According to a new report by RetailSails, Apple now officially holds the position for the most U.S. retail sales per square foot of retail space. As one can see by looking at the sales per sqaure foot on the table above, Apple’s sales per retail square foot in the United States is almost double their closest competitor, Tiffany & Co. Apple has been opening retail store after retail store recently, in the United States as well as internationally. With these massive new openings, Apple also holds the position as the nation’s fastest growing retailer.
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Since the iPad made its debut into the market early last year, other companies such as HP (which recently ceased production of its computers and Touchpad), and now Acer are suffering from Apple’s impeccable tablet, which has claimed, by far, the most market share in the tablet industry and wiped away competition. Due to this, Acer has recently reported a net quarterly loss – its first one ever.
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Reuters has once again brought up rumors of a cheaper 8GB version of the iPhone 4. The website claims that it has two “people with knowledge of the matter” giving it inside information.
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Apple has now officially dropped the price of the 16GB Wifi-only refurbished iPad 1 to just $299, which was released last spring. If you’re looking for a legit price from Apple on the iPad first generation, this is probably the lowest the prices are going to get, unless you choose to head over to sites such as eBay to get the device. Of course, as a refurbished iPad, you don’t exactly get the whole psychological “BAM” that you own the “magical’ device, but hey, technically, there should be no difference between this one and the non-refurbished one, right?
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For a long time now, everyone has been discussing the possibilities of Apple’s future television products. Many analysts have given information claiming that Apple is already working on such products, and Apple itself expressed keen interest over the television market.
However, it has not been decided whether Apple will end up using traditional LCD screens for its next products, or if the company will switch to OLED technology (organic light emitting diode) instead.
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Sometime a week ago, it was reported that Apple had started testing a 4G LTE iPhone with carriers, and the evidence came from an internal iOS test build that contained a certain .plist (property list file) believed to be for LTE.
BGR thinks that the inclusion of this file means that Apple has already started testing of LTE.
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When the classic fanboy needs to take a vacation or go on a business trip, you can be sure that he (or she) usually brings with them their iPhone to make calls, their iPad to read on the flight, and their Mac to get stuff done. The problem is that these devices will often eat up their battery extremely quickly, especially when you’re using the camera or some other battery-use-intensive task, and you find that you’ll need to bring all these chargers, cords, etc, just to get all three of your devices charged. Well, that’s about to change, as Energizer is releasing a product called the iSurge, which provides a built-in iPhone dock, USB charger, and three outlets.
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John Martellaro from Mac Observer recently embarked on a little pen and paper journey – using some drawings released by cupertino.org of the new Apple campus to estimate the size of the HQ.
You won’t believe how large he found it to be.
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According to 9to5 Mac, Apple is going to go ahead and release its next-gen smartphone on October 7th, which was the date first reported by TiPB. Apparently, Apple had been deciding between the October 14th and October 7th dates, but finally went with October 7th because of good pre-mass-production rates.
Also, Apple may be letting customers pre-order the iPhone 5, which did not happen with the iPad 2.
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According to a report by TechCrunch, yesterday Apple phased out the ability for developers to access a device’s UDID (Unique Device Identifier).
This is an interesting development by Apple, and begs the question of why the company would do that.
Well, it seems that Apple’s plans are to have developers create their own unique app specific identifiers in order to bond installations to specific users.
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You’d think that people would know better than to sell counterfeit Apple goods in New York in broad daylight, but apparently some people are just stupid. The ironic thing is, the two stores were actually located in the Chinatown section of Flushing in Queens.
One of the stores is called “Apple Story”, and they sell a variety of “Apple” products such as iPhone cases and Apple headsets packaged in cases that looked quite genuine.
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DisplaySearch released its results on estimated mobile PC sales for Q2 2011 today. The research firm found that when it included both traditional notebooks and tablets, the company with the greatest number of shipments was Apple by far.
When added with the popularity of the iPad, Apple computer shipments accounted for 21.1% of the entire market with 13.6 million units shipped.
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According to the New York Post, Apple just recently signed a lease for a total of 45,000 square feet of space in a Fifth Avenue building in New York close to Union Street.
It seems as though Apple is going to use that space to expand its iAd program – which in the past functioned on only 10,000 square feet of space.
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As plans for a China Mobile iPhone grow ever-more eminent, it seems that even Steve Jobs is on the job to make ties with the mobile phone company.
According to a report by Reuters, China Mobile’s chairman – Wang Jianzhou – has confirmed that recent talks by the company with Apple has included CEO Steve Jobs.
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Yesterday, Apple’s online stores mysteriously went down for a period of time, leading everyone to wonder about what was happening.
Well, once the sites went back online, it turns out that the reason for the brief intermission was because Apple wanted to add Facebook and Twitter links to its Mac Pro and iPod Classic selection pages.
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As was predicted, Apple just released a thumb drive that contains OS X Lion for $69.
The thumb drives requires at least 7 GB of storage space, and ships in 1-3 business days. The drive is now available through Apple’s online store.
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