The Great Apple ID Snafu of 2015 is over. And it apparently cost Apple about US$25 million in lost sales revenue. Over the course of a 12-hour outage between Tuesday and Wednesday, Apple’s iTunes Store and App Store were down due to a DNS error. During this time, users couldn’t purchase apps, songs, movies or […]
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There wasn’t massive growth, but the numbers were still good. Per Macworld, Apple reported sales of US$35.3 billion, with net profit at US$6.9 billion for its third fiscal quarter. That translated to earnings of US$7.47 per diluted share. Apple’s revenue marked a record for the June quarter, ticking up 1 percent from the $35 billion […]
This could get fairly interesting, as well as get around some parts of DRM that, well, NOBODY likes. Per AppleInsider and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a recently published patent application details of an exhaustive Apple invention covering the resale and loan of owned digital content like e-books, music and movies, possibly portending […]
Never knock a good update. Late Wednesday, Apple released version 3.0.2 of its iBooks update for its iOS reader program. The new version, a 41 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – See all your iBookstore purchases in iCloud – on your bookshelf with iOS 6. – Scroll vertically through your books using […]
Following the muchos-nifty-announcements at yesterday’s media event, Apple released iBooks 3.0, the new version of its e-reader for iOS. The new version, a 40.8 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – See all your iBookstore purchases in iCloud—right on your bookshelf with iOS 6. – Scroll vertically through your books with the flick […]