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iPad sales in China and Japan more than doubled since last year

By Derek Kessler, Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 a 5:39 pm

In today's conference call after the Q2 2013 fiscal results, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed that Apple products are selling like gangbusters in East Asia. In China and Japan both, iPad sales more than doubled this quarter from the quarter the year prior. In China specifically, iPad sales were up 138% from last year.

Apple releases Q2 2013 results: 37.4 million iPhones, 19.5 million iPads and $43.6 billion in revenue

By Derek Kessler, Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 a 4:38 pm

Apple today announced their financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 (the months of January, February, and March). Apple brought in $9.5 billion in profit off of $43.6 billion in revenue. In previous years Apple offered conservative guidance on revenue and profits, though recently they made the switched to publishing a range into which they realistically expect the fiscal results to fall. And Apple's results easily fell within that range.

Apple financial results and conference call today 2pm PDT, 5pm EDT

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 a 8:34 am

Apple is set to release their Q2 2013 financial results, and conduct their usual conference call, today at 2pm PDT, 5pm EDT. Most times the only news we get out of it is how many more billions Apple made, and what kind of shots Tim Cook took at competitors and analysts asking about TVs for the umpteenth time. Today's narrative will, of course, be focused -- or unfocused -- around Apple is doomed.

Apple adds "Download Later" option to iTunes in the Cloud

By Joseph Keller, Monday, Apr 22, 2013 a 5:24 pm

Apple has added a new option for iTunes in the Cloud users, allowing them to defer large downloads of movies, TV shows, and music box sets for a later time. Currently, this new option does not work for apps, and is available only in places where iTunes in the Cloud is live. This option is available on iOS 6 and in iTunes 11.

Volkswagen announces iBeetle, a car with deep iPhone integration

By Joseph Keller, Monday, Apr 22, 2013 a 3:34 pm

There have been previous rumors about Apple building an iCar, but it now seems that instead of building the vehicle themselves, they have partnered with Volkswagen to create the iBeetle. The car, which Volkswagen says was designed in coordination with Apple, boasts integration with the iPhone through Volkswagens iBeetle app, which provides access to entertainment and diagnostic functions.

10,000 CG iPhone 5's used as dominoes to demonstrate NFC concept technology

By Allyson Kazmucha, Sunday, Apr 21, 2013 a 6:05 pm

Aatma Studio has created a pretty amazing video to demonstrate what NFC technology could do in the iPhone. We aren't talking your typical boring concept video, we're talking 10,000 iPhone 5's with an NFC chip installed that are knocked over like dominos passing information from one screen to another.

Apple's botched MobileMe launch and the failure of fear-based management

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 19, 2013 a 7:04 pm

MobileMe launched in 2008 as a replacement for .Mac and ended up being replaced itself just three short years later by iCloud. So terrible was its launch, so tarnished was was the perception of its service, that Steve Jobs reportedly walked the halls of Apple with a flame-thrower, dressing down the troops and handing over responsibility for the service to his fixer, Eddy Cue. But was MobileMe's failings the fault of the engineers, or of the managers in charge of the project? Former member of the MobileMe team, Erin Caton believes the latter:

Apple keeps anonymized Siri data for up to two years for testing and improvement purposes

By Joseph Keller, Friday, Apr 19, 2013 a 3:33 pm

After privacy concerns were raised regarding data it gets from Siri, Apple has revealed that it keeps that data for up to two years. Apple generates a random string of numbers to associate with your voice data, rather than using your Apple ID, and any Siri data they collect from you goes under that number. Data, however, is decoupled from that number. According to Wired an Apple spokesperson explained:

Facebook Blast: Threaded group chat could be coming soon to Messenger app

By Nick Arnott, Friday, Apr 19, 2013 a 12:00 pm

iMore has learned that, following Facebook Home, Chat Heads, and other recent releases, Facebook has additional, incremental updates in the works for their Messenger app as well. One of the updates in the pipeline is Facebook Blast, an enhancement to how users can send messages to multiple recipients.

Scrivener writing app for iPad gets development back on track

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Apr 18, 2013 a 9:23 pm

Scrivener is one of the most well respected, most beloved writing apps on the Mac, one that works the way writers and stories work. For a while now, Scrivener developer Literature & Latte have been working on the highly anticipated iPad version, but issues beyond their control slowed the project. No longer.