Bryan Chaffin

Is Apple Greenwashing? Please… Let me say right up front that Ms. Ridenour is wrong about Mr. Cook's reaction. As the guy who started the worldwide attention on Mr. Cook's angry response, I am supremely confident in my read on Mr. Cook and positive that for the first—and probably last—time, we saw an angry Tim…

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer Source: Apple “Peter’s 25 years of broad experience across important industries will add a valuable perspective to our Board of Directors,” Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, said in a statement. “We appreciate his willingness to serve as a director and look forward to benefitting from his judgment…

Apple CEO Tim Cook Mr. Cook's comments came during the question and answer session of Apple's annual shareholder meeting, which the NCPPR attended as shareholder. The self-described conservative think tank was pushing a shareholder proposal that would have required Apple to disclose the costs of its sustainability programs and to be more transparent about its…

As an incentive to attach your iTunes account to your Disney account, the company is offering a free copy of the awesome Pixar movie The Incredibles, and the timing of the launch is being used to promote current blockbuster hit Frozen. Disney Movies Anywhere Disney's information is somewhat opaque, so we took the time to…

Steve Jobs would have been just 59 years old on Monday had he not died in November of 2011. Mr. Cook's tweets note that they were in remembrance of his predecessor. The first tweet quoted one of Steve Jobs's favorite phrases, a phrase that Mr. Jobs used in his spectacular Stanford commencement address in 2005…

The statue unveiled today is a maquette, the art world's term for a small version of a sculpture made for demonstration or consideration purposes. The final version will be 3 to 5 meters (roughly 10-16 feet) tall. The statue: Source: Netokracija The statue is already garnering negative reviews from fans of Steve Jobs, but according…

TMO Mockup of Steve Jobs Stamp Commenting on the leaked list, Susan McGowan, the Postal Service’s executive director for stamp services and corporate licensing, told The Post that subjects for commemorative stamps could be changed at any time. Other subjects for future stamps include Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, the cast of Peanuts, Charlton Heston, Run…

The earliest reference to such transactions I've been able to find date back to October, 2013, but there has been a sharp escalation in the last several days. I've personally received a score or more of them, including these three recent transactions to a wallet on Blockchain.info: Three 1 Satoshi Transactions – Unconfirmed There are…

“Our top priority always has been to build technology to support our clubs and fans with an unrivaled experience in these world-class facilities,” Adam Ritter, SVP, Wireless, MLBAM, said in a statement. “The introduction of iBeacon services in our At The Ballpark app will be the latest evolution in this process, giving us another important…

Shares of AAPL opened down more than US$40 lower, as shown in the chart below, and didn't budge much throughout the session, despite all the money that Carl Icahn was pumping into the stock. The stock closed at $506.50, down $44.00 (-7.99 percent), on extraordinarily high volume of 38.1 million shares trading hands, more than…

After-hours session typically have an exaggerated effect on Apple's stock in either direction compared to regular session trading the next day. It's doubtful that $AAPL will open as low as Tuesday's after-hours low, but investors definitely have things to be tense about despite record revenues and record earnings per share for the quarter. “The real…

TechCrunch spotted the teaser video posted by ABC, and in that teaser Mr. Cook once again states that the U.S. government has no access to Apple's servers. In a quote that I personally love, he said, “They would have to cart us out in a box for that.” The teaser text in full: ABC's David…

TMO's Artist's Representation of Carl Icahn's Characterization of Apple's Management Mr. Icahn was already a major Apple shareholder before Thursday's investment announcement, and he has been pushing the company to get more aggressive in buying back its own stock. For Apple's upcoming annual shareholder meeting, Mr. Icahn submitted a shareholder proposal that would require Apple…

The Surface Trainwreck In quarterly filings with the SEC, Microsoft reported that it had a whopping US$893 million in revenue from selling an unspecified number of Surfii (no more than a couple of million units), and that doing so only cost the company $932 million. That left Microsoft $39 million the poorer for all that…

The Verge noted HP's move, reporting that the company was emailing customers with the news that “Windows 7 is back,” accompanied by promotional material on the HP website saying that Windows 7 is “back by popular demand.” That demand is so popular, HP will give you up to $150 off the price of your PC…

Apple CEO Tim Cook While the full text of the letter, as posted by 9to5Mac, is below, it's the last paragraph that is being swooped on by Apple watchers everywhere. There he promised big things for 2014. These kinds of comments are not idly made, and Mr. Cook is the most deliberate speaker in Silicon…

Yes, the group does have a website: HeartOfTheCity.org. Many of these companies provide private busses that bring employees from San Francisco to Silicon Valley offices in San Jose, Cupertino, Palo Alto, Mountain View, and other cities south of the city. The Apple bus was the second such shuttle targeted by protesters, as a Google bus…

This seriously awesome story starts with redditgift's Secret Santa program where people sign themselves up in the world's largest Secret Santa gift exchange. Tens of thousands of people agree to draw names and get that name a gift (there are wish lists involed), while some other person will draw your name and get you a…

The Information reported [via AppleInsider] that Samsung hired one Tim Cudgel, a former director at Apple who spent five years and nine months with the company. As of this writing, his LinkedIn profile make no mention of Samsung, but it does show that he left Apple in November of 2013. Samsung's known retail plans include…

“The 64-bit Apple chip hit us in the gut,” says the Qualcomm employee. “Not just us, but everyone, really. We were slack-jawed, and stunned, and unprepared. It’s not that big a performance difference right now, since most current software won’t benefit. But in Spinal Tap terms it’s like, 32 more, and now everyone wants it.”…

While Beyoncé—the wife of entertainment mogul Jay-Z—is an international success, almost 3/4 of those sales came from the U.S. Apple said 617,213 units were sold through the U.S. store, but that the album was still number one in 104 countries, a staggering achievement for any music act. BEYONCÉ has been heavily promoted by Apple, which…