If you’re in the U.S. and you’re looking to get an Apple product for a loved one this holiday season, you’ll be happy to know that the company is offering free shipping on all U.S. online orders placed through its online store or through its iOS application through December 22nd. In addition, Apple has also [...]
Apple has updated the Apple Store app for iOS, adding the ability to order items for in store pickup and allowing you to purchase items in store by checking out on your iPhone. Apple Store 2.0 is available as a download right now, bringing the new features to your iPhone, iPad an iPod Touch. Previously [...]
Apple is set to join retailers like Best Buy, and begin offering online ordering with in store pickup at the Apple stores. The program, known internally as Sherwood, will allow shoppers to place an order online and pickup the item at a local Apple store. Sources tell MacRumors that this would include the entire stock [...]
Apple has just started taking in store reservations for the iPhone 4S at official Apple Store locations. This is great news for those of you who didn’t preorder an iPhone 4S in time to get one on launch day, or for those who just learned about the iPhone 4S this weekend. (Read: iPhone 4S Review) Apple Stores are [...]
One of my favorite geeks, Steve Wozniak, got in line with the rest of the Apple loving fans in order to pick up an iPhone 4S. While I’m sure he could just call up someone at Apple and have it hand delivered to his home, but instead he likes to get in line and enjoy [...]
Apple will release the iPhone 4S Friday, along with a new version of their AppleCare extended warranty plan called AppleCare+ (which we outlined in our list of the Top 5 iPhone Warranty Options Compared). The purpose of the plan is to provide accidental damage support for iPhone buyers. It also seems to signal a shift in [...]
This week I took my MacBook Air into the closest Apple store for a number of issues, including overheating, a 2″ wide band of black and cyan on the right half of the display and just general non-Mac issues. I had been prepared to write a post about the huge win that Apple gets from [...]
Apple Stores will open 2 hours early on October 14th to accommodate the high iPhone 4S demand. If you missed out on the iPhone 4S preorders, this is your best bet to get an iPhone 4S in October. Apple has run out of the first batch of online iPhone 4S preorders, and now new orders [...]
Apple has started telling employees how to sell the iPhone 4S to potential buyers, and without a sleek new look Apple is counting on the new camera, Siri assistant and iOS 5 to move the new phone. Apple updated the iPhone 4S with new dual core A5 processor with up to 2x faster performance and [...]
The Apple Store on Chestnut Street in San Francisco, California just put up black boards blocking passers by from seeing what is happening. The store is closed until October 5th, a day after Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 5. 9to5Mac shares a tantalizing picture of the closed Apple Store with an AT&T truck out front [...]
The iPhone 5 release date is getting closer and closer, which means it is time for the brave Apple diehards to head out and wait in line. Launch day lines are the earliest indicator of iPhone 5 demand, well other than surveys which show there is already incredible pent up demand for the next iPhone. As last [...]
Another Apple store has opened in China, only this time, it’s the real deal and not a fake. Apple’s 5th store in China is also its largest and the massive store has opened just before the expected launch of the iPhone 5. While it took several months for the iPhone 4 to reach China after [...]
The iPhone 5 has an incredible amount of pent up demand, demand that may see some supply soon. Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 5 on October 4th along with iCloud and iOS 5. At this event, Apple will finally tell us when the iPhone 5 release date is. Right now we think that [...]
A photo obtained by Engadget purportedly shows 4G LTE equipment installed in a major Apple store. The interesting part is that the equipment was apparently put there by, you guessed it, AT&T, the same carrier that just announced its plans to launch its first 4G LTE devices on August 21st. Unfortunately, AT&T’s 4G LTE network [...]
Since March the 11th, Apple has had trouble getting the iPad 2 off to customers. Demand in the United States for the highly rated tablet has been extremely high and at one point, it took Cupertino 4-5 weeks to ship out iPad 2′s to new customers. Well, that’s all in the past because as 9to5Mac [...]
Comedian Mark Malkoff wanted to test the limits of just how “nice” Apple Store employees can be. He may have to keep trying. The video, first dug up by Gothamist, shows Malkoff push the boundaries of what one can get away with in an Apple Store before getting kicked out. His list of over-the-top tactics [...]
New York City railway commuters had better get ready for some serious congestion on iPhone and iPad launch days. The Apple Store in Grand Central Station, which is expected to be approved later this week by the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) has been detailed – and Photoshopped – by the Wall Street Journal. While yet [...]
It looks like the Smart Cover knockoffs that a company associated with Samsung aren’t the only thing Apple’s lawyers should be looking into. This bit of KIRF (pointed out by Bird Abroad) is so egregious, it makes a Chinese eBay store look like a model for originality and innovation. This revolutionary bit of clonery: fake Apple [...]
