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Apple’s Ingenious Plan To Make More Money

Dusty — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:28:27 +0000

The company who changed the way we listen to music, reinvented the phone, brought the internet in the palm of our hands has finally dropped the ‘i’ bomb on Earth. As a result, every household nowadays has at least one Apple product. So what’s the secret? Well… a few days ago, while I was about to go to sleep, I thought how the world would look from Steve Jobs eyes. I realized what a fool we iDevice owners are. I did some research, and now I’ve come to the conclusion that Apple played us all along. THIS IS JUST A THEORY… NONE OF THE INFORMATION BELOW IS CONFIRMED TO BE TRUE.

Earlier this year, a leaked prototype of the new and upcoming iPhone was lost in a bar. Gizmodo some how got their hands all over the new iPhone and leaked the specs and pictures. When Apple found out, Steve Jobs commented that humans make mistakes and to make a new product, you gotta test it…. but in this case, things are fishier than it seems.

Now back to the point, how did this happen? Apple, a huge company, can’t handle their upcoming products? And with the built in GPS, Apple could easily track and recover the iPhone before it got in the wrong hands.

Here’s how it goes; Apple changed the iPhone design to a flat glass surface on the front and back. What would you do, if you changed the design of a product so popular that a new design could risk the sales? And if the public didn’t approve of the new design, how do you find out their opinion? You leak the design and review the publics comments. That’s what I would do if I was Steve Jobs.

Everybody loved the new design and Apple decided to go with it. The police raided the house of the editor of Gizmodo and seized some of his stuff. When Steve Jobs was asked about this, he said that this story has a lot of criminal activities. So why didn’t he sue him? Apple, a tech giant could easily sue a tech writer any day… Why didn’t it happen? Why did the editor of Gizmodo get off to this day? This leads to the conclusion that this whole drama was planned. I can’t say that the editor of Gizmodo was in on it or not but Apple definitely had tricks up their sleeve. This leads to Apple’s publicity and more people were now into iPhones. More publicity = More customers. As a result, the company sold 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 91 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

Now you’re going to say “nahh… Apple would never do that”… ok … read on.

iPhone 4 has a major issue. Antennagate. If you hold your iPhone 4 firmly from the left hand corner at the bottom, the signal drops. Why? We know that iPhone 4 has a completely new antenna system but come on… how can Apple even do such a thing, and not find a cure for it. Something is fishy.

After this whole antennagate buzz happened, the antenna design team of the iPhone 4 admitted that they knew there was a fault in the antenna system, but Steve Jobs didn’t mind and nothing was done to fix this issue. Really Steve Jobs? You’re not that stupid… even a 2 year old knows that. So why didn’t he fix the antenna issue before releasing the iPhone 4?

Well, here’s what I think. Apple releases new iPhones every year in June at the WWDC. Apple showed off the iPhone 4 both in black and white. White was delayed even to this day. According to sources, the white iPhone 4 is planned for the holiday season. Today news spread out that the white iPhone 4 is delayed to spring of 2011…. Why the delay? According to Engadget, a person was spotted with a white iPhone in New York. When asked how he got it, he said his friend from the Apple family got it specially for him. When asked why isn’t it publicly released, he said the colour of the home button does not match with the colour of the body. Seriously? It takes 6 months just to fix a small colour problem? NO! What Apple is planning is, that since iPhone 4 in black is such a hit, the white iPhone 4 would bring a lot of revenue too. If both of these were released together, the sales would somewhat be normal for 2010. Apple wants to increase the sales. If both colours were released together and you would go buy an iPhone 4, you’d have a choice either black or white. Lets suppose Apple manufactured 100 iPhones both in black and white, with both assuming 50% of sales was of black, and 50% for white in 2010. Where as if only the black colour iPhone is released, all 100 iPhones would be sold whenever its available. Get the picture?

What Apple planned is that if the white is released later in 2010 and now 2011, their revenue would increase in such a way that if you bought a black one, you would want the white so bad, that you’d buy the iPhone 4 again.

Here’s where antennagate comes in. It seems like the antenna issue didn’t effect the sales in the iPhone 4 anyway. If a fix for this released in another iPhone, you’d definitely buy the new one because it fixes the problem. More buyers = More Revenue… get it?

