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News on the sidelines: Week April 26: May 3rd


Apple announces fully positive business results for Q2-2018

Apple revealed the results of its second fiscal quarter for the year 2018, in which it achieved a complete positive score, as Apple's sales improved over the same quarter in all countries without exception, as well as increased sales in all sectors, and the summary was as follows:

Apple achieved $ 61.1 billion in revenue, compared to $ 52.9 billion in the same quarter, an increase of 16%

Apple achieved a net profit of $ 13.8 billion, an increase of 25% over the same quarter.

IPhone sales increased 3% to reach 52.2 million devices and revenues to $ 38 billion, an increase of 14%.

IPad sales increased 2% to reach 9.1 million, and Apple's revenue of 6% to reach $ 4 billion.

◉ The services sector, "bookstore, iTunes, and Apple Pay" jumped by 31% to reach $ 9.1 billion.


Tim Cook: The iPhone X is great and we will continue to offer different versions of the iPhone

In the press meeting to announce the results of Apple's business mentioned in the previous news, a question was asked to Tim Cook about his opinion of the price of $ 999, which is controversial as the price of the iPhone X. Tim Cook said that the iPhone X achieved profits, revenues and great popularity, which is the secret behind the increase in Apple's revenues 14% For iPhone. He said that he assured Apple an important indicator, which is that there is a great disparity in the markets and there are those who want "something else" and this is the same what happened in 2014 when Apple introduced two versions of the iPhone. Then Tim commented that Apple will continue to offer different forms of iPhone so that every iPhone user will find a suitable one for him.


T-Mobile and Sprint merger

T Mobile and Sprint announced a merger between them and the creation of a new company called the first. The company said the shares will be exchanged at 9.75 Sprint shares for one T-Mobile share. Reports revealed that this merger will accelerate the deployment of 5G service in America, as T-Mobile is one of the largest companies in the world interested in this technology.


Apple Watch saves the life of a teenager

The Apple Watch saved the life of an 18-year-old American teen. The girl was with her mother in the church and was surprised by the Apple Watch asking her to go to the medical examination immediately, as her pulse reached 160, and she told her mother, who was a nurse, and here the mother commented that there might be a technical error in the watch and asked her if she felt any pain in her head and she said no. After a few hours, Apple continued her warning and told her that the pulse was not completely intact and reached 190 and that she was exposed to heart attacks, and at the same time the girl began to feel pain in her head and a headache, so her mother took her to the hospital and they were surprised that the girl’s pressure was 150/100 and that her pulse in the bed resting position reached 130, which is nearly twice the normal range for a resting state. Indeed, medical examinations were performed and I received treatment.


Iran joins the war front against Telegram

The Republic of Iran announced joining the countries that started the war against the popular chat app Telegram and began blocking the service. The Iranian move comes days after similar steps from Russia and its request to Apple and Google to delete the application due to lack of security cooperation with the Russian authorities. The founder of Telegram revealed that the application and servers are being exposed to DDOS attacks and called on Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon to stand with his company. It is noteworthy that Iran had demanded Telegram to stop service inside the country during periods of demonstrations because the application was the main means of communication between opponents of the Iranian regime, but the founders of Telegram refused this request even if they had announced that they would block a group or channel that advocates violence.

It is noteworthy that the Telegram application was suspended in the Middle East and Europe for nearly half a day this week. The founder of the company said that the reason was the excessive "heat" of the company's servers in the Netherlands and that they worked to cool the servers so that they could work again.

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Apple continues to rendering, Samsung is pulling back, and Xiaomi is jumping in Q1-2018 sales

A report by the IDC Corporate Sales Center during the first quarter of 2018 revealed that Samsung's sales fell 2.4% and its market share became 23.4%, while iPhone sales improved by nearly 2.8%, bringing Apple's market share to 15.6%. Huawei continued to advance, reaching 13.8%, with a market share of 11.8%. The surprise was Xiaomi, which jumped by 87.8% to become 8.4% of the global market share, compared to 4.3% in the same quarter. In general, the smart phone market fell by 2.9% this quarter.


An Israeli company backed by Samsung and Foxconn is suing Apple for violating its patents

An Israeli company, Corephotonics, announced that Apple will be suing for the second time. It was the first time last year that Apple was accused of using their patented technologies in developing the dual-camera iPhone 7 Plus. And now the company announced that Apple has also used their own technologies in developing the iPhone 8 and iPhone X camera. It is reported that Corephotonics is a company that gets material support from two main companies, namely "Samsung", Apple's archenemy, and the second is Foxconn, Apple's permanent friend and its hardware complex, which It is negotiating with Apple to supply monitors from its Sharp factories.


