9.9.2014 Apple Event Rumor Bingo

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First - I would like to point out - not everything on the bingo card are things I think will happen. Some actually conflict with others. However, these are the top rumors out there leading into the 9.9.2014 event.  And no there is no Apple TV listed - it actually just missed the cut.
 
For those items I think are most likely to happen they are:
 
- 4.7" iPhone 
- 5.5" iPhone
- A8 Processor with M8 Motion Processor
- Sapphire Glass - even if just for one or two specific options of the iPhone.
- 13 MP rear Camera
- iWatch - announced - and it being available in Dec 2014.
And
- 128 GB Version of the iPhone finally.
 
Those are the ones I think are the most likely to happen - and if they did - we get an X on the bingo card.
 
Others likely to happen.
 
- iPhone 4S killed off.  But I think the 5C and 5S remain active and for sale.
- iPhone Power button moves to the side of the iPhone from the top.
- 4.7" iPhone available on Sept 19th.
- 5.5" iPhone not available until the end of October.
- iPhone 6 and iPhone Air are the names for the 4.7" and 5.5" respectively.
- a Barometer is added to the sensors 
- Camera Sticks out of the iPhone and is not flush with the back.
- 2 GHz clock speed for the A8 - but not actually announced at the event.  
And
- Apple introduces a reversible USB cable.
 
 
Others that might happen listed are:
 
- Light up rear Apple logo
- Wifi 802.11.AC - hold over from last years bingo card.
- 4k Video recording and 4k video out - also hold overs from last year
- NFC - again a holdover from last year and the year before.
- 12 Hr 3G talk time - Yup Hold over from last year as well. 
- 2 GB Ram - You guessed it hold over from last year. 
And finally
- iPhone 6 and 6L are the names used (I don't think that will happen)
 
Again Definitely not all these rumor will come to pass and if history repeats itself most will not.  But some will. 

 
 
For those sight impared here is the actual layout of the bingo card going left to right.
 
Top Row:
4.7" iPhone
iPhone 4S killed off
iPhone Power Button moved to side
iPhone 4.7" available September 19th
128 GB Version
 
Second Row:
Camera sticks out - not flush with back of iPhone
A8 Processor with M8 Motion Processor
iPhone 5.5" Available End of October
iWatch Available December 2014
2 GHz Clock Speed for A8
 
Third Row:
Barometer
12 Hour 3G talk time
Free spot
2 GB RAM
Reversible USB Cable
 
Fourth Row:
Near Field Communication - NFC
13 MP Rear Camera
iPhone 6 and iPhone Air for names
Sapphire Glass
Wifi - 802.11.AC
 
Fifth Row:
iWatch
4k Video recording and 4K Video out
Light up Rear Apple Logo
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6L for names
5.5" iPhone
 
 
 
Category:breaking news -- posted at: 3:25am EDT
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Apple Q2 2014 Quarterly Report

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Apple Q2 2014 - Quarterly Report Summary:

Rev = $37.4 Billion (vs $35.3 Billion a year ago quarter and $45.6 Billion last quarter)

Total Cash = $164.5 Billion (Up $13.9 Billion for the quarter from $150.6 Billion)

Generated 10.3 Billion cash flow and returned $8 Billion via dividends and share buy backs.   

 

 

Last Quarter Sales:

iPhones Sold = 35.2 Mil (vs 31.2 Mil a year ago quarter and 43.7 Mil last quarter)

iPads Sold =  13.3 Mil (vs 14.6 Mil a year ago quarter and 16.3 Mil last quarter)

All iPod's Sold = 2.9 Mil  (vs 4.6 Mil a year ago quarter and 2.7 Mil last quarter)

iPod Touches Sold = Not given as usual but over half of the 2.9 Mil iPods sold

 

 

 

 

Misc Notes:

20 Mil watched WWDC keynote session 

 

CarPlay being integrated by 29 different auto manufacturers.

 

BRIC iPhone sales up 55% yr/yr

 

iPad sales did not meet analysts expectations.  Down yr/yr.  

 

13 Mil iPads sold to education customers globally to date. 

 

Devs earned over $20 Billion to date with over half in the 

 

$0.47 per share for Dividend - right were it was last quarter before the split. 

