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Apple News: Apple’s New Mac Mini: Should You Upgrade? Apple just made a slew of announcements this week, but between the thinner gold-tinted iPad Air 2 and the eye-popping iMac with Retina 5K display, it (finally) updated the little desktop that could, the Mac mini. The pint-sized desktop gets an updated roster of ports and components, along with a lower starting price. The last update was the 2012 version$765.00 at…

Apple News: Smart money bet against Apple just before it hit a 12-month high Two reports from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs about where institutional investors placed their bets last quarter suggest that the “smart money” is not always so smart. In a note to clients issued Friday, Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty reports that allocation to Apple among the top 100 investors in the stock fell last quarter to 2.0%…

Apple News: Apple, Inc. gets its fingerprints on advanced touch sensor, appears difficult for Android to copy In a market saturated with smartphones that all increasingly look the same, Apple wants its next iPhone to stand out and be difficult for cloners to duplicate. Key to that strategy, it appears, is an advanced ultra-high resolution touchscreen technology it has developed over the last two years, shrouded in great secrecy. When…

Apple News: Steve Jobs And The Radical Innovation Of Fair Prices For Great Products I’ll trade you one Twitter re-tweet and a Facebook Like for two LinkedIn endorsements. Deal? How about if I throw in a recommendation on Yelp? In a world where it seems as if everything has a value, adjusted in real-time, tailored for each specific person based upon their unique wants, needs, interest and location, auto-managed by…

Apple News: Apple May Finally Be Close To Striking A TV Deal With A Cable Company! There has been an endless wait for the much-ballyhooed Apple television set. Last year, one of the reasons Apple stock charged above $700 was the conviction of many analysts that Apple would soon launch a magical new TV set that would turbocharge sales and revolutionize the TV industry. Well, the TV never arrived. Instead,…