The Apple iPhone is currently into its fifth production model and has been purchased by hundreds of millions of people around the world since its first release in 2007. The iPhone is known the world over as one of the, if not the most advanced smartphone in existence thanks to the iOS operating system that powers it.
The way smartphone and tablet gaming has bullishly pushed aside competition from standalone devices in recent years has been nothing short of remarkable.
In a similar fashion in the cat and mouse game between Apple and the jailbreakers, I am pretty sure that this back and forth saga between Apple and Samsung is likely to continue for quite some time. The two companies have an extremely turbulent relationship, with Apple on one hand being Samsung's largest components customer, but the two companies are also dragging each other through different lawsuits claiming the other has infringed upon certain patents.
I remember watching an episode of The Outer Limits about seven years ago, and although a purely fictional televisions series, this particular episode focused around the creation of humanoid life forms using what they called nanobot technology aimed to create intricate Androids in the form of humans. The whole premise of the show was that these robots could then be used to carry out the more menial tasks associated with everyday life.
Following on from an email sent to employees yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook held an intimate Town Hall session with various company employees to discuss the recent record breaking quarterly results, and a number of other exciting goings on at Apple.
Is there no end to all this lawsuit madness? We've got Apple suing anyone who has ever been mad enough to put their name to a smartphone or a tablet, and everyone else is suing each other.
As Apple has just posted record-busting sales figures for the opening fiscal quarter of 2012, the amount of intrigue in the company based in Cupertino, California is at an all-time high.
After strong holiday sales and the launch of the new iPhone 4S, allied to the much-delayed drop of iOS 5, we did indeed expect Apple’s earnings call to break records once again, and like clockwork, Tim Cook’s company did not disappoint shareholders.
This year's CES has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that 2012 is going to be the year that the computer market at large is going to catch up with Apple. At least, it will in the world of ultra-light, ultra-portable notebooks like the MacBook Air.
If you take a journey back into the not-too-distant past, and ask people to give a breakdown of the makes and models of mobile devices they used before they made the leap across to a smartphone, I am pretty confident that a small number of handsets will appears in everyone's list who is of a certain age. If I go back approximately a decade, Nokia was probably the dominant handset manufacturer with the latest release being the must-have phone amongst school kids and business men alike.
