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140 million copies of Vista sold. How does Leopard compare?
Apple has no numbers to compare with the 140 million copies of Vista that Bill Gates says Microsoft has sold since the latest version of Windows started shipping in late 2006.
Literally, no numbers. The last time Apple released a Leopard sales figure was Oct. 30, 2007, when the company said that it had sold […]
iPhone vs. BlackBerry 9000: The keyboard wars, round 2
Do smartphones need really need physical keys?
The folks who designed Apple’s iPhone bet that touchscreen keys would be good enough for most users, and based on a February survey of iPhone owners that found 72% “very satisfied” (versus 55% for RIM), Apple’s gamble seems to have paid off.
The complaints about the virtual keys that were […]
Apple iPhone 2.0 Software Preview
On Thursday, March 6, 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs hosted a special event at the Apple Town Hall on Apple’s Cupertino campus, where he and two other company executives detailed plans for iPhone 2.0, an upcoming iPhone software update that dramatically enhances the value of a product that is already, quite frankly, pretty darn valuable. […]
How to unlock 1.1.3 iPhone
Mr. GEOrge HOTz did it again. He just loosed a world of hurt on AT&T with a software unlock for 1.1.3 iPhones.
That’s right, the software is said to work on any fresh from the Apple store, shrink-wrapped iPhone sporting the latest 1.1.3 firmware and 4.6 bootloader, something the AnySIM unlock can’t do. GeoHot’s instructions (and […]
New iPhone and iPod touch, same price structure
Reflecting the availability and the falling costs of memory chips, Apple (AAPL) today introduced a 16-GB iPhone and a 32-GB iPod touch. The lower costs, however, were not passed on to consumers.
“For some users, there’s never enough memory,” said Apple VP Greg Joswiak in a press release issued this morning. “Now people can enjoy even […]
How many iPhones did Europeans buy?
End-of-year sales figures for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone in Europe are trickling in, but not in any form that can be definitively pieced together.
That latest news comes from Germany, where the head of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile division said in an online interview Saturday that it had signed on 70,000 customers in the 11 weeks since the […]
How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
The demo was not going well.
Again.
It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had tasked about 200 of Apple’s top engineers with creating the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t […]
