GOODBYE !

   Hello everyone, here is my last post !

Thank you for having read me since two months ! It was a pleasure to write those articles for you ! I have discovered that it is really enriching to have a blog and write on it often !

MG

http://worldlense.blogspot.com/2011/10/goodbye-apple.html

Apps !

   Since Apple created the IPhone, a world has been created on June 28, 2008: the App Store! The App Store is a platform which provides digital applications. In other words, from an IPhone you can browse and download any App. They can be free or sometimes you have to pay for it. At the very beginning, only 500 apps existed. On January 2009, already 500 millions apps had been downloaded.

Here is a graph showing the number of Apps downloaded since the beginning:

 

http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/06/challenging-music-as-the-most-valuable-online-medium/

   An app can be compared to a service. An app is a service located on your IPhone that provides you whatever you need. For example, if you are looking for which bus you need to take to go somewhere, you just need to download tfl uk (London’s train and bus services) on your IPhone and you can search for all the information you need regarding buses and trains.

Who creates Apps ?

Anyone who wants to! As soon as you think that you have a good idea for an app, something that could help people, make them laugh, teach them something or solve a problem, it can be a good idea!

Here are the tools you need (from http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/11/how-to-create-your-first-iphone-application/)

▪ join the Apple iPhone Developer Program ($99) 

▪ get iPhone or iPod Touch 

▪ get an Intel-based Mac computer with Mac OS X 10.5.5

▪ prepare a Non-Disclosure Agreement 

▪ download and install the latest version of the iPhone SDK 

▪ a spiral bound notebook

  It is also advised to do a market research before you start because it can be an idea that someone has already had… or it can be something that nobody needs except you… TAKE YOUR TIME to analyse the situation!

Then there are a lot of steps to follow, design, programs etc… And finally submit your app to Apple Store. Try to promote your apps after that…

The average price of an app is 1.49 Dollars. According to Munster, Apple earns only 13% of the amount.

http://www.macgasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/app-store-profits-piper-jaffray-540x336.jpeg

IPOD ... 10 Years !

The first IPod was presented 10 years ago, by Steve Jobs (who was wearing exactly the same outfit than the following 10 years until his death… jean, baskets, black turtleneck): it was on Monday, 23rd October 2001.

Here is a video of the presentation.

 At the beginning, the IPod had been criticized: people were expecting a new concept and not something that similar to a MP3. But Steve Jobs kept confident thanks to the look of the IPod: indeed, the IPod has a click wheel which was something new (and is still on the IPod today). It is only in 2004 that the IPod became successful.

Apple have sold 320 millions IPOD in 10 years… while Samsung sold only 300,000 walkman in 30 years, said Tim Cook the 4th October, when he was presenting the new versions of IPod Nano and IPod Touch.

But even with those good results, it is impossible not to wonder when Apple is going to end the manufacture of IPods…

Apple, with the IPod, sold 70% of the MP3 in 2011. The IPod revenues, in 2011, were 7,44 billions dollars, which represents only 6,8% of all Apple’s revenues.

Nowadays, a large range of IPods exists: IPod Shuffle, IPod Touch, IPod Nano, IPod Classic:

http://iphone-apple.fr/2007/09/07/resume-les-nouveaux-produits-ipod-dapple/

In contrast with the first IPod….

http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/origin-of-the-ipod.html

Here is a graph showing the sales of IPod since 10 years:

Bonuses

  Last week, Apple awarded its 6 senior executives 60 million dollars each in stock if they are staying in the firm through March 2016.

   Last Friday, Apple declared that it granted 150,000 restricted stock units to all the senior executives. At the end of the day Friday, those stock units were worth over 60 million dollar each.

As Apple shares worth 406.23 dollars today at the close of trading, which represents an increase of 6.50 (1.63%), the options of each senior executives were equivalent to:

406.23 x 150,000 = 60,934,500 Dollars.

If we assume that the 6 senior executives remain with the company, half of the shares will be theirs in June 2013, and the other half in March 2016.

