It’s the end of the line for Paul Shin Devine, one of Apple’s Global Supply Managers. Silicon Valley’s MercuryNews is reporting today that Devine was arrested yesterday for leaking information he obtained while working at Apple. He leaked the information about the iPhone and iPod in exchange for kickbacks. Unfortunately, the leaks weren’t to us bloggers, Devine’s little business was much more profitable.
As if we haven’t seen enough of these already. Motorola, whose Droid X handset features on Apple’s “Antenna Hall of Shame” page , took out a full-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times , in an attempt to “bite back” at Apple.
Dan Frommer from Businessinsider has discovered quite an interesting little story today. Apparently, Apple tried to buy Palm not that long ago. When Palm went up for sale, there was quite a bit of speculation on who would buy them. Apple was of course believed to be one of the interested parties, but nothing solid leaked to the press and the story died.
The PC market share leaders are HP, Acer and Dell. Apple, with its line of MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Pros is number seven on the current list .
Two people “ familiar with the plans ” have told Bloomberg that the iPhone is coming to Verizon in January 2011. If true, this would end Dallas-based AT&T’s hold on the iPhone market in the U.S. which it has held exclusively since 2007.