Apple’s iPhone dominated worldwide smartphone shipments and increased market share over imitators, according to IDC…
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Beleaguered Samsung’s quarterly profit plunges to 8-year low
Beleaguered Samsung on Friday said its quarterly profit tumbled by two-thirds to an eight-year low on weak demand for its iPhone knockoffs…
Apple to enable 5G in India for iPhone users with iOS 16.2 beta 2 as early as next week
Apple will enable 5G for Indian users in the iOS beta program with the seeding of iOs 16.2 beta 2 to be released as early as next week…
Apple was the only top phone vendor to increase shipments in Q3 – IDC
Apple was the only top phone vendor to increase shipments in Q3 as worldwide smartphone shipments declined 9.7% year over year…
Apple to upgrade iPhone software for 5G in India this year
Apple will upgrade software for their 5G-enabled phones in India by December as the Indian government presses smartphone manufacturers…
India presses Apple for faster 5G software upgrades in iPhones
India’s government is pushing Apple and others to expedite software upgrades to support the flavors of 5G in the country, amid…
Apple iPhone dominates global premium smartphone market with 57% share
Apple captured 57% of premium smartphone market sales as the global premium smartphone market ($400 and above wholesale price)…
Apple’s iPhone continues to sell well as smartphone market falters
The global smartphone market is faltering, but Apple’s iPhone 13 lineup continues to sell well, and the company is expecting its upcoming…
Samsung’s Q2 smartphone business expected to decline 17%
Samsung’s Q2 smartphone business is expected to show a 17% decline year over year, but the chaebol is likely to turn in an overall…
Apple iPhone dominates premium smartphone market with 62% global share
Apple’s iPhone continues to dominate the premium smartphone market with 62% share worldwide in Q1 2022, up five percentage points YoY…
Apple iPhone grows 19% to take dominating 51% market share in North America
Apple grew 19% to achieve a 51% market share, powered by the strong performance of the iPhone 13. Samsung grew just 1% for 27% market share…
Apple’s global smartphone market share surges 20% YoY leaving the imitators behind
pple has made the most significant gains in the smartphone market share over the past year as competitors struggle to catch up…
Android’s market share shows significant declines while Apple’s iOS gains
Android’s global share of the operating system space has been declining over the past five years. Its worldwide market share in January 2022…
Beleaguered Samsung slashes prices on performance-hobbled Galaxy S22 phone
Beleaguered Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 iPhone wannabe has taken a battering from reports of hobbled performance and has seen carriers…
Apple’s most boring new product likely also its most important
Apple’s most boring new product is likely also its most important. No, we’re not talking about Apple’s new 3-meter Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable…
Samsung promises to fix their latest broken iPhone wannabe real soon now
South Korean dishwasher maker Samsung said on Friday it will offer a software update for their Galaxy S22 phone to address complaints…
iPhone took 44% of total global smartphone revenue in 2021, Apple’s highest share ever
Apple’s revolutionary iPhone led in 2021 global smartphone market revenue with annual revenue of $196 billion. That’s 44% of total…
Google yet again to weakly follow Apple with limited user controls for ad tracking across apps
Alphabet subsidiary Google plans to weakly follow Apple by offering limited user controls for ad tracking across apps that are less robust…
Apple’s iPhone has 56% share of the U.S. smartphone market
Smartphone shipments grew 10% YoY and 30% QoQ in Q4 2021 as the new iPhone 13 launched, filling channels with Apple’s iPhone…
China’s Xiaomi vows ‘War of Life and Death’ against Apple iPhone; pledges to open 20,000 retail stores in China
Apple iPhone knockoff peddler Xiaomi will ratchet up its challenge to Apple by focusing on the high-end segment of the global smartphone…
Apple’s iMessage is winning because of the dreaded green text bubble
Green bubbles from those who settle for pretend iPhones ruin group texts for everyone else who uses real iPhones…
