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Does Apple have anything that can match Google Glass?
With a death-defying demo, Google claims the high ground in wearable computing FORTUNE — In a post for ProCamera.com, Dan Butterfield has assembled pretty much everything you need to know about the state of play in wearable computer glasses, including … Continue reading
Steve Would Be Proud: How Apple Won The War Against Flash
Late Thursday, an extraordinary thing happened: Adobe announced in a blog post that it would not provide Flash Player support for devices running Android 4.1, and that it would pull the plugin from the Google Play store on August 15. … Continue reading
Could Steve Jobs actually win his thermonuclear war?
Apple is granted two preliminary injunctions in one week; opponents are apoplectic FORTUNE — Google (GOOG) made no public comment Friday after Judge Lucy Koh granted Apple (AAPL) a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus — a touchscreen cellphone whose … Continue reading
Brain drain: Apple’s senior hardware chief retires rich
Bob Mansfield is the second key executive to leave since Steve Jobs died FORTUNE — One of the concerns after Steve Jobs died was whether Apple’s (AAPL) institutional values — as embodied by his hand-picked executive team — would survive … Continue reading
Minneapolis street test: Google gets a B+, Apple’s Siri gets a D
1,600 questions — 800 in a quiet room, 800 in a noisy street FORTUNE — Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster is nothing if not methodical. When customers queue up for a new Apple (AAPL) product, he’s the analyst who goes to … Continue reading
Wall Street’s price targets for Apple go down and up
Strange fluctuations in the last days of the company’s third fiscal quarter FORTUNE — With Apple’s (AAPL) 2012 Q3 set to close on Saturday, analysts are making some last-minute adjustments. Two caught our eye because they moved in opposite directions. … Continue reading
Goldman Sachs puts the value of Apple’s iPhone and iPad customer base at nearly $295 billion
In a survey of 1,000 customers, 21% said they wouldn’t leave the platform for any price FORTUNE — According to Goldman Sachs’ Bill Shope, Wall Street tends to view Apple (AAPL) as a hardware company that is only as valuable … Continue reading
The next platform war: Google play vs. Apple iTunes
The battle to become the dominant one-click entertainment shopping mall begins FORTUNE — The consensus among analysts the day after Google’s (GOOG) jam-packed I/O keynote is that Apple (AAPL) doesn’t have much to fear from the hardware unveiled on Wednesday. … Continue reading
Bob Mansfield, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, to Retire
CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2012—Apple® today announced that Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will retire and the role will be transitioned to Dan Riccio, Apple’s vice president of iPad Hardware Engineering, over several months. The entire hardware … Continue reading
Google Bows To Apple: Chrome On iOS Will Use Apple’s Slow UIWebView To Render Web Pages
Google is launching Chrome for iOS today. Many pundits assumed that Google was holding back Chrome from iOS because it couldn’t use its own rendering engine, however, Google just told us that Chrome will actually use the same rendering engine … Continue reading