Apple : Apple shares hit record high after iPhone 4S mania |
| Apple shares hit record high after iPhone 4S mania Posted:  Apple's stock price soared to record highs on Monday following news that the company had sold a whopping four million iPhone 4S handsets during its first three days on sale. Stocks reached a staggering $426.70 per share during early trading on Monday, which is up over $4.70 on Friday's figure. As trading continued, shares dropped off slightly, but the $426.70 figure is the highest the Cupertino firm has ever reached. AllThingsD is reporting that Apple shares are up 97 per cent in 2011 alone, in a year which briefly saw the company overtake Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company on earth. The show goes on The impressive Wall Street performance will surely calm the analysts who feared that Apple's stock would be negatively impacted by the untimely passing of co-founder Steve Jobs, this month. Earlier on Monday Apple announced that the iPhone 4S had sold almost double the amount of handsets in the first three days as its predecessor, the iPhone 4. |
| Posted:  The Siri personal assistant application for the iPhone 4S has been ported onto the iPhone 4, supposedly proving that the older hardware is capable of running the app. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith installed the Siri and Springboard files from the 4S onto an iPhone 4 and was able to get it working on the previous generation device. 9to5 Mac, which is working with the developer, reports that the app can recognise your spoken commands and speak back to the user. It also works in both standard view and on the keyboard dictation view. Naturally, Apple is not authenticating commands to its servers when using the iPhone 4, but that's the only thing preventing the Siri being fully functional on the device. A4 processor does the trick after all? Apple has said that Siri is only for the new iPhone 4S with the inference being that the A5 processor is required to handle the app. The port, which is still being perfected, proved that Siri can run on the iPhone 4 if Apple ever decides to open it up to the older device. Check out Siri in action on the iPhone 4 in the video below. |
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