UK regulator says Apple and Google hold ‘vice-like’ grip on consumers
The UK competition regulator claimed on Tuesday that Apple and Google hold a “vice-like” grip over how people use smartphones, killing…
Apple launches ‘Tracker Detect’ AirTag detector app for Android
Apple on Monday released a new Android app called “Tracker Detect,” designed to those who’ve settled for pretend iPhones to identify…
Android devices infected with malware 15 to 47 times more than iPhone
Devices that run on Android – a platform that supports sideloading – have an estimated 15 to 47 times more infections from malware…
China’s Oppo cuts jobs after trying to compete with Apple’s iPhone
After trying to compete in the premium smartphone segment with Apple’s iPhone, phone maker Oppo is cutting around 20% of staff in…
Apple’s iOS surges in U.S. to 50% mobile OS market share
The analysis features findings about trends in mobile phone activations from April-June 2021 for Apple’s iOS and Alphabet’s Android …
Half the world now owns a smartphone
Half the world’s entire population now owns a smartphone as of June 2021. Some 4 billion people use a smartphone today. It’s taken 27 years…
Google, following Apple yet again, to allow Android settlers to opt out of ad tracking later this year
Once again following an earlier move by rival Apple to further bolster privacy protections on iPhones, Google will allow Android settlers…
Verizon offers free Apple Arcade for unlimited subscribers
For its smarter customers, Verizon will include an up to 12-month subscription to Apple Arcade ($4.99/mo.). Those with lesser brainpower can…
Who stands to gain from LG’s smartphone exit?
LG Electronics’ move to kill its failed smartphone business is expected to create more opportunities for Samsung than other companies…
South Korean dishwasher maker LG pulls the plug on smartphones
South Korean dishwasher maker LG Electronics has pulled the plug on its failed smartphone division after failing to find a buyer…
Apple’s iPhone 12 series sold spectacularly well in Europe in Q4 2020
2020 was a rollercoaster year for the European smartphone market, but Apple’s iPhone 12 series sold spectacularly well in Europe in Q4 2020…
Leaked screenshots reveal Apple-like privacy features in Android 12
Google is expected to unveil Android 12 in a few weeks and XDA Developers has shared screenshots that show some Apple-inspired (of course)…
Google explores ‘less stringent’ knockoff of Apple’s anti-tracking privacy feature for Android
If there’s anything Google focuses almost as much as being an online advertising broker masquerading as a search engine, it’s copying Apple…
LG Electronics mulls exit from smartphone business
LG Electronics may exit the smartphone business after losing about 5 trillion won (US$4.5 billion) over the past five years. Its CEO…
China’s Xiaomi devices added to U.S. military blacklist, shares plunge
The shares of China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest maker of smartphones, plunged in Hong Kong trade on Friday after the U.S. DOJ…
Apple’s App Store generated more than double the revenue of Google’s Play Store in 2020
Apple’s App Store has once again captured the bulk of the revenue generated between the two major platforms, iOS and the derivative Android…
Apple iPhone’s U.S. Q220 market share ballooned to 47%
Vendors ranging from the industry’s progenitor to South Korean dishwasher makers shipped 31.9 million smartphones…
Huawei passes Samsung to become No.1 in global smartphone unit sales
In the never-ending quest of fake iPhone peddlers to make it up on volume, Huawei last quarter passed Samsung to become No. in global smartphone unit sales…
Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun caught posting from his Apple iPhone
Today Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s CEO and co-founder, inadvertently revealed that he uses an Apple iPhone at least occasionally, and not one Xiaomi’s…
Apple iPhone sales in China spiked sharply in April
Apple saw a sharp spike in iPhone sales in China in April, according to new government figures as interpreted by Barclays analyst Tim Long…
Smartphone shipments in China up 17% in April, signaling likely rebound
According to Chinese government data released on Tuesday, smartphone shipments from factories in China to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same…
