Roll your eyes and groan — here comes a rumorological musing fresh from the Silicon Isle. Yup, Taiwan and that invariably means DigiTimes. Whereas I’ve studiously avoided reporting the latest Apple TV — a real, honest-to-goodness television — emanations wafting on the breeze from that source, discernible and believable patterns are forming.

One of the truly awesome things about the iPad is its battery life, which Apple advertises at 10 hours but in my experience regularly exceeds that. Now imagine that your Mac, iPhone, iPad or whatever can run for days, weeks or even longer while never requiring charging in the traditional sense.

Although I still don’t get the attraction, Apple’s latest effort to drive subscriptions on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is succeeding. Newsstand is, after all, just a glorified folder, but it’s nonetheless getting users to pay for digital magazines and newspapers — the proof is in the numbers.

For many members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, it must be more than a little galling to give the Apple co-founder and erstwhile an award for in essence taking the lead role in the ongoing dismantling of their business model. Alternately, isn’t it tellingly cheap and myopic that they [...]

Everyone’s favorite Cupertino, California-based fruit company has a surplus of unicorn tears, so many in fact that Tim Cook wants them off the books and will distribute them to shareholders sometime next year. Sure. We’ve heard this from regular shareholders, as well as institutional investors endless bleating for “their share” of the spoils, [...]

The rollout has been a slow slog. Although Apple began shipping Macs with Thunderbolt ports back on February 24 of this year, only a relative handful of products have actually shipped. Thereupon, long-time Mac add-on maker Sonnet has increased its Thunderbolt offerings by 50 percent with the addition of a new product.

There are promotional tours and then there’s the virtually non-stop roadshow that has been Walter Isaacson for the past three months. Oprah, Leno, The Voice, NPR, CNN, PBS, broadcast and print everything. He started teasing Steve Jobs before it was released and now he’s telling us that the book we just finished reading [...]

I went to the Apple Store and all I got was this totally awesome (single color, tastefully plain) t-shirt! When I was a kid, you could either BE cool or you could be one of the few and proud to own at least one of the really cool concert t-shirts. The assumption being [...]

Apple hasn’t put a lot of effort into marketing the Mac App Store. However, the venture — not billions of downloads like the iOS version — is succeeding nonetheless. And, as you’ll in the update below, Apple isn’t counting possible click they, which makes this milestone all the more impressive.

Apple hasn’t put a lot of effort into marketing the Mac App Store. However, the venture — not billions of downloads like the iOS version — is succeeding nonetheless. However, whereas Cupertino touts iOS’ half million apps in paragraph one, the software store for the rest of us gets a desultory “thousands” mention [...]

In a very, very short piece published in a British newspaper — still killing trees there in merry ol’ England — the Wolfram Alpha founder speaks fondly of his interactions with Apple’s late great co-founder, CEO and all around genius in charge. Step inside for the notable quotables, though few are rather — [...]

In their ongoing global legal war, whereas Apple can claim some victories, including Germany where the Galaxy Tab continues to be blocked, Samsung only seems able to avoid losing and often at a high cost. Such is the case in Australia, where the Korea tablet maker will be able to sell again, though [...]

Christmas really isn’t a day — it’s a season. For Twitter and Wolfram Alpha, iOS 5 ties are already beginning to pay dividends, but their good cheer is only just getting started. That is, Apple looks almost certain to deliver stellar iOS sales this quarter, which will drive partner results even higher.

Once upon a time, a PC was a PC and the Mac definitely wasn’t. With an ever growing number of consumers and enterprises, one user at a time, choosing iPhones, iPads and Macs over Microsoft products, the distinction is fading. Pissy aspersions from me aside, this is good for users, businesses and Apple, [...]

There’s been a lot of public angst in recent months over rumors that Apple plans to cut the Mac Pro from its catalog. With Cupertino seemingly moving whole hog to the consumer space — i.e. Final Cut Pro X, iOS-ification of OS X — the truly faithful view the Mac Pro as the [...]