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iPhone 2.0.2 and Apple plans to sell 40M iPhones in next 12 month

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
Apple plans to build 40 million to 45 million iPhone 3Gs in the 12 months through August 2009, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans.
The article goes on to say that daily production of the iPhone 3G is now at 150,000 units per day
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MacBook Air update

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Apple to Update MacBook Air to Penryn Soon? – Mac Rumors
The external design is to remain the same, but the new MacBook Air is said to incorporate a new Penryn-class processor “from 2.0GHz and potentially beyond”. To compensate, Apple will be including a higher capacity battery.

In fact, the new revision of the MacBook Air will [...]

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1M iPhones and 10M app downloads

July 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geek

Wow, at this rate of 10 apps per new iphone, this is going to be an amazing platform. The lower price I’m sure really helped. Hope I get mine soon. (Despite the short battery life and I’m going to love the white color!)
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Mac marketshare 66% of computers above $1,000 at retail

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
eWeek first reported on an interesting breakdown of Apple’s retail marketshare. According to numbers from the NPD Group, Apple’s Q1 2008 retail (brick and mortar) reached 14%. Note that by limiting it to retail, they’ve excluded online sales and institutional/enterprise sales.

Chart from eWeek
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