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One of the creators of the iPhone said Apple needs to address phone addiction
iPhone and iPod co-creator Tony Fadell criticised Apple and other Silicon Valley firms for not doing enough to tackle smartphone and internet addiction in children and adults. Fadell wrote that Apple and other firms had become good at manipulating people …
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Analyst says iPhone X sales are ‘worse-than-expected,’ downgrades key Apple supplier
Recent reports of meager Apple iPhone X sales may be accurate, according to one Wall Street firm. Taiwan’s Economic Daily reported in late December the tech giant will cut its forecast for the iPhone X, citing unidentified sources, spurring a sell-off in …
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Apple needs to address iPhone addiction among young people: investors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc shareholders Jana Partners and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System are urging the smartphone maker to take steps to address what they say is a growing problem of young people getting addicted to Apple’s …
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Apple Store Saw $300 Million In Purchases On New Year’s Day
A lot of people like to buy apps on New Year’s Day it seems. Apple has issued a press release which reveals that the App Store set a New Year’s Day sales record with more than $300 million in purchases. This goes to show that the App Store is kicking …
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Apple is about to have a great year — here’s what to expect it to launch in 2018
Here’s what you can expect Apple to launch this year: Apple released the biggest redesign to the iPhone in years in 2017. The iPhone X loses the home button in favor of a facial-recognition scanner and a nearly edge-to-edge screen. In 2018, Apple will …
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Apple’s Embarrassing iPhone Throttling Is Tim Cook’s First Major Failure
Why was Apple’s apology regarding its practice of throttling older iPhones to cover up poor battery performance without informing users not signed by Tim Cook? As Kif Leswing notes on Business Insider, he was ready to publicly acknowledge Apple’s …
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Apple Loop: New iPhone Leak Reveals X2 And X Plus, Tim Cook’s Leadership Problem, iMac Pro’s Secrets
Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes CEO Tim Cook’s lack of response to the throttled iPhone debacle, 2018’s iPhone portfolio leaks with iPhone X2, X Plus and SE2 details , how to rebuild trust …
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Why Insiders Believe Apple Is Planning to Release Its Biggest iPhone Ever in 2018
As we kick off 2018, it’s perhaps no surprise that some of the biggest Apple news items centered on the iPhone. The week kicked off in a big way with reports that Apple has signed deals with manufacturing partners to build the company a 6.5-inch iPhone …
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iPhone slowdown news unlikely to impact India sales!
And all you need to know about the iPhone battery replacement program. Photograph: Courtesy apple.com While iPhone users across the world are in an uproar over Apple’s recent confirmation about slowing down of old iPhones with software updates, market …
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Apple App Store Records $300 Million Purchases On New Year’s Day
Apple is one company whose products are fancied by a set of users loosely called “Apple Fanboys”. While some believe that the company’s products are unnecessarily overpriced, others think that its products are worth every penny spent on it.
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Apple’s App Store Generated Over $11 Billion In Revenue For the Company Last Year
Below is an analysis of Apple’s App Store revenue that can be gleaned from the past four press releases providing App Store data. Note that when I use words such as over or nearly they are from the press releases and when I use about or approximately …
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Apple iPhone Chip Vulnerability Is ‘Most Disturbing’ Security Issue in Decades
Apple has admitted that every iPhone and Mac computer is affected by the Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities, which security researchers say is “the most disturbing” cybersecurity issue in decades. The security bugs, which were first discovered by …
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Apple’s iPhone battery replacement offer will cut 2018 sales, investment bank analyst warns
Banking giant Barclays has slammed Apple’s recent decision to provide customers with cut-price £25 replacements – slashed from £79 – deeming it catastrophic for sales of the iPhone. According to Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz, the company could end up …
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Apple’s iPhone battery replace offer will cut 2018 sales, investment bank analyst warns
Banking giant Barclays has slammed Apple’s recent decision to provide customers with cut-price £25 replacements – slashed from £79 – deeming it catastrophic for sales of the iPhone. According to Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz, the company could end up …
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Still Clutching an Old iPhone? You’re Not Alone
Apple pledged to make it easier for people to check the health of their iPhone batteries, and it cut the price of replacing them from $79 to $29. It’s the right thing to do, even if Apple had to be shamed into doing it. I’m planning to take Apple up on …
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Everything to Know About Apple Slowing iPhones Because of Old Batteries
Apple recently acknowledged that it slows the performance of some iPhones because their older batteries are unable to properly power devices raises a lot of questions for iPhone owners. Should they pay to get their batteries replaced? If so, what’s the …
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