Regarding the new CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, he was awarded by the Apple board of directors, in August, of one million shares that vest in 2015 and 2021, that is to say in 4 and 10 years. Today, at the close of trading, Tim Cook’s shares are worth:


 406.23 x 1,000,000 = 406,230,000 Dollars. 

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/21/apple-will-announce-q308-financial-results-today/

Steve Job's look

    

http://www.applegazette.com/mac/i-am-steves-black-turtleneck/

  As everyone has noticed, Steve Job used to wear everyday the same clothes: a black turtleneck, a pair of Levi’s 501 jeans and a pair of New Balance. Since he died, everybody wants to have the same look!

  According to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, here is the story of the black turtleneck:

« On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony's chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company's factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company. "I decided that I wanted that type of bonding for Apple," Jobs recalled…

In the process, however, he became friends with Miyake and would visit him regularly. He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. "So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made me like a hundred of them." Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he showed them stacked up in the closet. "That's what I wear," he said. "I have enough to last for the rest of my life."

 

http://www.next51.net/Adoptez-le-Look-Steve-Jobs_a2042.html

   St Croix, a brand that sells men’s luxury sportswear, claimed credit for producing Steve Job’s black mock turtleneck. The company says that Jobs was a « fan of St. Croix ». As a tribute to Steve Jobs, the firm promised to donate 20 dollars to the « ongoing fight against cancer » for every 175 dollars Jobs-style  turtleneck ordered by October 16.

Samsung VS Apple

Who is going to win the war? Samsung or Apple?

   The sales of Samsung’s Smartphones increased by 44 % over one year to reach 117 million units at the end of 2011. Samsung (using the Android System developed by Google) sold 27,8 millions, far more than Apple who sold 17,1 millions.

The sales of Apple might have been affected by the expectation of the new I Phone…

Android reached 42 % of market share in US and 22 % in Europe against respectively 17 and 20 % for the system Apple (iOS)

While Samsung announced a profit of 2,2 billion Euros (-23%) Apple presented a historic profits 25,22 billion dollars, approximately 18 billion Euros (+85%). In other word, Apple earns 9 times more money that Samsung this year.

   This war started a long time ago. It is a war about the patent that they are using or not.

Since the beginning, each of the brands are trying to forbid the other to sell its products because of the patent that they are using?

http://webtablab.com/apple/tablet-war-apple-ipad2-vs-motorola-xoom-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1/

   Everything began in April when Apple considered that the Galaxy S Smartphone and the tablet Galaxy Tab de Samsung were using the same design and some features of the I Phone and I Pad. Since that, Apple tried to stop the sales of the Samsung products in a lot of countries.

An inverse trend is now observable..

   Now, it is Samsung who accuses its competitor of violating some of its patents. To prove this statement Samsung wants to have access to the source of the code of the I Phone 4. This action is being made in Australia.

Let’s see who is now going to win ….!

http://www.wreporter.com/usa/samsungs-lawyers-ask-to-see-next-iphone-and-ipad/

Happy Halloween!

       I hope you had a good Halloween party!

  
http://www.ipodtouchisapro.com/wallpaper-du-jour-think-halloween-et-witch/

Look at this picture! I thought I was funny!

I just bought Steve Jobs’ biography… As soon as I will read it I will quote the best parts!

Now, let’s talk about the new I Phone 

According to some information that I found on a lot of forums and articles on the web, it seems that the new I Phone 4S presents some problems with its battery. People are saying that when they are using it, they can loose 10% of battery in only 15 minutes! Others are saying that they are loosing about 10% while they are sleeping! This can be a huge problem for waking up in the morning (clock)! At first, Apple said that the battery could last 8 hours… Engineers seems to be working on it..

I will post soon an article about Samsung - Apple War !

Apple has sold 4 million iPhone 4S in only one weekend !

    I hope that everyone has read one of the numerous articles that have been published in virtually all the newspapers and magazines. If you want just to follow Steve Jobs’ live in pictures, look at this link: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/05/1543305/tech-junkie-steve-jobs-legacy.html.

