On Friday, Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, their latest computer operating system (which is jailbreaker safe!), and for the first time focus wasn’t on fabulous new consumer-facing features, but on internal re-architecting, the (far too often quoted) refinements and enhancements.
[The iPhone Blog] Many of these advancements, as we’ve discussed before, were [...]

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Apple is selling its new iPhone 3G S cellphone in eight countries tomorrow, and it is expected that they will sell 500,000 of them before the weekend is over, along-side sales of the $99 iPhone 3G model.
This is a forecast from Piper Jaffray’s analyst Gene Munster, who notes the half-million mark would compare to sales [...]

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Plastered across the front page of Apple’s website is the exciting news that the App Store has reached 500 million downloads. While it took the App Store nearly 6 months to reach the 300 million mark, the holiday shopping season proved to be a success as we saw that number almost double in merely one [...]

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UPDATE: Turns out Sunday wasn’t a Funday after all. But thanks to MuscleNerd’s live demos of the iPod touch 2G jailbreak on the day earlier, at least we got a glimpse at what’s coming. MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team did not mention any sort of release date for the jailbreak.
Unless you’ve been living under [...]

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Based on an article published on Tuesday in the Financial Post, it seems as though Rogers saw an unexpected decline in iPhone activations during the holiday season, which some say could be indicative of a challenging 2009 for Canada’s wireless carriers.
Rogers reported a 48% decrease in iPhone sales in Q4 of 2008, a sharp decrease [...]

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Analysts are predicting that Apple just may sell 10 million iPhone’s in 2008 alone, and quite frankly, the same goes for their Mac line-up of computers.
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray has recently upped his estimates of how many iPhone’s, iPod’s, and Mac’s he thinks Apple will sell Q4 of 2008. He went from a previous [...]

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