Category: 891: Weekly Apple News Recap | 07.25.14, Apple Pleases Investors, Posts Record Sales and Profits, Automatic Car Accessory,

Emily and I got a break from our radio show on WDEV as we were pre-empted by a Red Sox game, but you can catch us every week on Thursday from 1-2PM on the radio at FM 96.1 or streaming “*here*”:http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/wdev.portal. We have a toll-free number — 877.291.8255 — so feel free to give us…

We have so many deals this month, we don’t have room for them! Check out all of the back-to-class specials we’re running for the next several weeks, both online and in-store: “*Smalldog.com/dogdays*”:http://www.smalldog.com/dogdays *Headed to a store? View the in-store flyer!* * “*Click here*”:http://images.smalldog.com/pdfs/MTS-Flyer-0714.pdf to view our double-sided flyer with all of the specials you’ll need…

I drive a lot — two hours a day covering a total of 100 miles. This week, I was shown this cool little device by a coworker and was immediately intrigued. “*Automatic*”:https://www.automatic.com is a tiny device you plug into your car’s data port and links to your iPhone or Android (download at Google Play) through…

Apple posted a profit of $7.7 billion on sales of $37.4 billion, with gross margin improving by nearly 3 points over last year. While iPad sales were a little disappointing with “only” 13.3 million units sold, iPhone and Mac posted good year-over-year gains. It is interesting to note that in the 4 short years since…

*Test OS X Yosemite Beta* As Don mentioned in his intro, Apple released the Beta version of Yosemite to testers to try out. Head to Apple’s site to check out “*Yosemite*”:https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram and you can sign up for it “*here.*”:https://idmsa.apple.com/IDMSWebAuth/classicLogin.html?appIdKey=4b98a8e6a3a3ce265b93c90207c442b53c45a1afa9ff1dc9bde8bb6928078d3b&path=%2F%2Fbetaprogram%2Flogin_to_legal&rv=2&view=3 “*Read more…*”:http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/23/apple-os-x-yosemite-beta/ *Apple Gets iWatch Patent* Apple received a serious patent that covers all kinds of…

_Dear Friends,_ I am down in New York City for a couple of days at an Apple event, meeting with folks from Apple and other Apple Specialists. I chose to drive down while Hapy flew, and I got to make some work calls from the road while he was dealing with airplanes and airports. Although…