Samsung Electronics said Friday that the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 would cost the company about $3 billion…
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United States bans all Samsung Note 7 phones on airline flights
All Samsung Electronics Co. Note 7 smartphones will be banned from airline flights…
Exploding phones are not beleaguered Samsung’s only defective and unsafe product
Samsung had no clue what caused their products to explode, yet shipped replacements anyway, assuring their customers the products were safe…
Beleaguered Samsung’s cellphone dilemma
How does Samsung reassure customers? What about other models? If Samsung doesn’t know the cause of this problem, how do they keep another product from inheriting similar defects?
Exploding Galaxy phones: What did Samsung know and when did they know it?
When several Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones spontaneously exploded in August…
Higher income U.S. states use Apple iPhones; lower income states use Samsung Galaxy phones
Apple announced earlier this year that it has officially reached the 1 billion active devices milestone…
Remember Xiaomi? How Apple killed the ‘Apple Killer’
What a difference two years makes. In late 2014, the financial media became obsessed with a small smartphone company called Xiaomi…
IDC: Apple iPad increases worldwide market share lead
Worldwide tablet shipments, inclusive of slates and detachables, reached 38.7 million in the second quarter of 2016…
Apple’s iPhone falls to 5th in China smartphone marketshare
In the battle for the Chinese smartphone market, Apple has lost ground in both marketshare and shipment quantities…
iOS users are worth 10X more than those who settle for Android
Strikingly, revenue is about ten times more per iOS device than Android…
No, the app boom is not over
There has never been a better time to be an apps developer…
Apple’s iOS: The platform where consumers get the best of all worlds
The best of every company’s software and services efforts will be on Apple’s iOS…
Apple’s App Store revenue nearly double that of Google’s Android
App Annie has released its regular report on the two main app stores in the mobile world…
Amazon to restore encryption to Fire tablets after complaints
Amazon.com Inc. said it plans to restore an encryption feature on its Fire tablets after customers and privacy advocates criticized…
Amazon removes data encryption from Fire tablets
Amazon has confirmed it removed the ability to encrypt locally stored data on its Fire tablets…
New England Patriots’ coach Belichick: Microsoft Surface breakdowns are common
“It is what it is,” Belichick said. “It’s a pretty common problem.” Paper printouts are “more dependable” than the Microsoft Surface tablets…
Microsoft pays $400 million for product placement; Surface tablets fail during Patriots vs. Broncos playoff game
During what is guaranteed to be one of the most-watched NFL games of the year, the Divisional Playoffs between AFC powerhouses Denver Broncos and New England Patriots…
IDC: Worldwide tablet market forecast to decline more than 8% in 2015 while switch to detachable tablets continues to accelerate
Worldwide tablet shipments will reach 211.3 million units in 2015, down -8.1% from 2014…
IDC: Apple iPad continues to lead in worldwide market share
The impending launch of the iPad Pro may serve as a silver lining as the market shifts towards productivity-enabling devices….
Study: Apple iPhone users are healthier than those who settle for Android phones
We pulled sweet, sweet data from both our Android and iPhone apps…
IDC: Apple iPad maintains its lead as worldwide tablet market declines -7.0% YOY
The worldwide tablet market declined -7.0% year over year in Q215…
Rockstar patents could bring Apple nearly $400 million profit
Google’s Android operating system, which copied large portions of Oracle’s Java and lifted the look and feel of Apple’s iOS…
Significant Android to iPhone switching weakens market for Samsung Galaxy S6
Apple’s impressive sales figures from Q4 2014 continue to have an impact…
Rampant security flaws and fragmentation forces company to ban Android phones and tablets
Since Android is merely a thinly disguised vector for delivering advertising revenue to Google…
UBS: Billions at stake for Google on Apple default search deal
This could be bad news for Google…
Security researchers: Over 5 Billion Android apps open to hacking
Android Apps designed to steal financial data were especially popular…
Poor man’s iPhone: Android on the decline
For the first time in several years, iPhone actually gained market share…
Google’s ‘Friends Furever’ ad attempts to turn debilitating Android fragmentation negative into a positive
Android devices come in all shapes and sizes…
Apple’s iPhone and the minority majority
Apple has the most valuable customers…
Study: iPhone users are smarter and richer than those who settle for Android phones
More than 42% of U.S. smartphones are iPhones…
Kaspersky Lab Director: Over 98% of mobile malware targets Android because it’s much, much easier to exploit than iOS
It comes down to how easy a target is to breach…
Why Android users can’t have the nicest things
One of the bigger supposed mysteries out there is why so many prominent mobile apps…
Apple’s iPad shipments in 2014 could be 8% below 2013
Apple Inc. is expected to suffer its first decline in iPad shipments…
Apple expected to reverse iPad decline in 2015
According to the latest forecasts from market intelligence firm ABI Research…
Annual iPad sales expected to fall for first time
As the calendar year comes to a close, full-year Apple iPad sales…
2014: Still sick of Android
In March 2012, I publicly called it quits with Android…
More evidence that Apple’s iPad sales pause is just a speed bump
Apple’s iPad has easily been the most quickly adopted product category…
More affluent, tech-savvier Apple iOS users outspend Android users by 25 percent
Apple iOS mobile users spent about 25% more than Android owners…
Security experts: Malware spreading to millions on Android phones
A particularly nasty mobile malware campaign targeting Android users…
‘Shockingly bad’ Google Android 5.0 Lollipop update bricks phones, tablets; kills apps
Early adopters of Google’s latest Android operating system are warning…
Apple iOS app launches are double that of Android; iOS apps used for twice as long
Users of Apple’s iOS install, engage with and pay for more mobile applications…
Why Silicon Valley doesn’t care about Android
Android monetizes poorly and is used by poor people. iOS is a much more attractive platform, while Android continues to lag behind…
