Apple’s iPad is still the best-selling tablet on the market, but it’s a market that is still in decline. Apple shipped 8.9 million iPads in the first quarter of 2017, giving it a 24.6 percent market share, researcher IDC reported Thursday. As impressive as that may sound, the total number of iPads shipped slipped 13 …
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An iPhone 7 is an iPhone 7 is an iPhone 7. Unless you’re buying it in Turkey, Brazil or Russia, where retail prices balloon to 147, 137 and 133 percent higher than the equivalent in US dollars. That’s according to Deutsche Bank, which ranks the cost of an iPhone 7 in 33 different countries (see chart below). Can you guess …
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Now playing: Watch this: 3 quick tips for navigating your iPhone 1:31 Whoops! That was supposed to be “8675309.” No problem: two swipes and I can correct it. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET True story: Just yesterday I was tapping away in the iOS calculator app, adding up a long list of expenses for my company’s monthly P&L statement. And because …
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Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S8 Plus vs iPhone 7 Plus: Which takes better pictures? 3:51 If you compare the Galaxy S8’s camera to the S7, not much has changed. It has the same 12-megapixel resolution, f/1.7 aperture and same digital zoom. Samsung may not have changed the key specs on its rear camera (it hasn’t said whether the sensor …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook blames the iPhone 8 rumor mill for hurting iPhone sales in its second quarter. “It’s that there are more rumors floating and more press articles and mentions of new things, and when that happens, a percentage of people delay,” Cook told Jim Cramer on CNBC’s “Mad Money” Wednesday. No where was that effect more apparent than …
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This isn’t the kind of surprise Apple watchers want to see. Apple on Tuesday reported a slight drop in quarterly iPhone unit sales to 50.8 million units, from 51.2 million units a year earlier. Analysts, on average, had expected it to sell 52.2 million in the fiscal second quarter that ended April 1. Even though Apple sold fewer iPhones, it …
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A year ago, Apple’s iPhone sales dropped for the first time and everyone freaked out. This year, no matter what, people will likely shrug as they await the debut of the next iPhone. For the record, Wall Street is looking for a slight rebound when Apple reports its fiscal second-quarter results Tuesday. Estimates call for iPhone sales to rise a …
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The buck apparently stops with Apple. The iPhone maker has stopped paying royalties to contract manufacturers for phone patents owned by Qualcomm, starting with devices sold during the March quarter. Those manufacturers, like Foxconn, then pay Qualcomm for the intellectual property that’s essential for connecting phones to a wireless network. The move, the latest in a heated licensing battle between …
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Apple wants a piece of Venmo’s market. The iPhone maker held talks recently with payments companies in hopes of introducing its own money-transfer service akin to PayPal’s Venmo, according to a report Thursday from Recode. The new peer-to-peer payment service, which could be coming later this year, would reportedly allow iPhone owners to send cash digitally to other iPhone owners. …
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There are times when you don’t want your iPhone to make a sound when you plug it in to charge. You could be sitting in a silent library. You could be in class listening to to a lecture. You could be slipping into bed next to your slumbering significant other. The last thing you want is for it to chime …
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