Grand Central Station’s Grand New Apple Store Looks Like … An Apple Store

Apple’s retail store in New York’s Grand Central Terminal, the city’s largest hub for commuters, will finally open Friday, and with it comes new express-purchasing options.
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Apple Announces October 4 Event: Let’s Talk iPhone

Apple distributes invitations to an event next Tuesday that is expected to showcase the next iPhone.
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Essay: Jobs’s Departure as CEO of Apple Is the End of an Extraordinary Era

Why the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns.
Walt Mossberg and Steve Jobs share a laugh at D5.

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Apple Developing New iPad

Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers and its assembler in Asia for the trial production of its next generation iPad from October, people familiar with the situation say, as it looks to stay ahead of the competition in the fast-growing tablet computer market.

How Does Steve Jobs’ iSpaceship Match Up Against Hollywood’s Spaceships?

Giant — and a little bit eerie — new images of Apple’s proposed Cupertino campus. And, because we can: Spaceships from three of the best space movies of all time.
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With Jobs Definitely Mulling Appearance at iPad Event, Let's Hope the Focus Is on the Product

According to several sources close to the situation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs–who is on a health-related leave from the company–is definitely considering an appearance at its big iPad 2 event tomorrow. But the possibility–which would be a big sensation at the San Francisco gathering–is also just as definitely not confirmed as yet, stressed sources. In any case, if he does appear, let’s hope everyone can pay more attention to what bells and whistles the iPad 2 has rather than how his jeans are fitting.

Counting Tablets, Apple Is Third in Global PC Sales

Stats on PC sales haven’t been including the iPad and other tablets, but research outfit Canalys says that’s old thinking and doesn’t accurately reflect Apple’s clout.

Steve Jobs’s Absence Won’t Derail Apple, but His Presence Still Key Factor in the Company’s Success

With Steve Jobs taking another medical leave from Apple, expect all manner of predictions on what this means for the company’s products. While his leave is unlikely to derail the next iPad or iPhone, it’s a mistake to underestimate the role that Jobs plays at Apple.

Verizon iPhone: What, AT&T Worry?

Another question to ponder on the eve of the iPhone’s debut on Verizon: Now that its archrival has the device on which it once had an exclusive, a device that has done so much for its bottom line, how will AT&T respond? Or, rather, how has it been responding?

Tired: Speculating About Verizon iPhone. Wired: Speculating About Verizon iPhone Sales.

Verizon Wireless will hold an event in New York tomorrow where, as we first reported here, it will announce the availability of Apple’s iPhone on its network. And when it does, it will halt once and for all the near-pathological Verizon iPhone speculation that preceded it. But only because those who speculated about the existence of a Verizon iPhone have been struck by a new monomania: Speculating about first-year Verizon iPhone sales numbers.

Apple Buys Old HP Campus

Apple Director Jerry York Dead at 71