Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL stock news items for Thursday: T-Mobile
Stung by iPhone 4S Sales: Philipp Humm, CEO of T-Mobile USA, spent a little time
talking Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) during his companys quarterly earnings report
Thursday. The fourth-place telecom lost 186,000 contract customers during this
past quarter churn that Humm said was only going to continue during the fourth
quarter of the year because of the iPhone 4S. T-Mobile is the only one of the
top U.S. telecoms that doesnt offer the iPhone. In the past, T-Mobile has
claimed that it has 1 million iPhone users on its network. These users buy
unlocked phones directly from Apple, then activate them with T-Mobile. Apple is
set to start selling an unlocked iPhone 4S in November , so at least T-Mobile
can expect a few iPhone 4S users on its network in the near future. Intel
Ultrabook Flounders Against MacBook Air: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) was banking on
its streamlined Ultrabook design to win back some of the laptop PC market that
Apple has gobbled up in the past year thanks to the popularity of the MacBook
Air . No such luck at least according to a Thursday report at Digitimes (via
Apple Insider ). Manufacturers Acer and Asustek, two of the top five PC makers,
were expected to order between 250,000 and 300,000 Ultrabooks by the end of the
year, but because of poor sales, those orders are now expected to be cut by
100,000 to 120,000. Demand isnt expected to pick up until Microsoft (NASDAQ:
MSFT ) releases its Windows 8 operation system in the fall of 2012. Steve Jobs
Nominated to be Time s Person of the Year: Steve Jobs might be the first person
to be posthumously awarded Time magazines Person of the Year award. News anchor
Brian Williams nominated the former CEO and technologist in a speech on
Wednesday, highlighting Jobs influence on modern life as deserving of the award.
Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was given the award in 2010. As of this
writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named
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