Mac OS Ken

Deutsche Bank Sees Bigger Year Than Expected for Tablets (and Slower Growth in PC Sales) / Consumer Reports Rates iPad 2 Best in Tablets / Wait Times for iPad 2 Down to 2-to-3 Weeks in UK / Canadian Listener Sees Longer Than Expected Wait for iPad 2 Ordered Online / Piper Jaffray Bi-Annual Teen Survey Bodes Well for Apple Gear and Services / ChangeWave: U.S. iPhone Satisfaction Numbers “Virtually Indistinguishable” Between Verizon and AT&T / Some iPhone 4 Users See Heat and Battery Issues After iOS 4.3.1 Update / The Loop: Sources (Still) Say No iPhone 5 in June / Toyota Pulls Scion Skin App from Jailbreak Community at Request of Apple / Apple Launches iAd Gallery App / Speculation Has New Edition of Final Cut Pro Announced Next Week / Sports Broadcaster YES Network Says “No” to Cablevision iPad App / Qingming Festival Observers Honor Ancestors with 888GB Replica iPads

Canacord Genuity Ups Apple Target on Strength of iPad and iPhone / Moskowitz on the MacBook Air: JP Morgan Analyst Like the Line’s Strength Going Forward / Oppenheimer Analyst Does Not Buy Sony Camera-Sensor for iPhone 5 / Needham and Company Analyst Says No Sony Sensors for Next iPhone / Report: US Federal Government Investigating Info Collection by Apps for Mobiles / Judge Overturns Verdict in Mirror Worlds Patent Infringement Suit / Reuters: The Financial Times Still Doesn’t Like iTunes Subscription Plans / Jailbreak Journal: 4.3.1 Jailbreak Untethered and Toyota Spends Dollars with Cydia / Wait Times for iPad 2 in States Drop to “2 to 3 Weeks” / Woz Says Jobs Was Probably Aiming Towards the iPad from the Beginning / Underwear Party: First Album Recorded Entirely Through GarageBand for iPad Released

comScore: Verizon iPhone 4 Most Acquired Handset in US in February / Sony CEO Seems to Spill the Beans on Camera Sensors and iPhone 5 / Apple Release “We Believe” Ad for iPad 2 / Time Warner Cable Adds 24 Channels to iPad App to Replace 11 Removed / Cablevision Launches Streaming App for iPad / 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab Wifi-Only (Supposedly) Available for 349-Dollars / Foxconn Plans Moves After 2010 Financial Losses / The Onion Launches The Onion Tablet App for iPad

CNET: WWDC Tickets Fetching High Prices on eBay / eBay Says Most Resold iPad 2s Stayed in the States in First Two Weeks / Apple Apparently Sold-Out of 16GB WiFi-Only First-Gen iPad / Gartner Ups Worldwide IT Spending Estimates for This Year Thanks to Tablets / TWC Pulls Channels from iPad App to Avoid Legal Troubles / Apple and 31 Other Companies Sued for Allegedly Violating One Smartphone Patent / Apple Issues Minor Update for GarageBand ’11 / Microsoft Presses Argument Against Apple Trademark of ‘App Store’ / Microsoft Accuses Google of Anticompetitive Behavior in EU Complaint / HPalm Opens webOS 3.0 SDK to Developers / All Things D: Sources Say Apple Marketing VP Leaving to Co-found New Marketing Firm

Apple Sets 2Q FY2011 Earnings Call for 20 April / Pacific Crest Analyst Anticipates Unusually Conservative Guidance from Apple for 3Q FY2011 / Wu Worries That Apple May (Eventually) Get Too Big to Grow / Needham and Company Analyst No Longer Wonders Whether iPad is Fad / Microsoft Exec Not Sure Tablets are Here to Stay / Dell Exec Uses Fuzzy Math and FUD to Predict Failure for iPad in the Enterprise / Blogger Counts 17 Apps Made Specifically for Android 3.0 / Apple Releases Second Developer Build of Lion / Apple Issues Patch to Fix iTunes Issue on 13-Inch MacBook Air Running Latest Version of Snow Leopard / Morgan Stanley/AlphaWise Survey: Chinese Consumers Would really Like a Less Expensive iPhone / Nokia Charges Apple with Infringement of Seven More Patents / Amazon Launches “Cloud Drive” Media Locker Service / Apple TV-competitor Roku Makes Major Push into Brick-and-Mortar Retail / Microsoft Head of Marketing Moving On

