Here are the daily Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL ) news and rumors for December
16th, 2010. A slew of news as Apple officially announces the Mac App Store
launch date, a rumor suggests that a redesigned MacBook Pro and iMac will be
released in 2011, and a survey indicates that the iPads number of enterprise
customers could double early next year. Finally, Sony brings the Playstation
gaming brand to iPhones with the new Playstation App. Apple Mac Store Opens
Worldwide January 6 th : Apple officially announces its new digital storefront
for its line of Mac desktop and laptop computers the OS X Snow Leopard Apple App
Store will go live on January 6 th , 2011. It will launch in 90 countries. Free
and paid apps will be available in categories including Games, Graphic Design,
Utilities, Lifestyle, Productivity, and Education. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said,
The App Store revolutionized mobile apps. We hope to do the same for PC apps
with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. That
easy and fun factor will be important if the Mac App Store is to succeed where
Apples widgets have failed. Widgets are small, typically free, applications for
use in a secondary desktop, called the Dashboard, application that launched with
OS X 10.5 Leopard. The small apps were broadly ignored by users even though they
were very much progenitors to iPhone apps. New iMac, MacBook Pro Coming in First
Half of 2011: Taiwanese tech website DigitTimes says it hears the Mac App Store
launch will coincide with the release of two new models of Mac computer.
Upstream component makers are cited as indicating that Apple will launch
redesigned versions of their iMac desktop and MacBook Pro laptop next year. The
report says that there will be at least four upgraded MacBook Pros. The
redesigned high-end laptop models will feature a new panel size and a price
point for the mainstream market. Both computers will run on the next version of
OS X, 10.7 nicknamed Lion. Steve Jobs said that Lion would launch by summer
2011, indicating that the new MacBook Pro and iMac will release around July
2011. iPad Enterprise Market Could Double in Q1 2011: Survey: A survey of 1,651
enterprise IT buyers conducted in November by ChangeWave Research found that
Apples iPad is leading the charge in corporate tablet adoption. While only 7% of
respondents said that they have given tablets to employees for work use, 82% of
those respondents are using Apples iPad in their businesses. The survey found
that the companys using tablets are more satisfied with Apples tablet than
competing products from Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL ) and Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE:
HPQ ). Results also indicate that Apples corporate iPad sales could double in
next year, with 78% of respondents planning to purchase iPads for employees
rather than competing tablets like Samsungs Galaxy Tab. Sony Launches
Playstation App for iPhone: Rumors have swirled that Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE ,
NASDAQ: ERIC ) is plotting to release a Playstation branded smartphone next year
to compete with Apples iPhone and Googles (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android phones. Though
an official announcement of a Playstation Phone is still forthcoming, the
Playstation brand will hit the smartphone market in the immediate future. Sony
Computer Entertainment announced today that it will be launching a Playstation
App for iPhones running iOS 4 and Android phones running OS 1.6 very soon. The
app will let Playstation Network—Sonys online gaming network of users on the
Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable gaming devices—members track their
trophies (secondary goals achieved in games), read the official Playstation
Blog, and share information. As of this writing, Anthony Agnello did not own a
position in any of the stocks named here.
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