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News on the sidelines: Week 11 - Aug 18


Android is sweeping the smartphone market

The Android system continued its success in sweeping the smartphone market in the last quarter and widened the difference between it and the iOS system. This week, the results of the second quarter of the global market were revealed, which indicated that the two systems managed to own 99.1% of the market in this quarter and 96.8% compared to the same quarter of last year. Android has continued to prove that it is the most widely used system globally, achieving progress from 82.2% in the same quarter of last year to 86.2%, while iOS devices have achieved a decline from a global share of 14.6% to 12.9%. The results indicated that the BlackBerry and Windows smartphone systems failed to maintain even their meager share.


The next iPhone with a curved screen?

Reports previously indicated that Apple is working to add a new category for iPhone devices, which will bear the name iPhone Pro, and many later denied this rumor. But recently reports have emerged that Apple is working on a special version different from the iPhone and iPhone Plus, which will come with a curved OLED screen, the reports have appeared after the news that LG - the manufacturer of the screen of Apple devices - started working on foldable OLED screens. Of course, even if the news that Apple is working on a foldable screen is true, we cannot be certain that we will see it this year or next.


An iPhone 6 and 6 Plus problem makes the phone unresponsive to touch

Many owners of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have complained that the top bar appears gray and has stopped responding to touch. According to the Apple social site, many say that the gray bar increases its area and the touch gets worse over time. According to iFixit, there are many hardware repair shops who saw this problem and that one of the stores faces this problem on nearly 100 devices every month. The site said that the main problem is the chip that converts touch into data that the device can read. In general, if you are facing this problem, it can be solved, and it is also expected that Apple will open a program to maintain this problem.


Tim Cook gets more than $ 100 million to complete the fifth year as president of Apple

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On his fifth anniversary as Apple CEO Tim Cook acquired more than $ 100 million shares in the company, and according to the news, the Financial Times published a report on Apple's performance under his rule. Apple relies heavily on its revenue on the iPhone, and this poses a threat to it, according to the report, as it indicated an upsurge in sales of the iPhone during the last five years and recently Apple sold its billionth device, and at the same time its revenue decreased. Also, cash reserves increased from 121 billion dollars to 232 billion dollars. The report contains a lot of points, so we will publish a detailed report for the last five years of Apple.


Apple is among the 33 companies' consortium against automated calls

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In a consortium of 33 companies, including Apple, Google, and the American communications company AT&T, they are cooperating with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to eliminate automated calls. We know whether there will be applications pre-loaded on the system or will the telecom companies block these calls, but Google already has a solution through its Google Phone application on Android.


Apple acquires medical data company Gliimpse

In official news, Apple confirmed that it had acquired the emerging company Gliimpse, which works in the field of medical data collection and analysis. Apple bought the company earlier this year, but the news was a rumor until Apple confirmed it this week. The company was founded in 2013 by an entrepreneur who worked for Apple in the eighties, and after that he founded his own company Sequoia, which he sold for $ 180 million in 2001. According to the news, Gliimpse allows users to pull their medical data from more than one place, collect them in one place, and create a file Personal and share it with whoever wanted. There is no specific number for the transaction value, but the acquisition will certainly benefit Apple, especially for developer products such as HealthKit, ResearchKit and CareKit for developing health applications for Apple.


 Twitter launches "Quality Control" tool

Twitter revealed a tool that gives users the ability to control what they see in the main interface, the feature Twitter tested last year and launched it to everyone this week, and it simply improves the quality of the tweets you see such as duplicate tweets, and this feature depends on several factors, including the way you interact with the owner Account and others, and this feature filters the tweets of accounts that you do not follow. The company also began to gradually launch the night mode in the application for users, a feature that many have been waiting for. Generally speaking, Twitter started with concern and quality improvement for users, as the company's share fell by nearly half, starting from last February compared to the end of last year.


Rumor: The upcoming Apple Watch will not provide a slot for the chip

Rumors continue before the Apple conference and this time for the watch, which indicates that Apple will not add a port for the cellular data chip for the next hour, but Apple will add GPS inside the watch to reduce its dependence on the phone, of course the GPS option will do the task of cellular data in the case of using the watch for health applications Which tracks places of running and other, and this increases the chance of Apple to make the watch waterproof if you do not make a slide entrance. This news is consistent with what we have mentioned in an article Expectations and aspirations Than that adding them would be difficult.


Two Foxconn-Apple Factory employees die

Foxconn is the factory that assembles and installs Apple products, where workers face incapacitating conditions for work and many of them committed suicide, and then Apple improved the working climate in the factory. This week, the Chinese government found one of the new workers in the factory dead in front of him, and a day later, they found one of the factory workers dead in a train accident on Friday morning. Foxconn is reported to have approximately 1.3 million employees which makes it the largest private company in the world


Miscellaneous news

  • Facebook is testing the automatic video playback feature "with sound" in its iOS and Android app.
  • Microsoft launches a tool on Macs to transfer files from Evernote to OneNote.
  • Newspapers snapped a photo of a Taiwanese car racer holding an iPhone 7, which Apple has yet to announce.

  • Apple released the seventh update for the developer beta for iOS and macOS and the equivalent public beta without any benefits.
  • Apple has suspended the ability to downgrade to iOS 9.3.2
  • Sony releases an accessory to operate the Playstation joystick on Mac computers.

This is not all the news that is on the sidelines, but we have come to you with the most important of them, and it is not necessary for a non-specialist to occupy himself with every stray and incoming, there are more important things that you do in your life, so do not make devices distract you or distract you from your life and your duties. Know that technology is there to make life easier for you and help you in it, and if you rob your life and get preoccupied with it, then there is no need for it.

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