By Daniel Eran Dilger
Published: 05:50 PM EST
Speaking to Wall Street analysts, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer noted that tablets are a big issue for the company and expressed concern about Apple’s success with iPad.
“Today, one of the top issues on my mind, hey there’s a category — tablets,” Ballmer said, according to a transcript by Business Insider.
“Apple has done an interesting job. They’ve sold more than I’d like them to sell. We think about that,” he said. “So it’s our job to say, we have got to make things happ...... Read more
By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 01:25 PM EST
Apple on Friday shared a summary of dropped call data it received from wireless partner AT&T, which revealed that the iPhone 4 experiences more dropped calls than the iPhone 3GS, but at a rate less than one per 100 greater.
“It’s very hard, when we look at this data, not to conclude that there is a problem,” Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Friday. “But it’s a problem affecting a small percentage of users.”
Jobs, speaking at the iPhone 4 antenna issue press conference, posited a t...... Read more
By Daniel Eran Dilger
Published: 07:00 PM EST
A survey asking than 4,000 users about their future plans to buy a smartphone and their current satisfaction with their existing phone indicates Apple is erasing interest in BlackBerry devices among consumers while its iPhones continue to leave customers far more satisfied than any other smartphone on the market.
A report on the survey, published by ChangeWave Research, also indicates a massive surge in interest among consumers interested in buying a smartphone over the next 90 days. The firm found that 52% of those surveyed plan ...... Read more
By Daniel Eran Dilger
Published: 05:30 PM EST
Volume production of the next new generation of Intel’s desktop and notebook CPUs will begin earlier than originally anticipated in response to enthusiasm from chip buyers like Apple who have sampled the new parts.
Speaking in the company’s Q2 conference call, Intel’s president and chief executive Paul Otellini commented that Intel began sampling the Sandy Bridge chips to vendors over the last quarter Strong positive feedback has induced the company accelerate production. Sandy Bridge chips are expected to go on ...... Read more
Several benchmarks put iPhone 4 in almost the same league as its bigger brother iPad. While the fourth-generation iPhone emerged 31 percent faster in typical processing tasks and CPU computations over the iPhone 3GS, it came in slightly behind iPad.
This is a brief summary of the benchmarks conducted directly on the devices using the $5 Geekbench 2 app and other benchmarking software, such as Checkup 2 and BenchTest apps. You should take these results with a pinch of salt, however. MacRumors warned that those benchmarking utilities ...... Read more
Apple’s redesigned unibody Mac mini claims ultra-quiet operation, easy RAM upgrades, and more. The iFixIt team has disassembled a brand new Mac mini and peeked under its hood. What they found inside was as surprising as the machine’s beautiful exterior.
Greenpeace will love the new Mac mini for its toxic-free components and highly recyclable unibody enclosure machined from a single block of aluminum. As you know, the new Mac mini only uses ten watts of power and integrates the AC adapter inside. That’s right, you can kiss that ...... Read more
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By Sam Oliver
Published: 10:50 AM EST
A new survey of U.S. smartphone owners found that 28 percent use a device running the iPhone OS, compared with just 9 percent on Google’s Android mobile operating system.
The data released this week by Nielsen shows Apple as the No. 2 smartphone maker in a poll of 11,724 users. Apple gained 2 percent in market share in the first quarter of 2010, compared with the previous quarter. The top smartphone, Research in Motion...... Read more
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By Neil Hughes
Published: 01:05 PM EST
More users of Valve’s Steam gaming service ran a version of Apple’s Mac OS X in its first month of availability than the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista combined, according to a new hardware survey.
A total of 8.46 percent of Steam users in May 2010 were on some version of Apple’s operating system, with Mac OS X 10.6.3, Mac OS X 10.6, and Mac OS X 10.5.8. The new data is a part of SteamR...... Read more
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