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Egypt accuses Apple of monopoly and annulled its local contracts
The Competition Protection and Anti-Monopoly Agency announced that it had found out that the American company Apple had monopolistic practices in the Egyptian market by making contracts with local distributors that force them to have the source of obtaining the products from Apple itself only and they are prohibited from buying it from any other source even if an authorized Apple distributor In another country. After that, Apple sells its devices at inflated prices that exceed those of authorized Apple distributors in neighboring countries. In traditional circumstances, the Egyptian distributor could buy devices from an authorized distributor in Saudi Arabia or the UAE, for example, as long as they would provide it to him cheaper than Apple itself, but the monopoly contract signed by Apple prevents this matter. The device also said that Apple stipulated that any distributor outside Egypt has the right to sell the devices in Egypt in order to avoid the distributor in the Gulf Egypt opening a branch in Egypt and exporting the phone there and selling it cheaper than the Egyptian distributor. The device explained that these practices led to an exaggerated increase in the price of the iPhone in Egypt and gave the device 60 days to respond to it and amend the contracts concluded. The device considered that previous Apple contracts are illegal and canceled.
Apple plans to use a SIM of its design in the future
It seems that Apple began to face a problem with the SIM card, the beginning was with the Qualcomm crisis and the war between them, which prompted it to resort to Intel, which was unable to provide SIM cards of sufficient quality, competitive speeds and quantities as well, which made Apple behind its competitors or forced to pay larger sums. So reports revealed that Apple had already started developing its own SIM card for quite some time, using Apple's technologies and patents. The report did not reveal the date of the appearance of this chip, although it was likely that it will be delayed until 2021, that is, after Apple provides the 5G chip from Intel, and this will be the Apple chip also in the fifth generation, but Apple does not have patents in this field, it will have to pay money to Qualcomm, Samsung, Nokia and others to obtain On a license.
Amazon beats Apple in market value
Apple's stock continued its poor results this week, although it did not decline significantly, as Apple's share price reached $ 169.1, and this figure is the worst and lowest since last April. This brings Apple's market value to $ 802.4 billion. The second bad news is that Apple was not able to maintain its second position, which it obtained after Microsoft surpassed it, as Amazon quickly developed, as we talked earlier, and its market value reached $ 813.4 billion. See if Apple can maintain its third position or lose it in favor of Google, whose market value has now reached $ 742.8 billion. The second question is, will Apple still be in or out of the $ 800+ billion club?
Qualcomm gets a verdict against Apple and accuses it of defrauding him
Qualcomm obtained a court ruling against Apple in China banning the sale of iPhones due to their use of Qualcomm's patents in the system. And Apple commented on the ruling that it concerns some things that were used in iOS 11 and were abandoned in iOS 12, and since all Apple devices running iOS 11 can be upgraded to 12, no products will be banned based on this ruling, which is what Qualcomm commented on as fraud On the law and provisions.
TSMC and Foxconn report good business results
In a news that contradicts all news and expectations, TSMC, the company responsible for manufacturing Apple processors, announced the results of the company's business during last November, which ended a few days ago. It was expected that sales would drop sharply because the main customer, "Apple", had reduced demand, but on the contrary, TSMC revealed the achievement of NT $ 98.4, "the currency of Taiwan dollars", and revealed an increase in sales for the month of October, although the growth rates were lower than October, but there is growth in Sales and consequently an increase in processor manufacturing was the opposite of what was said.
As for Foxconn, the main accumulator of Apple, it announced that it achieved revenues of 601 billion Taiwan dollars (19.5 billion dollars) in the period between January and November, which means a growth of 16% over last year's revenues, which also means an increase in the rates of collection of devices this year compared to the year the past.
Apple announces new headquarters and more jobs in America
Apple is building its 133-acre headquarters in Austin, USA. She said that this headquarters will provide 5000 job opportunities with an expected future increase to 15000 jobs, and Apple said that by doing so, it will become the largest US company providing jobs in the state. Apple explained that its plan to invest $ 10 billion in the data center market in America over the next 5 years and made clear that, in general, Apple considers a direct or indirect cause of 2 million jobs in America and said that it will create 6000 new jobs already this year. Within America, the number of its employees has reached 90 and it expects to provide another 20 jobs until 2023.
The new Apple Watch detects a customer's illness
A user of the fourth generation Apple Watch revealed that the ECG feature saved his life by discovering a heart problem he had that he did not know. He said that when he got the watch, he tried it, and I told him that his pulse and heartbeat were defective and irregular, and she advised him to go to the doctor. Then the person repeated the experiment several times and thought that there was an imbalance in the clock where he did not suffer from any problem, so he decided to wake his wife and test the clock with her, and the result was normal, so he returned the watch to his hands and the message appeared that there was a defect in the heartbeat. Accordingly, he went to the doctor and conducted tests, and indeed it was found that he suffers from a heart disease called Atrial Fibrillation, which is a heart disease that kills 200 thousand people annually
Google reveals the most popular search results
Google published search statistics for 2018 for its engine and said that the most searched words were the World Cup in the lead, then singer Avicii "died", then singer "Mac Miller" who also passed away, then "Stan Lee", the godfather of the Marvel world who died last month, and then the movie Black Panther. Personality of the Year in Research was “Angela Merkel. No technical issues appeared in the search list.
Miscellaneous news from Apple
◉ Apple announced the arrival of the Apple Pay service in Germany through many payment cards and German banks and said that more will be added during 2019.
The Canadian government said that Apple had not submitted an application to accredit its fourth-generation watch and ECG. And Apple had stopped the feature globally, and this was explained by the fact that it did not obtain the accreditations and it was found that Apple had not submitted to obtain the accreditation or refuse it.
