Articles tagged iPhone_5.

iPhone 5: How Apple Will Tackle the Unlocked Handset World

July 22, 2011 17:57 by: Mark Reschke   0 Comments

Categories: iPhone , Predictions , Products , Rumors

Tagged: Apple , iPhone_5 , prepaid

If you think the worldwide population buys cell phones via two-year subsidized contracts the way U.S. and European consumers do, think again. In fact, the majority of the cell phone's sold across the globe each year are non-subsidized purchases which use prepaid minutes and data plans.

Prepaid programs are also catching on in the U.S., largely led by Sprint, desperate to attract new customers — and it's working. In 2010 the US prepaid market grew to $16 billion. Smaller companies like Cricket Wireless operate as purely prepaid carriers, attracting people with poor credit ratings or for those who can't afford the larger carrier's monthly fees. Apple has yet to truly attack the non-subsidized market, especially those in low-income regions, but the company appears to be on the precipice of entering the prepaid market, leaving Android, WebOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 to tear each other apart for market share table scraps.

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A piece of Apple's iCloud likely - New iPods

May 17, 2011 16:44 by: Mark Reschke   0 Comments

Categories: iOS Applications , iPhone , News , Predictions , Rumors

Tagged: Apple , event , iCloud , iPhone_5 , ipod , Jobs , launch , Mac , Roadmap , rumors

Working at an Apple retail store in the past, I felt compelled to share some thoughts on the rumors hinting of a major event coming this weekend at the Apple retail stores. Computerworld's Jonny Evans shares some additional thoughts along these lines, but also shares information from ifoapplestore.com, which has been a faithful follower of Apple retail stores since they opened nearly 10 years ago.

Taking in the smoke from the rumor mill, don't get excited about Apple launching some form of anniversary Mac hardware, or delivering some surprise Apple HDTV product, that just isn't happening. Apple does not waste hundreds of millions of dollars in free press when launching into new markets, and pulling some surprise Mac launch over the weekend would be doing exactly that. What's more likely is a software/cloud initiative.

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Tuesday's Rumor Roundup

May 4, 2011 21:48 by: Mark Reschke   0 Comments

Categories: Humor , News , Predictions , Products , Rumors

Tagged: Apple , Appleinsider , AT&T , iPhone_5 , Macrumors , rumors

No, this isn't a new column that will come out every Tuesday. It's just that the last few days has seen a heavy does of rumors, so to aid in keeping you up-to-speed with the things that are – or are not – going to happen.

Check it out:

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