Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple 2.0 Archives

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January

• Don't cry for Apple — Jan 1
• Infographic of the day: The 12 steps of an Android upgrade — Jan 2
• Walt Mossberg on Apple: 'Attention fanboys and fangirls' — Jan 2
• Samsung stumbles into 2014 — Jan 3
• Video worth watching: Brian White on Bloomberg TV — Jan 4
• Hypercritical: Apple gets an A- for the iPad, an F for not fixing TV — Jan 5
• Nine bar charts: Apple versus Amazon versus Google — Jan 6
• Apple's Angela Ahrendts: 'Wicked smart' and empathetic too — Jan 7
• Apple's app sales topped $1B in December, $10B in 2013 - updated — Jan 7
• Apple's App Store: 'The insidious march of a disruptor' — Jan 8
• At CES: The first air conditioner to carry the Made-for-Apple logo — Jan 8
• Apple-Samsung mediation talks: Don't hold your breath — Jan 9
• Gartner: 2013 saw the 'worst decline in PC market history' — Jan 10
• Don't mistake Apple's market share for its installed base — Jan 10
• Crowds rush Apple's Chinese stores for 'Red Friday' discounts — Jan 10
• In Las Vegas, three Chinese Apple iPhone wanna-bees — Jan 12
• 'I need my own Mr. Whisper' — Jan 11
• Apple's newest, most 'poetic' TV spot: What the critics are saying — Jan 13
• Dediu: This is the year Apple devices overtake Windows PCs — Jan 13
• Why Google, not Apple, bought Tony Fadell's Nest Labs — Jan 14
• Together at last: China Mobile's Xi Guo-hua and Apple's Tim Cook — Jan 15
• Why the man who coined the phrase 'net neutrality' feared Apple — Jan 15
• Apple's kiddie app deal stirs controversy at the FTC — Jan 15
• NPD: Better than 1 in 4 adult Americans now own an iPhone — Jan 16
• 'Google Play Store lets your kid spend like a drunken sailor' — Jan 17
• Photos of the launch of Apple's iPhone at China Mobile — Jan 17
• The New Yorker: Steve Jobs, Charles Ponzi and the American hustle — Jan 18
• How many iPhones did Apple sell last quarter? — Jan 19
• CIRP: Strong start for iPad Air — Jan 20
• Video: Bill Miller on Apple — Jan 20
• Conventional wisdom watch: Apple is doomed. Google is forever. — Jan 21
• Maybe people who build glass stores shouldn't use snowblowers — Jan 22
• The Icahn effect: Round 3 – Jan 22
• How many iPads did Apple sell last quarter? – Jan 22
• What's eating the gigabytes in Samsung's 16 GB Galaxy S4? — Jan 23
• Time Magazine: A brief history of what Apple must do — Jan 23
• Video: 30 years of Mac — Jan 24
• Handicapping Apple's quarterly earnings and revenue: Q1 2014 — Jan 24
• How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter? — Jan 24
• Tim Cook: 'We have a gag order on us right now' — Jan 25
• Two big banks upped their Apple numbers last week — Jan 25
• Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's fiscal Q1 2014 — Jan 26
• Apple blamed for Samsung's first profit decline in two years — Jan 26
• All eyes on Apple Inc. — Jan 26
• By the numbers: Apple Inc.'s record $57.6 billion quarter — Jan 27
• Chitika: Apple's North American tablet traffic share holds near 80% — Jan 27
• The best and worst Apple analysts: Q1 2014 edition — Jan 28
• Apple's mixed first-quarter results: What analysts are saying — Jan 28
• Apple sales were up 29% in China, down 1% in the Americas — Jan 29
• In four years, Asia's share of Apple's revenue stream grew 62%, Europe's shrank 39% — Jan 30
• Four ways of looking at Apple's 2013 iPhone sales — Jan 30
• Judge: Sanction for Samsung's leak of Apple secrets is public shaming — Jan 30
• Fraud, bid-rigging, jail terms and the Apple e-book conspiracy — Jan 31