 

 

 

Next Episode of Today in iOS will be out in a couple of days

 

 

Category:breaking news -- posted at: 4:47pm EDT
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Apple Q1 2014 Quarterly Report

 

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Apple Q1 2014 - Quarterly Report Summary:

Rev = $45.6 Billion (vs $43.6 Billion a year ago quarter and $57.6 Billion last quarter)

Total Cash = $150.6 Billion (down $8.2 Billion for the quarter from $158.8 Billion)

Generated 13.5 Billion cash flow and returned $21 Billion via dividends and share buy backs.   

 

 

Last Quarter Sales:

iPhones Sold = 43.7 Mil (vs 37.4 Mil a year ago quarter and 51 Mil last quarter)

iPads Sold = 16.3 Mil (vs 19.5 Mil a year ago quarter and 26 Mil last quarter)

All iPod's Sold = 2.7 Mil  (vs 5.6 Mil a year ago quarter and 6.0 Mil last quarter)

iPod Touches Sold = Not given as usual but over half of the 2.7 Mil iPods sold

 

 

 

 

Misc Notes:

Almost 800 Million iTunes accounts most with credit cards

Apple doing a 7 for 1 stock split

 

 

 

 

 

Next Episode of Today in iOS will be out in a couple of hours 

 

Category:breaking news -- posted at: 2:03pm EDT
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Apple Q4 2013 Quarterly Report

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Apple Q4 2014 - Quarterly Report Summary:

Rev = $57.6 Billion (vs $54.5 Billion a year ago quarter and $37.5 Billion last quarter)

Total Cash = $158.8 Billion (up $12 Billion for the quarter from $146.8 Billion)

 

Last Quarter Sales:

iPhones Sold = 51 Mil (vs 47.8 Mil a year ago quarter and 33.8 Mil last quarter)

iPads Sold = 26 Mil (vs 22.9 Mil a year ago quarter and 14.1 Mil last quarter)

iPod Touches Sold = Not given as usual but over half of the 6.0 Mil iPods sold

All iPod's Sold = 6.0 Mil  (vs 12.7 Mil a year ago quarter and 3.5 Mil last quarter)

 

Misc Notes:

International sales made up 63% of the quarters revenue.

$7.7 Bil in Cash given back to share holders last quarter. 

Apple Revenue for Calendar year 2013 = $174 Bil

iPhone Revenue for Calendar year 2013 = $93.1 Bil

Microsoft Revenue for Calendar year 2013 = $82.8 Bil

Per Touch ID and a Mobile Payment System - Tim Cook all but said it is coming and coming soon.

 

 

Next Episode of Today in iOS will be Mid this week. 

Category:breaking news -- posted at: 3:02pm EDT
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Apple Q3 2013 Quarterly Report

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Apple Q3 2013 - Quarterly Report Summary:

Rev = $37.5 Billion (vs $36 Billion a year ago quarter and $35.3 Billion last quarter)

Total Cash = $146.8 Billion (up $0.2 Billion for the quarter from $146.6 Billion)

 

Last Quarter Sales:

iPhones Sold = 33.8 Mil (vs 26.9 Mil a year ago quarter and 31.2 Mil last quarter)

iPads Sold = 14.1 Mil (vs 14 Mil a year ago quarter and 14.6 Mil last quarter)

iPod Touches Sold = Not given as usual but over half of the 3.5 Mil iPods sold

All iPod's Sold = 3.5 Mil  (vs 5.3 Mil a year ago quarter and 4.6 Mil last quarter)

 

Misc Notes:

International sales were 60% of sales

14.3 Mil in Channel inventory that is +3.3 Mil iPhones in Channel inventory for the quarter.

4.1 Mil Channel inventory same as beginning of the quarter.

iPhone 4S is Apples low cost entry - not the 5C.

 

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Category:breaking news -- posted at: 4:27pm EDT
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Thanks to Listener Ryan F for finding this bug in iOS 7.0.2 

When you force quit out of apps and then reboot the apps come back from the dead.  Sometimes.  

I was able to replicated this about once ever 3 times I tried.

Category:breaking news -- posted at: 5:44pm EDT
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September 2013 Apple Event Rumor Bingo

Above is a Bingo Card with many of the Rumors being thrown around for the next Gen iPhone (5S) and possibly lower cost iPhone (5C) and what may also be announced at the September 10th Event.  These are not my predictions - just a listing of some of the rumors I think have even a remote possibility.  

 

We will go over this Bingo Card on Ep 281 which will be out late this week and then again on Ep 282 which will cover what was announced at the Special event.  

