7 posts and columns on component

Three Key iPad 2 Parts Available Only From Japan

in Mobile on March 18, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

A caveat to yesterday’s reassurances about Apple’s component supply chain following the earthquake in Japan: Turns out the iPad 2 has at least five parts sourced from Japanese suppliers, and while some of them can easily be purchased from companies outside the country, there are evidently three that can’t be: its glass display overlay, battery and compass.

Apple and Samsung Hammering Out $7.8 Billion Display Deal

in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 7:32 am PT

With demand for its iOS devices growing, Apple is once again moving to secure vast storehouses of parts with which to build them. Cupertino is said to be finalizing a massive component contract with Samsung, one that would make it the company’s single largest customer.

Sonos All-In-One Music System: There's an App for That

in News on October 13, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Well, this is a first. Sonos, the company responsible for the wireless multiroom audio system of the same name, is today debuting a new piece of hardware designed for an iPhone app, rather than the other way around.
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Sonos All-In-One Music System: There’s an App for That

in News on October 13, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Well, this is a first. Sonos, the company responsible for the wireless multiroom audio system of the same name, is today debuting a new piece of hardware designed for an iPhone app, rather than the other way around.
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The Jesus Tablet Will Walk on Water and Turn Fishes Into Money

in News on August 7, 2009 at 11:39 am PT

BoomTown is certainly going to be one of the many-so-many who will immediately fork over whatever it takes to get my mitts on the upcoming tablet device from Apple. And that’s why, according to a new report from Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst Gene Munster–who is monk-like in his devotion to writing down every scrap he can about whatever Apple HQ in Cupertino, Calif., deigns to release–it’s going to be raining money down on the company, just like manna from heaven.
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No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can’t Get Apple to Say Anything Nice About a Netbook

in Media on July 21, 2009 at 3:32 pm PT

This is now an Apple earnings-call tradition: Analysts try their hardest to convince Apple executives to express interest in the booming market for cheap netbooks and Apple executives make it perfectly clear how much disdain they have for netbooks. But an $800 iTablet? That’s something else altogether…
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GPhone 10 Percent Cheaper, Uglier Than iPhone

in News on November 12, 2008 at 12:50 pm PT

T-Mobile’s G1, the first smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system, really is as cheap as it looks. According to a new theoretical tear-down by research firm iSuppli, the G1 costs about 10 percent less to manufacture than Apple’s iPhone 3G.