Archives: February 2009

Apple's Annual Meeting: Not Much Concern About Succession

Posted by: Peter Burrows on February 25

I spoke with a number of investors before and after the meeting, and not one of them seemed all that concerned about the possibility that Steve Jobs might not be...

Apple's Updated Safari Browser: Hedging The App Store Bet

Posted by: Peter Burrows on February 24

As Arik just reported, Apple just released a major makeover of the Safari browser, called Safari 4. The company says the new version, now available as a beta release, will...

Safari 4 Out Today

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 24

Apple released the latest version of its Safari browser today. That's an image of its opening page from my desktop this morning. What's really cool is the visual effect that...

Charles Wolf: The Market Is Overreacting To The NPD Numbers

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 20

Apple stock is trading at about $89 a share this morning, about $10 a share lower than it was a week ago. Now of course the market is down in...

A Little More On Q2 Sales Projections

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 18

Yesterday's post concerning Gene Munster's analysis of NPD's January sales report, and what it may indicate for Apple's second quarter generated a bit of irritable email from readers, for a...

PiperJaffray Looks Ahead To Apple’s Q2

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 17

PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster just issued a research note looking at the tea leaves so far on Apple’s current quarter, its fiscal second. The upshot is that given the currently...

Apple: IPhone Jailbreaking Breaks The Law Too

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 13

If you’re the type of iPhone owner with a knack for poking around the devices delicate software underbelly, until recently the only thing you risked was a broken phone and...

A Fire At 510 Madison, Where Apple Won't Be Moving Anyway

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 11

I happened by the scene of a big fire yesterday. I was on the way to the dentist and had by chance gotten off at the wrong subway stop, and...

The Next iMac, and Apple In The Recession

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 03

Shortages in channel inventory is usually a textbook indicator that an Apple product is about to receive an update. And so it has been in recent days with the iMac,...

Another Case For Lower Mac Prices

Posted by: Peter Burrows on February 02

So the tea-leaves say a new iMac is coming soon. So will Apple take this opportunity to introduce a lower price-point desktop, as many analysts, including Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi,...