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Reports: Apple will reveal too many products at the end of the year
Several news and reports have revealed that Apple will unveil several products by the end of the year. Some reports indicated that Apple will collect it at the conference announcing the iPhone in September, but some have suggested that it may be divided into two conferences in September and another a few months later. This is the list of products that are mentioned:
◉ IPhone: This is the well-known traditional news, which is the detection of 3 iPhones, one of them LCD, which is the cheapest.
◉ Apple Watch: Apple will announce the fourth generation of the watch, and it will come larger with design modifications, especially canceling the button and making it work by pressing.
◉ IPad: Apple will unveil the third-generation iPad Pro, which will be the same design as the iPhone X in the game.
◉ MacApple will update many Mac computers at the end of the year, and it may include the Mac mini as well as the MacBook Pro.
◉ Apple headset: Apple will unveil the new generation of its AirPods, which will come with the same design with many different improvements.
◉ Wireless charger: Apple announced it a year ago, but it hasn't been released yet for an unknown reason. So it is expected to be launched at the conference.
◉ HomePod: The news said that Apple may unveil the new generation of HomePod, or to be more precise, another version with the same features with minor design modifications as well as lowering the price. It may come under the Bates logo and brand, not Apple.
Apple and Samsung agree to end the legal dispute
A court document showed that Apple and Samsung agreed to end the legal dispute that has been going on for more than 7 years, in which Apple accuses Samsung of stealing the design of its devices and has already obtained several rulings against Samsung, the most recent of which was a few weeks ago, worth half a billion dollars. The document did not reveal the nature of the friendly agreement between Apple and Samsung, nor its impact on recent rulings, but it does mean that the era of design issues between Apple and Samsung has ended.
Amazon beats Apple and Google to become the most expensive brand
Amazon managed to achieve a leap in the value of its brand, according to Brand Finance, and Amazon achieved a 42% increase in the value of the brand to $ 150.8 billion, compared to 106.3 last year, to jump to first place after it was in second place. As for Apple, it maintained its second position, despite an increase of 37% to $ 146.3 billion. Google fell to third place despite increasing 10% from 109.4 billion to 120.9 billion. Note that this rating is for the Brand and not for the company as a whole.
Apple may give up Intel in favor of MediaTek
In a recent technical report that we totally disagree with, it was mentioned that Apple is negotiating with the Chinese company MediaTech in order to manufacture SIM cards for the upcoming iPhone devices. The news is strange, the reason is not technical, and MediaTech is not as advanced as Intel or close to the development of Qualcomm, but because it is a small company for Apple and cannot completely supply the number of connection chips that Apple needs, which even a giant Intel company cannot supply. It is reported that Apple in the past was completely dependent on Qualcomm until the beginning of the legal conflict and began to partially transfer to Intel, and it is said that it will rely on it by 70% in the coming devices, and the percentage will rise to 100% next year. Perhaps the news of MediaTech is to manufacture SIM cards for secondary devices and not the iPhone.
Sophia is advertising for Huawei Honor 10
The humanoid robot "Sophia", who has the Saudi nationality, is making an advertisement for Honor 10. Watch the video:
The Bates founders are required to pay a designer $ 25 million
Although Beats is affiliated with Apple, this case is not against Apple itself, but against the founders of the company. The lawsuit dates back to 2016, when an old designer sued the founders that they did not spend him the profits related to the products that his design was sold and are still being sold, and the founders of the company refused this matter and said that the compensation agreement was to pay a reward on the first line of the product only and not during its production period, which made him resort The judiciary, who reportedly ordered him $ 25 million in damages.
Apple is considering charging the iPhone from the headphone box
A report revealed that Apple is considering introducing a new feature, which is the ability to use the AirPods headphone box as a wireless charger for the iPhone in the next generation expected to be launched in the following months. It is reported that the headphone box is already working as a charger for it and includes an internal battery and will support wireless charging in the future with an Apple charger, but it seems that Apple will increase the size of this battery and enable you to use it to charge the iPhone in case of emergency.
Those coming from Android to Apple prefer the Plus phones
A report revealed that the claims moved to the iPhone are working well for Apple and that 15-20% of the current iPhone sales are to customers coming from Android. The study was conducted on 2000 new buyers during the first quarter of the current actual year. The report stated that Plus devices are the most popular, as is the iPhone 8/8 +, which outperforms with a 40% share, followed by the iPhone 7/7 + with a 25% share, then the iPhone 6s / 6s + with a 12% share. The report said that 39% of Android users when they moved to Apple bought a "Plus" device, while the popularity of Plus among current Apple users is only 29%.
Vivo announces a sensor 10 times the resolution of Apple's fingerprint for the face
VIVO, a subsidiary of the BKK Alliance, which includes the Oppo-Vivo-OnePlus companies, announced that their company was able to manufacture a point transmitter called TOF capable of spreading 300 points on the face to identify landmarks, and this number is 10 times the number of Apple's face fingerprint feature, which publishes Only 30 thousand points. Vivo said that this innovation is already present and will be added in the future to its devices, but they made it clear that this matter will take some time to be issued, i.e. not soon. It is reported that an increase in the number of points means a higher accuracy in identifying facial features and thus more difficult to deceive.
* Scientifically, multiplying the number of points 10 times does not mean that the accuracy will be 10 times, but it is just a theoretical approximation because the product has not been announced to know the extent of the actual quality.
