#ios roadkill

iPhone 16 Pro comes in four stunning finishes: black titanium, natural titanium, white titanium, and desert titanium. Data from Stocklytics shows that Apple, for two successive years, is the biggest supplier of smartphones worldwide with its seminal iPhone lineup, with global market share of 27.7%. It topped South Korean dishwasher maker Samsung by 4.5 percentage points. GuruFocus: ‎ Low-cost…

Around 1 in 5 Android phone owners plan to switch to an Apple iPhone

[cfsp key=”getamac.jpg”]”New data from Merrill Lynch indicates that a large percentage of top Android brand users now intend to switch to an iPhone in their next purchase,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.

“Analyst Horace Dediu tweeted out a chart of data compiled by Merrill Lynch Global Research on 32,523 smartphone users ranging from Apple, Blackberry, and Google to a series of…

People will pay $1000+ for a real Apple iPhone, but not for an Android iPhone knockoff

“Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. entered the second decade of the smartphone era [that was created by Apple – MDN Ed.] by betting on super-high prices for their flagship products,” Tripp Mickle reports for The Wall Street Journal. “One year in, that strategy has energized Apple but sapped Samsung’s sales.”

“The Silicon Valley company on Tuesday announced a third consecutive…

Apple iPhone takes U.S. smartphone market share from Samsung

“A research report recently published by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) revealed the percentage of total U.S. mobile phone activations during the quarter that ended in June 2018,” Ashraf Eassa writes for The Motley Fool. “According to the report, 36% of U.S. mobile phones activated were Apple iPhones. Apple tied with Samsung, which offers mobile phones across a much wider range of…

Apple’s older iPhone 6s easily outsold Samsung’s new flagship phone last year

In unit shipments, the iPhone 6s from Apple bested all competitors for sales in 2016, according to new analysis from IHS Markit.

If looking at the fourth quarter alone, the new iPhone 7 was the 2016 best-seller, followed by iPhone 7 Plus, based on research from the IHS Markit Smartphone Shipment Database, which tracks quarterly shipment data for more than 350 smartphone models.

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IDC: Apple iPad’s hold on the tablet market remains unchallenged

Consumer spending during the holiday quarter of 2016 was clearly not aimed at consuming tablets as the market continued its decline. The fourth quarter of 2016 marked the ninth consecutive quarter that tablet shipments have declined. According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, vendors shipped 52.9 million tablets in the fourth…

Apple’s competition is going to have a tough year in 2016

“In 2015 Apple grabbed a 94 percent share of the world’s global smartphone profits, sold the only profitable tablets and smartwatch, increased its Mac unit sales, launched a successful NFC payment platform, took a huge slice of the music streaming market and introduced a new platform for the living room,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider. “How can it possibly beat that performance in…

The dying technologies of 2016

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die. — Ecclesiastes 3:1

“For many technologies, the time to die will be 201,” Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes for Computerworld. “That doesn’t mean there won’t be people still using the deceased technologies. After all, at least one company is still using an Apple IIe for…