Friday Apple Rumors — iPhone 4S Too Much for AT&T Servers

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Apple RumorsHere are your daily Apple rumors and news items for Friday:

AT&T Smothered by iPhone 4S: First, the iPhone 3. Then, the iPhone 4. And now, according to a Friday report at Mac Rumors, history is repeating itself yet again with the iPhone 4S debut, as AT&T‘s (NYSE:T) activations servers reportedly crashed while a large number of users attempted to turn on their new Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) smartphones. As of this writing, Verizon (NYSE:VZ) users haven’t reported similar widespread activations problems, nor has Sprint (NYSE:S), which is carrying the iPhone for the first time.

iCloud Costing Apple More Than Expected: It’s a good thing Apple is making so much on the iPhone and iPad, because its new iCloud service is going to cost the company plenty to maintain. Asymco analyst Horace Dediu released a report on Apple’s Property, Plant and Equipment costs and found that Apple has already spent $750 million in building and developing the Maiden, N.C., data facility that is the center of its cloud services and digital media stores like iTunes. In 2009, Apple planned to spend just $1 billion over nine years developing the North Carolina data center, according to a report at 9 to 5 Mac. That estimate is, obviously, being exceeded by the costs of running a major cloud service that will be accessed by hundreds of millions of iPhone, iPod, iPad and Mac users.

Netherlands Says No to Samsung’s iPhone Block: Aiming to turn the patent infringing table on its nemesis and one-time benefactor, Samsung (PINK:SSNLF) recently tried to block Apple from releasing the iPhone 4S in a number of countries, claiming that the new phone infringed on patents held by the Korean company. A Friday report at Reuters (via Apple Insider) said that, at least in the Netherlands, Samsung’s bid to block Apple has failed. A Dutch judge dismissed Samsung’s claims after deciding that its patents were open to license and that the company should come to an agreement with Apple. Intellectual property expert Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents believes the Dutch ruling will be reflected in decisions regarding the same block attempts in France and Italy.

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.


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