Bryan Chaffin

“First half (1H) revenues from music streaming services surpassed $1 billion for the first time,” the report said, “growing 23% in 2015 to $1.03 billion – up from $834 million for 1H 2014.” Total sales were up 0.8 percent year-over-year to US$2.3 billion. All told, streaming music accounted for 32 percent of revenues, while physical…

Neither company is officially in the car business, but both companies are on everyone's lips at this year's event. Google has been openly working on autonomous vehicles since 2009, but Apple is technically only rumored to be working on a car. Apparently, even knowing that Apple has a team working on this project has “changed…

Steve Wozniak Here's the comment in full, which was made on Robert Scoble's Facebook post about the movie: One thing nobody likes to point out is that John Sculley himself, as well as almost all of us at Apple, believed that the Macintosh was Apple's future. We all sacrificed the growing personal computer market (10x…

Note that most folks can get more by selling their devices themselves to friends or family, or through Craigslist or Ebay, many others prefer the ease of the hassle-free mail-in programs. Your mileage will vary considerably on that assessment, but either way the following chart can help you make your decision. The chart below shows…

The story began with Lil Weezyana Fest, a benefit for Tha Carter Fund, a charity managed by the Greater New Orleans Foundation. The Fest was part of the memorial events organized around the 10th anniversary of the Katrina hurricane disaster. Tidal, a streaming music service owned by Hip Hop mogul Jay-Z and other big-name artists,…

The move is essentially a restructuring of the company we know as “Google” today—Larry Page will be CEO of Alphabet, while Sergey Brin will be president, and Eric Schmidt will be executive chairman. Shares of GOOG and GOOGL will be turned into shares of Alphabet, with all the same rights (and lack of rights), and…

It might be a chance meeting between two people, like when Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak, or a decision, like when Larry Page and Sergey Brin realized they needed “adult supervision” in the form of Eric Schmidt, or an infinite array of other situations that can define or redefine someone's life or the direction of…

T-Mobile CEO John Legere iPhone 6 Swap The big news on Tuesday is the offer to let customers who buy a new iPhone 6 now swap it out for whatever Apple announces this fall (likely the iPhone 6s). Customers will pay nothing more and their monthly bills won't change. “Yeah, that's what I said,”Mr. Legere…

Symbolic: iOS unit sales are now matching Windows PCs. pic.twitter.com/4qsNg3ntYW — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) July 22, 2015 TMO is an Apple-centric publication, and you may be wondering why the lede isn't that iOS overtook Wintel. It is, after all, kind of a delicious moment of comeuppance. The great Wintel hegemony, the arch enemy of Mac…

The GSMA is a trade organization representing wireless carriers around the planet. Hardware makers including Apple, Samsung, and a host of others have long been jockeying to get their pet SIM project included in industry standards, but en electronic SIM could truly change the way devices are manufactured, sold, and dealt with after the sale.…

My thoughts are with the victim's families in SC.Let us honor their lives by eradicating racism & removing the symbols & words that feed it. — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 21, 2015 Mr. Cook's comments aren't specific, but have largely been interpreted to refer to the presence of the Confederate flag in South Carolina and…

Mr. Mims's premise is that Apple is stretched thin. Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple Car, iCloud, Apple Pay, iBooks, iTunes, Apple Music, OS X, and iOS. That's just to name the company's major products. He furthermore argues that Apple's executives are only human, and that the company would be better able to “maniacally” focus…

“We will start to see more technology embedded in garments—magic woven in,” Mr, Newson said. “There are some incredible things that are going to happen.” Marc Newson, Driving a 1952 built Yellow Ferrari 225 with Phil Poynter during a time trial at 1000 Miglia race on May 12, 2011 in Brescia Photo by Roberto Cerruti, courtesy of…

“After reflecting upon Apple’s tremendous success,” Mr. Icahn wrote, “we now believe Apple shares are worth $240 today. Apple is poised to enter and in our view dominate two new categories (the television next year and the automobile by 2020) with a combined addressable market of $2.2 trillion, a view investors don’t appear to factor…