February

• If you wonder why Apple shares go down when sales go up... — Feb 1
• Apple's $13.1 billion quarter was the 5th highest of all time — Feb 2
• Apple's iWatch: The killer apps may be in hospitals, not health clubs — Feb 3
• Apple v. Judge Cote: Updated with notes from the hearing — Feb 4
• A first peek at Yukari Iwatani Kane's 'Apple after Steve Jobs' — Feb 5
• Patent troll hits Apple with $2 billion suit. Trial starts next week. — Feb 5
• Apple's iPhone loses the New York Times' selfie smackdown — Feb 6
• Look who Apple is hiring — Feb 7
• Tim Cook's 2-week, $14 billion Apple buying opportunity — Feb 7
• Is Apple still a growth company? Tim Cook thinks so. — Feb 8
• Video: Steve Jobs on the press and Apple's stock price — Feb 9
• Carl Icahn folds on Apple buyback proxy fight — Feb 10
• Chart of the day: Is this the picture of the end of a love affair? — Feb 10
• Apple vs. Judge Cote: The appellate court split the difference — Feb 10
• iTunes is now nearly half the size of Google's core business — Feb 11
• Chitika: At the 9 p.m. peak, iPad gets 4X Android tablets' web use — Feb 12
• Apple's Eddy Cue is back in the news, cutting deals in Hollywood — Feb 13
• Apple and Samsung: 95.7% of shipments, 120% of profits — Feb 13
• Map of the day: Apple's controversial supply chain — Feb 13
• Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger: Is Apple TV toast? — Feb 14
• Google's enterprise value has overtaken Apple's. Do we care? — Feb 14
• Video: Crowds gather in Rio for Apple's 1st Latin American store — Feb 16
• How Google fooled the media — Feb 16
• Samsung sues Dyson for calling it a patent copycat — Feb 17
• Can Samsung do fingerprint ID better than Apple's iPhone 5S? — Feb 18
• The big funds on Apple: Who bought and who sold last quarter — Feb 18
• Why Apple's iAd platform is a 'tough slog' on Madison Ave. — Feb 19
• Chart of the day: Apple tops the favorite stocks of 21 billionaires — Feb 19
• Apple's Campus 2: Demolition for the 'spaceship' has begun — Feb 20
• What the $19 billion Facebook just spent has to do with Apple — Feb 20
• U.S. Stamps for 2015: James Brown, Elvis Presley, Steve Jobs — Feb 21
• Apple took 65% of U.S. phone buyers making $100,000+ a year — Feb 21
• Apple's security bug: Five NSA conspiracy theories — Feb 22
• NSA security leak expert says Apple Mail on the Mac is at risk — Feb 24
• Life, death, calligraphy: The world of Steve Jobs — Feb 24
• Apple to Arizona: Anti-gay bill puts Mesa sapphire plant at risk — Feb 25
• Apple patches the Mac's 'goto fail' security hole — Feb 25
• Apple's e-book appeal: Toss out the verdict, or give us a new judge — Feb 26
• Morgan Stanley: Big investors' stake in Apple is at a 5-year low — Feb 26
• Apple is Fortune's 'most admired' for 7th year in a row — Feb 27
• Photo of the day: Apple's Tim Cook as a brainy teenager — Feb 27
• What's the deal with Apple's new Arizona sapphire plant? — Feb 27
• IDC: iPhone holds most of its value and market share to 2018 — Feb 28

March

• ·Chart of the day: How Apple cut its Australian tax rate to 0.7% -Mar 6
• Apple keeps 76% of its users. Samsung gets 34% of switchers – Mar 7
• Christian Bale as Steve Jobs? – Mar 21
• Pad replacement cycle: Like an iPhone? Mac? Or (worse still) TV? - Mar 21
• Report: Android apps are more stable than Apple’s iOS apps – Mar 28
• Apple v. Samsung II: How to follow the case on Twitter – Mar 31

April

• What’s eating Florian Mueller? – Apr 3
• Map of the day: Apple iPhones in the city, Android in the ‘burbs – Apr 5
• How many iPhones did Apple sell last quarter? – Apr 17
• How much revenue did iTunes generate for Apple last quarter? – Apr
• May
• NYT: Steve Jobs was a criminal. Vanity Fair: Samsung is a liar. – May 4
• The sun never sets on Angela Ahrendts’ Apple retail empire - May 20
• June
• FORTUNE Magazine: International Edition- CNNMoney.com - Jun 3
• What happened to Apple 2.0? – Jun 5
• Apple’s Angela Ahrendts talks – Jun 24
• Which is more evil, Google or Apple Inc.? – Jun 26
• Apple’s users spend 4X as much as Google’s – Jun 27
• Tim Cook led 5,000 from Apple at gay pride parade – Jun 30
• My freshman year at Apple’s iTunes U – Jun 30

