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MacSurfer's Archive: Friday, November 29, 2013
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Tablets outdo phones when closing holiday-shopping deals: For online shopping, smartphones are good for browsing but tablets are used more when it's time to make a purchase. Also, iOS outdoes Android."  CNET News 10:17 AM
  • "Black Friday sales up 7%, mobile up 36% — and iPhone driving 450% more sales than Android" VentureBeat 2:21 PM
  • "Online Thanksgiving sales top $1 billion for the first time" MarketWatch 3:12 PM
  • "Apple Stresses 'Value' Not Cash For Black Friday Discounts" Forbes 7:43 AM
  • "Yep, It's Looking Like an iPad Christmas" AllThingsD 8:19 AM
  • "Apple on Black Friday: It's all in the cards" Macworld 11:10 AM
  • "Apple's Black Friday Offering Might Be Vouchers In The US But Over Here In Europe It's Cash Off" Forbes 8:23 AM
  • "iPhone 5S beats iPhone 5's take up" T3 7:43 AM
  • "Black Friday Shoppers Have Spoken: Walmart Delivers Biggest Shopping Day of the Season" ["From coast to coast, yesterday's top sellers at Walmart – in stores and online – were big screen televisions, the iPad mini, laptops, XBOX ONE, PS4 and Call of Duty Ghosts."] Walmart 8:20 AM
  • "Apple Developers Earn Five Times the Revenue Per Download of Android Developers" Minyanville 10:17 AM
  • "Amid Some Fistfights, Walmart Sells 1.4M Tablets On Thanksgiving, iPad Mini A Top Seller" TechCrunch 8:20 AM
  • "V3 announces winners of Technology Awards 2013" V3 11:10 AM
  • "Top 10 smartphones of 2013: Apple, Samsung and Nokia battle it out" V3 8:14 AM
  • "Apple Won 76% of Japan October Smartphone Sales, Kantar Says" Bloomberg 8:21 AM
  • "Airline pilots get to ditch heavy flight manuals for tablet devices: With the holiday travel season in full swing, airline pilots used to lugging heavy bags full of paper flight manuals can finally take a load off — thanks to the iPad and other tablet devices." New York Post 9:07 PM
  • "Tech Time Warp of the Week: 30 Years of Apple Ads, 1984 to the Present" Wired Magazine 8:06 AM
  • "Apple TV Unboxed and Ahead of the Curve"  Yanko Design 8:22 AM
  • "SF sees highest crime rate since 2008" ["Police say the insatiable market for technology also spills over into the criminal arena: smartphone thefts appear to spike whenever a new device is introduced, such as Apple's iPhone 5C in September."] San Francisco Business Times 7:47 AM
  • "Is Apple To Blame For Biggest San Francisco Crime Spike Since 2008?" Cult of Mac 7:47 AM
  • "Microsoft guns for Apple and Google in latest ads" DailyBits 7:43 AM
  • "Leica Collaborates With Apple Designer" TheStreet 8:05 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Microsoft, Yahoo Upgrades Shows Snowden Won, Obama Failed" Bloomberg 9:13 PM
  • "Sony and Microsoft don't just want to win your living room — they want your smartphone, too." Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 9:12 PM
  • "Water-repellant surface so efficient that drops bounce back off" Ars Technica 11:43 AM
  • "Samsung's ads are working, but not as well as it wants" The Verge 8:53 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "The TouchArcade Show - 132 - Construction Noise Holiday Special" Touch Arcade 8:41 PM
  • "Why Your Old Mac Could Be Worth Big Bucks, This Week On Our Newest CultCast" Cult of Mac 10:18 AM
  • "Debug 24.1: Jalkut, Nielsen, Siracusa on OS X. Still." iMore 9:47 AM