In a keynote at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple has paid $8 billion to its developers in the last one month. This accounts to a huge increase in payouts to developers, which has gone up by $1 billion since their last announcement on numbers on January 7. (more…)Google+

In a display of remembrance of Steve Jobs and to mark his first death anniversary, Apple has updated its front page with a video recalling his most-famous quotes and achievements. The video includes my favorite quote of them all, which he gave while introducing the iPad 2 in 2011. “It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing,” he had then said. The video en...

Yesterday I wrote a post on how Apple had hit a new low for its botched attempt at making maps. Probably, I couldn’t make it clear enough that the “quality of maps” was a new low for the company and not the fact that Tim Cook had to apologize to his customers. It takes a lot of courage for a company, especially one the size of Apple, to apologize to its customers when things don’t go as planned. However, it takes cojones of Titanium to recommend services offered by your rivals and that...

How important is India to Apple? Why doesn’t Apple launch its products first in India? When will Apple Store open in India? Tim Cook today laid to rest questions like these for good. When asked about its plans for India, Cook minced no words to make it clear that India is currently not on top of his or Apple’s mind. There are many more countries with higher potential for Apple than India. Read on… (more…)Google+

Apple today announced a monster March quarter result, which wasn’t just the best ever March quarter for the iPhone maker but also the best quarter ever, second only to the last December quarter. Not only did Apple sell over 35 million iPhones, 11.8 million iPads and 4 million Macs but it also crossed $110 billion in the bank and margins topped 47 percent. Apple announced it has more than 365 million iOS installed base with over 50 million users coming in this quarter itself. The iTunes store added $1.9 ...