.
Around 33 state attorneys general and the Department of Justice are looking to get up to $ 840m (# 501m) in damages
out of Apple in the July trial, after District Judge Denise Cote found Apple complicit in the conspiracy to raise ebook prices in an attempt to break Amazon's growing stranglehold on the fledgling market.
Not exact matches
Apple is reducing the price
of an
out -
of - warranty iPhone battery replacement by $ 50 — from $ 79 to $ 29 — for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, starting
in late January and available worldwide through December 2018.
Even
Apple, one
of the most valuable companies ever, started
out with a small, devoted fan base
of early computer lovers
in the 1970s before anyone had a computer
in their home.
More poignantly, the Priv has a rubberized back, which is
out of step with the more durable metal finishes used by the likes
of Apple and HTC
in their flagship devices.
Siri is also a core feature
of Apple's CarPlay, which is rolling
out in many new vehicles.
We only just marked the 10th anniversary
of Apple's iPhone, but the future waits for no one: Designer Mike Rundle has put together an essay laying
out what the iPhone unveiled
in 2027 will look like, drawing on visible technology trends today, as well as patents that
Apple has filed
in recent years.
The now iconic image
of an
apple with bite taken
out of it has been with the company since 1976, but the tech giant ditched the rainbow colors for the current slick chrome shade
in 1998.
In 1997,
Apple almost went
out of business.
But Scarborough points
out that some
of the buzziest names
in the business world today are sustained by massive sales machines —
Apple sells devices, while Google and Facebook sell ads.
With no plans to accept
Apple Pay, and no set launch date for MCX, it appears Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing
out on a major shift
in customer behavior: Forrester Research has forecast that mobile payments by U.S. consumers will go from $ 52 billion last year to $ 142 billion by the end
of 2019.
Use the tool below to test how long on average it would take some to crack various passcodes
in a world where a crippled version
of Apple's software —
of the sort that law enforcement desires — hypothetically got
out into the wild.
Hundreds
of high - profile businesses have spoken
out in favor
of the deal, including
Apple, Google and Walmart.
Later, when she aged
out of her parents» insurance, Weber was able to enroll
in Apple Health, Washington state's version
of Medicaid, a program that was expanded once the ACA was passed.
With no current plans to accept
Apple Pay (though down the line it, and other mobile wallets, could well be a payment option within Walmart Pay), and no set launch date for MCX (never mind that as the product
of consortium, that mobile app will not be set up to meet Walmart's specific needs), Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing
out on a major shift
in customer behavior.
Apple is now paying
out more cash
in the form
of dividends to its shareholders than any other major publicly traded company
in the U.S.
«We had to make a decision: Either put
out a mediocre product following
Apple's guidelines or do something really cool
in the jailbreak space and focus on building our brand,» says Samir Shah, a co-founder
of the company.
He pointed
out that
Apple Music's competitors
in China offer customers far more flexibility with different tiers
of free and paid streaming.
However, before entrepreneurs
in the tech space try to figure
out their angle, they should consider whether the story is accurate or another
of the many PR fakes
Apple has pulled over the years.
That's what happened to Mark Tacchi, who dropped
out of graduate school
in 1993 to take a job at NeXT, the computer company Jobs founded after being forced
out of Apple.
Google, Facebook, and
Apple have all staked
out claims
in the sphere
of AI virtual assistants — tools which, as Facebook's M has shown, could take a bite
out of search and e-commerce.
«It's like 4 feet
of an
Apple store,» says Katz - Mayfield, describing how Harry's product displays stand
out in Target's shaving aisle.
If history is our guide, he'll likely kick off his talk with how well
Apple has done at getting its customers to run the latest versions
of iOS and OS X, how many apps are available
in the company's App Store, uptick
in Apple TV usage, and perhaps most importantly to developers, how much the iPhone maker has doled
out to the software makers as part
of their revenue - sharing agreement.
«I think
Apple is also benefiting from reports
out of retailers and accessory makers that the
Apple Watch is becoming a factor
in the category.
