Archive - October 2014

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Apple announced earnings this last Monday, and is currently trading around or above its all-time high share price. As it write this, it's at $105.22, the equivalent of $736.54 before its 1:7 split. There were three big announcements this past week that I wanted to highlight for you.

First, Apple's 'new' TestFlight service is now available, and will let you invite up to 1,000 beta users to test out your apps without having to fight with provisioning profiles or UDIDs. This is, for me,...

Obviously the biggest news of last week was Apple's event where they announced the iPad Air 2, the iPad mini 3, Yosemite, retina iMacs, and the imminent availability of iOS 8.1 and Apple Pay. I'm still very happy with my retina iPad mini, and can't imagine any scenario where I would've wanted to upgrade, and the iPad mini 3 doesn't offer a sufficiently compelling reason to spend the cash.

But, that said, if I was still using an iPad 2 or 3, or an original iPad mini, I'd probably be p...

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Two big (and not very happy) stories this week were the news that iOS 8 adoption has stalled, and that GT Advanced—Apple's big bet in sapphire—filed for bankruptcy.

First, it's been pretty widely reported that iOS 8 adoption hasn't made it out of the 40% range yet. In contrast, iOS 7 (despite representing a far great change to the iOS user experience) was already in the 70% range by this time afte...

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This past Sunday marked the third anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, which was internally recognized at Apple by an email from Tim Cook, and posted by iClarified:

Team,

Sunday will mark the third anniversary of Steve’s passing. I’m sure that many of you will be thinking of him on that day, as I know I will.

I hope you'...

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