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AltWWDC planned for same time as the "real" WWDC

By Peter Cohen, Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 a 4:01 pm

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) tickets sold out in minutes, but if you're going to be in San Francisco the second week of June, there's an alternative event happening that you may be interested in. AltWWDC is scheduled to take place at the same time as WWDC, and only a block away from the Moscone Center, where WWDC is held. What's more, it's free.

MacBook Pro is the best performing Windows laptop

By Peter Cohen, Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 a 9:30 am

The MacBook Pro was judged to be the "best performing" Windows laptop, according to a new study by PC services company Soluto. Soluto used "frustration analytics" to make the determination, according to Brooke Crothers at CNet.

Apple has space for 150 student scholarships at WWDC

By Peter Cohen, Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 a 2:33 pm

If you're a student 13 years or older and you can't pony up the $1,599 for the standard registration fee for WWDC, fret not - Apple is once again offering student scholarships. This year they've set aside up to 150 tickets for aspiring student developers who want to come. (Getting to San Francisco and finding a place to stay is still up to you, though.)

GOG adds 22 more Mac games

By Peter Cohen, Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 a 10:11 am

The folks at GOG.com have added 22 games to their roster of downloadable titles for the Mac, including vintage classics like Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger and The 7th Guest, plus more recent fare like the 3D platformer Psychonauts and Runic's hack-and-slash dungeon crawler Torchlight.

Apple announces WWDC 2013 tickets to go on sale April 25, event to run June 10-14

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 a 9:08 am

Apple has announced not only the dates for WWDC 2013, but in a stark break with tradition, they've also announced when tickets will be available for purchase. From the WWDC 2013 website:

Sprint announces Q1 2013 results: 1.5 million iPhones sold

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 a 8:07 am

Sprint has announced their Q1 2013 financial results and in addition to a lot of other, sometimes weirdly acronym'd, numbers, out of 5 million smartphones sold, 1.5 million were iPhones.

Mac sales down slightly, but PC sales down much more

By Peter Cohen, Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 a 7:39 pm

There wasn't great news for Mac enthusiasts in Apple's latest quarterly earnings report - Mac sales are actually down year over year. Apple sold 3.952 million Macs this past quarter, compared to 4.017 million for the same quarter a year ago.

Tim Cook teases "exciting new product categories" for this fall and 2014

By Derek Kessler, Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 a 7:00 pm

Apple's quarterly conference calls are always full of enlightening snippets of information, and the call following the release of the second quarter of 2013 financial results was no exception. In addition to revealing explosive growth in China, aggressive iPhone 4 pricing in developing markets, and that there are still trade-offs that would exist were Apple to hypothetically make a hypothetical iPhone with a screen of some size hypothetically larger than the 4 inches of the current iPhone 5, Cook hinted that Apple is investing in "the potential of exciting new product categories" and that Apple might be announcing new products in the fall.

Apple won't make a larger screen iPhone while trade-offs exist

By Derek Kessler, Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 a 6:33 pm

There's been rampant speculation, rumor mongering, and punditing that Apple must be, has to, is, or really should be making an even larger iPhone. Recall that from the original iPhone launch in 2007 up to the iPhone 4S of 2011, the screen size was a steady and unchanging 3.5-inches. Then with the iPhone 5 in September of 2012, Apple jumped to 4 inches while much of the rest of the smartphone industry was powering on to 5 inches and beyond. Heck, just two weeks ago Samsung announced a pair of new Android-powered smartphones with 5.8-inch and 6.3-inch screens.

Apple getting aggressive with iPhone 4 in developing markets

By Derek Kessler, Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 a 6:10 pm

In announcing the March quarter's fiscal results, Apple revealed that profits dropped from the year prior. While there are many issues that factor into that, one of the greatest is the iPhone 4. Average selling price for iPhones dropped $23 from the year quarter. Why is that? It's because Apple is getting aggressive with the iPhone 4 in developing markets.