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.
KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo, regarded as one
of the more reliable crystal - ball - gazers
out there when it comes to
Apple, reckons the company will release a new, cheaper MacBook Air sometime
in the second quarter.
In 20 years, the next CEO
of Apple could decide to cut costs and kill off
Apple Music, wiping
out tens
of millions
of people's libraries overnight.
Plenty
of other retailers, from American Eagle to Safeway, have been testing iBeacons
in trial runs at a limited number
of stores, but until now,
Apple, unsurprisingly, was the only company to put its full trust
in the technology and roll it
out across all
of its stores.
«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.
«We certainly are not going to put any more capital investments into the U.S. until we see how the election pans
out,» Rennehan, chief executive
of Oakville, Ontario - based Freshco, which builds and maintains retail spaces for clients such as
Apple and Nike, told the Globe
in a separate article published this month.
If you already own other
Apple hardware, a Mac will start working with it seamlessly right
out of the box
in a way that no PC currently can.
As numerous observers have pointed
out, HP's decision on a new direction is a clear sign
of surrender to
Apple, not just
in tablets and phones but
in computers as well.
Great ideas don't often appear
out of thin air (legends
of Newton and his
apple and Archimedes
in his bathtub aside).
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.
To seek
out the counterweights to this argument, Cramer zoomed
in on the 10 best performing tech stocks
in the S&P 500 for the first half
of 2017 — gaming giants Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts, software players Adobe Systems, Red Hat and Autodesk, semiconductor - related companies Micron, Nvidia and Lam Research, payment provider PayPal and the
Apple - involved Broadcom.
News emerged over the weekend that the two retailers had opted
out of Apple Pay
in favor
of a rival system that roughly 50 chains, including Wal - Mart and Best Buy, are developing for
in - house use.
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.
When customers are opting to spend twice as much to buy an
Apple laptop than an HP, it's time to massively shake up that business or get
out of it entirely (by the way, I'm not sure if anybody has pointed
out the obvious yet, but it sure seems like Microsoft Windows is at the core
of HP's problem
in this area).
In the end, the iPhone 7 turned
out to be a big seller, and
Apple ordered the remaining supplies a couple
of months later.
Beating
out Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows
in key aspects
of school computer usage, Google's Chrome OS is the preferred operating system on the majority
of school desktop computers.
In a sign
of Buffett's investing prescience, a stock that no one expected him to buy has lately turned
out to be his most successful bet:
Apple (aapl).
Moonves is just the latest TV executive to talk
out of school about
Apple's on - again, off - again plans to fix the TV experience that Tim Cook once described as «stuck
in the seventies.»
When Tim Cook, the chief executive
of Apple, the largest publicly traded company
in the world, came
out as gay on Thursday, it sent a pretty powerful message to business owners around the globe: Openness and inclusion
of diversity are key drivers
of innovation and productivity.
It was the
out -
of - touch PC maker that comedian John Hodgman lampooned
in TV ads for
Apple in the late 2000s as a hapless corporate stiff.
The company has not broken
out sales
of the gadget
in its earnings, instead lumping it into an «other products» category that includes devices such as the iPod and
Apple TV.
The fundamental comprehension
of Apple's weakness
in a lack
of product diversity
in comparison to its financial size helps explain why so many have always had one foot
out the door when it comes to the company.
The company, which also works with
Apple, will also benefit from sales
of the new iPhone 6 once it comes
out later this year, said Michael Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity,
in a July 14 report.
«Obviously
Apple is part
of that with splitting the new devices between the 8, which came
out in 3Q and the ten, which comes
out in 4Q.
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder
of Apple, and Seth Rogen, the man who plays Woz
in the upcoming film «Steve Jobs,» hung
out together at The Magic Castle, a membership club for magicians
in Los Angeles.
Here's a rundown
of how Google's new Pixel phones — due
out Oct. 19 and already available for pre-order — compare to their
Apple iPhone counterparts
in terms
of their tech specs.