◉ Apple has appointed Tamara Hunter from Sony Corporation to be in charge of the Imaging Team and will be responsible for Casting.
◉ The American company Verizon announced the start of support for the virtual chip eSIM for the new iPhone XR / XS.
Apple launched the first trial version of its systems, iOS 12.1.2, watchOS 5.1.3, Mac 10.14.3, and TV 12.1.2.
Apple announced the annual rest site to receive new applications and that it will be from December 23 to December 27. It required developers to submit their apps for review before this date.
◉ A report revealed that Apple wanted to buy the broadcasting rights for the popular Friends series, but Netflix continued to obtain the exclusive broadcasting rights for $ 100 million.
◉ Reports revealed that Intel plans to provide a new generation of processors with 10nm technology for Mac computers next year, in addition to the detection of a Gen11 graphics card that supports 4K and 8K videos.
◉ A report revealed that Apple may launch the news app subscriptions feature in the spring of next year “March-April-May.”
◉ Apple has offered a 50-pound discount on HomePods for subscribers to its Apple Music service in Britain.
◉ Apple announced that it will provide a 10% discount for soldiers and veterans of the US Army, as well as their families.
Miscellaneous technical news
◉ Microsoft announced a “Dark Mode” for Mac OS Mojave.
◉ BHPhotoVideo offered Apple HomePods at a reduced price of $ 100, which sold for $ 249 instead of $ 349.
◉ Google has updated its official application on iOS to support the Google Lens feature, which recognizes the content of the image and displays information about it.
◉ The Instagram application announced the addition of the feature of sending voice messages as one of the ways to reply to messages.
◉ A report revealed that Microsoft is considering launching the Edge browser on the Google Chrome operating system, as well as providing a version on the Apple Mac system.
◉ Epic has removed its popular game, Infinity Blade, from the Apple software store, as they could not continue to support the game.
This is not all the news on the sidelines, but we came 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 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 And she helps you, and if she robbed you of your life and preoccupied you, then there is no need for her
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Egypt was the leader in everything
And you will return, God willing
Where are the contest results, iPhone Islam We waited a long time 🤨
Contest results?
I think he is referring to the results of the iPhone raffle contest that was held some time ago
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The new update of Synchronize is beautiful, the design is very awesome. Thanks, Zamen
Apple continues its losses and will continue as long as it only listens to itself and its greedy principle, and I expect that it will lose a lot in the coming days.
Stupid Qualcomm keeps trying
Abel annoyed and dragged her to the courts
It completely eliminates any hope of it
Future settlement and dealing
Apple is currently using Intel modems
Waiting to design their own modems
Qualcomm alongside Facebook and Google
They are leading a fierce media campaign on Apple
To take revenge on her and they are the cause of rumors
The collapse of iPhone sales and the return of iPhone X production
Failed to contact xs max and sales
The weak for xr
Colcom lost Apple as a customer
Google and Facebook were subject to criticism
From Tim Cook to sell them citizens' data
For data collection institutions
IPhone Islam is a thank you effort
I wish you would pay attention to the advertisements of the news sites in the application. Once you got an article announced, all of it fabricated words about Saudi Arabia and incites the readers.
And I told you from then on
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Thank you very much, iPhone Islam
I am of the opinion that Apple withdraw from Egypt
And do not embarrass itself, the purchasing power is in
Egypt is weak and discontent abounds
And grumbling about life in general let alone
For iPhone
I guess iPhone sales are not there
More than a thousand phones in the whole country
Most of the Egyptians also buy devices
Android and they love it
I wish you could inform your strategic and genius opinion of Apple to withdraw from Egypt .. and not to Yvonne Islam .. because, God willing, you are a well-known technical expert :)
My brother Ramzi, thousand iPhones to all of Egypt !! Is this reasonable talk for a country with a population of 100 million people !! Don't you know that Egypt has businessmen, wealthy people, and officials who own hundreds and thousands of millions!
My brother Majid
A thousand phones are just a fantasy 😊😊😊
God knows
My brother Omar
You look making fun of me
I never claimed genius, just a passing comment
(Just a passing comment) !!! Trust me, brother Ramzi, you are much better than that .. iPhone Islam is the best Arab site for technology in general and Apple in particular. The website’s followers are thousands, and if all thousands of followers put (just a passing comment), we will lose the credibility of the comments and exchange views .. But the comments are important to raise the level of dialogue and topics .. I am a good follower of the site and read the comments and analyzes carefully .. You especially have a culture And technical information, God willing, is a lot ... But to claim a transient opinion of a whole country in front of one company in front of a thousand followers ??? .. I repeat, I think you are better than that .. I do not mock you and I have never mocked anyone .. and thank you And for our distinguished website, iPhone Islam ...
Egypt is sovereign and has the right to impose what it deems appropriate to its internal system, and the idea of the withdrawal of Apple from Egypt or even from a poor country that I do not see fit for a giant company like Apple, the fact that the customer is one of the company's assets, and I see the customer with the companies is much more important than buying a product in a way. Transient ,,,
I see Apple's board of directors rewriting policy toward customers as professionally as they reformulate tech innovations.
He has affairs in his creation
Best news article on the margin 😍💙
Nice news, thank you
A profitable company that the customer does not care about
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Especially when Egypt attended Apple in connection with price manipulation. If Apple did not respond and go back to selling the iPhone at its normal price. Although the majority prefer Huawei and Samsung.
Various, many and useful news today
Thank you Yvonne Islam
Shikraa Yvonne Islam
Today there are many news
The watch is very useful. I am getting tired and I felt that I am not normal, and then the clock gave me an alert that my heart beats are 120 beats / d high even though she does not notice that I am doing sports
Useful news, thank you 🌹