iPhone 16 repairability advancements revealed by iFixit
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 by Austin Harris
In a recent teardown analysis, iFixit has explored the innovations introduced with Apple’s iPhone 16, revealing significant advancements in repairability that stand out amid mixed reviews from tech critics. The new iPhone lineup, while critiqued for its limited enhancements, marks a notable leap forward in making repairs easier and more accessible.
One of the s...
Apple iPhone sales declining
Monday, September 16, 2024 by Austin Harris
After taking first place in the smartphone market in the last quarter of 2023, Apple's iPhone sales have declined, leading to a significant revenue drop in the first half of the year.
According to data presented by Stocklytics.com, Apple's iPhone sales revenue dropped by $2.7 billion year-over-year, totaling $85.2 billion in H1 2024.
Following a strong per...
Searches for Apple and iPhone 15 climb after Apple event
Monday, October 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
Searches relating to Apple and the new iPhone 15 have exploded over the last month following the live event on the 12th of September.
The event, in which the new iPhone models, Apple Watches and AirPods, were revealed, saw searches for Apple and the new iPhone exploded, with some phrases such as “Buy iPhone 15” surging by 490% during the event...
iOS 17 to allow sideloading apps on iPhone
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 by Richard Harris
According to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg, iOS 17 will reportedly open up the iPhone to sideloading.
"Apple Inc. is preparing to allow alternative app stores on its iPhones and iPads, part of a sweeping overhaul aimed at complying with strict European Union requirements coming in 2024.
Software engineering and services employees are engaged in a major push to o...
How eSIM iPhone 14 could be a disaster for unprepared carriers
Monday, September 12, 2022 by Richard Harris
The news that Apple has launched an eSIM-only iPhone 14 model in the US is an eSIM turning point in the mobile carrier industry, essentially signaling the start of a new era of digital connectivity competition, says GlobalData.
According to the leading data and analytics company, the consequences are many and varied, as the eSIM-only smartphone model represents myria...
5 gifts computer programmers want for Christmas 2021
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Are you wondering what gifts to get a computer programmer for this 2021 holiday season?
Look no farther, here are 10 great gifts any computer programmer will be sure to love!
What are the 5 gifts computer programmers want this year?
1. Anker Portable Charger, 313 Power Bank (PowerCore Slim 10K) 10000mAh Battery Pack with High-Speed PowerIQ Charging Technology a...
What Apple iOS developers can expect from iOS 13, iPhone, and more
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 by Richard Harris
Unlike the WWDC held by Apple every year, today is the Apple event any gearhead wants to sit and watch - even if you aren't a developer. New iPhones, new iPads, new Macbooks - there will be no shortage of hardware news coming from Steve Jobs Way, Cupertino, CA.
Here is all we know so far, which is largely speculatory -but some of this is founded on actual re...
Should I upgrade my iPhone, WalletHub survey says many won't
Thursday, September 5, 2019 by Richard Harris
Roughly 28% fewer people plan on buying the new iPhone this year than last year, according to the personal-finance website WalletHub’s 2019 iPhone Survey, released today. To help people save money on their cell phone bills, WalletHub has also produced a handy Cell Phone Savings Calculator, which crunches the numbers on whether it’s better to buy a ...
Best gifts for programmers, developers, and nerds 2018
Friday, December 14, 2018 by Richard Harris
Why is it so hard to buy something for techie people? It’s probably because they seem to just “get” whatever they want at the moment the need arises. Programmers, developers, and designers can be some of the worst about it too, because a lot of what we need to have just to do out jobs, falls in the category of a gift to ourselves too. Yeah - I rea...
NVIDIA's new TITAN RTX is a deep learning beast aimed at developers
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA has just announced the TITAN RTX - dubbed T-Rex, driven by NVIDIA Turing architecture at a conference in Montreal. The new card delivers 130 teraflops of deep learning performance and 11 GigaRays of ray-tracing performance. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA says, "Turing is NVIDIA’s biggest advance in a decade, fusing shaders, ray tracing, a...
DuckDuckGo vs. Google vs. Privacy
Friday, October 19, 2018 by Richard Harris
Online privacy is becoming harder to find - Facebook gathers users’ data to sell to third parties, Google tracks everyone’s searches, ISPs in many countries gather communication data, and governments are increasingly demanding backdoor access to encrypted devices. In the latest news, Google exposed the data of 500,000 Google+ users and didn’t...
The iPhone XS phones and low code programming complexity
Monday, October 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
The new iPhone XS devices are the most complex and sophisticated phones Apple has ever produced. Just concerning sheer technology inside - know that the A12 Bionic processor inside is the first commercially available 7-nanometer chip for consumers, and that it contains 6.9 billion transistors. It has an eight-core CPU that's capable of crunching five tril...
