News on the sidelines: Week 5-12 April

Sometimes news of medium importance appears that does not deserve to be devoted to an entire article, so we present a weekly compiled article to make the reader aware of various news and make sure that when he follows us, he will not miss anything.

Saudi Crown Prince visits Apple and meets Tim Cook

Prince Muhammad bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, visited the headquarters of Apple and met Tim Cook and the leaders of the company and held talks with them on joint cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Apple. Store software in general, and some websites have reported that Apple has provided training courses in America for some Saudi youth. Tim Cook took the crown prince of Saudi Arabia on a tour of the company's new headquarters.

Mark Zuckerberg was aiming to use Apple to defend in Congress

In recent days, several congressional hearings were held on the scandal of selling and leaking information from tens of millions of users to the Russian government. At one point, Tim took a break, left his notebook open, and journalists quickly snapped pictures of her. The Associated Press indicated that they noticed in Mark's notebook the name of Tim Cook, who attacks Facebook recently, next to it a note: “We see and hear a lot of reports about misuse of Apple data applications, but we did not see Apple notifying its users.” Mark aims to hint that what they have done Not a fatal mistake but a routine that companies do. Is it a coincidence that Tim forgets his notebook, accidentally open, and another coincidence that she is on this page?

Instagram promises to allow its users to download their data

In conjunction with the media campaign and the ongoing investigations with Facebook, Instagram said that it will enable users to download all their data soon and will follow European Union regulations as well and provide new privacy standards for all its users around the world. But the company did not clarify when these promises would be fulfilled.

Apple again fined half a billion dollars for VirnetX

VirnetX obtained a court ruling fining Apple $ 502.6 million for violating its patents on Apple's FaceTime, iMassage, and On-Demand VPN feature. The story goes back to 2010 when Apple announced the feature, and here the company filed a case against Apple and obtained a ruling in 2012 that Apple was stealing its patents and had to pay $ 368.2 million, but there was a halt in the case and it returned again to become a final judgment of $ 439.7 million at the end of 2017. But at the same time the company has filed a new case that Apple in iOS 7 and iOS 8, who were issued in 2013-2014 after the first ruling, continued to use its patents and did not stop, so a new judgment was issued, independent of the previous ruling, but it is still subject to appeal. . This brings Apple's total fines for VirnetX to $ 942 million.

Repairing the iPhone 8/8 + / X screen outside Apple centers causes the light sensor to malfunction

Several news reports indicated that there were complaints from people who changed the screen of the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X, during non-Apple-approved stores, in which they stated that the light sensor, which turns off the screen during calls and controls the intensity of lighting, has become inoperative. The strange thing is that the reports indicated that these complaints came from various versions of iOS 11, including 11.3, as well as with people who changed the screen with an original one as well, and it occurred in several countries. The Engadget team conducted a test and switched the screens of two iPhone devices, i.e. they did not purchase a non-original screen, but rather they switched screens between devices and were surprised that the light sensor stopped working. It is not known until now whether there is a defect in the sensor used or is it a punitive measure by Apple for those who try to open their device outside its stores.

Apple maintains its fourth position in Mac sales

The Gartner report indicated that there were no changes in the ranking of companies that manufacture personal computers during the first quarter of 2018, as HP remained in the lead globally with a share of 20.8%, an increase of 0.8% in its market share, followed by Lenovo with a share of 20% compared to 19.7% previously, then Dell which witnessed the best improvement and reached 16% and Apple continued in the fourth place 6.9% with an increase of 0.2% in its market share, while the global sales of Asus and Acer collapsed. The following image shows the ranking within the US market, and it also has Apple in fourth place.

It is noteworthy that the reports issued by the IDC Center expected Apple to decline to the fifth place, unlike the previous Gartner report, which said that Apple will remain in its fourth position.

Apple is reducing HomePod production after a catastrophic sales failure

A Bloomberg report indicated that Apple sent factories a request to stop or reduce the production of its new HomePod after a catastrophic failure in sales, which reached that some Apple stores sell less than 10 pieces of the headphones per day, according to the report. Bloomberg added that after 10 weeks of its presence in the market, it has not yet managed to surpass 10% of the market share, while Amazon with the Echo family controls a 73% share of the market, followed by Google with a 14% share.