July

• Android up in China, Germany, Italy and U.S. – Jul 3
• Steve Jobs to Larry Page: ‘You guys are doing too much’ – Jul 7
• Video: Apple’s coming out party – Jul 8
• Why Lenovo’s PCs are outselling Apple’s Macs – Jul 10
• Reuters blows it. Apple PR springs into action. – Jul 11
• Morgan Stanley: Apple could sell 30-60 million iWatches in the first year – Jul 14
• Apple and IBM: Fourth time’s a charm? – Jul 15
• The day Apple’s Steve Jobs called IBM’s best customers an ‘orifice’ – Jul 16
• How many iPhones did Apple sell last quarter? – Jul 17
• How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter? – Jul 19
• How sweet were Apple’s profit margins last quarter? – Jul 21
• Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple’s fiscal Q3 – Jul 22
• Best and worst Apple analysts: Q3 2014 edition – Jul 23
• What’s wrong with Apple’s iPad? – Jul 24
• Chart of the day: Apple ramps up R&D spending – Jul 25
• Apple’s iPhone is golden in China – Jul 26
• PC sales estimates: How the sausage gets made – Jul 28
• IDC: Samsung sales down 4% in Q2, Apple up 12%, Huawei up 95% - Jul 30
• Apple TV picks up CNBC – with a catch – Jul 30
• Apple give its crown jewels to the Kremlin? – Jul 31

August

• What architects don’t get about Steve Jobs’ spaceship – Aug 4
• What would a cheap iPhone do for Apple's bottom line? – Aug 8
• Live: This is cyberwar – Aug 9
• Vodafone U.K.’s dubious ‘Top 10 Bestsellers’ – Aug 13
• Gender diversity at Apple: Pro and con – Aug 16
• Video: Bots already dominate the stock exchanges. Your job is next. – Aug 17
• Why ‘Misunderstood’ won an Emmy for Apple – Aug 18
• 8 reasons Morgan Stanley is bullish on Apple – Aug 19
• Where is Apple’s cash? – Aug 21
• The Apple investment strategies of three iBillionaires – Aug 21
• How Apple’s iPhone beat China’s grey market – Aug 22
• Raw footage: Larry Tesler on Steve Jobs’ visit to Xerox PARC – Aug 24
• With two weeks to go, used iPhones flood the market – Aug 27
• The bar is high for Apple’s Sept. 9 event – Aug 28
• Software will eat the $1.2 trillion apparel industry – Aug 28
• Inside Apple Inc.’s spin machine – Aug 31

September

• Nude celebs on iCloud: Was Apple Inc. at fault? – Sep 3
• Is this the face of an Apple iWatch? – Sep 4
• Look who’s now working for Apple Inc. – Sep 6
• Video: Apple Inc.’s new design team, Ive and Newson, on Charlie Rose – Sep 6
• Apple Pay: What the analysts are saying – Sep 9
• The Apple Watch: What the analysts are saying – Sep 9
• Video: Jony Ive introduces the Apple Watch – Sep 10
• A real watch guy’s take on the Apple Watch – Sep 11
• iPhone 6 pre-orders overwhelm Apple, quickly sell out – Sep 12
• iTunes Festival: Music in Apple’s DNA – Sep 13
• Video worth watching: Apple’s Tim Cook on The Charlie Rose Show – Sep 14
• Apple Watch: Trying too hard to do too much – Sep 15
• Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus: The reviews are in – Sep 17
• Tim Cook: Apple sells security. Google sells you. – Sep 18
• iPhone 6: Where China’s grey market hits the sidewalks of New York – Sep 20
• Video: Stephen Colbert led his show with Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus – Sep 20
• Apple sold more than 10 million iPhones in three days. Half are missing in action. – Sep 22
• Morgan Stanley: China’s favorite iPhone is Apple’s most profitable – Sep 23
• Is Apple’s EasyPay too easy? – Sep 23
• What happened to TheStreet’s Tim-Cook-must-go campaign? – Sep 24
• Video: Conan O’Brien pokes fun at the bent iPhone 6 Plus – Sep 26
• Apple and the FBI re-enact the ’90s Crypto Wars – Sep 27
• Apple’s ‘double Irish’ tax dodge is coming back to bite them. Again. – Sep 29
• Tales from the Chinese grey market for the iPhone 6/6 Plus – Sep 29

