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Apple becomes first US company to hit $1 trillion value
Bloomberg reported on Apple becoming first US Company to hit $1 trillion value. Apple Inc. became the first U.S.-based company with a market value of $1 trillion, four decades after it was co-founded by Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage and later revolutionized the worlds of computing, music and mobile communications. Apple has came…
Samsung’s anti-iPhone X ads show why it keeps losing to Apple
Rado Slavov wrote for PhoneArena about why Samsung keeps losing to Apple. Instead, Samsung decided to focus on the negative marketing and go after its rival. What’s happening is Samsung is trying to play a finite game here – its objective is to win the battle of this smartphone generation, which comes at the expense…
New Samsung ad ignores performance benchmarks
AppleInsider reported that the new Samsung ad attacks iPhone X download speed, ignores performance benchmarks. Regardless, the ad clearly doesn’t step into other, arguably more crucial, areas of phone performance where our tests had iPhone X in a clear lead. Looking at the Geekbench results, iPhone X completely destroys the S9+, especially in single core…
Apple Maps privacy
TechCrunch reported that Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up. “We specifically don’t collect data, even from point A to point B,” notes Cue. “We collect data — when we do it — in an anonymous fashion, in subsections of the whole, so we couldn’t even say that there is a person that went…
Copying Apple is following the trends
Digital Trends reported that Android Phone Makers Embracing the Notch. “Some people will say it’s copying Apple, but we cannot get away from what users want,” Marcel Campos, head of global marketing operations at Asus, suggested in a pre-briefing. “You have to follow the trends.” It’s like saying that some people will say it is…
The Smartphone Endgame: Who wins once shipment volumes peak?
AppleInsider wrote about The Smartphone Endgame: Who wins once shipment volumes peak?. For decades, market research firms have been confidently asserting that the “winners” in PCs, tablets, smartphones and other consumer electronics are not firms that are profitable or even sustainable, but merely those shipping the largest volumes at any given time. This has enabled…
Apple sold less iPhones but generated more revenue
Jason Snell charted the Apple Q1 2018 earnings. Clickbait articles will make a fuss about less iPhones sold. And many people will think it’s a sign that the iPhone X was a flop. Let’s look at the figures. Year-over-year iPhone unit sales decreased by around 1% but revenue increased 6%. Doesn’t that mean that the…
Operations of Apple’s iCloud services in China are about to be transferred to a company in Guizhou
TechNode reported that operations of Apple’s iCloud services in China are about to be transferred to a company in Guizhou. In November, Apple has been accused of relying on students working illegal overtime to build the iPhone X, through Foxconn, which manufactures the devices in Zhengzhou. This is completely unrelated to the transfer of iCloud’s service…
Apple faces lawsuits and lukewarm sales forecasts as year comes to a close
E27 published a click-bait post about Apple facing lawsuits and lukewarm sales forecasts as year comes to a close. The iPhone X may have just been released to much fanfare and adulation, but Apple is already cutting down on production orders in January next year, amid falling demand. Yon wrote that Apple is cutting down…
It’s time to admit Apple Watch is a success
Rene Ritchie wrote about the unfair treatment of Apple Watch by the tech community. One of the hits on Apple Watch is that Apple doesn’t break out numbers for the product the way they do for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Many companies provide no numbers on any products, Amazon being a prime example. Yet that…