iPhone X launch day Apple Store queues drastically different from iPhone 8
On September 15th our very own Seth Weintraub was in Milwaukee for the iPhone 8 launch, and the scene was underwhelming. However, the crowd at the same store today is more in line with what iPhone X hype would suggest.
CNET carries out review of iPhone X camera in California wildfire zone
I’m not totally convinced that the scene of the most devastating wildfire in California’s history is the most tasteful way to test the iPhone X camera, but I can kind of see why CNET’s senior photographer James Martin decided to do it.
News coverage requires a camera that not only produces good enough results for publication, but one that is sufficiently fast, reliable and flexible to cope with whatever might be thrown at it. In particular, you often don’t have much time for editing, so results have to be decent straight from camera …
Check out the iPhone X action at Apple’s flagship 5th Avenue store [Gallery]
With the iPhone X going on sale at Apple Stores around the world, 9to5Mac publisher Seth Weintraub went along to the flagship store on New York’s 5th Avenue to check out the queues, take a look inside the store, and conduct an interview with an Apple analyst while he was at it …
Comment: Apple’s earnings report & guidance show that its three-model strategy has paid-off
The run-up to the launch of the iPhone X has been a long one. We got the first sure-fire clue that Apple was shaking up its iPhone line with last year’s iPhone 7. Instead of the familiar tick-tock pattern of a new design one year and new internals the following year, the iPhone 7 was a second tock: a relatively minor external refresh of the iPhone 6 design.
That was, of course, an interim move while Apple got the iPhone X ready for launch. But instead of two new models this year, we got three.
There were many who wondered whether Apple knew what it was doing …
Apple shares gallery of images celebrating iPhone X launch around the world
The iPhone X is now available around the world. The first customers started getting their hands on the device late last night and now Apple has shared a gallery of images showcasing the first users to successfully pick one up from a retail store…
Analyst target prices for AAPL stock rate it a trillion dollar company in waiting
After-hours trading in AAPL stock already values the company at $900B, but target prices from almost half the analyst reports seen following yesterday’s bumper earnings report and record-breaking guidance would value the company at more than a trillion dollars …
Reports that Apple Stores may have more iPhone X stock than expected for walk-in customers
Happy Hour Podcast 145 | iPhone X hype, HomePod SiriKit, and tvOS 11.2 features
This week Benjamin and Zac discuss initial iPhone X reviews, iOS 11.2 and SiriKit for HomePod, changes to Apple TV 4K in tvOS 11.2, and much more.
9to5Mac’s Happy Hour podcast is available for download on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, Google Play Music, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
AAPL hits record high in pre-market trading, may push Dow to record high too
Following strong fiscal Q4 earnings and guidance for a record-breaking holiday quarter, AAPL shares have hit an all-time record high of $173.25 in pre-market trading (at the time of writing), up 3% on yesterday’s close of $168.11.
The current share price values the company at around $900B, taking it a significant step closer to becoming the first ever trillion-dollar company …
iPhone X teardown highlights radical new internals, two-cell battery, stacked logic board
The iPhone X features a very different external appearance and design. Thanks to the iFixit teardown, we can now confirm that the internal design is also radically different and new.
The iPhone X has an L-shaped two-cell battery, an ‘unprecedented degree of miniaturization’ for the main logic board, and many other changes compared to the iPhone 8 series.