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Alex Allegro reported for 9to5Mac that AirPods are the second-best selling Apple product within two years of launch with search rate up 500% year-on-yar. When comparing between AirPods search interest from December 2016 — the initial month of release — and data from December 2018, Google search rates have skyrocketed a massive ten times over.…
John Gruber wrote a loose theory on the continuing cooling of iPad sales. The peak years (2013 and 2014) were inflated because it was an untapped market. Steve Jobs was right, there was room for a new device in between a phone and a laptop, and the iPad was and remains an excellent product in…
Apple’s Q1 2017 Results
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John Gruber commented on Apple’s Q1 2017 Results. Year-over-year unit sale changes, from Apple’s data summary: iPhone up to 78.3 million from 74.8 million. iPad down to 13.1 million from 16.1 million. Mac up slightly, to 5.4 million from 5.3 million. “Services” are up significantly, percentage-wise, to $7.2 billion in revenue, from $6.1 billion a…
Inquisitr reported on how the iPad Pro proves that Apple’s iPad is on its last legs. And the question everybody should be asking is why would you want to buy an iPad Pro for nearly $1,000 when you can buy another device, such as the Microsoft Surface Pro, for almost the same price and be…
Macalope on BGR putting words in Steve Jobs’ mouth. BGR’s headline: “Here’s why Apple’s upcoming ‘iPad Pro’ will be a failure, according to Steve Jobs” So, does Boy Genius Report believe its own headline? Seem like it doesn’t. Strange that it’s the headline, then. The page title is “iPad Pro Specs Leak: 12.9-inch iPad may…
Thoughts on iPad sales
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Jim Dalrymple wrote on The Loop about iPad sales. Why iPhone and iPad sales are not the same: I’ve maintained in all of my conversations about iPad sales that consumers treat the iPad more like a computer and less like the commodity device that sees iPhone sales continue to rise. I’ve seen many people that…
Duet: iPad as a secondary Mac display
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I previously used Air Display to create a secondary display for my Mac, which is useful when I’m on the road. The only issue I had with it was the fact that they needed to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network and the lag associated with streaming the display over Wi-Fi. This new app…
Choosing an iPad model
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John Gruber wrote about the iPad Air 2. I’ve seen criticism that Apple now offers too many iPad models to choose from. The array of iPads for sale — three generations, two sizes, four storage tiers (16/32/64/128), and cellular-vs.Wi-Fi-only — is certainly not simple. But I don’t think it’s that tough for a would-be iPad…
ApppleInsider reported on the performance of the iPad Air 2 compared to its competitors. New Geekbench processor benchmarks show Apple’s triple core, 64-bit A8X Application Processor is dramatically faster than the latest Android tablets, despite their additional cores and faster clock rates. Apple is outperforming the competition in the phones segment as well.
Faster horses
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Álvaro Serrano wrote about the Henry Ford’s quote and how it applies to Apple. If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse. The main lesson behind Ford’s words is that, if you aim to create a revolution, you must be willing to part with the existing preconceptions…