Apple made a special antenna lab worth $100 million USD where the antenna is tested. How could antennagate be missed during the antenna test? How could such a big issue not be fixed from such a big tech giant?

In other news, the Apple store app was updated that displays the booking for white iPhone 4 available… If Apple wants to release the white iPhone 4 in 2011, why did they update the app with the option for white iPhone 4?

This whole scenario has more twist and turns than roads on mountainous areas…I mean seriously…why can’t Apple make up their mind? What’s stopping them? The answer lies in the mind of Steve Jobs.

Now to the jailbreak scene. When Apple releases a new firmware, they patch the previous jailbreak exploit. The hackers get to work again and create another jailbreak. Why play like cats and dogs? If Apple wanted they could permanently block Jailbreak exploits…. Apple can’t keep up with the hackers? WOW! Im shocked! Apple, such a big tech giant, can’t defeat individual hackers. It’s kind of hard to swallow.

According to Jay Freeman, the creator of Cydia, 10% of all iPhones are jailbroken. People mostly jailbreak so they can get access to 3rd party development that Apple doesn’t approve, one of them pirated apps.

Recently someone told me that he downloaded a pirated version of the app, NanoStudio. He said he couldn’t get that app to work. Whenever he launched NanoStudio, it would load and give the error ”This app is already downloaded on anothet iPhone. Please don’t download pirated version of NanoStudio”.

Then I thought to myself that if one app can’t be pirated, why cant all? This could be applied to every app if Apple wanted. So why doesn’t Apple do it?

In my opinion Apple wants this piracy to continue as it is. Why? Well here’s the statistics:
Apple keeps 40% of the revenue and gives 60% to developers. If piracy attracts people to buy iPhones, more revenue for Apple in a big way. What if Apple doesnt get the 40%? They’re getting more from the sales of iDevices. Lets say I don’t buy an iDevice because apps can’t be pirated. But if piracy is present, I’d buy the iDevice. Which means I’ll pay atleast $100 directly to Apple for the new iDevice. This way Apple gets more revenue, get it?

Now its up to you to decide what’s truth and what’s fiction.

Leave us your thoughts in the comments below.

If I Was Steve Jobs, I’d Be $20 BILLION Richer Right Now

Dusty — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:34:24 +0000

Apple let us in on their statistics of their forth quarter and I’ve got to say my jaws dropped when I first saw it. I’m still checking again and again if it was a billion or million because I’m still in a state of shock.

According to Apple’s official report, “the company posted record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $12.21 billion and net quarterly profit of $2.53 billion, or $2.77 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.9 percent compared to 41.8 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 57 percent of the quarter’s revenue.”

Now I’m warning you, the next piece of information might give you sleepless nights. Ready? Ok here goes:

“Apple sold 3.89 million Macs during the quarter, a 27 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 91 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.05 million iPods during the quarter, representing an 11 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. The Company also sold 4.19 million iPads during the quarter.”

Jaws dropped? Good, because that’s what Steve Jobs wants.

I mean it’s unbelievable that a company can do so well in just a few months. You may wonder “What is Apple going to do with all this money?” Well, it’s irrelevant right now but Apple may buy out FACEBOOK. Yeah….that’s right…FACEBOOK.

Three days ago Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerburg, owner of Facebook, had a date. Yeah thats right…a DATE!

Mark was invited to Mr. Jobs pad and they had a long talk, plus a long walk. Maybe they were discussing about Facebook and Ping, Apple’s social network, or maybe Steve had something else in mind. *wink wink*

According to some information I’ve collected the past day, Apple has a solid $51 Billion in banks, which is more than enough to clean sweep Facebook for life.

So what now? Well, Santa is going to bring the iPhone 4 in White this Christmas, which means more money for Apple reserved before 2011.

A Mac event on 20th October will probably have new Macbooks up its sleeve (again more money before 2011).

I guess Apple should now buy a country and name it “iSteve”

Is This The Next iPad?

Dusty — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:00:09 +0000

Apple decides to take over the world with its products and it succeeds. What now? Well… let’s just say they know how to blow our minds with whatever new device they make.

Earlier this year, Apple released the iPad. Some people said its just a bigger iPhone, it’s a useless device, it dropped notebooks sales by half, and of course there are some who worship Steve Jobs for this epic device.

