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In a bit of an interesting move, Apple has removed its Texas Hold’em game from the App Store, potentially marking the end of the only game Apple ever produced on its own for the App Store.

Texas Hold’em began life as a game for non-iOS iPod models, debuting in late 2006. As Apple introduced the iPhone just a few months later, rumors circulated that Apple was getting serious about gaming, in part evidenced by its in-house work on Texas Hold’em for the iPod.

When Apple officially … Continue Reading

In a bit of an interesting move, Apple has removed its Texas Hold’em game from the App Store, potentially marking the end of the only game Apple ever produced on its own for the App Store.

Texas Hold’em began life as a game for non-iOS iPod models, debuting in late 2006. As Apple introduced the iPhone just a few months later, rumors circulated that Apple was getting serious about gaming, in part evidenced by its in-house work on Texas Hold’em for the iPod.

When Apple officially … Continue Reading

The Mac is on track for another one of those “best quarters ever” — better even than the fourth quarter, during which Apple reported Mac sales of 4.89 million.

The machine is on a real growth tear. New metrics from research outfit NPD show Mac sales up 19 percent year over year in October.

That upward trend bodes well for the company as it heads into the holiday shopping season. Indeed, extrapolating from those numbers, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster figures Apple will sell between 5.1 million and 5.3 million Macs during the … Continue Reading

The downward trend in European PC sales has left Apple’s Mac entirely unscathed. In fact, the Mac appears to have benefited from it.

According to the latest metrics from Gartner, Mac shipments to Western Europe were up 19.6 percent in the third quarter, a period that saw an 11.4 percent decline across the broader market.

PC shipments in Western Europe totaled 14.8 million units in the third quarter of 2011, an 11.4 percent decline from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Among the top five PC makers, only Apple and Asus … Continue Reading

AppleInsider reports on a new research note from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster sharing data on U.S. Mac sales for the month of October from NPD. According to NPD’s data, Apple’s October Mac sales were up 19% year-over-year, putting the company on target to reach analyst estimates in the range of 5.1-5.3 million units for the full quarter.Analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray shared the latest domestic sales data from the NPD Group on Monday, which showed Mac sales up 19 percent year over year in the month of … Continue Reading

AppleInsider reports on a new research note from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster sharing data on U.S. Mac sales for the month of October from NPD. According to NPD’s data, Apple’s October Mac sales were up 19% year-over-year, putting the company on target to reach analyst estimates in the range of 5.1-5.3 million units for the full quarter.Analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray shared the latest domestic sales data from the NPD Group on Monday, which showed Mac sales up 19 percent year over year in the month of … Continue Reading

Late last week, we noted that with pricing information on Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bride E Xeon processors surfacing, Apple’s options for a potential “Early 2012″ Mac Pro have begun to clear up. The Mac Pro has not been updated since mid-2010, and delays in Intel’s new chips have pushed their availability out from late this year to early next year.

But despite the new processors now being in sight, AppleInsider reports that Apple is reportedly “questioning” the future of the Mac Pro line and whether it will even … Continue Reading

Late last week, we noted that with pricing information on Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bride E Xeon processors surfacing, Apple’s options for a potential “Early 2012″ Mac Pro have begun to clear up. The Mac Pro has not been updated since mid-2010, and delays in Intel’s new chips have pushed their availability out from late this year to early next year.

But despite the new processors now being in sight, AppleInsider reports that Apple is reportedly “questioning” the future of the Mac Pro line and whether it will even … Continue Reading

Apple has already begun work on the next major revision to Mac OS X which is being labeled as version 10.8.

Apple only just released the final version of OS X 10.7 (Lion) to customers in July. OS X Lion was the first version of Mac OS X to be distributed through the Mac App Store and it included a number of new features for the Mac. These included an iOS-like application launch screen known as Launchpad, full-screen apps, a new combined interface for Dashboard, … Continue Reading

Apple has already begun work on the next major revision to Mac OS X which is being labeled as version 10.8.

Apple only just released the final version of OS X 10.7 (Lion) to customers in July. OS X Lion was the first version of Mac OS X to be distributed through the Mac App Store and it included a number of new features for the Mac. These included an iOS-like application launch screen known as Launchpad, full-screen apps, a new combined interface for Dashboard, … Continue Reading