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Sir Jonathan Ive now Senior VP of Design at Apple

Kaled Ali — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:47:29 +0000

Apple’s design guru, Sir Jonathan Ive, is getting a whole new level of recognition at the company. After designing the latest version of iOS, the English designer has received a new title at the company: Senior Vice President of Design. With iOS 7, Ive redesigned the iPhone experience and made changes that iOS device users have not seen in the past. Though Apple released new…

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Are Apple’s WWDC announcements enough to recapture consumer interest?

Kaled Ali — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:43:49 +0000

Earlier this week, Apple released the redesigned iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new models of the Macbook Air and Mac Pro during their WWDC 2013 keynote. The company is also rumored to be releasing an iPhone 5S and a cheaper iPhone later this year, likely during the September/October timeframe. With Apple releasing all of these new software and hardware updates within a six month gap, the question of whether this will be enough to recapture consumer interest has to come up. Apple has been under intense scrutiny over the past several months, with analysts and consumers alike claiming the company is…

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Apple’s relationship with TBWA/Chiat/Day strained by…Phil Schiller? [Updated]

Kaled Ali — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:25:36 +0000

Popular ad firm TBWA/Chiat/Day has been working with Apple for many years and helped to come up with the Cupertino company’s iconic “1984″ ad. This relationship has been a longstanding one as Apple has been using the firm for its ads since then. TBWA/Chiat/Day also works with other high profile clients including Jameson, Michelin and Nicoderm, which are only a select few of the many companies for which they produce ad campaigns. Now, it seems Apple’s relationship with the ad firm is becoming strained as they engage in a controversy over the leadership style of Apple’s SVP of…

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Apple now replacing iPhone 5 displays in-store for $149

Kaled Ali — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:01:03 +0000

Apple is trying to lower its repair costs by offering customers the option to replace iPhone 5 displays in-store as opposed to having them shipped elsewhere for repairs. With this new option, customers will be able to get their iPhone 5 displays replaced for $149 at any of Apple's retail locations. Apple made this decision at one of their town hall meetings last year in an effort to conserve over $1 billion.

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Apple lawsuit wrap-up for May 2013

Erica Marceau — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:59:21 +0000

May 2013 was a quiet month in the world of Apple lawsuits, but it’s always quietest right before the storm.

The European Commission sent Motorola a strongly worded letter accusing them of abusing their standard-essential patents against Apple in Germany. Motorola licensed some patents to Apple, but still sought injunctions against them even though Apple wanted to enter into an agreement. This isn’t an official ruling and Motorola said they did nothing wrong, but is still beneficial for future patent conflicts.
The National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan sued Apple in 2012 over Siri violating one of their patents, and they’re suing Apple again in 2013. They claim that “all of…

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How Apple has redefined entry-level products with its new 16GB iPod touch

Kaled Ali — Thu, 30 May 2013 23:15:17 +0000

Apple did something risky and brilliant today when it introduced the new 16GB iPod touch 5th Gen. Replacing the entry-level 4th gen, the new 16GB iPod touch remains mostly unchanged; Apple removed the 5 megapixel camera and the new Loop attachment feature that is available on the 32 and 64GB models introduced last fall. In other words, the new iPod touch isn’t new at all, but instead offers customers a stripped down version of what is available already.

This truly shows how far Apple has come in terms of selling products to its customers. By introducing this iPod…

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Apple hires former EPA chief Lisa Jackson

Kaled Ali — Wed, 29 May 2013 23:31:40 +0000

Apple is beginning to take the environmental concerns of many politicians, organizations and activists more seriously, as evidenced by the hiring of former EPA chief Lisa Jackson. Apple has been very conscious of its environmental footprint for several years now, ensuring customers during product introductions that Macs and iOS device are BPA, arsenic, and mercury…

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Apple named world’s most valuable brand for the third straight year

Kaled Ali — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:00:39 +0000

Apple has been dealing with a lot in the last few months, being accused of lacking innovation, CEO Tim Cook going under the leadership microscope, and the company coming under scrutiny for dodging billions in tax payments. Despite this adversity, Apple has once again come out on top. For the third straight year since 2009, Apple has been named the world's most valuable brand. The rankings are determined by Millward Brown's annual BrandZ study of brands in the United States

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iTesla: Will Apple buy Tesla Motors?

Charles Moore — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:12:45 +0000

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk appears to have a realistic shot at doing something no one else has been able to do since about the first third of the 20th Century: found a successful, new North American automobile manufacturing company. Preston Tucker and the abortive partnership of industrialists Joseph W. Frazer and Henry J. Kaiser tried in the 1940s and ’50s (Kaiser later taking the car company solo), Glenn Pray and Brooks Stevens (sort of) in the 1960s and ’70s, Malcolm Bricklin tried in the 1970s, and former General Motors executive John Z. DeLorean in the 1980s—to name the six most prominent new U.S.automaker startup attempts since World War II.

Kaiser and Frazer perhaps came closest to achieving qualified success, their companies building passenger automobiles for nine years from 1947 to 1956, and through their 1953 purchase of Willys-Overland living on as independent Jeep-maker Kaiser-Willys. This was changed in 1963 to Kaiser-Jeep, until purchased by American Motors Corp. in 1970, and subsequently by Chrysler in 1987.

Tesla Motors is certainly the most impressive and promising automaker startup since the Kaiser-Frazer effort. Last week, shares of Tesla Motors Inc. hit a new 52-week high of $97.12 on May 14, well above its high water mark of $88.00 a…

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Apple China sales reach 7M, Samsung tops worldwide mobile sales

Krisette Capati — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:38:38 +0000

In another episode of smartphone warfare in the mobile industry, Gartner, Inc. has published the worldwide sales of mobile phones, reporting that nearly 426 million units were sold. Apple China sales offered the biggest boost, with nearly 7M in sales during this period—largely credited to the lower-priced iPhone 4. Gartner said half of all the mobile phones sold during the first quarter were in the Asia/Pacific market.

“More than 226 million mobile phones were sold to end users in…

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