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The Wall Street Journal has a follow up article to yesterday's news of Scott Forstall being forced out of Apple. It has long been known Forstall had attributes similar to Steve Jobs, who first hired the latter to work at NeXT. A year ago, Businessweek profiled Forstall as a hot-headed executive that got things done even...

Anybody who has used Windows for more than a few days will bite their tongue when they hear Ballmer state that "you'll find things on Windows phones that you won't find on iPhone or Android." That's exactly what we are afraid of: patches and updates and blue screens, oh my! Part of the joy with...

Apple's iMessage protocol is currently down for the count, yet again. This is the second outage in five days, with the last outage occurring last Thursday. Messages we have tried sending to our contacts won't show up as "Delivered" and just hang. During times like these, most users will fall back to text messaging (what's...

Apple has confirmed to The Loop it has delayed iTunes 11 until November: “The new iTunes is taking longer than expected and we wanted to take a little extra time to get it right. We look forward to releasing this new version of iTunes with its dramatically simpler and cleaner interface, and seamless integration with...

Apple customers are famed for their loyalty, but turns out for the first time since the iPhone was released, the number of iPhone owners saying they will definitively upgrade to the next-generation device has dropped. (more…)

According to Newsweek's 2012 Green Rankings for U.S. companies, Apple ranks in the 112th spot. Newsweek explains their methodology in determining the ranks of companies: To produce the 2012 Green Rankings, Newsweek collaborated with leading environmental research providers, Trucost and Sustainalytics, to assess each company’s environmental footprint, management of that footprint, and transparency. Although Apple...

The Wall Street Journal now reports on what was earlier speculated by Adam Lashinsky from Fortune--Scott Forstall was let go by Apple over his refusal to sign his name to the apology over Apple Maps. Moreover, sources note Forstall wanted to adopt a move we've seen formerly from Steve Jobs--not apologizing for its SNAFU like...

Apple's former head of iOS, Scott Forstall was unceremoniously ousted from the company this afternoon via press release. Many have cited Forstall as the one to blame for the fiasco involving Apple Maps and other iOS shortfalls (Siri; small iOS iterations compared to Android). We earlier noted his emphasis on skeuomorphism in design, but now...

9to5Mac has obtained an internal email Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out to employees over today's executive level 'restructuring'. He notes Forstall will serve as an 'advisor' to him in the interim: Today, I am announcing changes that will encourage even more collaboration between our world-class hardware, software and services teams at all levels of...

It seems that Instagram is taking a break from being the primary source of photographs showing off our children or whatever masterpiece we've assembled for lunch today. Instead, the famous image manipulation and sharing app is busy acting as a front-line news reporter for Hurricane Sandy by way of over 10 new images posted every...

Apple has issued a press release to note SVP of iOS Software, Scott Forstall, and John Browett, SVP of Retail, will be leaving Apple: Apple also announced that Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim. [...] Additionally, John Browett is leaving Apple. A...

Blackberry feels the threat of the iPhone and Android. First it was US Customs now it is The Pentagon that is about to announce that it is ready to diversify its network with Apple's iPhone and devices running Android for the first time. This is instead of buying additional Blackberry devices. (more…)