Here is your daily Apple rumors and stock news for Tuesday, including new App
Store restrictions, an iPhone 5 and hints at a new Macbook Air with 3G wireless
technology. New Apple Survey Hints at 3G MacBook Air: A new survey conducted by
Apple suggests that Apples popular laptop computers may get iPad-style wireless
communication support in the coming year. The questionnaire sent to select
MacBook Air owners includes questions about those users interest in 3G
communication support, the need for external disc drives, USB support and
cloud-based data storage. Its difficult to say whether or not laptop owners
would be willing to pay large data usage fees for a non-handheld device. Given
the hints that Apple is looking to bring its entire product line closer in
functionality with each other, the features discussed in this survey seem likely
to appear in future MacBooks. App Store Subscription Service Comes With New
Restrictions: Well tech stock Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL ) finally released its
latest payment option for the Apple App Store in iOS devices. App developers can
now offer subscriptions, whether it is for periodicals like News Corp. (NYSE:
NWS ) digital newspaper The Daily or other media that offers regularly updated
content. The new pay model is also fueling Apples new restrictions on apps
available in its store. Though Apple stock news has repeatedly indicated app
publishers must offer its products in the App Store even if they are also
available independently via the Web, it is only now that Apple is enforcing the
rule. For instance, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX ) magazine Time Inc. has been
embroiled in disputes with Apple since mid-2010 over how publications like
Sports Illustrated would be distributed on the iPad and iPhone. Last summer, the
issue was resolved with Time Inc. offering its publications independently of the
App Store, but that policy that is no longer possible. Digital Daily confirmed
on Tuesday that all apps must comply with the new rules by June 30, so Time
Warner and other publishers better figure out this new subscription system in a
hurry if they want to be on the iPad or iPhone. T-Mobile Executive Says iPhone 5
to Feature Mobile Wallet: Technology blog Engadget reported on Tuesday morning
that T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom confirmed long-standing rumors
that the next iPhone will act electronically as your wallet when it comes out
later this year. To be clear, this is only for global iPhone users not folks
here in the states, who are still limited to AT&T (NYSE: T ) or Verizon (NYSE:
VZ) iPhones. During its live event at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona,
Deutsche Telekom presented its plans for the Mobile Wallet service through
T-Mobile around the world and specifically mentioned Apples iPhone in the
presentation. But again, while the Mobile Wallet will be available on phones
supported by T-Mobile USA, this is not confirmation that T-Mobile will bring its
international support for the iPhone domestic (that is, to the U.S.). As of this
writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named
here.
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