Apple briefly closed the virtual doors of its online Apple Store in order to reveal “The new, faster MacBook Air” still available at $999. The new MacBook Air models include faster processors, Thunderbolt OS X Lion and a backlit keyboard. Sadly, Apple dropped the lower end white unibody MacBook. Processor and Graphics The new MacBook Air [...]
The Apple Store is down this morning, which is a good sign that we will soon see OS X Lion available in the Mac App Store, a new MacBook Air, new white MacBook and even a Mac Mini upgrade. Apple normally closes the online store to prepare for the launch of new products and all [...]
There had been a rumor flying around stating that Apple would begin selling an unlocked version of the iPhone 4 at some point this week and sure enough, an unlocked version of the device has appeared on Apple’s website with a steep price tag of $649. For those of you in the United States, that [...]
Apple’s online web store is still up as Steve Jobs has begun his WWDC keynote this morning in San Francisco, California. It’s unclear if there will be new hardware, or if an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 will debut today, but as Apple’s website is still up, it may mean that the Cupertino, California company [...]
According to inter gathered by BGR, Apple might be preparing to launch something big on Thursday, May 19th which will mark the 10th anniversary of Apple’s retail stores, the first of which opened on May 19th, 2001. Apparently, there is an overnight shift scheduled at Apple stores for 10-15 employees who will work through the [...]
A robbery suspect was shot and killed today at an Apple Store in San Diego after a shooting guard opened fire after an attempted burglary at the Otay Ranch Town Center in Chula Vista. According to the report by the San Diego Union-Tribune, police were called to the location just before 7AM after a plainclothes security [...]
It seems that the iPad 2 isn’t the only version of the iPad facing stock shortages as Apple’s supply of the original iPad is apparently drying up at not only Apple, but at third party retailers as well. Apple and retailers have dropped the price on original iPad’s in the wake of the iPad 2 [...]
For the best April Fool’s Day stuff on the Internet, ThinkGeek is the place to be. Like last year, they mocked up a bunch of fake products complete with slick video promos. But sometimes, these fake products are so popular, that they become real. Through magic. Well, no, by generating demand that they then meet [...]
With the iPad 2 selling out over the weekend and late comers longing for their Apple fix, Apple is going to open some stores early on Tuesday, March 15. Those who show up early will get a chance to buy up to two iPad 2 units. This reported by Apple Insider after being tipped off [...]
While we–and I am sure Apple–hope that you’re among the millions of iPad 2 adopters who are satisfied with your tablet purchase come 5 PM tonight when the iPad 2 is officially available for sale at retail locations across the U.S., what is your recourse if you’re not satisfied. If you intend on purchasing your [...]
Apple’s posted information on how you can buy the iPad 2 on the first day of availability. Apple will not be taking pre-orders for the iPad 2 as it has with other devices. Perhaps the reservation process was too much of a headache for both iPad buyers and Apple employees alike. If you want an [...]
Now that the Motorola Xoom is announced and will soon hit the shelves at retail outlets we will see if people are willing to pay a price premium for an Android tablet. Our guess is they won’t. So why doesn’t Motorola undercut Apple, the current tablet sales trendsetter? Most observers are saying that the $500 [...]
I brought my wife to the mall over the weekend to grab a few items and ran across an interesting Verizon promo. Stownstown Galleria in San Francisco has a handful of empty storefronts. Verizon turned one of them into a giant interactive billboard for the holidays. There are a bunch of images and slogans strewn [...]
Apple has released a free App called the Apple Store on the day of taking iPhone pre-orders. If the Apple Store wasn’t down you could use it to pre-order an iPhone, set up a Genius Bar appointment, see new or featured products, check out accessories, read reviews, etc… But as of the moment, it’s like [...]
Late last week I got my eighth and ninth iPhone. I bought an iPhone the first day they went on sale back in 2007, an iPhone 3G the next summer and an iPhone 3GS last year. The other six were replacements for bad apples. My most recent visit to the Apple store was prompted by [...]
They reported that Apple was dumping their Windows CE-based devices for their store checkout system. Now, AppleInsider has a first-peek at the new iPod touch-based system. Those who have seen the system for processing credit card, debit card and cash purchases, dubbed “EasyPay touch,” said it combines iPod touch features with a magnetic stripe reader, [...]
Dropped into the local Apple Store today while running other errands to see just how fast the iPhone 3GS really is. One word: blazing. The one I tried was on 3G, not wifi, and it displayed web pages faster than my iPhone 3G on my home wifi. Video recording was smoother than my digital camera [...]
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