Does your organization need the iPhone X or not
Thursday, November 30, 2017 by Craig Riegelhaupt
Do I need the new iPhone? No. But, I sure do want it.It’s interesting that with the 10-year (aluminum) anniversary of the device, Apple has gone all glass around stainless steel, doing away with the aluminum frame for its flagship product.Now that the device has been launched, organizations will undoubtedly see a quick spike in broken, lost, and stolen devices - with en...
Bad iPhone X review: No one cares!
Friday, November 10, 2017 by Richard Harris
LevaData released the results of its 2017 Holiday Study. This study explores the impact of managing the volatility of supply risks and opportunities on market performance and brand reputation. The survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults conducted on behalf of LevaData by Propeller Insights on October 12-16, 2017, determined that product delays affect brand trust - particu...
Creating apps for iPhone X with newly opened doors
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 by Evan Rosenbaum
Over the past ten years of new iPhones, Apple has introduced features - some with little fanfare and others as marquee parts of the new phones - which cause a seismic shift in user behavior. Shifts in user behavior create opportunities for app developers to create enduring brands and experiences.The Apps of TomorrowAn analysis of some of these features and the enduring ...
What the iPhone X and iOS 11 mean to app developers
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
The excitement of Apple launch day always reminds me of the Willy Wonka “opening of the gates”, you know - where the public gets a peek inside Apple's secret factory for a brief moment. But this year the Apple event feels a bit different. Maybe it’s the recent leaks, maybe it’s because we all know Apple is facing a ceiling of innovation they have to punch through - and ...
10 years after the iPhone launch here is how people feel now
Thursday, June 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the launch of iPhone, Axway has published results from a survey that examines the role that smartphones play in enhancing consumer lives with improved services and experiences, and how consumers would like to see the smartphone evolve in future. The survey of 1,200 U.S. consumers found that consumers value data security and priva...
Wait, the CIA can comprimise my iPhone or Android
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 by Austin Harris
In the largest leak of C.I.A. documents, Wikileaks disclosed the tools that C.I.A. uses to hack computers, phones and smart TVs around the world. The C.I.A.’s ability to compromise Apple and Android smartphones is especially troubling, since spies can access private information through these devices, including photos, emails, texts and videos. Further, a program ca...
iOS Takes Down Android as Q4 Numbers Show iPhone 6 Best selling Phone in US
Saturday, February 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech has released its latest smartphone sales data for the fourth quarter of 2014, showing that Apple’s share of sales grew across the US, Europe and China during the holiday period.The data shows that in the US, Apple iOS overtook Android for the first time Q4 2012, but not by much (0.1% margin). Throughout the holiday quarter, the iPhone 6 was the...
iPhone 6 Plus Gains in Market Share in US and China Could Boost App Downloads
Monday, January 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The iPhone 6 Plus is starting to flex its muscles and prove that bigger is better as it gains market share in the US and China.Applovin has released its latest Data Desk figures, concentrating on the impact of the iPhone 6 Plus market share in the two countries. They point out that there are a couple of interesting trends that happened: 1) iPhone sales in the December q...
Americans Think iPhone 6 Will Not Be Available For Holiday Shopping
Thursday, December 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
Americans are in belief that hot gift items such as the iPhone 6 will not be available for this holiday shopping season. Among a recent survey conducted, 42% of Americans believe the iPhone 6 will be unavailable, 33% of Americans believe the iPhone 6 Plus (33%) will be unavailable as well as other results for devices such as the Xbox One Console (24%), Samsung Galaxy S5...
iPhone 6 Plus Versus iPhone 6: Why iPhone 6 Plus Wins While iOS 8 Adoption Still Lags
Friday, November 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
The results are in! AppLovin conducted a recent Data Desk report of the iPhone 6 versus the iPhone 6 Plus usage and the iOS 7 adoption versus iOS 8 adoption percentages for the first 45 days of consumer use. AppLovin processes over 25 billion ad requests daily. The findings were discovered based on this data. The report revealed key usage insights in...
iPhone Users In The U.S. Account for 80 Percent of Wi Fi Data and LTE Data Consumption
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mobidia Technology Inc. is a leading provider of mobile usage data. The company released a new insights report, today on mobile data usage in Q3 2014 in the U.S. The recent findings derived from the analysis indicated that iPhone users in the United States had accounted for 80 percent of Wi-Fi Data and LTE data consumption. “U.S. wireless subscribers with LTE ...
