Apple announced Monday that Senior Vice President for iOS Software Scott Forstall and Senior Vice President for Retail John Browett will both be leaving the iPhone maker.
In a press release, Apple said that the changes are being put in place to “encourage even more collaboration between the Company’s world-class hardware, software and service teams.”
No reason as to why Forstall and Browett are leaving Apple was given by the Cupertino, California-based consumer electronics …

The same people who brought out the first unofficial Lightning cable and dock are at it again, this time making an unofficial Lightning cable available for preorder.
The Lightning cable comes for $9.90 and ships for $4 to the US.
The site, iPhone5mod, reminds that “This item needs 10-14 days of processing lead-time before order ship out.”

The item is described as such on the website:
“Overview
Use the Lightning to USB Cable to charge and sync your iPhone or iPod with Lightning connector …

The impending launch of the iPad Mini triggered a lot of current iPad owners to offer their devices up for sale, data from two resale sites reveal.
According to The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, Gazelle.com and NextWorth.com both saw a very substantial swell in iPad resale postings just before the launch of the iPad Mini.
Gazelle reportedly saw a 700 percent increase in iPad resale postings on Tuesday for a total of 140,000 iPads offered for sale by current owners.
Similarly, NextWorth …

Apple revealed record-breaking profit and revenue figures for the quarter which ended September of 2012. Despite creeping concerns within the company, Apple managed to have 58 percent higher sales for the iPhone compared to last year’s sales during the same quarter.
Apple had revenue of 36 billion dollars and a net profit of 8.2 billion dollars. Diluted share prices for that quarter is worth 8.67 dollars. Last year, the figures are 28.3 billion dollars in revenue and 6.6 billion dollars in …

Aside from detailing a solid ending quarter for the fiscal year, Apple also revealed a trove of information during its earnings call on Thursday.
Apple’s Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer in a statement said “Looking ahead to the first fiscal quarter of 2013, we expect revenue of about $52 billion and diluted earnings per share of about $11.75.”
He also repeated the guidance for the holiday quarter and the start of fiscal year 2013 during the Apple earnings call.
This, despite …

Apple on Thursday reported a record $8.2 billion in net profit for the fourth quarter of the company’s financial year on a record $36 billion revenue.
This is a marked increase from the same year-ago quarter when Apple posted a $6.62 billion net profit on $28.27 billion revenue.
This net profit translates to an earnings per share (EPS) of $8.67, higher than Apple’s guidance of $7.05.
However, Apple just narrowly did not meet Wall Street expectation which ran at a higher $8.75 EPS, as only …

The iPad Mini will capture sales from its tablet rivals, a J.P. Morgan analyst believes.
This is even though the iPad Mini, launched last Tuesday, carries a premium price compared to obvious rivals.
The iPad Mini, scheduled to be available on November 2, starts at $329 for the base model and up to $659 for the most high-end model.
In a note sent to investors this week, J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz said that “In our view, the larger screen size and iOS 6 capabilities of iPad Mini stand …

The tech industry may see the iPad Mini having shortages for quite some time as Apple’s long-standing row with Samsung may affect supply for the recently-launched Apple tablet.
That’s according to NPD DisplaySearch in an interview with CNET.
According to the Richard Shim, an analyst with the research firm, the fact that Samsung is not a supplier of the screen for the iPad Mini may result in supply constraints.
“We’re now starting to see the issues that [Apple] is having with …

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected all twenty claims that cover Apple’s “rubber-banding” patent which was used by the iPhone-maker against its recent successful lawsuit against Samsung Electronics in California.
The rejection comes to light via Florian Mueller of Foss Patents who first published a blog about the rejections.
The patent, officially titled “List scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display” (US Patent Number …

The rumors were true as Apple has just announced a 13-inch Retina Display MacBook Pro.
Featuring a thinner chassis, the new 13-inch Retina Display MacBook Pro is 20 percent slimmer than the previous 13-inch MacBook Pro.
It now also proudly features a 13.3-inch Retina Display screen that has 2,560 x 1,600 pixels screen resolution and a pixel density of 227 pixels per inch.
Apple says that’s nearly twice the number of pixels on an HD television and four time the pixels on the 13-inch MacBook …