Tom’s under the weather, so I wanted to pitch in and cross-post a few of my ZDNet posts. In this one I discuss an issue that’s near and dear to my heart. My kids have accidentally purchased lots of In-App Purchases (IAPs) from the App Store because of Apple’s 15-minute no password window and nefarious […]
Category: Apple
According to an announcement by Apple on Tuesday, the company took home more than $10 billion last year from iOS app sales. Christmas sales put them over the top with customers downloading almost 3 billion apps, making December Apple’s most lucrative and successful month in the App Store’s history. BusinessWire’s coverage of the record setting sales quoted […]
Apple has just released the latest beta update to iOS 7.1. Currently, the official 7.1 update is expected to drop sometime in March. Other than numerous backend improvements and bug fixes, Apple seems to be tweaking the interface as well. Developers who have had a chance to go over 7.1 list several screens that replace […]
Recently, Apple has been on the receiving end of criticism and pressure from its shareholders that there isn’t enough diversification among its current board members. Currently, Apple has only one woman among board of eight executives, and one incoming female member of their executive team that will report to CEO Tim Cook. In response, Apple recently added language […]
Apple posted the date of its first quarter earnings release and conference call on its Investor web page, announcing the date to be January 27th. MacRumors notes that the release will… “… provide a look into initial iPad Air and Retina iPad mini sales during their first quarter of availability as well as iPhone 5s and […]