 

 

For those using voice over - below is the full list in Text - starting from the upper left going to the right and then dropping down and going left to right and repeating to the end:

 

5S

iPhone 4, 4S & 5 killed off

Dual LED Flash (5S)

New iPhones availabile September 20th

128 GB Version (5S)

New Apple TV

A7 Processor (5S)

Multi Color 5C's

Near Field Communication (NFC) (5S)

iWatch

Improved Low Light Photos (5S)

12 Hours 3G Talk Time (5S)

Free

2 GB RAM (5S)

Improved LTE (5S)

5C Cost less than $400

12 MP Rear Camera (5S)

Gold & Graphite 5S's

5S same size as 5

Wifi 802.11.AC (5S)

Finger Print Scanner (5S)

4K Video Recording (5S)

China Mobile Gets the iPhone

4K Video Out (5S)

5C

Category:breaking news -- posted at: 1:25am EDT
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IDC reports and Google confirms that over 50% of All Android Tablets are not selling.

How is that for a link bait / attention grabbing title?

But if you look at what IDC just reported and what Google has reported - it is a title that you can actually justify - even if it is meant tongue in cheek.  

Let me explain how I came to that title.  IDC reported that last quarter Android manufacturers shipped 28.2 Million tablets. 

Google on the other hand when announcing the Nexus 7 (2) showed a chart of All time Android Tablet activations 

The absolute best you can get out of that chart is 14 Million tablets activated last quarter.  That means some 14.2 Million (greater than 50%) Android tablets were not activated - i.e. sold.  

We could have also said Google confirms more iPads were sold last quarter than Android tablets.  Again going with those numbers.  

And if we look at IDC's numbers - for Windows tablets - they have 2 Million Windows tablets for the quarter.  Yet from Microsoft's own 10K report we know at best there have been 1.6 Million Surface tablets sold as of October 2012.  If we went with 500k Windows tablets last quarter plus 14 Mil Android tablets and 200k other.  That would work out to a market share for the iPad of 49.8%.   

This is a far cry from the Link bait - truth twisted headlines we are seeing on the Fandroid sites - 

Here 

Here 

Here 

and 

Here 

In this upside down world where everyone seems to be beating up Apple and misreporting stats from research firms.  I found it really surprising that one of the best breakdown on the numbers per Tablet shipments / sales side, came from a post on an Android site.  HERE 

But again - one has to wonder what happened to those missing 14+ Million Android devices.  Seems lots of shelf space is being taken up by all those unsold Android tablets.  

To put into perspective how many unsold Android tablets there were last quarter - if you took all of them still in their boxes and laid them down end to end - they would stretch from New York city out past Salt Lake City.   Just Sayin.   

Category:breaking news -- posted at: 3:27am EDT
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iOS 7 Feature vs iOS Devices Matrix

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Thanks again to Thomas from Tuscaloosa AL for putting together once again a Matrix that shows which iOS devices get the new features in the latest version of iOS.  As with the past updates some features are only for the latest and great hardware versions.

 

Here is last years Matrix

Category:breaking news -- posted at: 11:38pm EDT
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WWDC 2013 - Rumor - Bingo Card

Above is a Bingo Card with many of the Rumors being thrown around for WWDC 2013 announcements.  These are more geared around iOS related items - so nothing in here about new MacBooks.  These are not my predictions - just a listing of some of the rumors I think have even a remote possibility.

 

We will go over this Bingo Card on Ep 272 which will be out late Monday evening (June 10th).

 

For those Using Voice Over - below is the full list in Text. 

iOS 7

Apple TV Apps / Store

Expanded Siri Features

iPad 5th Gen.

iWork 2013

iPhone 5S

Flat UI for iOS 7

iOS 7 for A5 and later only

More Gesture controls / All iOS devices

Widgets on Lock Screen

Flickr and other Yahoo integration into iOS 7

Settings Toggles in Notification Center

iMoney / Apple version of PayPal

Allow for 3rd party keyboards

Finger Print Scanner Tech

“>200 new Features for iOS 7”

iOS 7 for iPhone 4 and later

AirDrop to iOS

“Apple Picking” Prevention Feature

iLife 2013

Audio iAds for iRadio

Dev Access to Private API’s

iWatch

iRadio 

Category:breaking news -- posted at: 5:29pm EDT
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