Tag Archives: apple

Apple Won’t Buy Netflix, but Will Do Something ‘Unique’ with TV Streaming (Polygon)

The big question, and one that [Eddy] Cue has opted out of talking about during most of his rare interviews, is whether or not Planet of the Apps paves the way for Apple to purchas... More

Apple Struggles to Make Big Deals, Hampering Strategy Shifts (Bloomberg)

“We are always looking at acquisitions,” Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook told analysts last month. “There’s not a size that we would not do." It’s a message h... More

20th Century Fox Releases Movie of the Day App on Apple TV (Variety)

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is bringing its Movie of the Day app to Apple TV: The new app, which is scheduled to go live on the device Tuesday, is going to highlight one mo... More

Tim Cook says Augmented Reality is ‘A Big Idea Like the Smartphone’ (The Verge)

It’s no secret that Apple’s culture of secrecy forbids even the most powerful at the company from spilling details about upcoming products. But, as CEO Tim Cook has illustrated... More

Apple Patents Detail Augmented Reality Device with Advanced Object Recognition, POI Labeling (AI)

The '273 patent for a "Wearable information system having at least one camera" imagines a device with one or more cameras, a screen, user interface and internal components dedicate... More

Apple Looks to Compete with Netflix Originals, But Making Hits is Hard (NPR)

Apple, the company known for its devices, has plans to start making original movies and television programming. Hollywood seems to be happy to have Apple enter the game, but some s... More

Can Apple Take a Bite Out Of Hollywood? (Forbes)

Apple has decided to build a major new business in original television shows and movies, partly to offset slowing sales of iPhones and iPads. This could transform Apple from a prod... More

How Apple Will Have to Earn its Next $1 Trillion in the Cloud (TechRepublic)

Lost in the hand-wringing over Apple's iPhone 13% year-over-year slide in sales is the recognition that, in just 10 years, Apple's iOS devices have generated more than $1 trillion ... More

The Year Ahead in Streaming (The Ringer)

Television has become a mess. Mainly because, for anyone who’s stopped paying for cable, it’s not actually “television” anymore — it’s video content delivered via a... More

Apple Reportedly Plans to Launch Scripted TV, Movies This Year (Billboard)

In a move that would pit it against the likes of Netflix, Amazon and HBO, Apple is reportedly on the cusp of unveiling film and TV programming of its own. According to the Wall Str... More

The Ten Year Anniversary of the Apple TV (Stratechery)

There’s no question that Steve Jobs knew that Apple was on to something — he said so in the keynote, when he analogized the iPhone to the Mac and iPod. And yet, had he truly kn... More

2017 Streaming Wars: Will Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Dominate? (Billboard)

In a year full of milestones, 2016 became the first time ­streaming overtook sales as the music industry's dominant model, accounting for 51.3 percent of album consumption and bes... More

Apple, Spotify Face Upstart Rival in Streaming Music: China’s Tencent (WSJ)

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. is expanding its music and live-streaming business in Asia, taking on industry giants Apple Inc. and Spotify AB. The Shenzhen-based com... More

Apple to Start Publishing AI Research to Hasten Deep Learning (Bloomberg)

Apple Inc. will allow its artificial intelligence teams to publish research papers for the first time, marking a significant change in strategy that could help accelerate the iPhon... More

Apple in Talks with Hollywood for Early Access to Movies on iTunes (Bloomberg)

Apple is pressing Hollywood studios for earlier access to movies, according to people with knowledge of the matter, a move that would bolster the company’s iTunes business. 21st ... More

Apple Unveils New TV App (THR)

Apple TV now has 1,600 apps devoted specifically to video content, so Apple is unveiling a product designed to make it easier to discover which TV shows and movies to watch. The ap... More

China Is Now Apple’s Biggest Cash Cow for App Store Revenue (Variety)

China has dethroned the U.S. as Apple’s biggest source of app store revenue, according to a new report from app store intelligence outlet App Annie. Chinese consumers spent a rec... More

Apple is Opening an R&D Center in the Home of China’s Tech Boom (The Verge)

Shenzhen was previously best known for its knockoff iPhones and iPads, but the Chinese manufacturing hub is now a force of innovation in its own right. The latest proof? Apple is o... More

The Mobile Wars are Over (TechCrunch)

It’s time to call it: the mobile wars are over. The mobile market was once vibrant and variegated, a virtual coral reef of odd devices aimed at specific users. There was phone wi... More

New Apple Patent Describes Fingerprint Sensor that Could Work Through Display (Mac Rumors)

The United States Patent and Trademark Office today granted Apple a patent that describes a Touch ID sensor which could effectively detect and read a user's fingerprints through ot... More