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Tag: crappy Android phones

Apple’s iPhone can soon reap 100 percent of world’s smartphone profits

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 12:00 pm10 Comments

There’s nothing to stop Apple from capturing 100 percent of smartphone profits…

Apple’s iPhone owns 94% of smartphone industry’s profits

Monday, November 16, 2015 1:01 pmMonday, November 16, 201510 Comments

The vast majority if smartphone makers from Lenovo to Sony, HTC to Blackberry all lose money on their smartphones — and lots of it…

Apple’s iOS again leads in mobile advertising revenue

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 6:40 pm5 Comments

Alphabet’s Google Android operating system has more devices in use today than Apple’s iOS,…

Facebook employees forced by management to drop their preferred iPhones for Android phones

Monday, November 2, 2015 2:32 pmMonday, November 2, 201546 Comments

Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, is forcing an untold number of Facebook employees…

Daniel Craig resisted Android phone placement in ‘Spectre’ because ‘James Bond only uses the best’

Monday, November 2, 2015 9:03 amMonday, November 2, 201531 Comments

Daniel Craig and Spectre’s director were both opposed to multimillion dollar product placements for Sony or Samsung Android phones because it could tarnish James Bond’s image…

5 reasons why record numbers of Android settlers are upgrading to real iPhones

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 2:27 pm15 Comments

Nearly 30 percent of Apple’s 48.04 million iPhones sold in the last quarter…

Apple CEO: Android to iPhone upgraders will help us smash our own 74.5 million smartphone sales record

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:57 amWednesday, October 28, 201515 Comments

Apple sold about 14 million iPhones to former Android owners in the last quarter…

Tim Cook: 30% of buyers last quarter upgraded from Android to real iPhones

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 7:14 pm22 Comments

During Apple’s quarterly conference call on Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook said 30 percent of buyers upgraded from Android to a real iPhone…

Screenshots leak of Apple Music app for Android

Friday, October 23, 2015 3:56 pmFriday, October 23, 201514 Comments

New screenshots of what is reportedly the beta version of Apple Music for Android have leaked…

Why Apple won’t be suing HTC over One A9’s blatant iPhone 6S design ripoff

Friday, October 23, 2015 1:28 pmFriday, October 23, 201519 Comments

HTC this week announced the One A9, and the design turned out to be a blatant copy of the iPhone 6/6s…

Another reminder of why Apple’s iPhone is so great

Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:56 pmThursday, October 22, 20155 Comments

Apple’s iPhone 6s is the most powerful smartphone in the world. It ushers in exciting new features and improves old features…

Google to launch ad-free YouTube subscriptions: $10/mo. for Android, $13/mo. for iOS users

Thursday, October 22, 2015 8:56 amFriday, October 23, 201521 Comments

YouTube Red will cost $9.99 a month for Android users. For users of iPhones and other Apple Inc. devices, the service will cost $12.99 a month…

Apple Music app for Android likely to struggle without free ad-supported tier

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 6:06 pmTuesday, October 20, 201524 Comments

Apple’s new $10-a-month streaming music service has attracted 6.5 million paying subscribers thus far…

Apple iPhone owns over 90% of smartphone profits, so why do others even bother fighting over Apple’s scraps?

Thursday, October 8, 2015 8:41 amThursday, October 8, 201522 Comments

Apple vacuums up more than 90 percent of the profits in the business…

Android continues to struggle in Europe; Samsung’s share slips

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 3:55 pmWednesday, October 7, 20156 Comments

Android handset makers continue to compete for a smaller share of smartphones sales across Europe…

Porsche chooses Apple Car Play over Android Auto because of Google’s rampant data collection demands

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:58 amTuesday, October 6, 201527 Comments

So much for “Do No Evil.” As part of the agreement an automaker would have to enter with Google, certain pieces of data must be collected and mailed back to Alphabet Inc…

Pornhub reveals iOS vs. Android porn preferences

Monday, October 5, 2015 3:59 pmMonday, October 5, 201517 Comments

September means the beginning of sweater weather, the return of Pumpkin Spice Lattes and the launch of a new iPhone…

New Stagefright bugs leaves some 1.4 billion Android settlers vulnerable

Thursday, October 1, 2015 3:26 pmThursday, October 1, 201512 Comments

If you care about security, perhaps you should think about switching to Apple’s superior iPhone…

Apple’s iPhone juggernaut continues with record-breaking sales while Android peddlers fight over scraps

Monday, September 28, 2015 1:28 pm12 Comments

As a whole, Android sells far more devices. The vast majority of those devices are typically…

Judge Lucy Koh orders Samsung to pay Apple $548 million for patent infringement

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 3:01 pmTuesday, September 22, 201521 Comments

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California has entered a $548 million judgment for Apple…

Appellate court rules judge Lucy Koh abused right of discretion by allowing Samsung to sell phones that infringed Apple patents

Friday, September 18, 2015 10:55 amFriday, September 18, 201533 Comments

Samsung wilfully stole Apple’s ideas and copied Apple’s products…

Serial copier Samsung slapped with permanent injunction for infringing Apple patents

Thursday, September 17, 2015 3:00 pmThursday, September 17, 201516 Comments

The right to exclude competitors from using one’s property rights is important….

