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Surfer finds his Apple Watch six months after losing it to ocean waves – it still works!

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 4:44 pmWednesday, April 24, 20194 Comments

Each visit to the beach was another opportunity to locate his lost watch, but after 6 months…

Apple hardware durability: A professor found an Apple IIe in his dad’s attic – and it worked just fine

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 1:46 pm9 Comments

Built to last…

Worldwide Q3 tablet shipments to increase over 16% YOY

Thursday, August 25, 2016 3:14 pm4 Comments

Global tablet shipments will bounce back 16.3% sequentially to reach nearly 47 million units…

The dark days for Apple’s iPad are over

Thursday, August 4, 2016 2:56 pmThursday, August 4, 201611 Comments

Apple’s iPad business has turned a corner…

Apple’s iPad is again poised for glory

Saturday, July 23, 2016 11:47 am25 Comments

The iPad saturated its addressable market so quickly and the iPads are so well made and last so damn long that…

Apple is about to make millions of iPads obsolete, which is good news for shareholders

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 9:03 am26 Comments

Last quarter, iPad generated less than 10% of Apple’s total revenue, and was its second-smallest segment…

A letter of thanks to Apple, from a grateful dad

Saturday, April 30, 2016 11:32 amSaturday, April 30, 201613 Comments

Earlier this evening I got a call from my son, I could hear voices in the background…

iPad 2: Five years later, it keeps chugging along

Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:57 pmThursday, April 28, 201613 Comments

This aging tablet remains one of the most-used pieces of electronic hardware in my household…

In-depth: How Apple makes Apple Watch

Friday, March 13, 2015 4:18 pmFriday, March 13, 201519 Comments

Apple is the world’s foremost manufacturer of goods…

Apple MacBook Air survives 1000-foot, 125mph fall from plane

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 1:28 pmTuesday, February 10, 201516 Comments

The MacBook Air fell 1000 feet into the fields below…

Built to last: Why Apple selling fewer iPads is actually a huge achievement

Thursday, January 29, 2015 12:02 pmThursday, January 29, 201521 Comments

Apple still sold 20 million iPads last quarter, but Wall Street says…

GapGate: Samsung insists Galaxy Note 4 design defect that can worsen over time is a feature, not a flaw

Friday, October 3, 2014 9:36 am28 Comments

Samsung’s device has a gap between its screen and frame…

Samsung ‘build quality’ or lack thereof: Galaxy Note 4 gap between screen and trim ‘may expand’ over time

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 6:01 pmWednesday, October 1, 201447 Comments

Samsung Galaxy Note 4s include a gap large enough to insert a business card that can expand over time…

Apple iPhone users 86% less likely to need replacements vs. other smartphone users

Friday, March 7, 2014 4:03 pm9 Comments

This recent research measures the cause and frequency of mobile replacements…

Google Nexus 5 phone, Nexus 7 tablet suffering from major quality issues: Creaky buttons, letters falling off, more

Thursday, December 5, 2013 3:00 pmThursday, December 5, 201333 Comments

Nexus 5 is suffering from major quality issues…

iPhone 5s design analysis: Apple’s attention to detail is astounding

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:03 pmWednesday, September 25, 201336 Comments

Apple’s attention to detail is unrivaled…

One week with iPhone 5: What’s improved, evolved, and gone sideways

Saturday, September 29, 2012 3:15 pmSunday, September 30, 201250 Comments

The Apple iPhone continues to be one of the most important devices…

Apple’s ‘rock solid’ iPhone 5 kills Samsung Galaxy S3 in Android Authority drop test (with video)

Friday, September 21, 2012 3:46 pmFriday, September 21, 2012104 Comments

Apple iPhone’s aluminum unibody beats Samsung’s plastic patent-infringing crap in more ways than one…

Pocket-lint reviews Apple’s iPhone 5: ‘This really is product design at its finest’

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:33 pmTuesday, September 18, 20129 Comments

We’ve been living with the newest iPhone ahead of the official global launch…

Piper Jaffray: Apple’s iPhone 5 is the ‘Rolex of smartphones’ in a sea of Timexes

Friday, September 14, 2012 10:01 amFriday, September 14, 201224 Comments

We view the iPhone 5 as the Rolex of smartphones in terms of quality and build..

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