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Apple Announces WWDC 2011 for June 6 through 10 in San Francisco / WWDC 2011 Sells Out in Under 12-Hours / ADA Says Yes to Mac Apps (as Long as They Are in an Apple App Store) / The Loop: No New iPhone at WWDC 2011 / All Things D: No New iPhone at WWDC 2011 / The Apple Blog: “No iPhone at WWDC” Reports May Be More Than Coincidence (But They Still Expect and iPhone at WWDC) / Macotakara.jp: Apple Not Yet Buying Components for Fifth-Gen iPhone / Forbes: Analysts Guess Between 5-Million and 8.8-Million iPads Sold in Apple 2Q FY2011 / 500 Busiest RadioShack Stores to Start Carrying iPad 2 Today / WSJ: Apple Support Offices Evacuated After Bomb Threat / Apple Opening Store in Dresden, Germany This Thursday / BST Change Plays Merry Havoc on Some Alarms for iOS Device Users in UK / Jobs Tops Barron’s Top 30 CEOs List for 2011 / Unused (Still in Box) 20th Anniversary Macintosh Up for Bids on eBay

Sellouts and Rumors of Sellouts as iPad 2 Goes Global / Munster: Disasters in Japan to Have Less Effect Than Feared on iPad 2 Supply / iTunes Sell “Songs for Japan” Benefit Album / USITC Judge Says Apple Did Not Violate Five Nokia-Held Patents / USITC to Take a Second Look at Kodak Claims Against Apple and RIM / Apple Releases Minor Updates iOS 4.3.1 and Xcode 4.0.1 / TechCrunch: Golden Master-1 of Mac OS X Lion May be Nearing / TechCrunch: iOS 5 Could Be Pushed to Fall Release / Technologizer: Muddy Waters Around Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Presentation

iLounge: Online Orders Open for iPad 2 in 25 More Countries While US Wait Times Shorten / iPad 2 Lines Started Wednesday in Sydney and Thursday in London / The Apple Blog: Verizon Selling First-Gen Wifi-Only iPads for 200-Dollars Off / Forrester CEO Sees Stellar Growth for Apple for at Least the Next Two Years / Morgan Stanley Analyst Plays “What If” with Apple and Smart TVs / Samsung Says Galaxy Tab 10.1 Made Thinner Because of iPad 2 / RIM Sees Massive Sell Off on Disappointing Outlook / RIM Adds Android 2.3 App Support to Upcoming PlayBook / Google Holding Back on “Open Sourcing” Honeycomb

CNET Says Some LA Stores See Easing in iPad 2 Supply Constraint / Electronista Says Some iPad 2s Set for April Delivery Shipping Early / NPD Sees Growth for Larger Screened Smartphones / Bernstein Analyst Plays “What if” with North Carolina Data Center / Jobs Micromail: Apple has No Plans to Kill iPod Classic / Report: Time Warner Cable Receiving Cease and Desist Letters from Content Providers Over iPad Streaming App / Bloomberg: Apple Could License AirPlay for Video Devices Sometime This Year / WSJ Experiments with Single Issue Sales Through iPad App / Jobs Beats Opposition to Stay on Walt Disney Co. Board / Bertrand Serlet - Senior VP of Mac Software Engineering - Leaving Apple / Serlet Announcement Comes Nearly 10 Years to the Day After Initial Release of Mac OS X / All Things D: Nothing Surly in Serlet Departure