KGI report: Apple will cancel 3D Touch in 6.1-inch iPhone

The famous KGI analyst "Ming-Chi Kuo" revealed that Apple may cancel the 6.1D Touch feature from the 3-inch iPhone with an LCD screen because it will change the touch technology and sensors that you use to become CGS, which is characterized by a much smaller size, which prevents the 15D touch feature in shape. Currently provided by Apple. The strange thing is that the center explained that this technology not only cancels XNUMXD Touch, but also increases the cost by XNUMX%. So why does Apple intend to move to this technology, which cancels an important feature ?! Will you provide an alternative, for example, or is this news incorrect?


Renowned KGI Analyst is leaving his position

KGI Center announced that the famous analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, responsible for analyzing factories and Apple suppliers for more than 6 years, will leave his position in the company and work in another field that has nothing to do with Apple. Introducing him into a future as he has a strong sourcing network within Apple's supplier factories. It is noteworthy that "Ming Shi" has previous correct analyzes, such as Apple's introduction of a front depth camera in the X "and an event" and previously expected Apple to provide a 2012D touch, and in 6.1 he expected Apple to introduce the MacBook Pro Retina. It is currently behind the expectation of the iPhone XNUMX-inch LCD screen.


Apple will add a fast charger 18W PD with the upcoming iPhone

The Chinese site Chongdiantou published a report and a photo that they said is for an 18-watt charger since USB C will be added by Apple by default with the next iPhone. It is reported that the iPhone has been issued since its release in 2007 and until now with "the slowest charger in the world" and comes with a power of 5W, while the iPad comes with a 12W charger and Apple said last year that it supports USB PD fast charging technology and advised the use of Mac chargers, but reports now speak that the iPhone It will come with a direct fast charger and the same 18-watt PD technology with C port, meaning that Apple will add a C To Lightning cable by default.


Apple will remove the C To 3.5mm audio adapter

It seems that Apple is already intending to offer a fast charger, so reports have revealed that Apple will automatically remove the C To 3.5mm audio adapter that it has been available in the iPhone cases since the iPhone 7 until now. The reason we associate the removal with the charger is because Apple adding a stronger charger means increasing the cost, so Apple will strive to save and remove the adapter to reduce the difference. It is reported that Apple had allowed companies to manufacture this type of adapter a month ago and to certify MFi.


Apple updates its experimental systems

Apple has updated its experimental systems for its various systems to reach the third beta version as follows:

◉ iOS 11.2 improves the stability and efficiency of new features such as AirPlay 2, Messages in the Cloud, and ClassKit.

WatchOS 4.3.1 came to treat and fix many problems and faults.

Mac High Sierra 10.13.5 system also came to improve performance and fix some problems of the previous version.

TvOS 11.4 came with performance improvements, especially compatibility with AirPlay 2, similar to that of the parallel iOS system.


50 billion downloads of Apple podcasts

Apple announced that the number of podcast downloads from its app reached 50 billion, a huge increase from last year, which was only 13.7 billion, and the previous year, 10.5 billion. Apple revealed that the number of files in the podcast has reached 525 audio files in more than 100 languages ​​from 155 countries around the world.


BBC report: Apple is fooling customers with regulations to change the battery

A BBC report revealed that Apple is deceiving its users with its battery-changing system; The report said that Apple used poor batteries in the beginning and exposed them to damage, which could damage many of the internal parts of the iPhone; And if you go to the Apple headquarters and ask to change the battery and it is discovered that there is damage in other parts, Apple will refuse to change it unless you pay for the repair of the remaining parts that are damaged because of their battery. The report published examples of customers who were asked by Apple to pay $ 270-340 to fix things damaged by the battery.


Twitter also sold customer information and generated 13% of its income

While it is conducting numerous investigations with Facebook for leaking information to institutions that in turn sold this information, which are the institutions known as "Cambridge Analytica". A Telegraph report revealed that Twitter is also accused of doing the same thing, but that it sold the information directly and obtained material revenues from it that represented 13% of Twitter's revenues last year.


Miscellaneous news:

◉ A report expects that Apple will acquire Condé Nast or part of it to develop its news service.

◉ Instagram reveals video chat feature, updates in sharing stories, browsing app, and camera effects. The update will be added gradually over the coming weeks for users.

◉ WhatsApp Partner Founder Jan Koum announced leaving Facebook, and reports said the reason was a disagreement with Mark in terms of privacy and customer data sharing.

◉ Apple announced that it had stopped the possibility of rolling back to iOS 11.3, following the launch of iOS 11.3.1 a week ago.

Apple has made iTunes available in the Microsoft Windows 10 Software Store

  Apple announced the launch of the 55th version of the Safari program for Mac's "Technology Preview", in which Apple provides advanced technologies that it intends to introduce later to the average user.

◉ A report revealed that Apple asked factories to delay primary production of the MacBook Air for the second half of this year.

Apple has added more banks to the Apple Pay ecosystem in America, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, France and Spain.

Apple has officially announced the cancellation of its Airport and Extreme Wi-Fi devices, as well as the Time Capsule storage device


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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