Wednesday’s Apple Rumors — iPhone’s Next Stop?

Here are your daily Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) news items and rumors for Wednesday: GSM iPhone Coming in March: The Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) iPhone is already old news as new rumors begin about Apple’s other plans for 2011. Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook confirmed that the new deal with Verizon is nonexclusive, leaving open the opportunity for a new CDMA-standard iPhone to also hit Sprint Nextel’s (NYSE: S ) network this year. It also means that carriers with GSM standard 3G networks like T-Mobile USA may get a model of iPhone of their own in 2011. According to an anonymous source speaking to Redmond Pie Wednesday, the Personal Hotspot mobile WiFi feature Apple introduced with the new Verizon CDMA iPhone will come to all iPhones running the iOS 4 platform in March, including a brand new GSM standard iPhone due out that month. The tipster even provided images of the Personal Hotspot tool running on a beta version of iOS version 4.3 due in March. Verizon Getting CDMA iPad: Verizon’s relationship with Apple is strengthening in more ways than one. Although the telecom has been selling Apple’s iPad since October, it has only offered the 16GB and 32GB WiFi-only models of the tablet PC, substituting the lack of internal support for Verizon’s 3G network by partnering devices with the carrier’s MiFi mobile hotspots. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Verizon will begin carrying a CDMA iPad. Details on the new iPad, including whether or not this would be a new version of the current iPad model or an iteration of the oft-rumored second-generation iPad expected later this spring, are still forthcoming. Holiday Sales Predictions: RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting spectacular holiday sales numbers for Apple’s most popular devices, fueling a fourth quarter to break records across the board. Abramsky believes that iPhone sales increased 84% year-on-year during the nine-week holiday period, bringing fourth-quarter iPhone sales up to 16 million. (The previous record was set three months earlier when Apple sold a total 14.1 million iPhones.) Completing what Abramsky calls Apple’s “holiday hat trick” are an expected 6 million iPad sales and 4.2 million Mac desktop and laptop sales for the year-ending quarter, up from respective third-quarter sales of 4.19 million iPads  (when the device was still constrained by supply shortages) and 3.89 million Macs. Microsoft Fights “App Store” Trademark: When Apple’s App Store first launched in 2008, the company filed a trademark application for the name “App Store,” describing it as “retail store services featuring computer software provided via the Internet and other computer and electronic communication networks; Retail store services featuring computer software for use on handheld mobile digital electronic devices and other consumer electronics.” Naturally, that description fits outlets run by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ), Nokia (NYSE: NOK ), and Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM ) as well. It also fits the description of the Windows Phone Marketplace on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 7 mobile platform, and Microsoft is not happy that it can’t call its digital storefront an “App Store.” The company has sued to have Apple’s trademark of the term blocked, claiming that “App Store” is too generic a phrase in the current market to be trademarked. As quoted in a PC World report published Wednesday, “…’App Store’ is generic for retail store services featuring apps and unregistrable for ancillary service such as searching for and downloading apps from such stores.” Even if “unregistrable” isn’t a word in the English language, it sounds like Microsoft has a decent case. As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.
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