Here are your daily Apple rumors and news items for Friday: AT&T Smothered by
iPhone 4S: First, the iPhone 3 . Then, the iPhone 4 . And now, according to a
Friday report at Mac Rumors , history is repeating itself yet again with the
iPhone 4S debut, as AT&T s (NYSE: T ) activations servers reportedly crashed
while a large number of users attempted to turn on their new Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL
) smartphones. As of this writing, Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) users havent reported
similar widespread activations problems, nor has Sprint (NYSE: S ), which is
carrying the iPhone for the first time. iCloud Costing Apple More Than Expected:
Its a good thing Apple is making so much on the iPhone and iPad, because its new
iCloud service is going to cost the company plenty to maintain. Asymco analyst
Horace Dediu released a report on Apples Property, Plant and Equipment costs and
found that Apple has already spent $750 million in building and developing the
Maiden, N.C., data facility that is the center of its cloud services and digital
media stores like iTunes. In 2009, Apple planned to spend just $1 billion over
nine years developing the North Carolina data center, according to a report at 9
to 5 Mac . That estimate is, obviously, being exceeded by the costs of running a
major cloud service that will be accessed by hundreds of millions of iPhone,
iPod, iPad and Mac users. Netherlands Says No to Samsungs iPhone Block: Aiming
to turn the patent infringing table on its nemesis and one-time benefactor,
Samsung (PINK: SSNLF ) recently tried to block Apple from releasing the iPhone
4S in a number of countries, claiming that the new phone infringed on patents
held by the Korean company. A Friday report at Reuters (via Apple Insider ) said
that, at least in the Netherlands, Samsungs bid to block Apple has failed. A
Dutch judge dismissed Samsungs claims after deciding that its patents were open
to license and that the company should come to an agreement with Apple.
Intellectual property expert Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents believes the Dutch
ruling will be reflected in decisions regarding the same block attempts in
France and Italy. As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a
position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at
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