Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously denounced Android as unable to compete with the iPad, but Android 3.0 Honeycomb could raise tablet competition to a new level. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously (or infamously, depending on
your point of view) lashed out against Google Android tablets during his companys
October earnings call, denouncing them as incapable of competing with the iPad.
The “painful lesson,” Jobs told analysts and media listening
to that call, …
Apple’s and Google’s CEO shakeups are unlikely to benefit rival Microsoft as the latter attempts to push further into the smartphone and search-engine markets. – Apple CEO
Steve Jobs elected to take a leave of absence from his company Jan. 17,
reportedly for health reasons. Three days later, Google CEO Eric Schmidt
announced he would hand over the reins to the companys co-founder Larry Page.
Both those
seismic events have pundits and analysts questionin…
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that he would be taking a medical leave of absence Jan. 17, the news rippled through the high-tech community like a tsunami, prompting panicked questions. Financial analysts managed to ameliorate some of the hysteria by noting that they expected Apple not only to report a fine first fiscal quarter for the year, but also that the company’s existing products and forthcoming upgrades would keep the company well positioned well into the future. Well, Apple reported record earnings for the holiday quarter, ending Dec. 25. It’s also important to note that Apple has been down this road twice before with Jobs. Jobs took time off to battle pancreatic cancer in 2004. More recently, in April 2009, Jobs underwent a liver transplant. Both times, Apple COO Tim Cook has been there to guide Apple’s ship through waters calm and roiled. Since Jobs’ full-time return, the company has launched new iPhones, Macbooks, iPods and the seminal iPad last April. With upgrades planned for all of these products in the next year, Apple appears well positioned for growth& with or without Jobs. Jobs’ vision isn’t replaceable; no one is questioning that. But with Cook at the helm, backed by a solid supporting cast, the company’s day-to-day operations will be fine. Here are 10 reasons why Apple will do just fine without Jobs. – …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced that hes taking his second medical leave of absence from the company in as many years. He didnt provide details on why hell be leaving the company for an extended period, but he reassured investors that Apple would be left in the able hands of its COO Tim Cook. Jobs leave of absence and his decision to put Tim Cook in charge of day-to-day operations has prompted both investors and other observers of Apples every move to question who will take over the company if Jobs has to step down. Cook seems like an obvious choice, considering he has been tasked with leading the company in Jobs absence, but there are other equally qualified people& both at Apple and outside the firm& each of whom could be capable successors to Jobs. This slide show presents some leading figures at Apple and in the IT industry at large that Apples board of directors might want to keep in mind as potential successors if Jobs has to step aside. This list could change, depending upon when Jobs makes a decision. Jobs may have already told the board who he wants to succeed him. But for now, the following 10 people seem like the best choices for the job. – …
Despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ medical leave, analysts are bullish on Apple’s Q1 financial results. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster sees iPhone and iPad as keys to a great quarter. – Strong December sales for the iPad and iPhone
could push Apple’s earnings above Wall Street’s current expectations of $5.40
earnings per share on sales of $24.43 billion, according to research firm Piper
Jaffray.
quot;iPhone and iPad remain somewhat of a wildcard,
albeit positive, and we belie…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who battled pancreatic cancer in 2004 and received a new liver in 2009, is taking a medical leave of absence. No return date was offered. – Apple
CEO Steve Jobs announced Jan. 17 in an e-mail
to Apple employees that he’ll be taking another medical leave of absence to
focus on his health.
Jobs
didn’t offer any details about his health, or how long he plans to be on his
board-sanctioned leave, but he wrote that he’ll continue to a…
Well….this can’t be good. On Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that he will be a taking medical leave of absence from the company — effective immediately — a little less than two years after undergoing a lifesaving liver transplant. In 2004, the Apple chief was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He [...]
Apple reported 1 million apps downloaded from its Mac App Store in its first day of release. How will Google and Microsoft respond? – Apple announced Jan. 7 that 1 million apps had been downloaded from the Mac
App Store. The question now is: How will its competitors respond?
quot;We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting, quot;
Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote in a Jan. 7
statement. quot;Developers have …
Apple and News Corp are reportedly prepping an iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, for launch in the near future. It could change the dynamics of the e-reader market. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs and News Corp magnate Rupert Murdoch
are planning on launching a tablet-only newspaper, according to online reports.
Should such a development prove true, it could further alter the dynamics of a
publishing world already in flux thanks to e-readers and other electronic
media…
Apple releases its iOS 4.2 update for mobile devices, with features such as AirPrint and AirPlay, as CEO Steve Jobs takes another backhanded swipe at tablet rivals. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs wasted no time using
the new iOS 4.2 update, available for download Nov. 22, to launch yet another
broadside at his competitors in the mobile space. The update introduces
features such as multitasking, folders and Game
Center to the iPad.
