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Apple allies with Merchants Bank Co. to offer installment-based payment plans to Chinese customers

If you’re buying Apple equipment in China, there’s a payment plan for you. Per Bloomberg, Apple on Thursday introduced a new option for Chinese buyers of iPhones and MacBooks, allowing them to spread the cost of purchases ranging from from 300 yuan (US$48) to 30,000 yuan (US$4,800) over as long as two years. The new […]

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AT&T to enable FaceTime for tiered customers with compatible iOS devices

Nothing like a little competition to get the wireless carriers to try to beat each other’s offerings. That and the FCC yelling at you to do it sort of helps. Per the company’s blog, AT&T announced on Wednesday it will enable FaceTime over cellular at no extra cost to any customers with a tiered data […]

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Rumor: Apple to release all-Retina iPad, MacBook Pro lineups in 2013

Even though it’s a rumor, there’s got to be a nugget of truth in there somewhere. Per AppleInsider, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has made his Apple hardware predictions for the upcoming year, and expects a bevy of new iOS and Mac product releases will help the iPhone maker address a wider swath of […]

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Rumor: Apple to begin building preliminary “iPhone 5S” units this spring

If you were holding out for the next-generation iPhone, you can probably expect Apple to once again release something this summer. Per AppleInsider, Apple will begin preliminary builds of the successor to the iPhone 5 in March, setting up for an earlier-than-expected debut in June or July, according to a new report. Jefferies analyst Peter […]

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Rumor: Apple prepping iOS 6.1 beta, build expected to go Golden Master

Just the term, “golden master”, it pretty much sounds awesome. Per German web site iFun, Apple is said to be internally testing a new beta of iOS 6.1 that is expected to be the golden master build, suggesting the software is nearly ready to be released to the public. Citing a “reliable source,” the web […]