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Frank Donghi of Toxic Cables has obtained a fully functional knock-off Lightning to USB cable from China for $3.50, a teardown of which reveals lack of proper shielding when compared to Apple's official cables, though the cable works perfectly for charging and syncing (via Apple Insider). The sources points out that the knock-off Lightning to USB cable...

Following the departure of Scott Forstall from Apple, company's former head of software design, Apple's hardware design chief Jonathan Ive a.k.a Johnny Ive has been given control of software design as well, a move that will prove to be good for the Cupertino company, believe the analysts (via Reuters). Tim Cook's decision to make Ive, company's celebrated industrial design chief,...

The UPSTO has granted Apple a patent for the GUI used in all versions of the iOS Maps app since the software was first introduced in 2008. (more…)

How could Apple become and remain the world's most profitable company? Well, that's an open secret, thanks to Apple's quarterly earnings call and Asymco's Horace Dediu, who posted a fresh analysis on his blog taking Apple product's gross margins under his loop. (more…)

Every road leads to Rome, they say. In terms of Apple's products, every road leads to iTunes and the recently introduced products just emphasize Apple's effort to guide their customers towards their online stores: they removed DVD burners from portable computers years ago, and now removed optical drives from the new iMac as well. (more…)

Apple sold nearly 27 million worldwide, capturing 15% of the global smartphone market. However, Samsung has posted an incredible 100% year-over-year growth, with a 100.4% rise in mobile phone shipments: 56.3 million units. (more…)

Back in July, a UK judge ruled in favor of Samsung stating that its Galaxy tablets aren’t “cool” enough to be confused with Apple’s iPad and therefore the design for Samsung’s three Galaxy tablets don't infringe Apple’s registered design. As a result, the court instructed Apple to run ads acknowledging Samsung did not infringe iPad design on its website and newspapers...

Apple has posted its 2012 fourth quarter earnings and has announced $36 billion in revenue and a net profit of $8.2 billion. International sales accounted for 60% of their revenue: “We’re entering this holiday season with the best iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod products ever, and we remain very confident in our new product pipeline.”...

With over 400 million iTunes accounts, Apple is now the world's largest online music retailer. However, it looks like the Cupertino giant now wants its share from the online music streaming market as well and is planning to introduce its own radio service as early as 2013 in order to compete with Pandora, reports Bloomberg (via @Satariano)....

The year of 2007 was historical for Apple: a settlement between Apple Inc and Apple Corps ended the ongoing trademark lawsuit between the two. Now, in 2012 Apple Inc has reached another important milestone: the famed Apple Corps logo is now the property of Apple Inc. (more…)

As widely anticipated thanks to the rumor mill built around Apple, the iPad mini was launched with a great fanfare yesterday. But everybody was surprised when Apple announced the iPad mini pricing, and the first reaction of future iPad (mini?) buyers was among lots of smiling faces: the device is overpriced. (more…)

The iPad mini is delightful in the hand, it feels like a high-end iPhone but with sharper edges, it is amazingly thin and isn't undersized at all. Those are the first impressions of the press members present at the Apple event. (more…)