Apple reportedly will change the screen size of the iPhone from 3.5 to four inches for its fifth generation iPhone to compete with the Google Android platform in the 4- to 7-inch smartphone market, reports “DigiTimes” (http://macte.ch/pxwkh), quoting unnamed “upstream component suppliers.”
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Apple has topped “Barron’s” list of the “Most Respected Companies” (http://macte.ch/l3Oah) for the second time. The list is based a survey of professional money managers.
Per the survey, 68% of managers said they “highly respected” Apple, 22% respected the company, 8% respected Apple “somewhat” and none admitted that they “don’t respect” the company. Apple had a mean score of 4.25 out of 5.
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By Greg Mills
If anything, the apparently sudden meltdown at Nokia’s software division where the CEO threw up his hands in dismay, then fired hundreds of software staffers who had worked there for years, shows how profoundly Apple has shaken up the cell phone industry and that half-baked won’t sell.
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Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes tells clients in an note — as reported by “Barron’s” (http://macte.ch/rfRpL) — that he talked with a research analyst at Forrester Research and says the iPad is doing well in the corporate world.
His conclusions from the call are that the iPad is “running far ahead of its tablet competition and its their game to lose.” There is opportunity for others, including Google’s Android and for Research in Motion, Reitzes says. Apple hasn’t set up an enterprise salesforce, but it is “listening to enterprise customers,” he adds.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Prodyon Mobile has announced The Moon Twit 1.0, a casual game for iPhone and iPod touch devices. In the US$0.99 app, you play a talking Twit-Robot who needs to reach the Moon. Help him to achieve his goal by avoiding everything that gets in his way. You start from the ground of the earth, flying into the orbit. Several annoying birds, planes and asteroids get in Moon Twit’s way.
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