Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL stock news items for Wednesday: Apple TV
Eating Connected TV Market Share: While television manufactures like Sony (NYSE:
SNE ) scramble to figure out just what the heck Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) is going
to foist on the world when it releases the Apple HDTV in 2012, Apple already has
been making a subtle impact on the TV market. The companys self-described hobby
product, the Apple TV set-top box, will account for 32% of the entire connected
television market by the end of the year. This is according to a new report from
Strategy Analytics published Monday detailing the connected television market.
To clarify, the connected TV player market refers to both televisions and
set-top boxes that access the Internet as well as broadcast, cable and satellite
programming, like Google s (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Google TV and Samsung (PINK: SSNLF )
televisions using Yahoo s (NASDAQ: YHOO ) Yahoo TV. Apples numbers are
impressive, but the connected TV market still is infinitesimally small. Just 8%
of U.S. households use a connected TV device. Microsoft Delivers First iPhone
Apps: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) is an equal opportunist when it comes to the
mobile market. Why settle for making money on your own devices when you can seed
your apps across the best-selling handhelds in the world? Hence why Microsoft is
releasing a variety of apps associated with the companys Xbox brand on Apples
iOS platform. Among its initial run of apps are the pet game Kinectimals , a
story-based app for its best-selling franchise Halo , and an interface for its
online gaming and social network Xbox Live. Microsoft also released a
cloud-based file management app for the iPhone and iPad called SkyDrive that
will let users transfer files to and from their iOS device via the web. The
question now is when Microsoft finally will release its profitable Office apps
for iOS. The Office segment of Microsoft rakes in $18 billion per year. Apple
Founding Contract Sold at Auction for $1.6 Million: The original 1976 contract
signed by Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and Steve Jobs that formed the Apple
Computer Company was sold at a Sothebys auction on Tuesday. The contract and
other documents sold for a final price of $1,594,500, more than 10 times the
$150,000 price they were expected to sell for. As of this writing, Anthony John
Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on
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