Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
The Apple Pencil Launch: More power to the user, or another device to worry about the charge for?
The new Apple Pencil. $100 and it requires charging. Are you convinced this is better than a plastic stylus and a well designed OS interface? Or does charging (both monetarily and electrically) for yet another Apple device really make a positive difference to the consumer? Because of limited battery life, you already need to worry […]
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Tags: Apple, Apple iPad, Apple Pencil, iPad, iPad Pro, Note 5, Samsung, Samsung Note, Samsung Note 5
Global Apple iPhone sales, by quarter, since launch of the original iPhone. Data: Apple iPhone Sales Q3 2007 to Q3 2014 iPhone Announcement / Launch Dates Original iPhone announced January 9, 2007 in USA (UK, France & Germany launch Nov 2007, plus Ireland & Austria in Spring 2008) iPhone 3G released on July 11 2008 in 22 countries iPhone […]
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Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone Sales, Apple iPhone Sales Q3 2007 to Q3 2014
Grabbing headlines is still fairly easy for a CEO of a global top 250 company. You simply have to say something very provocative in the media. Sadly, this isn’t necessarily the same as saying something influential (e.g. providing thought leadership), career progressing, or even likely to be well informed. Blackberry used to be a highly […]
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Tags: Apple, Balcberry CEO, Blackberry, Blackberry Playbook, Gartner, RIM, Samsung, Tablet, Tablets, Thorsten Heins
Anyone who has bought a new mobile phone, only to find out there was a problem with it, may sympathise with Apple’s woes on product quality. But whereas consumers may have a mixed reception when they try to return a faulty mobile. Apple’s iPhone manufacturing partner, Foxconn in China, appear to have been more flexible with their […]
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Tags: Apple, Foxconn, iPhone, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, Tech Crunch, TechCrunch, Uswitch
Someone important at Microsoft has realised that Windows 8 really isn’t what people want. So prepare for an update to Windows 8.1; this may just possibly be nearly be as good as Windows 7. Go figure. When it launched in October 2012, I had to wonder if Windows 8 had been sponsored by joint funding […]
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Tags: Android, Apple, Tablet OS, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows XP
A very interesting story in BrandRepublic: Here The BBC are set to allow programmes to be downloaded from BBC iPlayer to Apple iPads, iPhones and iPods. The quality of BBC content will enrich media portability and eventually extend to Android slates and mobile phones too. _________________________________________________________________ The article from Brand Republic mentions: Programmes will be […]
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Tags: Apple, Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, BBC, BBC iPlayer, BBC TV downloads, iPad, iPhone, iPlayer, Media Downloads
Apple iPhone sales 2007 to 2012
Sales for the iPhone 4S push Apple into the global major league for mobile phone sales volume in the first quarter of Apple’s financial year. The sales trend also clearly shows the dip in sales of the current main model in the quarter before each new product is launched (3G, 3GS, 4G, 4); as consumers anticipate […]
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Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 4S, Apple iPhone Sales, iPhone sales, iPhone Sales 2007, iPhone sales 2008, iPhone Sales 2009, iPhone Sales 2010, iPhone sales 2011, iPhone Sales 2012
HP saw their future in Palm Palm had a track record of quality smartphones using their webOS and bet the farm in developing the Palm Pre range. While critics loved them, consumers gave them a tepid response and Palm achieved only a 1.5% global market share in 2009; posting a financial loss for 11 straight […]
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Tags: Apple, Blackberry, device, Google, HP, HP Touchpad, HTC, iPad, iPad 2, LG, Motorola, Nortel, Palm, Playbook, Pre, Pre 3, RIM, Samsung, Smartphone, Smartphones, webOS, Xoom
Excel Spreadsheet of data: iPhone 4S total price comparison Data correct on day of launch for Apple iPhone 4S in the UK: 14 October 2011
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Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone 4S, Cheap iPhone 4S, iPhone 4S, iPhone price on Vodafone, Vodafone UK
Steve Jobs: A Perfect CEO?
Harvard Business Review have released a podcast (Here) to commemorate the recent death of Steve Jobs. I understand Steve wasn’t the easiest person to work for. But he certainly got results and Apple’s designers produce some of the best computing and communication devices in the world. One of the most touching things about his death […]
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Tags: Apple, Steve Jobs
Apple iPhone 4S just announced
Well, it took a month longer than expected, but the new iPhone is about to launch. As reported on this blog, it’s not going to be an iPhone 5, but an updated iPhone 4 – the iPhone 4S. As predicted on 16th May 2011 (Here), it’s an improved product, like the iPad 2 was, rather […]
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Tags: Apple, Apple iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S
HTC, the brand that has established its place firmly among technophiles, compared to the design and fashion conscious Apple iPhone owners, has hit some legal problems. While HTC have focused on Android, the open sourced smartphone operating system. Apple successfully challenged 2 patent infringements by HTC in the courts in the last week. The two […]
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Tags: Android, Apple, HTC
Engadget live blog stream from the Wordwide Developers Conference 2011 on 6th June: Here And summarised without pictures on Mashable: Here
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Tags: Apple, iCloud, Steve Jobs, WWD 2011
More Apple iPhone news, as well as info on other Apple products collected today on FastCompany: Here The White iPhone 4 Breaks Cover in Belgium The images in the delivery box appear to show the version is based on the original iPhone4. This is rather than the recently enhanced black version launched on Verizon in […]
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Tags: Apple, iPhone 4, iPhone 5
Gartner have published a forecast of smartphone device sales up to 2015 that indicates a continuing trend of market share growth for the Android operating system. The forecast asserts that Android will be pre-installed on just under 50% of all smartphone devices by 2012; as the os spreads down the price chain to feature on […]
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Tags: Apple, Blackberry, Forecast, HTC, iPhone, LG, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson
Following up on the Nokia news yesterday, the big reveal today is the new partnership between Microsoft and Nokia. Read more: Here Nokia developed their Symbian platform (the old Psion os warhorse) into a reasonably capable smartphone operating system. But Nokia were planning to progress into further development and adoption of their Maemo operating system […]
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Tags: Apple, Blackberry, HTC, iPhone 5, Microsoft, Nokia, Stephen Elop
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