Alphabet officially vaulted Apple to become the most valuable company in the U.S. in Tuesday trading , rousting the iPhone maker from the perch it held for more than four years.
Alphabet shares (GOOGL) jumped 6% after Google’s parent reported estimate-topping fourth-quarter results after Monday’s close. Its combined share classes were then worth $554 billion, surpassing Apple (AAPL), which had a value of about $534 billion and whose shares were down slightly after hours.
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In just a few days, Apple will hold its annual iPhone event in San Francisco.
And although we’re not expecting any announcements on the scale of the Apple Watch, don’t get it twisted: This is still Apple’s biggest event of the year.
Starting with the venue, Apple is signaling big announcements from this event. Thanks to the plethora of leaks and well-sourced rumors, Wednesday’s event should help Apple cap off a massive 2015.
Last year, Apple capitula
Apple's iPhone is the world's most famous smartphone, but there are many reasons Android takes 57 percent of the U.S. market and as much as 80 percent in other countries. Apple provides a completely catered, top-down experience in which it dictates exactly which apps you can run and which features your phone can have. But Android takes off the training wheels and lets consumers have a swath of hardware and software to choose from, along with access to key technologies, such as NFC pairing and h
A full trailer for the upcoming biopic of Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple, has just been released.
The trailer, which is two-and-a-half-minutes long, is the first extended look at the movie, which is based on the biography of Jobs written by Walter Isaacson.
Danny Boyle, who won an Academy Award for Slumdog Millionaire in 2008, directed the movie. It stars Michael Fassbender as Jobs, along with Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, and Kate Winslet.
According to the film’s official website: “Set b
Apple Music is an overhaul of the Music app, which already exists on pretty much every iPhone in existence, but on June 30, Apple will re-release it with the exact same name, adding in curated radio s
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is almost upon us, and it’s promising to be an event full of big announcements. New operating systems for the iPhone, iPad and Mac are expected to be announced, as well as a huge expansion in Apple’s music apps and services.
WWDC is historically the time Apple unveils its latest software, and this year should be no different. iOS 9, which sho
The squared design is going to be a matter of taste, given how challenging one-handed operation can be, but BlackBerry could be on to something.
It is perhaps fitting that a company as maligned and battered as BlackBerry would launch a new smartphone that has one of the oddest dimensions and form factors seen in a handset to date. For a device that is supposed to reflect the notion of “serious business,” as company execs kept saying, this is a phone that is a head-turner, thoug
Apple sold a record 4 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units in the first 24 hours of their availability. On Monday, the company followed that announcement by saying it sold a record 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units over the opening weekend.
The iPhone 6 sales shattered the earlier record of 9 million units sold during the first weekend of availability that was set by the iPhone 5S and 5C. It also blew past sales of the iPhone 5, which amounted to 5 million units sold in the first t
Everyone seems genuinely excited about the larger iPhone 6 since Apple’s announcement last week. But I have to ask, why exactly is there an iPhone 6 Plus again? For years, Apple has sworn off phablets. Its CEOs and executives have publicly insulted them and it made claims that human hands aren’t built for them. But now, without explanation, Apple is an unapologetic phablet manufacturer.
It isn’t bad that Apple’s making phablets, but it is a sign that the company is willing to sacrif
Year in and year out, the iPhone is always the best-looking, best-built phone available. Nothing has changed with the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. Aside from the HTC One M8, nothing out there comes close to its design quality.
Notable design features:
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The hotly anticipated iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are available today for preorder.
The phones officially went on sale at midnight on Apple.com and on the websites of various wireless carriers. Apple fanatics can also place their orders in-store at big-box retailers, including Best Buy, Walmart and Target.
Customers who visited the online Apple Store Friday were met with a message: “We’ll be back,” the message reads. “We’re busy updating the Apple Store for you and will be ba
After squirming through 1,000 of my closest friends and a battery of Apple reps to the iPhone 6 demonstration models on display after Tuesday’s unveiling, I was disappointed.
I thought they were fakes, with printed plastic screens simulating the iPhone experience until working units could be cobbled together. I confess, I was fooled.
The new screens are real, and they’re spectacular.
It’s not just the larger bodies on the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus that will impress iFans, nor the slew
Apple’s iPhone 6 was perhaps the most highly anticipated device of 2014. Now, after a long, suspenseful year full of rumors and contradictory reports, the next iPhone is finally here. As expected, Apple will sell two different versions of the iPhone 6: one with a 4.7-inch screen and another with a 5.5-inch screen, called the iPhone 6 Plus.
Here’s everything we know so far about both iPhones:
The smaller iPhone 6 features a 4.7-inch screen with a pixel resolution of 13
Early on in the game, signs pointed to the launch of two versions of the iPhone 6. We started tracking rumors about the next iPhone in late January when DisplaySearch first hinted that the iPhone 6 might come in two sizes. Now many major publications have confirmed that the iPhone 6 will come in two sizes: 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches.
The jury is still out as to whether Apple will be able to produce a sufficient number of sapphire scree
A building whose secrecy rivals that of the Pentagon.
According to Bloomberg, citing people “with knowledge of the matter,” Apple’s suppliers are working on a version of the iPad with a 12.9-inch screen. Production of the tablet will start by the first quarter of next year.
Apple makes the iPad mini with a 7.9-inch screen and the iPad Air with a 9.7-inch screen.
Although the reported device would be the biggest iPad eve
A sales assistant holding Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy 5 smartphone (L) and Apple Inc’s iPhone 5 smartphone (R) poses for photographs at a store in Seoul July 16, 2014. (CREDIT: REUTERS/KIM HONG-JI)
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is losing smartphone ground not only to cheaper Chinese rivals but also at the high end to Apple Inc (AAPL.O), a survey showed, in an ominous sign for the South Korean giant as Apple readies to launch its next-generation iPhone 6.
Samsung last week gave second
A pair of Beats headphones (Photo: Andrew Burton, Getty Images)
Jimmy Iovine? Apple’s new partner? To judge by the media hurrahs, Apple’s future?
What’s wrong with this picture?
Apple is a top-down, buttoned-down, lockstep enterprise managed, after Steve Jobs’ death, by his apparatchiks and other relative automatons. Iovine, a producer and impresario from the music industry’s bad days, is a promoter and publicity seeker who has often veered toward outré practices and personalities.
So, Apple,
 News of the new iPhone is what the gadget world has been waiting for with bated breath. Can we all breathe a sigh of relief after its manufacturers let slip about a potential release date? Source: Getty Images APPLE plans to release its new iPhone in August, a month earlier than expected, after sales were hit by new big-screen models from its rivals, a major Taiwanese newspaper reported Friday, citing supply chain sources. The Economic Daily News quoted unnamed sources as saying Apple had ac |
Apple Inc. (AAPL:US) co-founder Steve Jobs, who emphasized high-end consumer gadgets over cheaper ones, may have been right all along.
