Apple Store in Boston
Since the iPhone launched five years ago, Apple has created a total of 35,852 retail jobs.
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Apple turns over its entire inventory once every 5 days
Apple’s supply chain is ranked best in the world.
Apple’s supply chain is ranked best in the world by the technology research firm Gartner. According to a new report by Gartner. part of the reason is Apple turns over its inventory once every five days. If you think about that’s pretty amazing. Apple ells hundreds of millions of hardware gadgets all over the world and yet it doesn’t actually need to stockpile its goods.
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Jonathan Ive – Apple’s quest for simplicity
Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive, the London-born head of design for Apple says “design is a word that’s come to mean so much that it’s also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don’t really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas and making products.”
Amazon to cut e-book prices
Amazon is set to shake up it’s rivals.
Internet retailer, Amazon is in a powerful position after the government’s decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges. may now get to decide how much an e-book will cost, and the book world is quaking over the potential consequences.
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Paper iPhones as burnt offerings for the dead
The dead want an iPhone?
Apple’s iPhone is so popular in China that even the dead want one! It’s the latest trend in burnt paper offering, a distinctly Chinese tradition where Hell Bank Notes, and paper items resembling cars, luxury villas, computers and so on, are burnt to send to the deceased…
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Half of all households in the U.S. own at least one Apple product
More than 55 million homes have at least one Apple product.
According to CNBC’s All-America Economic survey, half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product. That’s more than 55 million homes with at least one iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac computer. And one-in-10 homes that aren’t currently in that group plan to join it in the next year.
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Apple App Store reaches 25 billion downloads
Apple App Store says “thank you” on its home page.
Apple’s App Store reached 25 billion downloads on Saturday, and the company let users know with a “thank you” on its home page.
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Top 6 most profitable stores in the U.S.
Apple store tops the list.
The retailing industry has been challenged for the past few years. There are signs that 2012 will not be any different. One key metric used to judge the health of a store is annual sales per square foot. Research company RetailSails recently ranked U.S. stores based on this metric.
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Apple iPad comes with a human cost in China
Apple in China
On a Friday evening last May, an explosion ripped through Building A5, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.
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iPad can be a pain in the neck: study
Harvard study finds the iPad is putting a lot of strain on the neck muscles.
A record breaking 15.43 million iPads have been sold by Apple in the last three months of 2011, which means a lot of people are starting to use tablet computers. And with last week’s news that Apple is planning to bring textbooks to the iPad — well, that’s a lot more people who may start to use tablets, too.
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Apple’s iBooks 2 initiative for the priviledged few could leave most children behind
Apple’s iBooks 2
Apple’s new iBooks 2 initiative has the potential to vastly improve the K-12 learning experience. They will offer attractive digital textbooks with interactive features like videos, animations, definitions, flashcards, and quizzes. But, with the proprietary nature of the software it means that publishers, parents, and schools will be locked into Apple’s ecosystem.
U.S. companies that will be the most profitable in 2012
The market appears to anticipate rapid growth from Apple.
24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead every January. For 2012, Apple is likely to pass Exxon Mobil as the most profitable corporation in the Fortune 500. It already passed the oil giant in market capitalization for a while last year. The market appears to anticipate rapid growth from Apple comparable to that of the past two years. The stock has reached several all-time highs recently and now trades around $425, up nearly 25 percent in the past year.
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