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Massive Crowds Attend First German Store Opening
This weekend Apple opened its first Apple Store in Germany . On Saturday morning a massive crowd packed into the plaza at Rosenstrasse (Munich), according to ifoAppleStore there were 4000 visitors to the store in the first four hours. Apple has posted a selection of…
300 Million Apps Downloaded, Over 10,000 Available
Apple has begun advertising in print media in the UK and United States that it's App Store has seen over 300 million downloads and confirms previous reports that the App Store now contains 10,000 applications. According to the site AppShopper the App Store currently contains…
iPhone Shows Increase of Over 300 Points in Market Share
According to a new report from Gartner the iPhone has showed a 327.5 percent market share increase in worldwide smartphone sales for the third-quarter of 2008. Apple's iPhone grew it's market share from 3.4 percent in quarter 3 of 2007 to 12.9 in the same…
Wal-Mart to Sell 4GB iPhone for $99?
Back in October Boy Genius Report reported that the iPhone would be coming to Wal-Mart soon, but to this day that has yet to happen. According to Mac Rumors the official release is pinned for December 28th and Wal-Mart staff have already begun receiving training…
Buy 10,000 iPhone Apps 24" x 36" Poster
Earlier this week it was revealed that 10,000 iPhone apps were available for sale on the iPhone App Store. To celebrate the occasion the guys over at TapTapTap put together a fantastic mosaic of all these application icons which made up an iPhone. The result…
Latest Snow Leopard Build Continues Evolving, Long Way From Completion [Seed Notes]
The latest build of Mac OS X 10.6 build 10a222 was released to developers earlier today. The build which includes additions to Grand Central, the new architecture designed to make it easier for developers to make use of multiple processor cores. Apple requests that testing…
Anti-Virus Support Page Vanishes
After much commotion Macworld reports that Apple has removed the support technote which recommended Mac users install a third-party anti-virus solution. "We have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate," Apple spokesman Bill Evans, told Macworld. "The Mac is designed with built-in…
Apple Anti-Virus Advice Causes Loss of Sanity
When news broke of Apple advising Mac owners to go out an buy an anti-virus solution I personally shrugged it off, I'd seen this kind of advice from Apple before and viewed as nothing more than a command sent down from the legal department. Similar…
Apple Shifts 13 Macs Per Hour on Black Friday
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has posted the results of his teams 10-hour research which saw them counting Mac and iPhone sales in five Apple Stores in the United States on Black Friday. In his research Munster noted that Apple was offering discounts on seven…
Apple Offers No Fee License for Mini DisplayPort
Ars Technica has pointed out that Apple is now offering a "no fee" license to anyone interested in developing products that use Mini DisplayPort. Apple first introduced Mini DisplayPort – which is a modified spec of the original DisplayPort – on the new MacBook and…
The Simpsons Episode Features Mapple, MyPod and MyCube
In episode episode 7 of Season 20 of The Simpsons the family visit the brand new Mapple store which has been built in the Springfield mall. In the episode entitled "MyPods and Boomsticks" Mapple is subject to 6 minutes of mockery. Videos after the jump.
Gift an iPhone
Those wishing to buy a family member of friend an iPhone 3G for Christmas? If so then Apple has the solution, iPhone gift cards allow you to gift any amount between $25 and $2500 towards a new iPhone. iPhone 3G is a lot of amazing…
Ars Technica Gives First Impression of 24-inch Cinema Display
Ars Technica has received their 24-inch LED Cinema Display after it shipped yesterday and has written up a quick post giving an initial impression.
ASA Labels Another iPhone Ad as "Misleading"
The British TV Advertising Standards Authority has for a second time forced Apple to stop showing an iPhone advert labelling it as misleading. The advert which shows an iPhone 3G accessing information on the internet "really fast" received 17 complaints from the public who stated…
Judges Ruling on Papermaster Now Public
In new court documents only revealed this week it is shown that a federal judge ordered Mark Papermaster to halt work at Apple because he could cause "irreparable harm" to former employer IBM. Although the ruling was made by Judge Kenneth Karas on November 7…
24-inch LED Cinema Display Now Shipping
Last week it was reported that the brand new 24-inch LED Cinema Display was available to order on the online Apple Store, this week Ars Technica reveals that their order has shipped. The email which was received on the 25th November indicates that the new…
QuickTime Update Enables SD iTunes Playback
On Tuesday night Apple released an update to QuickTime which fixes a controversial issue affecting the new MacBook, second generation MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks. The complaint from users of the new notebooks was that standard definition movies purchased from the iTunes store would…
Apple Posts Black Friday Teaser
Visitors to online Apple Stores around the world were today greeted with a teaser message about the upcoming Black Friday sale. The large banner which reads "Lots of gifts, 1 day not to miss," links to a page ( UK page ) with information on…
iTunes and Beatles Talks "Stalled"
According to a report from the BBC today Beatles guitarist Sir Paul McCartney is keen to see The Beatles make an appearance on the iTunes Store but former "heavy negotiations" between Apple Corps and former record label EMI have since "stalled." The BBC writes that…
Apple Touts 'Greenest Family of Notebooks'
Apple has begun airing a television advert promoting its three new notebooks that are "not only the greenest notebook Apple ever produced, but the greenest family of notebooks." When we redesigned the new Macbook, our designers and engineers set a goal of making not only…