Tag Archives: America

Despite ‘disappointing’ quarter, Apple still defeats America’s most profitable businesses

Although Apple’s last quarter of 2012 has been named by many experts as “disappointing”, it still turned over record profit, making it the most profitable quarter for any technology company in history. In total, Apple made an incredible $13.1 billion, meaning the company has quite a lot of room between the USA’s second-most profitable business in Q4 2012,…

Unlocking phones becomes illegal in the US this Saturday

If you were planning to unlock your phone, and you live in the US, you will want to do so very soon, say, within the next two day. Why is that? Well, because it will be illegal to do so after that. That’s right, the Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress “90 day period” stated in the above text ends this Saturday, January 26th, and after said…

$5.9 Billion has been spent repairing iPhones in the US

Breaking your iPhone is a fear we all share, and many of us have seen the horrors of the repair bill afterwards. In-fact, SquareTrade has calculated that Americans have spent around 5.9 billion dollars repairing their devices since the iPhone’s release, way back in 2007. Not only that, but SquareTrade also discovered that 30% of iPhone owners damaged…

Prepaid carrier, Cricket to launch iPhone 5 on September 28

Cricket has announced today that it will among the prepaid carriers to offer the iPhone 5. The device is set to launch on the pay-as-youo-go network on September 28th, one week after the official release on the major US post-paid carriers, Sprint, AT&T and Verizon. You’ll remember that earlier this year, Cricket became the first prepaid carrier to…

Steve Jobs’ iCar dream

In a recent interview this week, CEO of J.Crew and Apple board member Mickey Drexler alluded to the vision of an iCar, concocted in the brilliant mind of Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs. During the Fast Company Innovation Uncensored expo in New York, Drexler talked about Jobs’ dream: “Look at the car industry – it’s a tragedy in America… They talk about…

34% of American teens own an iPhone

Piper Jaffray recently carried out a survey of a group of American teens, and found that over 1/3 of them owned iPhones. The survey was conducted on a group of 5,600 students across America. Gender was split 50/50, and the average age was 16.3. The results of the survey show that right now 34% percent of those teenagers own an iPhone, and a…

Half of US homes have at least one Apple gadget

CNBC’s All-America Economic survey has uncovered some incredibly impressive information. Apparently the average American household owns 1.6 Apple devices, and almost 25 percent report that they plan to buy at least one more in the next year. As far as households without Apple products, one out of every ten plan to purchase one over the next…