So, while Samsung benefited from its new product introduction over the summer, Apple will benefit from its iPhone 5 release in this period.
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Since last summer, Apple has been denying Microsoft the ability to update its SkyDrive app for iOS due to arguments over a drop in revenue from the app.
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Talk about Apple's new Verizon-friendly iPhone, which could be coming out as early as this summer, has left Apple the clear winner and Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, has dropped the call. (See: " Verizon Could Soon Serve Apple Pie").
BlackBerry Enterprise Server has been able to do this for years, while Apple introduced this feature last summer in iOS4.
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In just four years, since the opening of the Apple App Store in the summer of 2008, the number of available mobile apps has grown from essentially zero to 1.425 million.
It is fitting that he still presided over the firm that he founded, Apple, at the moment this summer when it became the most valuable company on earth.
In 2011, Adobe took another shot at improving their mobile AIR VM this summer and with a lot of pressure on Apple, the floodgates for Flash applications for iPhone were opened.
Though Surface is clearly a tablet device, Sinofsky pointed out that the process of developing Windows 8 (on which Surface's Windows RT operating system is based) started in the summer of 2009, when there was no Apple iPad as a reference point (though it remains unclear if Microsoft began working on its tablet at that time).
While there were rumors that the company would release an iPhone 5 upgrade this quarter, many analysts agree that Apple is likely to wait until late summer or early fall.
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Analysts have said they expect Apple to launch its next iPhone around the summer.
Samsung and Apple aim for new volume records for their summer flagship launches.
Normally, Apple releases a new version of iPhone every summer.
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Apple is expected to release a new handset this summer that will support the new high-speed networks and other rumored innovations.
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Both BlackBerry and Nokia are now trying aggressive come-backs in Europe just as Samsung and Apple gird for major flagship launches in spring and early summer.
Thus far, Apple has not released any of the iPad models during the summer.
Apple sold one million iPhones in less than three months this summer.
It could be argued that the high-profile case between Apple and Samsung that Judge Richard Posner refused to try this summer was just such a case.
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Some Apple watchers also expect the company to launch a new iPhone this summer.
Apple will start selling the new Mac software to customers in late summer.
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But he proved himself on the consumer-business side by handling the release of Apple's latest Mac operating system software that went on sale this summer.
The series of laptop computer fires that led Dell and Apple to recall 5.9 million Sony-made battery packs this summer were sparked by those same lithium ion batteries.
Apple is due to release its latest OS - Mountain Lion - in late summer 2012.
Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store a year later in summer 2008.
Analysts believe the software Apple will be showing is for a new iPhone that could be launched this summer.
The U.S. Copyright Office created an exemption last summer in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for users to jailbreak their own devices, despite Apple's objections that the ruling could open phones to dastardly hackers and even lead to "catastrophic" attacks that crash cellphone towers.
The analyst says the chances of a summer debut of a low-end iPhone would appear to be low, given that Apple is supply constrained on the iPhone 4, and the the fact that the company would not likely want to detract from the pending debut of the iPhone 5, which he expects to arrive in June.
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Last summer, Mr. Zagunis devoted a note to investors explaining why he didn't hold Apple.
That might explain why Apple board members were reportedly talking to recruiters about a successor to Jobs over the summer.
At 43, Jobs seems to be having fun running Apple, a job he took on a (long-term) temporary basis last summer, twelve years after he was booted out of the company he cofounded.
"Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction, " Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said Wednesday.
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