Here are the latest Apple rumors from the blogosphere:
“Apple continues to make behind-the-scenes improvements to OS X that will allow future Macs with high-resolution Retina displays to show higher quality images.” — “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com)
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According to a report issued by MM Research — as noted by “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com) — sales of the iPhone reached 7.25 million units last year in Japan making Apple the top smartphone vendor in the country.
Apple represented 30% of smartphone sales in Japan. Among all cell phones, including “feature” phones,” Apple took 17% of the market.
Though Apple was the leading hardware vendor, Google’s Android was the most popular mobile operating system platform among smartphones sold in Japan in 2011, notes “AppleInsider.” Google’s Android tallied 69%.
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A busy week is on tap on “The MUG Event Calendar.”
Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus will be on the road with his annual Mid-Atlantic MUG Tour, with stops at a New Jersey group and two Pennsylvania groups, among other appearances. Trailing Bob by only one scheduled appearance, Jean MacDonald of Smile will make two MUG appearances, one in Texas and one in New York. Jeff Gamet of “The Mac Observer” will discuss Apple TV at a Colorado group, and a number of groups will be focusing on the impending demise of MobileMe and the move to iCloud and other cloud services.
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Shipments of tablet computers are expected to grow from 81.6 million units in 2011 to 424.9 million units by 2017, according to the latest date from NPD DisplaySearch (http://www.displaysearch.com).
The forecast for 2013 shipments has increased from 168.9 million to 184.2 million. This forecast estimates that in 2016 more tablets will be shipped than notebooks. A growing diversity of operating systems is driving the increase in demand for tablets, as well as rapidly evolving features. At the same time, the capacity of component manufacturing is being increased to meet new market demand.
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A steep drop in shipments of Android-based tablets offset a strong quarter from Apple and caused the media tablet market to miss projections for the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (http://www.idc.com) research group.
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