Lukáš Gondek Christmas should be a record for both iPhones and Macs, you can go to lunch with Ian Rogers, filming on the new Steve Jobs movie continues, and China will probably be able to control Apple products.
Analysts predict record quarter for Macs and iPhones (20/1)
According to analyst Katy Huberty, iPhone sales for the Christmas quarter will rise to 69 million units sold, i.e. 18 million more than last Christmas. According to her, Apple should also record record sales with Macy, when she published a forecast of 5,8 million units sold. While iPhones and Macs enjoy increasing popularity year after year, sales of iPads are on the decline. In the last quarter of 2014, 22 million should be sold, that is, 4 million less than the year before.
Katy Hubertyová also shared her longer-term predictions - according to her, 35% of iPhone users are owners of the iPhone 4S and older models. They should upgrade this year, and according to Huberty, they will account for up to two-thirds of the predicted 200 million iPhones sold this year. According to her, the Apple Watch should sell 3 million units in their first quarter.
Source: MacRumors
Beats Music's Ian Rogers Auctions for Charity (22/1)
Former Beats Music CEO and current Apple employee Ian Rogers follows suit Tim Cook or Eddy Cue plugged in to a charity online auction. The winner will be able to meet Rogers for lunch in either Los Angeles or Cupertino. The website predicts the event will sell for $3. This is an absolute minimum compared to the price of dinner with Tim Cook, for which its winner paid over 600 thousand dollars. Ian Rogers decided to donate the auctioned money to The Pablove Foundation, a non-profit organization for children's cancer.
Source: 9to5Mac
iPads could have touch buttons on the back like PS Vita (22/1)
A new patent bought by Apple offers a glimpse of a solution to the problem of how to fit as many functions as possible on a limited display. Future iPads could have virtual buttons on the back that would be laid out in a grid pattern to make their use as intuitive as possible. According to the patent description, Apple could create a virtual keyboard for MacBooks and iMacs as well. This would be in line with the idea of Jobs, who claimed how useful it is to have a keyboard that changes exactly according to what we need it for. Such patents will most likely not appear on Apple devices in the end, but it is interesting to see what all is being experimented with in the buildings of Cupertino.
Source: Cult Of Mac
Additional scenes for the film about Jobs were filmed in Berkeley, California (January 23)
This week, filming continued on screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's much-anticipated film about Steve Jobs in the city of Berkeley. It was filmed around the local Mediterranean restaurant. Despite the interesting structure of the film, which will mainly map the three most important product unveilings – the Macintosh, the NeXT computer and the iPod – the film will return to the turning points in Jobs' life. For example, that's why a few weeks ago filmed in the garage where Jobs and Wozniak once built the legendary Apple 1.
Source: Cult Of Mac
Songs from before 1972 could disappear from streaming services (January 23)
It looks like streaming services will have to deal with yet another snag. Indeed, based on a recent lawsuit initiated by the company that owns most of the licenses for songs from the 60s, it was decided that streaming royalties should not only be paid to songwriters, but also to the artists themselves. It's entirely possible that a lot of streaming services, including Apple's Beats Music, will drop these tracks altogether rather than pay the extra bucks.
Source: TheNextWeb
Apple reportedly agrees to Chinese security audits of its products (January 23)
Apple should allow China's state-run Internet Information Bureau to conduct security audits of its products to dispel rumors that the products could compromise Chinese state security. Tim Cook is said to have negotiated the deal with bureau director Lu Wei during his visit to California last month. Although Cook has confirmed several times that Apple does not sell user information to a third party, the Chinese government wants to issue the confirmation itself to reassure its citizens.
Source: Macworld
A week in a nutshell
Popularity of Apple products last week confirmed sales figures in Asia, where the Californian company absolutely scores with larger iPhones and even beats domestic Samsung in South Korea. The Apple Watch is also popular, which praised the boss of Tag Heuer, and at the same time announced that he is preparing his own smart watch. Moreover, we also they found out about the relatively low, yet completely expected, battery life of theirs - it should hardly last a whole day.
Apple also significantly last week inspired a new version of the Windows computer system, but Microsoft was also able to overtake Apple in various aspects. And how profitable it is for the system of such a successful company as Apple to develop applications, we confirmed with the amounts that they earn the best developers - they can often be compared with the fees of Hollywood stars.
We learned that Tim Cook last year earned eight times less than Angela Ahrendtsová, who defected to Cupertino from the famous fashion brand Burberry and now to Apple passed over and vice president of digital sales Chester Chipperfield. Apple's board of directors on the other hand will leave Mickey Drexler, who contributed to the creation of Apple Stores. Apple also last week gave up on his website a tribute to Martin Luther King and at the same time increased lobbying activity in Washington, thanks to Tim Cook's recent visit. And there was something for those who couldn't wait for a large iPad when they came to us they got unconfirmed information that Apple will also create a smart pen for it.
