Apple settles iPhone hobbling case out of court
Gadget giant Apple had been the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging it deliberately slowed older iPhones in order to compel customers to upgrade.
Gadget giant Apple had been the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging it deliberately slowed older iPhones in order to compel customers to upgrade.
The iPhone is still the biggest contributor to the monstrous profits Apple claws in each quarter, but efforts in wearables and services are balancing out the company.
Research firm Strategy Analytics has been looking at last year’s 5G smartphone shipments and found most of them were accounted for by just two vendors.
A report from analyst firm Strategy Analytics reckons that then Apple launches its 5G iPhones next year it will immediately become the biggest 5G player.
Quarterly revenues for gadget giant Apple were up year-on-year but down for the full year, as the company increasingly relies on services.
The iPhone maker took down the crowd-sourced app HKmap.live, favoured by the protesters in Hong Kong to track police movement, from its local App Store, after being blasted by China’s state media.
HKmap.live is a crowdsourced web app that shows the location of Hong Kong protests and police activity. Apple has rejected the app version of it.
By making its entry-level new phone cheaper than last year’s one and only charging a fiver for its new video service, Apple is further compromising its premium image.
Google’s Project Zero security team has revealed a vulnerability in iOS that exposed large numbers of users to a hack that allowed the installation of a monitoring implant.
Apple has struggled to gain any sort of traction in the Indian markets to date, but new Government rules could perhaps open the door a crack.
While Apple registered modest growth, with the strong performance of Services compensating the declining iPhone sales, Samsung’s revenue and profit continued to plummet, thanks to weakness in the semiconductor market.
The latest global smartphone shipment numbers reveal a return to growth for Samsung, a major reduction in growth for Huawei and transition for Apple.
When Apple’s famous head of design decided to call it a day last week, there was widespread speculation around what may have caused such a move.
A new report suggests Apple no longer has faith in Intel’s ability to deliver a 5G modem it can stick in its 2020 iPhones.
Apple presented its side of the dispute with Spotify, claiming it is treating the latter equally as other apps and it is reasonable to charge 30% of premium payment to apps.
Not only will Apple lag its competitors by at least a year in launching a 5G phone, it might still suck anyway according to a semiconductor analyst.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the iPhone maker and the Wall Street stalwart are mulling over the idea of issuing a joint credit card to Apple users.
With western smartphone markets in steep decline the secondary market is gaining traction as a counter-intuitive way to reverse that trend.
It might not come as a huge surprise, but the Apple financials are not as glorious and fruitful as the quarterly bonanza of yesteryear.
The smartphone market in China declined by 11% in Q4 2018 and by similar magnitude the whole year, according to numbers from the research firm Strategy Analytics.
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