October

• Is Apple Pay the reason eBay is spinning off PayPal? – Oct 1
• Apple flexes some powerful fashion muscle – Oct 2
• Samsung’s ugly third quarter: What the analysts are saying – Oct 7
• How Carl Icahn figures Apple is worth $203 per share – Oct 9
• MacRumors: After Beats patent suit and NFL flap, Bose is leaving the Apple Store – Oct 10
• Apple’s Steve Jobs to Jony Ive: You’re so vain (video) – Oct 10
• iPhone 6 in China: 3 carriers took 1 million pre-orders in 6 hours – Oct 10
• Apple’s got a mess on its hands in Mesa, Arizona – Oct 11
• Apple Watch makes its editorial debut with a Chinese cover girl – Oct 11
• iPhone 6 blowout: Chinese pre-orders put at 20 million plus – Oct 13
• Bankruptcy judge challenges Apple’s penchant for secrecy – Oct 15
• Photos: Chinese buyers queue up for Apple’s new iPhones – Oct 17
• How many iPads did Apple sell last quarter? – Oct 18
• How many Macs did Apple sell last quarter? – Oct 19
• Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple’s fiscal Q4 – Oct 20
• Apple’s blow-out fourth quarter: The amateurs called it. The pros blew it. – Oct 21
• Apple’s blow-out earnings: What the analysts are saying – update – Oct 21
• Is Apple the tail that wags the U.S. economy? – Oct 27
• Apple and GTAT: What went wrong – update – Oct 29

November

• Mobile is eating the world – Nov 1
• Why the Steve Jobs memorial in St. Petersburg was removed – Nov 3
• Another day, another Steve Jobs – Nov 5
• Video: Aaron Sorkin talks about Steve Jobs, hot showers and coke – Nov 6
• Apple’s Angela Ahrendts has increased her visibility – Nov 7
• Apple told its sapphire supplier ‘Put on your big boy pants’ – Nov 8
• Apple’s secret weapon: Leverage – Nov 9
• Video: A drone’s eye view of Apple’s spaceship at the 1/3 point – Nov 10
• New UBS survey sees ‘significant share gain’ coming to Apple – Nov 11
• Apple: The Thanksgiving effect – Nov 11
• What does net neutrality mean for Apple? – Nov 12
• How Apple got to a (pre-split) $799.26 – Nov 15
• 48 members of Congress (or their families) are Apple investors – Nov 16
• Apple opens its App Store to 4.5 billion Chinese credit cards – Nov17
• Katy Huberty: Investors misjudge demand for the Apple Watch – Nov 20
• ‘Steve Jobs’ dead at Sony, says the Hollywood Reporter – Nov 20
• Judge Denise Cote accepts Apple’s $450 million bet that she was wrong on e-books – Nov 22
• New life for Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Steve Jobs’ – Nov 25
• Do you want an Apple iPad with that airport delay? – Nov 26
• Apple and the crisis of disruption – Nov 28
• Posthumous patents: Apple’s Steve Jobs has 141 – Nov 29
• Tale of the tape: Apple v. Android on Black Friday – Nov 30

December

• One in 10 iPhone owners ‘very likely’ to buy an Apple Watch – Dec 1
• Steve Jobs on trial in Oakland – Dec 2
• Apple patent No. 8,903,519: Five ways to protect a falling iPhone – Dec 3
• Kantar Worldpanel: iPhone sales in October were ‘huge’ – Dec 4
• Steve Jobs may take the stand today as iPod plaintiffs scramble – Dec 5
• Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg rejects criticism of advertising business model – Dec 6
• Is Apple’s next product the stylus Steve Jobs said nobody wanted? – Dec 8
• How dumb is this Apple iPod antitrust suit? – new plaintiff update – Dec 9
• NY Post: Apple is coming to hipster Brooklyn next spring – Dec 10
• Is the video of Steve Jobs’ deposition worth fighting for? – Dec 11
• Obama’s DOJ is bringing its big guns to the Apple e-book appeal – Dec 11
• Jesse Jackson, Tim Cook and the ‘storming’ of Apple HQ – Dec 12
• Why Apple’s e-book appeal is a big deal – Dec 14
• Re-thinking Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Music, 8 years later – Dec 14
• They laughed at the DOJ’s e-book antitrust case against Apple – Dec 15
• Apple wins a unanimous victory in the iTunes antitrust case – Dec 16
• Smartphone sales: Samsung’s fell, Apple’s grew, Xiaomi’s exploded – Dec 16
• Of Apple, Rubles and iPhones – Dec 17
• Jimmy Fallon’s big Apple freebie: iPads for everybody – Dec 18
• Sleeping on the job: Inside a factory making iPhones for Apple – Dec 19
• Is Henry Blodget, gasp, right about Apple and the BBC? – Dec 21
• The iPhone, the carriers and the credit mules – update – Dec 22
• ‘The Interview’: Apple enters the picture – YouTube update – Dec 24
• ‘The Interview’: Why did Apple stay on the sidelines? – Sunday 1 p.m. ET update – Dec 27
• Fortune: What Apple’s Steve Jobs brought to Bob Iger’s Disney – Dec 30