     So now let’s talk about the new IPhone that Tim Cook presented last week. It was a surprise to see that he was presenting only a new version of the IPhone 4 and not an IPhone 5 like everybody expected. However it seems that this new IPhone is much better that the older one, that is to say that the quality of the camera is better and the battery will last longer.

The IPhone 4S ( It looks like the IPhone 4)

    As the new IPhone has disappointed everyone, it wasn’t believed that the sales would be good. However, think long and hard before speaking, you might have to eat your words. The numbers show a whole different thing. The new IPhone has broken records! Apple sold 1 million IPhone 4S in its first 24 hours of availability, breaking the previous record for pre-order sales of 600,000 units for Apple’s iPhone. Since the pre-ordered was opened, Apple just announced that they sold 4 millions IPhone 4S! (4 million phones means that Apple sold more than 925 phones an hour, or more than 15 per second…)

After Steve Jobs’ death, the big orders for the iPhone 4S have come as a welcome relief for Apple.

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/10/apple-easily-se.php

     Even if Apple broke records with their sales and made a $6.62 billion in profit, Apple's quarterly results disappointed Wall Street for the first time in a decade, mainly because investors expected a lot more people to buy its IPhone 4.

Good bye Steve Jobs…

     As everyone heard, Steve Jobs died on Thuesday. We’ve just lost someone who has changed our lives since 20 years ! Imagine what would be your life without an IPhone, an Ipod, a Macbook or an IPad ? During this week everybody has sent messages via all social networks (a funny example : ISad).

Because of this bad news, people are asking themselves a lot of questions about Apple’s future without Steve Jobs.

Can Apple survive without Steve Jobs … ?

Of course we could have talked about this question earlier when Steve Jobs left Apple in August but it is only now that people realise that Jobs is not here anymore to give his ideas. The new CEO, Tim Cook, has been advised by Jobs before his retirement about how to continue Apple’s path towards success.

After reading all those articles dealing with Apple’s future, it seems that people are not too worried about Apple’s finance. Since January 2011 when Jobs was sick, investors and consumers remained confident in the brand and continued to buy its products.

The illness of Steve Jobs was annouced in 2004 and nobody was worried. Apple shares’ have marched higher since this date. However in August when Jobs said that he was too sick to continue and that Tim Cook was the new CEO, the stock had little changes as well as this week because of Steve Jobs’ death.

On october 4th, the price of the shares was about 374$ and on October 5th, when Steve Jobs’ death was annouced, the price of the shares was around 355$. But this low pick didn’t last long : the shares were at the same price as two days before on october 6th. 

I should have talked today about the new IPhone, the IPhone 4S that Tim Cook’s presented one day before Job’s death but this was too important not to talk about it.

So I will soon post my new article about the new IPhone, when it will be delivered, how many IPhone have already been ordered and how much money will Apple make when it will come out !

Have a good night !

PS : As I am French, I am sure that I make a lot of mistakes so sorry for that !

Steve Jobs when he presented the MacBook Air, which could fit in an envelope.

Hello Everyone !

Welcome to everyone! I am a french student and here is the beginning of my blog! What I really want to do is to talk each week on the news about APPLE!

Why ? Because Apple has become an element/brand of our lives which is so important! More and more people are buying their computers/phones/tablets from apple. We need to be aware of all that is going on with our best brand, that is why I am here! 

Let's do a short brief about Apple before starting the blog !

Apple is an American firm. Apple includes all the computers Mac. It was established in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and RonaldWayne. Steve Jobs has become the symbolic face of the brand, specially because he has cancer and had to give his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO in August 2011.

As everyone knows, the new IPhone 5 is expected for next week… We are going to follow all the news, sales and money that apple is going to earn with this new IPhone ! I will search for every news !!!!!

A french website (generationiphone.fr) has announced last week that 22 millions of Iphone 5 are going to be made and that we will be able to purchase it between the 10th and 15th of october.

So, follow me, follow my news, and you will know everything about this new phone ! I will explain to you all the Financial side of it in an easy way so that you won’t have to read all those article so difficult to understand with all those words that nobody can understand without being a Genius ! I will do my best to use figures and easy words !

Any question ? Anything you want to know ? Comment my post !