The iPad changed “the way we use the internet”, and we know Apple creates newer and better models of all their devices each year. What’s the next iPad going to look like? What’s it called? What new features would it hold? How would it benefit our lives? WHAT IS THE NEXT iPAD?

Joy Studios let us in on what they think is the next version of the iPAD.

CAMERA: It has two cameras, one at the back and one at the front. The back camera may have 5 megapixels or more to compete with other tablets such as Samsung Galaxy S and Black Berry Playbook. The front camera may have 2.0 or 3.2 megapixel camera with FaceTime support, as the new iPod Touch.

DESIGN: It may resemble the iPhone 4 or may have a completely new design that we’ve never seen before. It may be thin and little lighter since Steve Jobs appreciates “big things in small packages.”

BUTTONS: The next iPad may NOT have a home button on the bottom because a few days ago, Apple signed up for a patent that would allow users to use devices with the touch of their fingers. This technology would only work with the human finger and nothing else. So if you keep your iPad in a case or bag, there would be nothing to worry about as ur iPad would only respond to the touch of your skin. Is this possible? HEY! This is Apple we’re talking about.

SIZE: Since the iPad was released to the general public, rumors surfaced on the internet about a Mini iPad that’s smaller than the current iPad, but bigger than the iPhone. This may be to compete with Samsung Galaxy S as it can be held with one palm and not the other hand.

DOCK: Earlier this month, rumors surfaced on the internet that the iPad would have two charging docks, one for landscape and one for portrait orientation. According to the sources of “ENGADGET”, this was a design created but was later rejected, so this may not happen after all.

USB PORTS: It’s a shame that the iPad currently doesn’t support USB slots as this would be really useful for transferring data between the iPad and other devices. But with iPad 2, this may be possible. The market demands to have everything in one device. Basically everyone wants to replace their laptops with iPads, but due to iPads lack of compatibility, people can’t replace their good ol’ laptops. With USB ports, this may finally be a reality.

DISPLAY: Seems like Apple is in love with the Retina Display in the iPhone 4, so it included that into the iPod Touch 4G. But would they add it to the iPad? This is Apple we’re talking about and they can do pretty much whatever they want. In my opinion, this would greatly affect the battery life as Retina Display requires more power.

BATTERY: The battery life would definitely increase as with the advancement of technology, more things are possible now. We saw this on the iPhone 4 as Apple increased the battery size as well as the duration it would hold.

GYROSCOPE: Yes, iPad 2 may have the gyroscope that’s present in iPhone 4. This would greatly benefit users who play a lot of games on their iPads.

MEMORY: According to some leaked information provided by “ENGADGET”, the iPad 2 would come in 128 GB models too. Personally I think that there would be 3 models: 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB. I also think that Apple would discard the 16GB models because come on, iPad with 16 GB? That’s yesterdays news.

RAM: iPad currently has 256 MB ram which is really less for a device like that. Apple would most probably increase the RAM from 256 to 512 MB or even more. Who knows what Mr. Jobs has in mind.

PRICE: With all the new features we think the next iPad would hold, the price would definitely increase. I mean come on, Steve Jobs certainly doesn’t want to get bankrupt, now does he.

AVAILABILITY: New rumors have surface the internet that iPad 2 would be released before Christmas. In my opinion, this cannot happen as the white iPhone is already delayed to later this year. Releasing both the white iPhone and iPad 2 together would be a stupid move for Apple, and it hasn’t even been a year since iPads release. So you can expect iPad 2 to be released sometime in the first half of 2011.

OVERVIEW: Whenever something new is created, it always has bugs and needs to be fixed and improved. Take the first iPhone for example. The iPhone has been perfected over the years to match the users requirements. Similarly, the first iPad is just a test. The next version would definitely be a really different technology and would be something to talk about. The next iPad would most probably be nothing like anything we’ve seen before, it’s going to change everything,”all over again.”

Leave us your thoughts and comments below.

Thanks to: Engadget, Patently Apple, Gizmodo and Recombu for the pictures and information.

45 Million iPod Touch Sold and Counting

Dusty — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:05:38 +0000

During last week’s highly entertaining media event, Steve jobs as expected shared the amazing stats of the iDevices sold so far. According to the numbers shared by the Apple CEO, the Cupertinos have sold 120 million devices as of 1st September. 45 M of those devices sold are iPod Touch, something which was not shared by Mr. Jobs.