3 new iPhone 6s/Plus features the Android settlers wish they had

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 3:31 pmTuesday, September 15, 20153 Comments

This September, Apple has done it again with a refreshed iPhone 6s…

Apple CEO Tim Cook to appear at WSJDLive in October

Friday, September 11, 2015 8:55 amFriday, September 11, 20154 Comments

Global technology leaders, policy makers and entrepreneurs including Tim Cook of Apple…

Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will become the best-selling smartphones of all-time

Friday, September 4, 2015 1:56 pmFriday, September 4, 201510 Comments

iPhone 6s/Plus will outsell previous models and there will be countless millions more new iPhone users joining Apple’s ecosystem…

comScore: Apple continues to amass U.S smartphone market share

Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:53 pm11 Comments

191.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (77.1 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in July…

The Android bubble bursts as Europeans flock to Apple’s iPhone

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:58 amWednesday, September 2, 201511 Comments

Grim tidings for Android in Europe as data for the three months ending July 2015 tells us that 27 percent of smartphone buyers across Europe left Android for iOS…

Android loss continues in Europe as 27% of smartphone users dump Android for Apple iPhone

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 9:55 amWednesday, September 2, 20154 Comments

The latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech for the three months ending July 2015 shows continued market share losses for the Android OS across Europe’s five largest markets…

Samsung phones are for old people

Saturday, August 22, 2015 10:27 amSaturday, August 22, 201565 Comments

Samsung has ploughed billions into promoting its high-end phones…

Samsung to petition Supreme Court to hear appeal in iPhone patent infringement case

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 7:54 pmThursday, August 20, 201516 Comments

After being denied an en banc rehearing with the U.S. Court of Appeals…

Apple’s iOS beats Android in multiple meaningful ways

Tuesday, August 18, 2015 5:03 pm19 Comments

Apple’s iPhone remains the handset to beat in an ever more-crowded smartphone marketplace…

The biggest cell phone ripoff: $100 for 32 GB of storage

Monday, August 17, 2015 9:25 amMonday, August 17, 201542 Comments

If you paid an extra $100 or even $200 for a smartphone with more storage…

Samsung denied rehearing in appeal over Apple iPhone patent infringement

Friday, August 14, 2015 9:43 amFriday, August 14, 201516 Comments

Samsung Electronics Co. was rebuffed in its request for reconsideration…

Apple iPhone has huge advantage over Android phones as carriers nix subsidies

Thursday, August 13, 2015 4:27 pmThursday, August 13, 201512 Comments

Apple’s iPhones tend to attract users in higher income brackets…

Beleaguered HTC brand is worthless

Monday, August 10, 2015 5:03 pm8 Comments

HTC’s sales have fallen by more than 75 percent since the September quarter of 2011…

Beleaguered HTC shares plummet after record quarterly loss

Friday, August 7, 2015 8:37 am9 Comments

Taiwan’s smartphone maker HTC saw its shares fall 10…

Apple loses Chinese smartphone crown to iPhone imitator Xiaomi

Monday, August 3, 2015 2:28 pmMonday, August 3, 201514 Comments

As market consolidation continues in China…

Google, Facebook, Dell, HP, others take Samsung’s side in Apple patent fight

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 9:04 amTuesday, July 21, 201543 Comments

A group of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies including Google…

Apple’s iPhone 6 easily outpaces Samsung Galaxy S6 in high-end gaming comparison

Monday, July 13, 2015 5:03 pmMonday, July 13, 20156 Comments

iPhone 6 is top in both frames-per-second and stability across all game types…

Ahead of Apple’s new iPhones, desperate Samsung to rush Galaxy Note phablet to market in mid-August

Friday, July 10, 2015 9:25 amFriday, July 10, 201513 Comments

Previous versions, such as the Note 3 and 4, typically launched in September…

Apple features Tim Cook laughing his head off at Android in iOS 9 beta’s News app

Thursday, July 9, 2015 8:33 amThursday, July 9, 201513 Comments

The Android topic had a very interesting choice of image…

Aw, Android phones aren’t selling like they used to

Wednesday, July 8, 2015 4:25 pmWednesday, July 8, 201520 Comments

Samsung warned on Monday that it would miss Wall Street’s expectations..

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