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News on the margin the week of January 10-17


Tim Cook's guard is the lowest in the world, at $ 310

Apple revealed that the insurance and guarding of its boss, "Tim Cook," cost Apple only $ 310 in 2018, and Tim had assigned Apple in 2015 an insurance of $ 700, and thus Tim Cook became the least expensive official in the major companies; For example, Alphabet is spending $ 600 to insure the head of Google. Intel spent $ 1.2 million to insure its Amazon boss, so it spent $ 1.6 million to insure Jeff Bezos. The head of Facebook is considered the most expensive, as his company spent 7.3 million in 2017 and he expects the number to reach $ 10 million in 2018, a huge increase, as it cost his company only 2.3 million in 2013.

It is noteworthy that the insurance of technical officials is not intended to protect against assassination, such as politicians, but rather to protect against piracy, espionage and privacy, so that companies rent a private plane for the transportation of leaders for fear of passengers spying on the secrets of their companies whose value exceeds the budgets of countries.


New in Apple's Qualcomm war

Qualcomm defended itself in the case against it with monopoly that without Qualcomm, the iPhone would not exist in the first place; Qualcomm added that it has a prominent role in the form that smart phones have reached in their current form, so the amounts and fees that they request are not high or illegal, but rather in return for the services they do.

◉ Jeff William, in charge of Apple's COO operations, stated that Qualcomm refused to provide Apple with the iPhone XS / XR SIM cards due to Apple's refusal to pay the license fee. It is reported that Qualcomm requires that companies pay fees to purchase the chip and license fees (fees for using the chip) in exchange for selling them the products. Apple explained that this decision to refuse the sale is the reason for Apple's delay in providing 5G services

◉ A German court has dismissed a new Qualcomm patent infringement case against Apple.


IPhone XI rumors

Several sites have spread rumors about the upcoming iPhone, such as the new design of the camera, which we talked about in a previous article -this linkHere are the most prominent new rumors:

Triple for higher copies: Rumors revealed that Apple has already decided to use the triple camera in the iPhone XI and the device will come with it. The cheaper phone, the successor to the Xr, will come with a dual camera like the current Xs.

Front cameraApple relies on the 7/8 / X / Xs / XR in the front camera on a capacity of 7 megabytes, and improvements are being made to it. But the news says that Apple will introduce an all-new camera in XI, where the capacity will be increased to 10 megabytes and the sensors and lenses will be changed.

No C port: Despite the strong rumors that Apple will permanently switch to the C port, reports have begun saying that Apple will postpone an additional year and continue to launch the iPhone with the same since the traditional charging.


Apple releases iPhone Xs / Xr case

◉ Apple released the iPhone Xs / Xr case, as well as the Max version. The new cover comes with a storage capacity that deceived many sites, as the Xs version came with a capacity of 1369 mAh compared to 1877mah for the cover of the iPhone 6 / 6s and 2365mah for the cover of the iPhone 7, so the sites remember that the capacity is less, but actually the storage capacity is calculated in WH, i.e. the product of the volts and amperes . And Apple has used higher-volt batteries. For comparison, the cover of the iPhone XS with a capacity of 10.1Wh (1369mah), the cover of the iPhone 6 / 6s, its capacity is 7.13, and the cover of the iPhone 7 with a capacity of 8.98Wh, where Apple used batteries with double volts of 7.37 volts compared to the traditional 3.79 volts in previous versions. It is reported that the cover price is $ 129 for either the iPhone Xs, XR or the Max.

◉ The new shipping cover sale page on the Apple Malaysia website revealed the cover's support for the disappeared Apple AirPower charger, and this is the first time in a while that it returns, so give the name of the shipper to Apple websites after the company deleted everything related to its product that it has failed to launch so far. It is worth noting that Apple later deleted the phrase about the charger from the product page.

◉ iPhone XS case buyers revealed that it actually works with iPhone X without any problems.


Apple is booking 50 seats a day to travel to China, and spends $ 150 million on tickets

In a paper leaked to newspapers, the United States airline revealed that Apple is its most important customer and spends $ 150 million annually on tickets. The report said that Apple reserves 50 business class seats daily on aircraft flying from Shanghai, meaning that there is a permanent pre-reservation of 50 seats per day so that any leader in Apple at any time can travel immediately to China. The company explained that 25% of Apple's spending is for trips to Shanghai, and it generates $ 35 million in revenue from the company with this line. The report also shows Apple's other favorite destinations. Hong Kong comes second after Shanghai, Taiwan Airport, London, South Korea, fifth, Singapore, Myung Germany, Tokyo, then Beijing, and in the tenth place, the Israeli Ben Jurin Airport in Palestine.

For its part, the airline issued a statement clarifying that this advertisement is internal and not intended for public media publication.