Report: ITI Alliance Meeting to Discuss Online Privacy
The ITI Technology Alliance held a meeting on Thursday “yesterday June 27” between companies in San Francisco to discuss how to find a way to reduce customer anxiety about online privacy and find ways to better protect it. The meeting will focus in part on GDPR and its implementation. It is noteworthy that the ITI alliance includes several companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung, Dropbox, IBM, Qualcomm, Intel, Adobe, Google, MasterCard, Oracle and other companies. Reports spoke of holding the meeting on Thursday, but no confirmation has yet been received nor has it been announced on the ITI official website.
TSMC plans to manufacture a 5nm processor for Apple in 2020 and will introduce the A12 with 7nm technology this year
Reports revealed that TSMC has finished preparing its factories to produce processors with 7nm technology, or "precision", which is the type expected to be manufactured in the upcoming iPhone and iPad processors, known as their A12. It is known that the smaller the core number means the increase in the number of circuits, "the number means the size of the circuit" and this makes the processor faster due to the presence of larger circuits and at the same time less energy consumption. With this, TSMC outperforms Samsung in this area, so that Qualcomm has said that the Snapdragon 855 processor will be manufactured with this technology as well as an attempt to catch up with the iPhone and its processor. The company said that its production capacity increased by 15% from last year, but it expects a decline in demand for this upper class of processors and a decline in global demand for higher phones in general.
In another context, reports stated that TSMC is considering investing $ 25 billion to develop factories again to manufacture 5nm processors by 2020, and this is one of the largest investments in the world, but it is acceptable because TSMC now manufactures processors and chips for 20 parties, the most famous of whom are AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm in addition to Apple .
Apple challenges the validity of Qualcomm's patents
Apple announced a famous legal procedure for it in its conflict with Qualcomm, which is challenging the validity of patents. In this procedure, Apple demands the opponent company and here it is intended by Qualcomm to prove that its patents are valid and true "technically" before the conflict moves to the point that Apple violated this patent. Reports said that Apple is profiting this type of complaint and has done it so far 396 times. With this procedure, Apple aims to suspend the case, as well as succeed in failing one of these patents, and accordingly, close the case from the beginning.
Expectations of iPad Pro 2018 specifications
News reports revealed that the iPad Pro, which is currently at a size of 10.5 inches, will get an update at the iPhone conference, and this update will be mainly by adding the depth camera of the iPhone X, but they made it clear that the bump will not be in the iPad as Apple will only reduce the edges and cancel the screen button Which will help to increase the screen area to 11.9 inches without an increase in the actual size, as well as Apple will improve the rear camera significantly, but may make it a dual camera. The iPad will come with an A12 processor, which offers better performance by up to 50% than the A11 processor, which is currently superior to all.
Apple has considered canceling the charging port on the X
Reports revealed that Apple had an idea at the beginning of manufacturing the iPhone X to cancel the charging port from the ground up and provide the first smartphone that relies only on wireless charging, but this idea was soon rejected by the responsible teams at Apple, which made it clear that wireless charging is very slow and is also a big cost to Apple has to add a wireless charger with every iPhone. Which made the team responsible for X cancels this idea, which is a logical decision, as it is known that Apple over 10 years provides the slowest charger in the world with the iPhone to provide an amount that may reach less than $ 1, so it is not reasonable to add a high-priced wireless charger for free with its device.
Wisconsin is offering Foxconn an additional $ XNUMX billion in stimulus
Last year, Foxconn said it was considering investing $ 10 billion in several factories in America, in response to pressure from US President Trump. And American states began to compete, led by the state of Wisconsin, which offered incentives estimated at $ 3 billion in tax cuts. But with the US-China conflict, reports started talking that Foxconn would cancel the plant or reduce the volume of investments. Therefore, Wisconsin offered to increase incentives by an additional one billion dollars, hoping that Foxconn would approve its anticipated investments. It is noteworthy that reports speak that a factory for iPhone screens will be built, with salaries reaching $ 231 annually.
Miscellaneous news:
◉ A report revealed that Facebook has already registered a patent, the idea of which is to record conversations about the phone and analyze it “that is, the patent for the possibility of spying on others.
Samsung will hold a conference on August 9 to unveil the Note 9 phone, a month before the upcoming Apple iPhone conference.
◉ Google has updated its smart assistant with the continuous talk feature “hey Siri” on both Home devices and the app.
◉ Apple has signed an agreement with the sesame system, which is well known in the Arab world as “Sesame World”, to integrate training courses for children within the programs that are provided to children by them.
Apple has added transportation by transportation in its Maps application for the city of Rome as well as the country of Estonia.
◉ An Apple car was spotted scanning streets in Japan, a move that is said to precede Apple's announcement of a future Street view-like feature offered by Google several years ago.
◉ Reports revealed that Wistron began assembling the iPhone 6s in India in order to provide it to the Indian market and reduce prices there. It is noteworthy that India imposes heavy customs and taxes on fully imported products, so Wistron built a factory to assemble the iPhone and reduce the cost of sale.
◉ The US Department of Justice approved the sale of Fox to Disney but required it to sell 22 local sports networks affiliated with Fox to avoid a monopoly. The US government did not provide the vendor or any details, but said Disney should sell these networks to any suitable buyer.
Facebook has started publishing the automatic translation feature in the Messenger application and now fully supports I-America, as well as Mexico, with a promise to spread it to more countries soon.
◉ Microsoft has begun testing the ad-blocking feature in its Edge browser on iOS
◉ The WiFi Alliance has begun to adopt WPA3 encryption and passwords.
◉ Facebook announced that they are working on a feature that will be introduced soon. It has been able to hide posts that contain certain words for 30 days.
◉ Apple announced the launch of a keyboard replacement and repair program for Mac computers that have a problem with typing, such as stopping a button or repeatedly typing the same letter.
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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