In his new, very high profile position, Cue is in charge of all of those entities, along with Apple’s new iCloud, the iBookstore and iAds. Apple badly needs a success with iCloud, so as to fend off competitors like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon in the burgeoning cloud services business.

Microsoft’s Windows 8 is set to include "People” and "Photos” apps for Windows Live, a Microsoft platform combining application software and cloud services.Mobile phones and tablets running the Google-driven Android OS are already laden with tie-ins to Google cloud services like the Android Market, Google Voice and Google Maps.

Apple has released a number of new products over the last few days, but sadly none of them are specific to MacBook users. The team over at DestopReview.com has all of the details on the new 27-inch Cinema Displays, 12-core Mac Pros and Core i7 iMacs.

Apple even unveiled the all new Magic Trackpad, which brings the MacBooks’ class-leading touchpads to an external, self-contained form factor for desktops. As usual, our sister site did a fantastic job of reviewing the new Apple Magic Trackpad just in case you need one for back-to-school season.

Lenovo’s ThinkCentre and especially its IdeaCentre lines of All-in-One PCs have bridged most of the competition in the AIO market and now they have a chance to compete against the governing power of Apple for the number one spot internationally, many industry sources stated on Monday.Lenovo IdeaCentre B520A large contributing factor to Lenovo’s emergence into this spot in 2010 is due to a fast-growing PC market in China. In 2010, Apple held 30 percent of the entire AIO market share but Lenovo saw a 23 percent growth to 4.22 million units in Q4, mostly due to a large spike in the sales of the Lenovo AIOs.

Digitimes has forecasted that Lenovo AIO shipments will grow by 54 percent in 2011 alone, rising to around two million PCs based on what was seen in its home market of China. It has also been forecasted by Digitimes that Apple will have a 15 percent increase of its shipments of AIOs to around 4.6 million in 2011 in the same time frame as Lenovo’s estimated growth.

Other manufacturers have been trying to force their brands through the North American AIO market by driving the sales of their own models, but Apple still has a tight hold on the market at 75-80 percent, sources have illustrated. It looks as though Apple will still have an intense grip-tight monopoly in the United States for this year even though Lenovo has bridged the gap in this market between other brands and Apple.

Lenovo will forge ahead and continue to outsource many of its AIOs from China to a number of Taiwan and Singapore-based ODMs such as Compal Electronics, Flextronics International, Quanta Computer, Inventec and Wistron, sources have indicated.

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The Lenovo IdeaCentre line has been known to be a direct competitor to Apple iMacs, targeting the same types of buyers for some of the same reasons for as low as a third of the Apple price in some instances. Even though Lenovo has a much wider selection and a better price tag, Apple has instead gone the way of quality of features and performance of the systems.

The Apple Store has gone down all around the world this morning, leaving fans and friends alike unable to browse Apple’s wares from the comfort of their pajamas. The cause? No official word yet, but some pretty safe rumors are claiming that the iMac all-in-one lineup will be refreshed, bringing with it Intel’s latest processors and the new Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect.

The last time Apple updated the world’s best-selling all-in-one computer was back in 2010, bringing with it AMD Radeon 5000 series graphics. This wait to refresh the iMac series was wise, considering all of the trouble that flawed Sandy Bridge chipsets caused companies like Dell and HP.

This new refreshed should, overall, be fairly tame; it’s extremely unlikely for Apple to introduce something revolutionary without a large press conference. Check back with us in a few hours and we’ll keep you update on all the latest details!

Another quarter, and another series of earnings reports. Apple’s calls are always interesting to listen to, however, as the company has a strange habit of bucking the rest of the industry’s trends – and with this most recent report, it’s obvious that they did it again.

The biggest numbers, unsurprisingly, belong to the company’s most mobile division – Apple managed to sell over 37 MILLION iPhones in the past quarter, a number increased by many customers waiting for the release of the company’s latest iteration. We’re most interested here in how many traditional computers Apple managed to sell, however, and those numbers look pretty bright.

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In all, Cupertino pushed out a total of 5.2 million Apple computers this quarter, which represents a stunning 26% growth year-over-year (that is, 26% growth over this same period in 2010/2011). Of that 5.2 million, nearly a third were members of Apple’s desktop lineup: the iMac, Mac Mini and Mac Pro units. The company didn’t provide any further granularity than that, but the iMac is very likely the top seller; it’s the most popular desktop in the U.S. – followed by the Mac Mini and Mac Pro.

The Apple TV was mentioned in the earnings call by CEO Tim Cook, though he carefully noted that the company still continues it a hobby. It’s obvious that for all Steve Jobs mentioned that he’d ‘finally cracked’ the easy to use television, Apple is still playing around in the space, and seeing what works and what doesn’t. Apple managed to sell 1.4 million of the smart TV boxes last quarter, a number that likely dwarfs those from competing devices. In all, 2.8 million were sold for the full year, which shows more than anything that the Apple TV was a relatively popular holiday gift.

During the announcement of the new iPad Mini, iPad 4, Mac Mini and iMac yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook let drop another curious tidbit – in addition to the best-selling phone and tablet on today’s market, the company now lays claim to owning the top-selling desktop and laptop in the United States.

Part of that has to do with the current popularity of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. As people get accustomed to using Apple products, they get curious about the other products that the company offers. And even if they haven’t bought their way so far into the Apple ecosystem, the company’s name does get trotted out an awful lot. You might hear late night host Jimmy Kimmel make fun of Apple, for example, but I’d be surprised to hear him do an HP sketch.

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