quot;Once again, the iPad with iO…
REVIEW: The MacBook Air might have some shortcomings, but it makes up for them with a level of portability and productivity that easily bests its larger counterparts. – When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first
unveiled the latest version of the MacBook Air on Oct. 20 during a press
event, some wondered how the product would fit between Apple’s 13.3-inch
MacBook and the company’s iPad tablet. After all, those other products provide
mobility and a certain level of product…
What popular high-tech company that holds major sway over the mobile Web has more money in the bank than Google’s $34 billion? That would be Apple, with a whopping $51 billion in cash reserves as of the company’s fourth fiscal quarter. Clearly, Apple’s smash-hit iPods, iPod Touches, iPhones and new iPads are helping the company build quite a bank for itself even as they change the way consumers access the Web while on the go. Apple CEO Steve Jobs mentioned on the company’s Q4 earnings call Oct. 18 that Apple is saving money for "strategic opportunities." Read: acquisitions, folks. "We’d like to continue to keep our powder dry because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future," Jobs said. Of course, that comment sent financial analysts and Apple-watching pundits into a frenzy of speculation. It certainly got eWEEK thinking about what Apple could buy with all of that coin. So, without further ado, here are companies Jobs and Co. should mull snapping up. – …
The Android Market for smartphone and tablet applications reached the 100,000 application mark Oct. 25, one week after Apple iOS topped 300,000. Stop the numbers game madness! – News Analysis: Google’s Android developer team tweeted that the maligned Android
Market of software applications built for Android handsets and tablet computers
had reached the 100,000 application mark Oct. 25.
That news via Twitter comes one week after Apple CEO
Steve Jobs said the Apple App…
News Analysis: Apple’s Mac OS X is poised to welcome the Mac App Store. And although some debate rages over whether or not it will be a success, it’s hard to see why it wouldn’t be. – In the next 90 days, Apple is planning to offer the Mac App
Store, the desktop version of the company’s mobile marketplace on the iPhone,
iPod Touch, and iPad. The idea, according to Apple CEO
Steve Jobs, is to bring the same level of productivity and usability to the Mac
that consumers are curr…
Samsung Galaxy Player 50 aims to take a piece of the portable media player market dominated by the iPod. Is this a threat to Apple’s market share? – Apple CEO Steve Jobs used his company’s
Oct. 18 earnings call to talk some serious smack about Google Android,
referring to it as quot;very fragmented quot; and a quot;mess. quot; That was
in the context of Android phones and tablets. But now, it seems, Jobs will have
to combat Android in anot…
Join eWEEK reporter Ashley Daley as she breaks down the biggest technology headlines of the week.
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The iPad could soon be getting a makeover. The Samsung Galaxy Tab, Dell Streak, and Research In Motions PlayBook are just a few of the tablets either already available for sale or slated to hit store shelves within the next couple of months. With that competitive pressure building, its inevitable that Apple will include a bevy of new features in the next version of the iPad; Its a battle of words between two of the worlds biggest CEOs. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is squaring off with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, each exchanging harsh words regarding each others application stores; Microsoft is taking its next step into the cloud with the beta launch of Office 365, which combines Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a unified cloud platform. It will provide anywhere-access to e-mail, documents, contacts, and calendars on nearly any device and works seamlessly with Microsoft Office and other programs many users already count on everyday; Online shoppers beware! Security researchers analyzing spam and virus activity in 2010s third quarter saw an uptick in virus activity, hinting at new botnets on the rise. They say this could be a sign that spammers are building new botnets by taking over more computers, just in time for the holiday sales and increased online shopping. Security experts warn, as always, to be on the lookout for suspicious e-mail language, and exercise extreme caution when clicking on links.
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News Analysis: Mac OS X Lion won’t be released until summer 2011. But the operating system is shaping up to be a must-have for enterprise customers and consumers. – Apple
CEO Steve Jobs took the stage on Oct. 20 to discuss, among other things,
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Although the software won’t be available until summer 2011
and there are still a slew of features that the company has yet to reveal, the
items that Jobs did show off seem to have some promise.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs took to the stage at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters Oct. 20 and introduced two updates to the MacBook Air that he said will "change the way we think about notebooks." Like the iPad, the new notebooks rely on SSD (solid-state disk) flash storage, which is 90 percent smaller and lighter than a hard drive and enabled Apple to build notebooks more robust than a typical netbook. They also have instant-on capabilities, a weight of just 2.3 pounds in the case of the 11-inch model and a body that’s just 0.11 inches at its thinnest point. Included in both models are Intel Core 2 Duo processors and Nvidia graphics. Jobs saved the MacBook Air introductions for last, however, using the first hour of the event to introduce iLife ’11; the next version of the Apple operating system, OS X Lion; and FaceTime for Mac. Within the next 90 days, Apple will also launch The Mac App Store a desktop-geared version of the app-buying experience that has become an industry standard for mobile devices. Gushing over the MacBook Air, which he called "gorgeous," "stunning" and "amazingly thin," Jobs said, "It’s like nothing we’ve ever created before." – Â …
Verizon Wireless will begin selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab for $599.99 on Nov. 11, but this price point may scare even Android lovers into buying Apples iPad. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have called it correctly when he said Android-based
tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab would not be able to compete with Apples
iPad on price.
Verizon Wireless and Samsung Mobile shocked the tablet-watching world on Oct.
20 by announcing
that that they will sell t…
Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off two super-skinny MacBook Air laptops at todays event, as well as OS X Lion, iLife 11 and FaceTime for Macs. The MacBooks are available now. – At Apple’s much-hyped event Oct. 20 at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., campus, CEO Steve Jobs offered attendees an early look at Mac OS X Lion, introduced updates to iLife 11 and announced that FaceTime, a capability previously only available on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch, is now available for Mac…
