Apple’s Next iPhone May Have Lasers for Augmented Reality
iPhone app developers, we hope you’ve been studying up on your optics. The iPhone X may have just become available at the beginning of this month, but there’s already news about its successor. Bloomberg recently reported that Apple is considering incorporating a laser in the next iPhone iteration to improve Augmented Reality (AR) applications. Transforming the […]
Apple Wants You to Unlock Your Phone with Your Face
Expectations for the iPhone 8 are almost ridiculously high as Apple fanatics try to guess what the company has in store for its tenth-anniversary phone. Miami iOS app developers are hoping for radical design changes and features, the kind of thing that will remind people that the iPhone is the king of smartphones, the […]
Apple (Finally) Announces Its AR Platform at WWDC
Everyone in tech seems to agree that the future is in augmented reality, but a clear AR leader has yet to emerge. Google and Facebook have a head start on the competition, but Apple threw its hat in the ring at this week’s WWDC with ARKit, its new AR platform. Apple can now claim that […]
Android Continues Gains, iOS Slipping in Global Marketshare
According to IDC, a consumer research firm, a total of 793.6 million Android smartphones shipped last year. With global smartphone shipments ending up just north of 1 billion for the 2013 calendar year, IDC credits Android with a 78.6 percent market share. Apple’s iOS placed a distant but steady second, with a 15.6 percent market […]
Iconic iPhone Turns 7 Years Old
[space20] On January 9, 2007, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled his company’s latest creation: a smartphone that he believed was going to become a “revolutionary product” that would “change everything.” Time has proven him right. As of the final quarter of 2013, over 420 million iPhones have been sold worldwide. Even so, the iPhone’s […]
New iPhone Models Expected to be Launched at Apple’s Special Event
The past year has been tough on Apple’s bottom line and public prestige. Since Steve Jobs’ death the company’s stock price has slumped dramatically, losing $280 billion in value. Fierce competitors like Samsung continue to out-innovate the tech titan and gobble up market share. Apple has lost their competitive advantage in several key categories. Android’s […]
Apple Dominance Slipping as Competitors Out-Innovate
Apple Inc. can’t seem to catch a break these days as the tech giant’s market share gets eroded a bit more every day. Could Apple be following the same downward trajectory as deposed heavyweights like Microsoft and Blackberry? A study released by research firm Strategy Analytics said, “Global smartphone shipments grew 47 percent to hit […]
Could the Apple iPhone Dominate India?
Apple is aggressively positioning their top selling products into a market of 1.2 billion people. But will the kitchen sink strategy work in this burgeoning nation of over 1 billion people? The tech giant apparently has been offering the Indian public special payment plans and cashback incentives in their ruthless pursuit to boost iPhone sales […]