All Apple headquarters in 43 countries are operating at renewable energy

Apple officially announced that it operates 100% on clean energy. The company stated that all the company's headquarters, data servers and stores are in 43 countries in which Apple operates clean or renewable energy, as it is called. The company stated that 23 of its suppliers are currently working on switching to renewable energies "such as wind, sun, etc." and dispensing with electricity produced from nuclear reactors or petroleum. It is noteworthy that there is a global campaign now to give up oil and rely on clean energy only, and dozens of countries have decided to adopt this matter and provide support to companies working in this field, as well as laws to prevent the sale of cars with gasoline from 2030-2040 according to the countries. And Apple is one of the first companies in the world in the field of the environment.

Apple releases the iPhone 8/8 + in red as part of the RED campaign

Apple announced the launch of the RED version of the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, as well as several covers for the iPhone X, and updated several products within the system. It is noteworthy that the RED system is a global medical initiative that aims to combat AIDS in the world, especially Africa. Apple has participated in this initiative since 2006 through several distinct red products, and part of its proceeds are donated. And Apple's total contributions reached $ 160 million, to become the world's largest company in this field. REDs are sold at the same traditional prices. Watch the promotional video that Apple also published in conjunction with the launch of the phones (the singing video):

Apple hires a former senior executive at Amazon, Google and HP as vice president of software

Apple has appointed Jon McCormack as Apple's Vice President of Software. John previously worked for Amazon as a CTO for Hardware, before that he was Head of Systems Development at HP and before that he was a leader at Google. Amazon is the longest station in John's history and in it he also held the position of Amazon Vice President of Systems for Kindle devices.

Rumor: Apple will release a triple camera iPhone

A report by the UDN Center claimed that the top category of the iPhone next year will imitate the Huawei P20 and come with a triple camera. The report clarified that Apple aims to provide a 12-megapixel camera with 5x optical zoom, as opposed to the current X camera, which provides only 2x optical zoom. It is reported that Huawei presented the P20 Pro, which won the title of best camera phone in the world by a large difference from all companies, and it offers a triple camera and 5x hybrid zoom, "a mixture between optical and digital."

Apple will announce an all-new Mac Pro next year

In a press interview between a number of Apple executives, a question was asked about the Apple Mac Pro, which was the most important and largest for the company before the iMac Pro was released. There are a lot of questions about it and whether Apple will update it or will suffice with the presence of the high version of the iMac, which is twice the price of the Pro. Here, Apple's vice president for the hardware sector responded by saying that there is an upcoming Mac Pro, but not this year, but rather it will be the device of next year 2019. He explained that his team is working heavily on this device because it will not only include an improvement in hardware, but the device will be completely redesigned. . He said that they are working on offering something special because Pro customers are professionals and the company is now working to better understand their needs to introduce the new device.

Report: 82% of teens in America have an iPhone

A report by Piper Jaffray, who specialize in teenage research, indicated that 82% of teenagers in America have an iPhone, which is 4% more than the company's latest research that was done at the end of last year. The report indicated that the percentage is expected to increase further. 84% indicated that their next phone will be an iPhone as well, meaning that all the current ones will continue and users of other systems will be added to them.

The Apple Watch also received an improvement in its popularity among American youth, as it rose to second place after Rolex

Miscellaneous news:

◉ Tim Cook's summons has been sent to testify before the court in the Qualcomm case at the hearing on June 27th.

Apple has stopped recording iOS 11.2.6, thus closing the possibility of returning to this system.

◉ Facebook has launched a new feature on Instagram called Focus, which is a new imaging system to support portraiture, in which the person being photographed is isolated from the background and the work of Blur for it.

◉ Apple has promoted Oliver Schusser to the position of Apple Music Service Worldwide.

◉ Apple has sent a reminder to Mac developers that they need to support 64Bit in their apps and has started showing developers a warning that this app needs an update. Just like you did on iOS

◉ A report revealed that Apple will stop the old applications from working in the watch with the release of watch OS 5.0 at the end of this year.

These are not all the things that are 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 all the wandering 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, and know that technology is there to make life easier for you. And help you, and if I robbed you of your life and preoccupied you with it, then there is no need for it.

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