Here is your daily Apple rumors and stock news for Tuesday, including new App Store restrictions, an iPhone 5 and hints at a new Macbook Air with 3G wireless technology.
New Apple Survey Hints at 3G MacBook Air: A new survey conducted by Apple suggests that Apple’s popular laptop computers may get iPad-style wireless communication support in the coming year. The questionnaire sent to select MacBook Air owners includes questions about those users interest in 3G communication support, the need for external disc drives, USB support and cloud-based data storage. It’s difficult to say whether or not laptop owners would be willing to pay large data usage fees for a non-handheld device. Given the hints that Apple is looking to bring its entire product line closer in functionality with each other, the features discussed in this survey seem likely to appear in future MacBooks.
App Store Subscription Service Comes With New Restrictions: Well tech stock Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) finally released its latest payment option for the Apple App Store in iOS devices. App developers can now offer subscriptions, whether it is for periodicals like News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) digital newspaper The Daily or other media that offers regularly updated content. The new pay model is also fueling Apple’s new restrictions on apps available in its store. Though Apple stock news has repeatedly indicated app publishers must offer its products in the App Store even if they are also available independently via the Web, it is only now that Apple is enforcing the rule. For instance, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) magazine Time Inc. has been embroiled in disputes with Apple since mid-2010 over how publications like Sports Illustrated would be distributed on the iPad and iPhone. Last summer, the issue was resolved with Time Inc. offering its publications independently of the App Store, but that policy that is no longer possible. Digital Daily confirmed on Tuesday that all apps must comply with the new rules by June 30, so Time Warner and other publishers better figure out this new subscription system in a hurry if they want to be on the iPad or iPhone.
T-Mobile Executive Says iPhone 5 to Feature “Mobile Wallet”: Technology blog Engadget reported on Tuesday morning that T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom confirmed long-standing rumors that the next iPhone will act electronically as your wallet when it comes out later this year. To be clear, this is only for global iPhone users — not folks here in the states, who are still limited to AT&T (NYSE: T) or Verizon (NYSE: VZ) iPhones. During its live event at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Deutsche Telekom presented its plans for the “Mobile Wallet” service through T-Mobile around the world and specifically mentioned Apple’s iPhone in the presentation. But again, while the “Mobile Wallet” will be available on phones supported by T-Mobile USA, this is not confirmation that T-Mobile will bring its international support for the iPhone domestic (that is, to the U.S.).
As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.
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