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Apple iPhone dominates Q4 smartphone shipments, market share despite CCP ‘Zero COVID’ factory shutdowns

Thursday, January 26, 2023 8:58 amFriday, January 27, 2023No Comments

Apple’s iPhone dominated worldwide smartphone shipments and increased market share over imitators, according to IDC…

Beleaguered Samsung’s quarterly profit plunges to 8-year low

Friday, January 6, 2023 9:10 am1 Comment

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

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12:02 pmNo Comments

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

Saturday, October 29, 2022 4:54 pmNo Comments

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

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 2:41 pmNo Comments

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

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 8:55 amTuesday, October 11, 20221 Comment

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

Friday, September 2, 2022 11:28 amFriday, September 2, 20222 Comments

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

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 10:20 amWednesday, August 10, 2022No Comments

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%

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 1:02 pmTuesday, July 5, 20223 Comments

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

Thursday, June 23, 2022 10:45 am2 Comments

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

Thursday, May 19, 2022 3:12 pmNo Comments

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

Monday, May 2, 2022 1:58 pm6 Comments

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

Friday, April 22, 2022 11:40 am2 Comments

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

Friday, April 8, 2022 11:05 am12 Comments

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

Friday, March 11, 2022 1:14 pm14 Comments

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

Friday, March 4, 2022 11:15 amFriday, March 4, 202216 Comments

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

Friday, February 25, 2022 1:18 pmFriday, February 25, 20226 Comments

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

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 8:58 amWednesday, February 16, 20223 Comments

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

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 2:21 pm6 Comments

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

Friday, February 11, 2022 9:33 amFriday, February 11, 20227 Comments

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

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 11:56 amTuesday, January 11, 202211 Comments

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

Tuesday, December 14, 2021 10:35 am6 Comments

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

Monday, December 13, 2021 4:21 pmMonday, December 13, 20211 Comment

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

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9:42 am13 Comments

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

Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:51 am2 Comments

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

Monday, July 19, 2021 10:34 am4 Comments

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

Friday, June 25, 2021 9:23 am2 Comments

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

Thursday, June 3, 2021 8:27 pm10 Comments

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

Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:23 amTuesday, May 25, 2021No Comments

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?

Monday, April 5, 2021 4:02 pmMonday, April 5, 20212 Comments

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

Monday, April 5, 2021 9:17 amMonday, April 5, 20219 Comments

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

Friday, February 26, 2021 9:49 am2 Comments

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

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 11:38 amNo Comments

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

Thursday, February 4, 2021 3:21 pm1 Comment

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

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:54 am1 Comment

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

Friday, January 15, 2021 9:06 am19 Comments

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

Wednesday, December 30, 2020 9:56 amWednesday, December 30, 20207 Comments

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%

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:08 pm1 Comment

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

Thursday, July 30, 2020 10:41 amThursday, July 30, 20206 Comments

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

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1:44 pm8 Comments

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

Tuesday, May 12, 2020 3:21 pmNo Comments

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

Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:57 amNo Comments

According to Chinese government data released on Tuesday, smartphone shipments from factories in China to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same…

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