Keep Your iPhone, Dump Your Wallet with New Bodacious iPhone Cases
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
One day we’ll be able to dump our wallet and carry what we need inside our phone. However today is not that day. For those of us that carry iPhones and a wallet we can lighten our load with the new Bodacious Band-It iPhone cases.While the cases are not waterproof, they are water-resistant,. They are able to keep water from penetrating the case to some degree but not ent...
Apple Pay Could Be the Biggest Game Changer Since the Introduction of the iPhone
Monday, October 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Why do you suppose that Apple decided to call its new payment option Apple Pay? The iPhone 6 stayed with the “i” concept but Apple’s foray into wearables, the Apple Watch, is not the iWatch.So what’s up? Some pundits say that Apple is seeing iFatigue, after running through a couple of decades of products like iMacs, iTunes, iPods, iPhones, iPads, etc. So that could be i...
Before iPhone 6 Launch Apple has 40 percent of US Smartphone Market
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
According to recent data from comScore, Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 40 percent OEM market share, while Google Android led as the top smartphone platform with 52 percent platform market share. Google Sites ranked as the top mobile media property, while Facebook was the top individual app.The comScore report is derived from data collecte...
Mobile Developers Need to Ramp Up Marketing Efforts in Advance of iPhone 6 Launch
Thursday, September 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
If the past is any indication, the new iPhone launch is going provide a huge opportunity for developers as people line up to buy the new phones. One prediction is that, at minimum, there will be a 65% increase in iPhone sales for Q4. We’ve published several articles providing advice on how to take advantage of this new group of potential users, including “The Eight...
Apple Announcement Goes As Predicted With iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, New Apple Watch, iOS 8 and Apple Pay
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
As most pundits predicted, there were no shocking developments with Apple’s news announcement as the company introduced two new iPhone 6 models, a new smart-watch, dates for the availability of iOS 8 and a new payment system, Apple Pay.We’ll have more coverage of each aspect of this announcement, however here we are providing exerpts from the Apple press announcements f...
Crittercism Releases iOS App Performance Report in Advance of iOS8 and iPhone 6 Launch
Monday, September 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
To help iOS mobile developers receive clarity on how apps perform across the iOS landscape, Crittercism has launched its Mobile Experience Benchmark Report – Apple Edition.For the report Crittercism gathered data from one billion users in more than 120 countries and analyzed more than three billion events/day over a month, focusing on iOS performance. The report outline...
Analysts Predict the iPhone 6 and Associated Device Launch Will Not Be the Biggest Ever
Thursday, September 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
It’s a great time to be a mobile developer. Yes there are a number of challenges, however from a platform standpoint, the OS competition between Apple and Google, packaged with the number of Android based devices battling Apple’s products, means a blinding pace of mobile innovation, providing an ever increasing robust platform for developers and their apps.As part of ou...
A Mobile App Developer’s Checklist for the New iPhone 6 Launch: Don’t Miss Out on the Wave of New Users
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
The upcoming announcement and launch of Apple’s new offerings is going to create a stampede of people updating their devices to the latest greatest Apple device.And that means that they will be paying a lot of attention to the apps on these devices. When the first iPhone 5 came out Fisku, in their App Store Competitive Index, saw app downloads soar to 5.40 million daily...
Windows Phone More Popular Than iPhone in 24 countries, What
Thursday, June 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
If you are interested in exposing your app to emerging markets in Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Africa & Asia and your app is not available on Windows Phone, you may be missing the boat. In 2013 Windows Phone was more popular than the iPhone in 24 countries across the world, including India and Nigeria, where a huge number of people are purchasing sma...
Apple Hits the Road with CarPlay, App Developers Should Rejoice iPhone 4 Users, Not so Much
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Apple is finally flexing its muscle in the mobile auto segment as it announces the availability of CarPlay on a small but growing number of vehicles. The platform allows the functionality of the iPhone which is even now sitting in your purse or pocket to transfer to the infotainment screen in your vehicle. What can we say? It makes sense having one device that has ...
Huh ReSound LiNX Launches as World's First Made for iPhone Hearing Aid
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
I'm surprised it took manufactures so long to make something so relevant to Mobile wearable technology. The new ReSound LiNX is the first Apple-certified "MFi" or Made for iPhone hearing aid that connects directly to the iPhone or other iOS device without any intermediary devices.Launching alongside the LiNX is a new iOS app that works as a remote for the hearing aid, a...
Put a BlackBerry Style Keyboard On An iPhone
Monday, February 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
In case you are a BlackBerry user who never got used to the iPhone keyboard a new snap-over case called the "Typo" might be the answer for you because it has a built in BlackBerry style keyboard (yes, actually keys) built right in!The keyboard-case costs $99.00 and is currently out-of-stock until March because supply just can’t meet demand.Typo works on iPhone 5 and iPh...
