Bryan Chaffin

While the two conclusions may seem incongruous at first blush, a more in-depth look at the numbers clears up any confusion, and we’ll start with the timing of the surveys. Retrevo asked customers in the days leading up to the iPad announcement if they had heard about a new Apple tablet that might be revealed…

The news was broken by Spanish newspaper El Mundo, which reported that company president Xiaolong Wu, said: “I was very angry and flabbergasted two days ago when I saw the news of the iPad presentation. It is certainly our design. They’ve stolen [it] because we presented our P88 more than six months ago at the…

The book gives you the lowdown on some of the best apps in 16 different categories, many of are presented with full color screen shots to help explain the app. The book is presented in the easy-to-read “For Dummies” format, a format at which we think Mr. LeVitus is the master. Mr. LeVitus told us…

On Thursday, Microsoft turned in results that were better than expected for the December quarter, with revenue of US$19.02 billion, a 14% increase over the year-ago quarter. Net income was $6.66 billion – seriously – which was up 60% year-over-year. The company attributed the growth to a successful Windows 7 launch – the operating system…

Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank said the device could create a “fourth leg” in Apple’s product lines, and Charlie Wolf of Needham & Co. said the device should be a success out of the gate. Despite these endorsements, however, shares in Apple fell Thursday to close at US$199.29, a loss of $8.594 (-4.13%), on heavy…

Apple announced Monday revenues of more than $15 billion for the December quarter, the company’s first fiscal quarter of 2010. while traditionally the biggest quarter of the year (as illustrated in the graph below), Apple CEO Steve Jobs noted in a statement that, “If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now…

But Apple didn’t ask for my input, which is frankly something else to annoy me. Seriously, folks, there are so many other things that Apple has gotten right that it (usually) more than makes up for the gaffes and missteps. In my never-humble opinion, of course. For instance, Apple more or less saved the established…

We considered this relevant because the shape of the glass if very suggestive of an iPhone, and several readers commented that the lack of scale in the image made it difficult to understood how large the glass is in the photo we first published January 11th. We received two new photos today, the first of…

The site offered four bounties in its stunt, US$10,000 for “bona fide pictures” of the device, $20,000 for “video of one in action,” $50,000 for “video of Steve Jobs holding one,” and $100,000 to “let us play with one for an hour.” “We’ve had enough of trying to follow all the speculation around Apple’s impending…

The appeal involves a copyright infringement suit Apple brought against Psystar to stop the Florida company from selling generic Psystar PCs installed with Mac OS X. Apple claimed that Psystar had to violate Apple’s copyrights on Mac OS X in order to trick Mac OS X into thinking the PCs were Apple-built Macs, a claim…

“In [December] 2009, the Company sold its equity interest in la la and entered into an agreement to terminate a memorandum of terms relating to the formation of an international joint venture for total cash consideration of approximately $9.0 million as part of a sale of la la to Apple Inc,” the company said in…

He made the comment in an interview with Kara Swisher of AllThingsD during last week’s CES trade show in Las Vegas, which was posted Friday at the media outlet’s site. When asked how he views Apple as a competitor in the smartphone market, Mr. Rubinstein said, “We don’t pay that much attention to Apple….I know…

(At least one person has a more…colorful name for it, but note there’s profanity before you go clickling all willy nilly.) At long last, Google is making its own Android device, just like Apple makes the iPhone, or so the narrative I’ve been reading about the device would have us believe. Better yet, because Google…

The new suit is in addition to a an iPhone-related patent infringement lawsuit Nokia filed against Apple in October, where Nokia alleges that Apple violates 10 of its wireless technology-related patents in manufacturing the iPhone. Apple fired back with a countersuit in December with its own patent infringement claims. Nokia responded to Apple’s response with…

Changewave’s research focuses on future planning, and respondents in its surveys are asked a variety questions about their purchasing plans. In the case of this survey, respondents were asked whether they own a smartphone (42% do, a record high in the survey), which smartphone they own, if they plan on buying a smartphone in the…

Reuters reported that a three-judge panel of the 9-member court also upheld the lower court’s dismissal of claims that Apple was violating California’s unfair competition law. At the heart of the dismissal and the 9th Circuit’s upholding of that dismissal is that the plaintiffs didn’t claim damage inflicted on them, nor did they claim that…