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Apple just posted the details of the Black Friday sale for the US Apple Store. You can save $101 on iMacs, MacBook Pros and Airs, $41 on the iPad, $11 on the iPod Nano and $21 on the iPod Touch.
Just like in other international Apple stores where the sale is happening, the deals include a variety of accessories. Check out the details below. Read more
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Apple has made a 98-acre land purchase in Cupertino to double the capacity of its original campus. The new location is the historic Hewlett-Packard campus, the same where Steve Wozniak was working when he and Steve Jobs were working on the first Apple computer in the 70s.
HP is in the middle of an operation to consolidate its headquarters in Palo Alto, and Apple apparently secured the old HP campus in an effort to expand Cupertino’s Infinite Loop. Put simply, Apple needs more room. Read more
Looks like those ahead of us timezone-wise can already enjoy the discounts offered by Apple in its Black Friday sale. A few minutes ago the sale went online in the Australia and New Zealand Apple online stores, and it applies to MacBooks, iPads, iPod touches and a variety of accessories. Read more
Frankly, I saw this coming: with all the offers and deals that have started to pop up in the App Store since last week, the rapid arise of games in the App Store charts doesn’t come as a surprise at all. Still, the results and numbers are noteworthy: while counting all the games in the App Store is nearly impossible (at least basing on official data, which Apple doesn’t provide), we can simply take a look at the “Top Paid Apps” and “Top Grossing Apps” charts to see what happened.
Games are dominating the Thanksgiving week in the App Store. Especially on the iPhone App Store, where at the moment of writing this only 26 apps out of the top 100 are non-games apps. The fact that we refer to them as “non-games apps” also tells a lot about the environment Apple created. The situation is slightly different on the iPad App Store (“only” 40,000 apps, newer platform) but the trend is just about the same on both the stores. Games are selling like hotcakes, huge discounts or not. Read more
Last night we reported Apple is already working on a new build of iOS that should be coming as early as mid-December to support plans for recurring subscriptions in App Store apps. The first app to take advantage of these new options? The Daily by News Corp.
Well, at least that’s what the rumors say, and of course we won’t be hearing anything official from Apple until the day the collaboration with News Corp. goes public. But plans for recurring subscriptions have been going around for a while at Cupertino, although they didn’t play out the way we wanted. Or perhaps Jobs and Forstall wanted. As a matter of fact, yesterday I remembered Forstall had mentioned “subscriptions” as a new business model for developers in iPhone OS 3.0. At the iPhone OS 3.0 preview event in March 2009, he clearly stated that many developers (especially magazine app publishers) were asking for a way to renew subscriptions in-app. So what did those publishers get? Recurring subscriptions? No, they got in-app purchases, which are far from being a way to automatically renew a subscription.
So we took the part from the preview event video where Scott Forstall mentions subscriptions and re-uploaded it. Looking back, it’s not clear whether Apple really saw in-app purchases as a way to automatically renew magazine subscriptions in-app or not. Maybe they wanted recurring subscriptions to be part of the in-app purchase system but they had to remove them from the final version of iPhone OS 3.0. I mean, blogs back then really seemed to think subscriptions were a go. Thing is, Apple hasn’t changed its position since then (not even when the iPad came out) and we think it’s about time to have a proper system for recurring subscriptions tied to iTunes accounts.
Check out the video below. Read more
Unless you’ve been living in a yellow submarine for the past three weeks, I guess you heard about the Beatles coming to iTunes. In fact, Apple thought the day the Beatles’ library was released in iTunes would be a day we’ll remember for the rest of our lives.
Life-changing event or not, the Beatles in iTunes have sold over 2 million songs so far and generated 450,000 album downloads, Billboard reports.
In US the best-selling album was Abbey Road and best-selling song was Here Comes the Sun.
Backed by a strong advertising campaign which also happens to promote iTunes, it looks like there was room for The Beatles in people’s music libraries, after all. One could argue whether 2 million songs sold with all that campaign are much or not, we’re just going to wait for Billboard to provide additional numbers and information before judging.
iOS 4.2 went public yesterday, but Apple is already aiming at a mid-December release for the next major update of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.3. Before we get into the details and we try to put the pieces together, it is necessary to recap all the rumors that have been going around recently about News Corp.’s upcoming iPad-only newspaper, The Daily. [The Daily icon via Consomac] Read more
Apple wins dozens of design and tech patents every week, and most of them are about unannounced features and products the engineers at Cupertino may or may not use in the future. Think about the hybrid iMac: we haven’t heard anything about it yet, but the patent is out there. Same applies for hundreds of different patents: they’re cool to look at, but it’s likely that you’ll never see them in action.
Today’s patent, though, is a major win for Apple’s design team and Steve Jobs: as Patently Apple reports, Apple was granted patents for the iPhone 4 and iPad industrial design and the iPhone UI overview. Read more
We were browsing the Apple Store online, and look what we found. Apple is having a Black Friday sale of some kind, but the details won’t be announced until Friday, it seems.
The special one-day Apple shopping event.
November 26.
Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only shopping event. You’ll find dozens of great iPad, iPhone, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.
Still, take a look at the teaser page and start making a list of the new Apple products you might want to purchase. We think some sweet deals will be available on the 26th.
