Monday Apple Rumors: Apple to Shut Down in Italy?

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Apple Runs Afoul of Italian Law: Italian regulators have threatened to shut down Apple‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL) operations in the country if it does not comply with a national law requiring free two-year warranties on products, Reuters reports. Apple only offers one year warranties on its products, but will extend that to two years for a fee. The company ignored a prior warning and €900,000 fine from the Italian government. In addition to closing its operations in Italy, the government is considering new fines to at least €300,000. Apple has 30 days to respond.

iOS Mobile Share Continues to Grow: An analyst firm finds that devices running Apple’s iOS accounted for 65.27% of mobile Internet browsing in June, Apple Insider says. Trailing iOS were devices running Google‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android system which made up 19.73% of mobile browsing. iOS devices represented 53% of mobile browsing and Android accounted for 15.98%, in August of last year. The gains for Apple and Android came at the expense of Research in Motion’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry and Nokia‘s (NYSE:NOK) Symbian platforms, which are shrinking steadily.

No Apple Television With Retina Display for Now: Retina displays may look great on iPads and MacBook Pro’s, but don’t count on seeing one on the Apple-branded TV set when it appears, according to Forbes. At current display prices, a Retina display for the company’s widely-expected 50-inch TV set would push the device’s price above $25,000, according to analysts. Even die-hard Apple fans are unlikely to pay that much for a TV set, even one bearing the Apple logo. That could change in five to seven years as the technology improves, the analyst noted.

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