According to training materials shared with Apple retail employees this morning, Apple will forgo the traditional paper cards and instead place customers in a virtual queue. This new system is called Reservation Pass. It will sync with Back Of House inventory information in realtime so Apple doesn’t handout too many product reservations. Customers will receive…

Everyone knows the PC market has been in decline for the past few years. But one segment of that market is doing spectacularly well, and one company has managed to carve out enviable sales and profits by dominating that niche. Guess who? Ed Bott | ZDNet Am weltweiten PC-Markt hält Apple magere 6-Prozent. In einer…

“Apple and Samsung have agreed to drop all litigation between the two companies outside the United States,” the companies said in the statement. “This agreement does not involve any licensing arrangements, and the companies are continuing to pursue the existing cases in U.S. courts.” Bloomberg Apple entzog Samsung langsam aber stetig seine Chip-Produktion. Die aktuellen…

IBM will also begin to sell iPhones and iPads to its corporate customers and will devote more than 100,000 people, including consultants and software developers, to the effort. Arik Hesseldahl | Re/code This doesn’t mean Win 8 or even Android devices will be locked out of IT. Indeed Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other tablet and…

John Gruber über das Apple abseits seiner Produkte im Jahr 2014. In recent years, the company grew from being bad at walking and chewing gum to being OK at it, and most of us thought, “Finally”. But that wasn’t the end of the progression. Apple has proceeded from being OK at walking and chewing gum…

It was the same old pattern: when caught red-handed, countersue, claiming Samsung actually owned the patent or another one that the plaintiff company had used. Then, as the litigation dragged on, snap up a greater share of the market and settle when Samsung imports were about to be barred. Sharp had filed its lawsuit in…

Es ist kein Zufall, dass Apple nur ein paar Tage nach dem Release von Microsoft Office für das iPad seine komplette iWork-Suite, inklusive den Web-Apps auf iCloud.com, einer bunten Update-Runde unterzieht. Die eigentlichen Verbesserungen sind klein, die Ansage mit diesem Timing aber groß. Über einen derartigen Wettbewerb darf man sich auf allen Seiten freuen. Keynote…

Fred Vogelsteins erstes Kapitel aus seinem Buch 'Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution' (18.99 €; iBookstore-Link) druckte die NYTimes im Oktober. Die restlichen illustren Erzählungen der bisherigen Ereignisse schrieb er im gleichen Stil auf knapp 300 Seiten nieder. Teilweise sind es bekannte Anekdoten, zum Teil schiebt er eigene Quellen ein.…