Categories: Rumors, Rumors, Rumors

Rumors Emerge That Apple Tablet Is Delayed

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on November 19

Taiwan's DigiTimes is reporting today that Apple has decided to postpone the launch of its pending tablet product until the second half of 2010. The main reason for the supposed...

Apple Rehires Newton Engineer; Tablet Rumors Intensify

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 29

Speculation about a forthcoming Apple tablet device is getting more interesting every day. Today Brad Stone of The New York Times reports that Apple has rehired Michael Tchao, one of...

Apple's Event Next Week: Maybe An AppleTV Update Too?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 01

PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster in research note issued about an hour ago, raises what he describes as a wildcard possibility around Apple's Sept. 9 event: That it may include an...

The Beatles Rumor Is Back

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 19

Once again The Beatles song catalog is figuring into the Apple rumor mill. As word of a an event for early September is all but officially confirmed, we're back to...

Latest Rumor: Apple Tablet Ad Shot In Diner

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 12

Apple enthusiast blog 9to5Mac reports today on word of an Apple TV ad being shot in a diner in Truckee, California called Jax On The Tracks (profiled here). The original...

Apple's Rumored Tablet Makes Sense, But Faces Challenges

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on July 13

The rumors about an Apple tablet device continue to gain strength, and the fact is they make perfect sense. With the iPhone still selling at a healthy clip, and Mac...

Confirmed: Apple Tablet In 2010

Posted by: Peter Burrows on May 21

A source familiar with Apple's product plans says that the company plans to introduce a tablet-based device in early 2010. This is consistent with the report from Piper Jaffray's Gene...

Apple + Twitter = A Better Combination Than You Might Think

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 05

I've been waiting on this rumor for awhile, not because I have any knowledge of talks between them, but because it simply felt inevitable. As Valleywag tells it, Apple is...

Behold, The MacBook Touch (It's A Design Concept)

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on April 30

On the heels of our story this week wherein we reported on the existence of an Apple device called a "media pad" comes this fascinating concept from Yanko Design dubbed...

A Little More On Apple At CES

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 13

As a follow-up to this Apple-goes-to-CES thread, I called up my contct with the Consumer Electronics Association which runs the show and asked if there was anything to the rumors...

Apple To CES in 2010? Yes. Maybe.

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 12

It was just an afterthought to the whole Macworld drama. I suggested, just off the cuff, that Apple might consider attending the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next...

Is The Mac Mini Dead?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 21

Gizmodo has a report saying the Mac Mini could be killed as soon as today's earnings conference call. Apparently retailers in Europe are saying shipments have ceased and they've been...

Mac Notebooks: New Video Features?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 11

Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider reports a tip from saying claiming to know saying as follows: ""I happen to know that the product transition referred to in Apple's recent...

.Mac To Be Revised?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 30

MacRumors, citing a report on Blogging Robots that are are signs within iCal, included with the latest update of Leopard that Apple's .Mac (pronounced dotMac) is about to be renamed...

Yeah That's What I Thought

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 15

Intel has now slapped down yesterdays rumor that a larger iPhone expected in the near future will be based on its Atom Processor. While interesting, Intel has officially denied it....

Intel Exec "Confirms" Atom-Based iPhone Coming

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 14

Macrumors, citing this report on ZDNet's German sister site, says there's a "larger version of the iPhone" coming that will have an Intel Atom chip inside it. The device supposedly...

Valleywag: New iPhone June 12

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 06

Valleywag, citing a source, has pegged the release date of the next iPhone as June 12. It rates the quality of it source as an "8 out of 10." New...

No iPhone SDK This Week, but MacBook Pro Updates Seem Likely

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 25

The rumor mill is buzzing that a MacBook Pro update is imminent, and that sounds about right to me. It's about time for sure. The Buyer's Guide over at Macrumors.com...

So Much For That Rumor

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on February 21

Linkin Park played at the Apple Store in Soho last night. No Apple products or initiatives were announced. There had been a rumor of some secret event, but nothing happened....

More Rumors: A Stock Split and A SlingBox Client for iPhone

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 11

It must be time for MacWorld because the rumors are at a fever pitch. TheFlyOnTheWall mentioned some "chatter" about a 2-for-1 stock split. I'm inclined to dismiss it because I...

Will Apple Dump Akamai?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 10

Akamai stock is getting whacked today on rumors that Apple is going to take its business elsewhere. Akamai provides a lot of the back end technology behind iTunes and .Mac....

Has Apple Actually Licensed Fairplay to Fox?

Posted by: Peter Burrows on January 09

Even if Apple has licensed Fairplay to Fox, don't get too hopeful, DRM haters. This isn't the start of any massive strategic shift. Jobs isn't about to open the iPod and iTunes to competitors like Microsoft, Real and Sandisk.

Think Secret: RIP

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 20

I haven't said much about it in this space, but as much as I like Apple, I really have a problem with its lawsuits against the rumor sites, especially Think...

So Long PowerPC

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on September 24

It had to happen sometime, and it looks like the end of support for PowerPC chips in older pre-Intel Macs may be upon us soon-ish. Apple Insider that intermittently accurate...

Here we go with the Apple-car rumors again

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 30

Seems only a few weeks ago that the rumors were going about Apple talking to Mercedes about collaboration on some kind of telematics-entertainment system in a future model year. More...

Buzz Building On Secret Features In Leopard

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on June 01

So there's a double-whammy today in the way of speculation on the subject of Windows functionality in Leopard, and what Steve Jobs may or may not say at WWDC on...

Leopard Delay Rumors Unfounded?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on March 26

Last week’s rumor mill was punctuated by several versions of a tale saying that Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, will be late. This type of rumor isn’t...

Looks Like An Airport Refresh Is Upon Us

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on January 08

Macrumors appears to have sniffed out some news on the Apple Wireless front. It's pointing to a description of a Macworld developers session which mentions something called Airport Extreme X2...

iPod Phone Rumor Watch Part XXXVII

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 21

Is this it? The rumor blogs are linking to this picture and a few others like at at aMobileME which it says came from tipsters. This design of the phone...

About the Apple Video Game Rumor

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on December 06

The weird Apple rumor of the day suggests that Apple is eyeing the video game console market. Here's on version, courtesy of AppleInsider. It's weird because Apple has done this...

More More MORE Speculation On The iPhone

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on November 16

Now here's an interesting iPhone rumor. Om Malik of Gigaom.com is speculating the Apple might sell the phone unlocked, as in, beholden to no network in particular. Did I not...

Are Apple and RIM Working Together?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 18

My three favorite technology products are the Mac, the iPod and The Blackberry. Now if only the companies behind all three would get together and make their products work in...

Video: A Tabbed Finder?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on June 29

I loved tabbed browser windows in Firefox and Safari. I don't know how I ever got by without them. Now there's interesting video evidence that Mac OS X version 10.5...