With Samsung and Apple the two largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, it’s no surprise that their handsets garner a lot of attention. This is particularly true when it comes to their future flagship smartphones. Both the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Apple iPhone 6 have both been the topic of more than a few rumours over the past weeks and […]
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Apple ships record number of iPhones and iPads in latest quarter
Apple has once again smashed its iPhone and iPad shipment records. The company today announced its fiscal 2014 first quarter financial results and once again announced numbers that any other company making smartphones or tablets would kill to have. In the quarter that ended on December 28, 2013, Apple posted revenues of US$57.6 billion, another company record, and a quarterly […]
Humour: Apple confirms larger iPhone
Rumours that Apple would this year release new iPhones with larger displays have been around for over a year now. It should therefore come as no surprise that Apple has confirmed that the rumours are indeed true. What is somewhat odder is that they have chosen The Joy of Tech to confirm the news. Also surprising is that the usually […]
Apple: Merging iOS and Mac OS a “nongoal”
Microsoft has hinted that it wants to merge Windows RT and Windows Phone into a single platform. The move could also be part of a larger plan to eventually offer a single code base for all of its operating systems. It now appears that Apple has no such plans to merge iOS and Mac OS, its own mobile operating systems. […]
LG Display to manufacture Apple iWatch display?
Apple has been rumoured to be working on a smartwatch of its own for quite some time now. In another sign that Apple could finally unveil the so-called iWatch in 2014, Korean news site DDaily today reported that LG Display may have been selected to be the sole supplier for its OLED display. It follows a similar report back in […]
Apple to unveil 4.7-inch and 5.7-inch iPhones at WWDC 2014?
Last we heard, the rumour mill suggested that Apple would launch a larger 5.7-inch iPhone model as early as May with a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 to follow later in the year. According to China’s Tencent Digital News, analyst Sun Chyang Xu suggests that it will in fact be the opposite: Both smartphones will reportedly be unveiled at WWDC 2014. The […]
Apple iPhone phablet in May as new product line rather than iPhone 6?
Reports that Apple will launch some larger-sized iPhones in 2014 have been a persistent rumour for some time now. At last word, Apple was planning both 4.7-inch and 5.7-inch devices. Now comes word via Chinese publication Huanqiu that the larger model may indeed launch in May but that Apple will introduce it as a new product line rather than the iPhone […]
Apple App Store sales top US$10 billion in 2013
Apple today announced that its App Store sales topped US$10 billion in 2013. They topped US$1 billion in December alone as customers downloaded almost three billion apps to make it the most successful month in App Store history. Apple topped the 2 billion download mark back in December 2012. “We’d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year […]