Bryan Chaffin

China Unicom announced on Friday that it would begin selling the iPhone on October 1st of this year, news that helped send shares in Apple higher than the $180 per share target Mr. Reid had previously maintained. While he thinks Apple will eventually release a touch screen tablet in 2010, he was more interested in…

As it was not, he is suing, and his attorney is attempting to have his suit given class action status for those others who were lied to when they bought their iPhones, according to The Pioneer Press. iPhone 3.0 and iPhone 3GS were introduced by Apple at this year’s World Wide Developer Conference on June…

Indeed, they might even be a good thing for Microsoft in their efforts to blunt Apple’s successful efforts to brand the Mac as less troublesome than a Windows box. Make no mistake that the odds are stacked against Big Redmond – and I frankly still expect the Guru Bar to be a joke – but…

These sources said that those managers who were hired away were tasked with poaching top retail staff, again with the offer of raises over what Apple is paying. Together, this team of former Apple employees will have the great honor of peddling Windows and possibly managing the Guru Bar. In some cases, they may get…

According to the company, Grosshandel offers enterprise features like support for international tax systems, professional unit management and automated warehouse planning are available for SOHO users. Feature list: Efficient purchase and sale management. Sale and purchase documents share the same interface for editing. Flexible warehouse management with unlimited number of warehouses for shipping, storing and…

Mr. Munster did the back-of-napkin math on the revenue Apple will see from Snow Leopard, which ships Friday, August 28th, in a research note to clients. He believes Apple will sell approximately 5 million copies in the current quarter (ends in September) at an average price of $22 per copy. With gross margins on software…

Overall, the Canadian PC market shrank by some 14.6% during the quarter, with desktop sales plummeting 36.8% across the board, while PC laptop sales grew by 9.9%. Apple’s laptop sales growth of 24% allowed the company to jump to its first-ever double digit market share figure in Canada. As with other markets, the sole bright…

The ACSI is a project of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in partnership with the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and CFI Group, and its quarterly reports are based on lengthy surveys of customers in different industries throughout the year. Apple’s score of 84 represents a decline of 1 point, but, according…

The first title was provided by Mr. Don Reisinger, and was surprisingly published by eWeek, a magazine I normally respect. The second title, of course, comes from the part of my imagination dedicated to making mock of others. It being an otherwise slow Friday when it comes to news, I figured it was time I…

For battery nerds, the batteries as announced boast a power density of 1800W/kg (20A continuous discharge). Sony is using olivine-type lithium iron phosphate as the cathode material, which Sony characterized as being “extremely suited for use as a cathode material due to its robust crystal structure and stable performance, even at high temperatures.” The company…

Long-time Apple observers will remember Mr. Gassée as the flamboyant and charismatic former Apple executive who was involved in the turf warfare that resulted in the ouster of Steve Jobs from the company he cofounded in the late 1980s. Mr. Gassée then became a prominent force within Apple until he left to form Be, Inc…

“Consider the iPod, she wrote, “small, elegant and curvy, it’s everything that stereo equipment never was. Traditional stereo shops seem as out of date as vinyl, and stand in contrast to Apple stores, which are light, bright and bursting with women. Though pink is offered as one of many color choices, women buy iPods because…

Apple acquired Shake in February of 2002 when it bought its maker, Nothing Real. At that time, Apple was in the process of building it’s Mac-based video editing portfolio, having already purchased Final Cut from Macromedia. Since then, however, Shake hasn’t gotten much public attention from Apple, and the 4.1 release referenced above included a…

In the research note obtained by The Mac Observer, Mr. Reitzes wrote, “We believe the 3Q09 report was very strong with solid demand for AAPL products combined with solid execution.” “Most importantly,” he added, “Apple continues to demonstrate how its unique business model can deliver industry-high margins over the short & long-term. We look forward…