Here are your Apple rumors and news items for Monday:
Jobs’ Final Project: An Apple Television: The Washington Post reported Friday that the new biography of Steve Jobs reveals not only what the famous CEO was working on before his death, but what Apple‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL) next major product might be. The long-rumored Apple TV set was the creator’s next big project. Jobs is quoted by author Walter Isaacson as having said, “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use … It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface. I finally cracked it.” Wall Street analysts and component suppliers have been hinting that an Apple TV was in the works for the past two years. Those rumors have suggested Apple will make LCD HDTVs that have access to all of Apple’s digital storefronts — iTunes, the App Store, etc. — and also will sport the same features as the Apple TV set-top box.
iPod Turns 10 Years Old: Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of Apple’s famous MP3 player. The original iPod released with little fanfare amongst a public still actively buying CDs and a recording industry only just coming to grips with digital formats. Apple has sold more than 300 million iPods of various models in that time. The success of that device paved the way for the company’s iTunes digital media store — iTunes raked in $1.5 billion during this year’s third quarter alone — not to mention the iPhone and iPad.
Google Voice Returns to iPhone: Google‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) VoIP service, Google Voice, disappeared from Apple’s App Store shortly after the new version of the iPhone operating system, iOS 5, released earlier this month. For users that already had the app on their phones, the app suddenly stopped working. A Saturday report at 9 to 5 Mac said a new version of Google’s Skype competitor has appeared in the App Store. It’s still unclear why iOS 5 created such a significant problem. The report speculated that the new voice recognition feature of iOS 5, Siri, caused problems for Google’s service.
As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at @ajohnagnello and become a fan of InvestorPlace on Facebook.
