Business

Best iPhone and iPad apps for professional photographers

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, May 24, 2013 a 8:56 pm

As a professional photographer, the iPhone and iPad can be excellent tools for your business. You are probably already aware that there's a lot of great apps out there focused on editing photos, but if we're being real, as a professional, you're not going to use them. However there are many other great apps that can help compliment your business, and we've rounded up some of our favorites.

Betting against Apple: Why stock swarms only work when we let them

By Chris Umiastowski, Wednesday, Apr 10, 2013 a 10:33 pm

Earlier this week, Mal Spooner from Money wrote a piece about the swarming of Apple stock. In the article, he equates street swarming -- when a gang surrounds and often attacks an unsuspecting victim -- to the swarming of a stock by short sellers. The main difference, he suggests, is that in a street swarming there is no real motive. Yet in a short-seller swarming, the motive is to rob investors by driving the stock price down.

Apple’s challenges in China, and what investors need to know

By Chris Umiastowski, Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 a 10:19 am

In the not-so-distant past, Tim Cook has been quoted as saying he expects China to emerge as the company’s largest source of revenue. Back in January, we discussed this growth in China, along with Asymco.com’s estimate that China would overtake US sales at Apple by 2016.

Has anything changed?

Apple investors: How to stay sane by staying long

By Chris Umiastowski, Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 a 10:54 am

Earlier today I had a quick chat with iMore’s editor-in-chief, Rene Ritchie about all the crazy rumours and bad journalism that Apple has had to deal with lately. But more to the point, we talked about how this stuff can hurt small time investors if they don’t know how to deal with it. So that’s what we’ll talk about here.

What iPrefs are and why they could make sense for Apple

By Chris Umiastowski, Friday, Feb 22, 2013 a 3:32 pm

If you’ve been following the drama surrounding David Einhorn and his firm, Greenlight Capital, then this is all familiar stuff. If not, we’ve got the quick recap for you. A big hedge fund that owns Appel stock wants Apple to stop being so stingy with its cash and give some back to shareholders.

Apple's China Factor

By Chris Umiastowski, Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 a 11:31 am

Earlier this week, Asymco’s Horrace Dediu wrote a wonderful post about the huge differences between Microsoft and Apple in China. He makes a very strong case for how difficult of a position Microsoft is in. I encourage you to the Asymco post in detail to understand his arguments. Pretty compelling stuff.

Christmas Day customer activity showing Apple is crushing it, Android strong, Microsoft toast.

By Chris Umiastowski, Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 a 10:23 pm

Christmas Day is a huge day for mobile device activations, obviously. Once we finish unwrapping our gifts and scarfing down a big breakfast, we all become children and want to immediately play with our gifts. For smartphones and tablets, that means activating your device on a network, and downloading a slew of apps. Once we install these apps (like Twitter), we start telling followers about our new device. Two pieces of research hit my radar today. They’re both quite fascinating and paint a picture of Apple dominating the scene.

Apple is an iPhone stock and growth in China is just beginning

By Chris Umiastowski, Tuesday, Dec 18, 2012 a 10:43 am

As much as it pains Apple shareholders to watch the stock drop to $500 from a high of over $700, we all need to learn to stomach the volatility and focus on the business performance.

The market, the madness, and the Apple television

By Chris Umiastowski, Friday, Dec 14, 2012 a 11:36 am

It seems you can’t read about Apple these days without someone saying that they’re about to make a big splash into the television market. Apple, of course, hasn't and won't pre-announced anything. But that hasn't stopped Wall Street analysts claiming that the company’s TV strategy is flawed. That's right, Apple's unannounced, unreleased, entirely presumed by someone not-Apple, strategy is flawed. But I digress.

In what world should Amazon enjoy more future confidence than Apple?

By Chris Umiastowski, Wednesday, Dec 5, 2012 a 1:17 pm

There is no question that Apple has done some amazing things. It has become the largest company in the world, by market value, because it has redefined industries. It redefined the music business, it redefined smartphones and it redefined tablet computing. Apple did not invent these businesses. Most observers would argue that the likes of Handspring/Palm and RIM invented smartphones and stylus-oriented computing devices, including Apple's Newton and Microsoft's Tablet PC certainly pre-dated the iPad. But Apple massively and permanently redefined consumers’ expectations in these markets. While doing so, they built up an incredibly profitable hardware business.

So why is it that Apple’s stock hasn’t actually outperformed Amazon by that much?