http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/05/apple.shares.down/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0809/barrons-apple_shares-05.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Shares of Apple stock have continued to drop for the past two weeks, ahead of Tuesday's "Let's Rock" iPod event. New Macs on the horizon may lift the stock in the months ahead however. Barron's reports that analysts are warning that the Sept. 9 event may be 'underwhelming', with a new iPod Nano and slightly redesigned iPod touch at a lower price-point. New Macs are not expected for the Sept. 9 eve... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/09/05/apple.shares.down/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/22/apple.adds.iphone.tam/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/iphoneupdate.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />With the second big release push underway, Apple's total addressable market will increase by 78-percent from 370 million to 660 million, as it launches in 43 total countries by Friday. Analyst firm Piper Jaffray released a note on Friday claiming the above figures, with research providing a conservative estimate of 4.1 million iPhone units sold during the September quarter. Gene Munster, analyst f... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/22/apple.adds.iphone.tam/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/31/apples.stock.increases/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/applelogo-black.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Analysts at Pingdom have recently compared the value of Apple's and Microsoft's stocks and noted that over the last five years Apple has seen its stock value grow exponentially. In comparison to its value in 2003, Apple's stock has grown by 1384-percent while competitor Microsoft has seen its stock drop by 2.45 percent over the last five years. These percentages are relative to the starting points... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/31/apples.stock.increases/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/25/top.muffin.iphone.list/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/iphone-distribution-10.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Top Muffin has assembled a persistent listing of iPhone availability at Apple stores throughout the country using a statistical tracking system published by Apple. As of this writing, Top Muffin reveals that only 15 stores in the US are completely without iPhone stock, with the rest alleging stock of either the 8GB, 16GB White, and 16GB Black models. The three Manhattan flagship stores ñ West 14th... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/25/top.muffin.iphone.list/ Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/21/apples.stock.down/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/applelogo-black.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Despite record setting earnings for the third quarter of 2008, Apple's stock is down sharply in after-hours trading. As of 4:45 PST, shares were hovering at $148.94, down $17.35 or 10.43 percent. Apple posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008. In the best June quarter in its history, ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/21/apples.stock.down/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/24/fortune.steves.successor/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/cooke.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />With concerns about Steve Jobs' health surfacing again after his gaunt appearance at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference earlier this month, Fortune has put together a list of 11 possible successors -- all of them from inside the company. While Apple has said Jobs made a complete recovery from a rare form of pancreatic cancer following surgery in 2004, it hasnít stopped widespread speculation... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/24/fortune.steves.successor/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/16/att.resumes.iphone.limit/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0805/iphone-orange.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AT&T is allegedly reversing its position on limiting iPhone sales to one per customer, and returning to the company's former three-per-customer rule after finding sufficient stock of the device to do so. InformationWeek writes that the announcement only comes after one day of restricted sales, but AT&T is supposedly restricting sales of the iPhone to credit and debit card purchases. AT&T would not... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/16/att.resumes.iphone.limit/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/07/aapl.target.raised.to.195/ <img align='left' src='0' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Research firm Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP) on Monday upgraded Apple stock and set a target price of near its previous trading high, noting that the current price severely discounts the long-term growth potential and that any risk for a near-term earnings shortfall has faded. While most analysts have focused on the impending launch of Apple's "3G iPhone" that runs on AT&T's faster mobile network, ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/07/aapl.target.raised.to.195/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/03/rbc.on.iphone.stock.levels/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0803/25-newyork-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />As Apple's stock of iPhones grows increasingly thin ñ an issue that reportedly initially surfaced in the company's New York retail stores ñ RBC Capital theorizes the shortage to be representative of unanticipated strong post-holiday sales of the device. According to Tech Trader Daily, analyst Mike Abramsky claims that a predicted slowdown should have occurred after the holiday season, but sales re... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/03/rbc.on.iphone.stock.levels/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/27/apple.execs.net.75.million/ <img align='left' src='0' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple's executive team ñ with the exception of CEO Steve Jobs and General Counsel Daniel Cooperman ñ were forced to deal with restricted stock units that were due to expire. Phil Shiller, Bertrand Serlet, and Ron Johnson have each converted 250,000 restricted stock options to shares, and each gave up over 113,000 shares to pay for expenses regarding the matter. This was due to a decision of perfor... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/27/apple.execs.net.75.million/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:40:00 GMT