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Apple, Samsung lose tablet market share in Q2 as LG, Huawei capitalize despite shrinking market
Despite iPad sales falling to a four-year low in the quarter ended June 30 with just 10.9 million units shipped, Apple managed to hold on to the top spot as the worldwide tablet market leader. According the latest data from the International Data Corporation (IDC), Apple claimed a 24.5 percent share of worldwide tablet shipments ...
Samsung Q2 mobile profits tumble 37.6% amid weak demand for Galaxy S6
In its second quarter (Q2) earnings announcement Thursday, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said net profit for the quarter declined 8 percent over the same period last year. The decline in net profit is largely due to lower than expected demand for Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S6 smartphone combined with continuing competition in China. The latest profit ...
Battle of the flagships: OnePlus 2 vs. iPhone 6 Plus
On Monday, OnePlus, the company behind last year’s OnePlus One, unveiled the new OnePlus 2, touting it as a “flagship killer.” Although the company is of the opinion that “a great product should make its users forget about specs,” many will still want to know how the OnePlus 2 stacks up against other flagships. With ...
A rumored 10M signed up for Apple Music free trial, but will they stick around and pay?
Apple Music is slightly less than a month old and seemingly off to a great start – at least according to the folks from Hits Daily Double (via 9to5Mac) and their “inside sources at some of the major labels.” Apple has not made the numbers public but has purportedly shared subscriber numbers with music labels under ...
Strong finish for #UncarrierAmped as T-Mobile adds Apple Music to Music Freedom, offers free upgrades to next iPhone
T-Mobile has been riding the wave of summer with its Un-carrier Amped promotion and on Tuesday announced a strong finish to the campaign. In what the company says is its “last move” for Un-carrier Amped, T-Mobile CEO John Legere revealed that, starting immediately, Apple Music will be available to subscribers of the company’s Music Freedom ...
Counterfeit operation responsible for 41k fake iPhones valued at $19M shut down in China
Beijing police have raided and shut down a factory responsible for producing in excess of 41,000 fake iPhones worth around 120 million yuan ($19.4 million) over a five-month period, reports Reuters. Among the nine people arrested by police were a husband and wife who were the alleged ringleaders of the counterfeiting operation. The factory – ...
Latecomer CurrentC may finally hit stores next month, albeit in ‘limited trial’
CurrentC, the mobile payments service developed by Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), will reportedly enter a limited public trial in selected stores during August. A spokeswoman from MCX-member, Lowe’s Cos., told Bloomberg that MCX intends to roll out its CurrentC app during the third quarter of 2015. She added that Lowe’s will not take part in ...
Rumor: Apple considered BMW i3 as foundation for its own electric car effort
A new report published Friday shores up rumors that Apple is working on its own electric car. German business magazine Manager Magazin (via 9to5Mac) claims Apple started talks with BMW back in 2014 to use components from the German automaker’s i3 electric car. Talks reportedly progressed to the point where Apple CEO Tim Cook, along ...
Best Buy to start Apple Watch sales next week as Apple ramps up availability
Major U.S. retailer Best Buy Co., Inc. announced on Saturday that, starting August 7, it will sell Apple Watch in 100 Best Buy stores as well as online at BestBuy.com. The retailer – the first to sell Apple Watch outside Apple’s own retail stores in the U.S. – will roll out Apple Watch sales to ...
Apple sold 4M Apple Watches, takes 75% market share, says report
Apple has not said how many Apple Watches it sold last quarter and analyst estimates vary wildly. Following Apple’s third-quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, we were left guessing at the number of Apple Watches sold. A new estimate from research firm Strategy Analytics aims to put a finite number on Apple’s smartwatch sales to ...