Samsung launches the S10 on February 20, and the iPhone XS is faster

Samsung announced that it will be scheduled for February 20, after a month and 3 days, to launch its newest phone, the S10, which will come with a new design, a "O" camera, and the latest SD855 processor. It will also provide a copy of it later that supports the fifth generation networks. Reports said that Samsung has postponed the launch of its foldable phone to April, because Huawei will launch a similar phone at the WMC conference in the period between February 25-28, and Samsung leaders preferred to wait for recognition so that there is no preference for the Huawei phone.

The funny thing is that performance tests of the expected phone were monitored on the Geekbench platform, and the phone achieved the performance of the single core 3413 points and the multiple cores 10256 points, and the device comes with 6 GB of memory, while the iPhone XS, which comes with 4 GB memory, achieves the performance of 4797 points per core, "40% speed" and achieves cores Multiplayer "9.8% faster".


Apple: We replaced 11 million batteries for a price of $ 29

Apple said that it changed 11 million batteries in the system to replace defective batteries out of warranty at a price of $ 29 at a time when it was previously selling them for $ 69 and changed only 1-2 million batteries, which made the company lose nearly half a billion dollars in revenue. The company said that this procedure is one of the reasons for the decline in the company's revenues during the last period, which is a strange justification, as this procedure may reduce profits, not revenues because 11 * 29 means revenues of $ 319 million compared to previously 2 * 69 means $ 138 million, i.e. the batteries system caused an increase in Apple's income. Of batteries worth nearly $ 200 million (income, not profits).


The laptop market fell 4.3% and the Mac 3.8%

Gartner revealed that laptops continued to decline during the last quarter of 2018, as it sold 68.6 million devices against 71.69 million, a decrease of 4.3%. Lenovo grabbed the top spot from HP after its share rose from 21.9% to 24.2%, and HP fell to second place with a share of 22.4%. As for Apple, it maintained its second position despite its decline by 3.8%, to become 4.92 million sales and a market share of 7.2% (its market share increased due to its decline less than the market decline).


Miscellaneous news

◉ Anker company, one of the largest Apple accessories manufacturers, announced that it will provide the C To Lightning cable after two months in the market, and this means that Apple has sent its approval and MFi approval to companies or is sending it now, and the cable will not continue exclusively on Apple. It is reported that the cable must be certified by Apple in order to support the iPhone's PD fast charging.

◉ Jennifer Bailey, Apple Pay chief of payment, received a lecture at the TRANSACT conference, which takes place April 30, May 2, and is considered the most important conference on payment technologies in the world.

◉ A US judge issued a ruling that the police have no right to force you to look at the iPhone to open it or place your finger to force the fingerprint button.

◉ Foxconn announced that its revenue fell 8.3% in December 2018 (last month) compared to the same month. The company said the reason was a drop in sales of some customers (of course, we know who is the primary Foxconn customer whose sales are declining).

◉ Apple launched the fourth trial version of iOS 12.1.3, tvOS 12.1.2 and watchOS 5.1.3.

◉ VLC announced that the number of downloads for its popular app has reached 3 billion. And she promised an upcoming update “she didn't say when” to support AirPlay.

◉ Starting tomorrow, Friday, January 18, Apple will sell the HomePod in China and Hong Kong.

◉ The Nike Sports Shoes Company launched a new shoe at a price of $ 350, whose advantages can be controlled by an application on the iPhone. And the shoe includes a 505 mAh battery and charges wirelessly.

Dialog, which supplies Apple's power management chips for its devices, announced that it had achieved the target of revenues, which reached 431 million dollars, and had previously expected 430-470 million. With this, Dialog is almost the only one that has not been affected by the decline in Apple's sales.

◉ After more than one company announced its support, a developer analyzed HomeKit for the TV and showed that it supports sound control, display source, lighting, and other features.

◉ A US court has issued a final ruling fining Apple $ 440 million in favor of VirnetX for violating its patents. In 2016, the court had ruled that Apple fined 302 million, then increased the amount to 439.7 million, and finally a final ruling was issued confirming the amount and Apple must pay. It is worth noting that the case dates back to 2010 and the company had obtained a judgment of 502.6 million in another violation of its patents by Apple.

◉ It has been reported that Johny Srouji, a leader in Apple and responsible for its processor, is a candidate for the position of president of Intel, within a list of 5 leaders. Johnny had worked at Intel from 1990 to 2005 and joined Apple in 2008 and is considered one of the company's most important and highly paid leaders. (He receives a salary of $ 1 million annually and bonuses of $ 3 million annually, in addition to having received shares of 20 million before.)

◉ Apple added the 2012 iMac devices as discarded devices, and this term means that they do not provide maintenance and spare parts for these devices at its headquarters.


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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