The iPod Touch sales count comes via some smart analysis conducted by asymco. Here is how the analysis was conducted:

We know that there were 59.6 million iPhones sold through June (from SEC filings)

We also know that 3.2 million iPads were sold.

If we assume about 8 million iPhones and 4 million iPads were sold during August and July, the total number of iPod touch sold is 45.2 million.

What does this tell you? iPod Touch may be the iPhone without a phone, but people still love it and I suspect the bond will get stronger with the launch of the new iPod Touch.

Steve Jobs: We Are Activating 230,000 iOS Devices A Day

Dusty — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:49:53 +0000

If there is one thing that Steve Jobs enjoys doing the most while delivering the keynote besides using the word magical and announcing new iDevices, it has to be sharing the stats reflecting Apple domination in the gadgets world. Yesterday’s event was no different. Apple CEO while playing the numbers game disclosed that the Cupertinos are activating 230,000 iOS devices a day.

Mind you these figures only includes newly bought iOS devices and doesn’t include cases of users upgrading from iPhone 3GS to 4 and so on. But did the Apple CEO stop there? No, he went on and made an indirect attack at Google accusing the search engine giants of including the updated devices in their Android device activation counts.

Keeping this gestures aside, it is only fair that Apple gets to see such activation rate as it truly deserves it for the amazing and innovative lineup of products it has brought us over the years.

[via TechCrunch]

App Review: Gyroblox 4 (It’s Just Like iPhone 4 Keynote App)

Dusty — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:15:00 +0000

Remember that Jenga-like game Steve Jobs was using to demonstrate the iPhone 4 gyroscope functions? Well, now there is an awfully similar app available in the App Store.

As Jobs said, “It’s perfect for gaming.”

Gyroblox 4 is pretty simple. It displays an interactive stack of blocks using the iPhone 4′s gyroscope and accelerometer to create a six-axis 3D environment. As you hold the phone you can interact with the blocks in real-time at 960×640 resolution. Point the phone downward and you’re looking at the top of the stack. Point it upward and you are looking at the bottom.

Check out our first hands-on:

At $2.99 the app might seem somewhat pricey, but remember that you are using all of the iPhone 4′s top-notch hardware.

Steve Wozniak Talks iPhone 4 Dilemmas – Antennagate, Apple, Google, Steve Jobs [Video]

Dusty — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:19:15 +0000

Here’s a video worth watching. Steve Wozniak talks about the recent iPhone 4 problems – Antennagate, Apple, and it’s relationship with Google and Steve Jobs.

Valencia (Spain), 29 Jul (TVEFE).- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who opened the second day of Campus Party on Tuesday, talked about the iPhone antenna issues, which he describes as ‘a very tiny, tiny problem blown out of proportion’, Apple, Google, Steve Jobs and the importance of youthful idealism.

College Humor: The Antennagate Press Conference Parody [Video]

Dusty — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:44:34 +0000

Did you miss Apple’s Press Conference last week? College Humor makes fun of the Press Conference, creating an exclusive video parody if Steve Jobs would have spoken his mind. Well done!

Via CrunchGear

Apple: White iPhone 4 Will Ship At The End of July [Poll]

Dusty — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:12:41 +0000

We received a few emails and tweets regarding Apple’s availability of the White iPhone 4 models. Apple previously said the White iPhone’s would be available mid July, due to manufacture challenges. Now, Steve Jobs announced at their iPhone 4 press conference yesterday, White models will ship by the end of July. This means we “should” see both Black and White models for the Canadian launch of iPhone 4, July 30th. Check out Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference here.

What colour of iPhone 4 will you choose?customer surveys

Steve Jobs & Bill Gates On The iPhone 4 [Humour]

Dusty — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:16:23 +0000

LolBoom makes humour of current issues which the iPhone 4 is experiencing. For instance:

Scratches on back panel
Retina reception issues
Yellow blotches displaying
Proximity sensor not sensing
iPhone 4’s shipping with wrong volume buttons

Funny, isn’t it?

Think you can create some funny humour? DOWNLOAD template of “Steve Jobs & Bill Gates” and make your own. Afterwards, submit to iEvolution and we’ll post them.

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