Paul Semenza, an analyst at market research firm DisplaySearch, tells CNET that an iPad mini with Retina display could debut in the third or fourth quarter of this year. “We’re seeing potential in the third quarter of panel production for a higher-resolution iPad Mini,” DisplaySearch analyst Paul Semenza told CNET today. “When would the Mini be [...]
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Supply Chain Hints Suggest Retina iPad Mini Could Debut in Second Half of 2013
Apple Reportedly Offering Half of Pandora’s Royalty Rate for Streaming Music Service
The New York Post reports that Apple has been seeking to undercut its potential competitors with regard to royalty rates for its rumored streaming music service, currently offering a rate that is just half that paid by Pandora despite rumors that Apple is looking for more flexibility than allowed under the license used by Pandora. [...]
Judge Voids Nearly Half of Apple’s $1 Billion Judgment Against Samsung, Calls for New Trial to Settle Revised Damages
FOSS Patents reports that judge Lucy Koh has struck nearly half of the $1 billion in damages awarded to Apple in its patent lawsuit against Samsung last August, calling for a new trial to set revised damage amounts for the affected portions of the judgment. The $450 million amount [struck from the damage award] corresponds [...]
Apple cutting iPhone 5 parts orders in half, sources claim
Phone allegedly seeing ‘weaker-than-expected’ demand Apple is slashing its parts orders for the iPhone 5 due to demand falling lower than expected, say Wall Street Journal sources. For the current quarter Apple has reportedly cut screen orders to about half of what it had originally planned for. The sources note that Apple told suppliers about [...]
WSJ: Apple cuts iPhone 5 component orders in half due to weak demand
Apple reportedly sent word to suppliers in December that it would be reducing parts orders for the recently released iPhone 5 on “weaker-than-expected” demand, with some being cut in half from original expectations. Sources familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that Apple cut “roughly half” of its orders for the iPhone [...]
Apple’s App Store reaches 40B downloads, almost half occurred in 2012
Apple on Monday announced that more than 40 billion applications have been downloaded from the iOS App Store, with nearly 20 billion of those in 2012 alone.There are more than 500 million active accounts on the App Store, and those users helped to drive a record breaking December in which more than 2 billion applications [...]
Half of the TV audience mistook Samsung Galaxy Tab for iPad in ads
Published: 05:20 PM EST (02:20 PM PST) Samsung struggled to market its Galaxy Tab as distinct from the iPad, noting in internal documents that over half of viewers seeing its TV commercials assumed the ad related to Apple’s iconic iPad. Only 16 percent of viewers observing Samsung’s TV commercials realized it was a Samsung product, [...]
Briefly: SampleTank 1.2, iPad Half Shell, McGraw Hill App
IK Multimedia boosts SampleTank to 1.2 IK Multimedia has announced the availability of version 1.2 of SampleTank for iOS. The update for both the regular and free versions is available as a free download that adds support for MIDI program change, along with controller editing of all edit strip knobs. Free instruments are also available [...]