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News on the margin week 11-18 April


Apple may have paid $ 6 billion to Qualcomm

A report revealed that Apple may have been forced to pay $ 6 billion for Qualcomm in the settlement that took place last week. And Apple was previously paying $ 7.5 before the cases, but now it is expected that Qualcomm decided to punish Apple for the settlement and raise the value to between $ 8 to $ 9 due to Apple's appeal to the court. So far, it is not known whether Apple will rely entirely on Qualcomm or only buy some chips from them, but in general there is good news that Apple now can get 5G chips.


Report: Samsung launched its foldable phone to precede Apple

In conjunction with the bad news about the failure of the Samsung foldable phone. A report by Bloomberg newspaper revealed that sources inside Samsung told them that the decision to launch the device was not currently planned, but the company’s leaders and major investors told managers that their company was always accused of imitating Apple and they had to present a device that preceded Apple and was innovative, and accordingly the launch of the foldable device was accelerated and revealed by the company Before Apple as well as before Huawei, which always wanted preceded Samsung. However, this haste appears to have caused it to be presented without adequate studies, which causes the current problems.


Samsung is postponing the launch of its foldable phone

Samsung's newest and most expensive device in its history appears to be on the way to forming a new failure story for the company. Initially, Samsung made huge claims that its device could endure more than 100 thousand times folding, but after it reached the auditors, it damaged them within a day or two. Samsung replied that it would investigate the matter and then explained that the reason was that they had removed a very thin screen protector that I had placed and said that there are instructions not to remove it, otherwise the screen may be damaged. But the shock came within days, as one of the reviewers indicated that the screen also malfunctioned without removing the screen protector that Samsung claimed was removing it. Days later, Samsung officially announced that it decided to postpone the launch of the device to a later date that has not yet been announced. The newspapers suggested that it would be two or three months, but some feared and said that this is a prelude to a new failure, similar to the Note 3. You have damaged after days. Would you risk two thousand dollars!

◉ The famous iFixIt website disassembled the Samsung foldable phone and gave us internal pictures of the hardware and the phone got a difficulty rating of 2 (the lower the number, the more difficult it was to repair), which is a very difficult evaluation, as its brother S10 got 3 and the iPhone Xs got 6. This means that the phone The foldable is very difficult to repair compared to any other known phone. The device internally includes 2 batteries, the first is 2135mah and the second is 2245mah


Report: Apple intends to support the mouse on the iPad

A recent report revealed that Apple intends to introduce a new shift in iPad devices to improve its use as an alternative to the computer as Apple has been promoting in recent years. This move will be to support mouse connectivity. Since the iPad was released, Apple has supported the connection to the keyboard, but some applications require accurate use of the mouse, so it was said that Apple is currently studying support for the mouse within devices that connect to Bluetooth with the iPad so that you can use it in specific applications


Samsung is investing $ 115 billion in chipsets

Samsung officially announced its plan to become the first in the world not only in the field of memory chips, but also the logic chip (translated by logic chips). And Samsung's main competitor in this field is Intel of America. Samsung said that it will pump 63 billion dollars in the field of scientific research in addition to 52 billion dollars in the field of infrastructure for production lines and factories, during the plan to be implemented until 2030, that is, an average investment of 10 billion dollars annually in it. Samsung is one of Apple's main suppliers, despite the ongoing disputes between them, but some news has talked that Samsung is offering Apple to provide it with 5G connectivity cards.


Report: Apple is the best customer service for a computer company

Laptop Mag magazine revealed its report and customer service ranking for laptop companies, and Apple came in the lead alone, with a total of 91 points. The evaluation is divided into two parts, online support and the number of points by 60 points, Apple scored 54 and was not surpassed by the market of Razer, the manufacturer of the famous gaming computers, which came with 58 points. The second part of the evaluation is telephone support and the number of points is 40 points, in which Apple scored 37 points, and only Acer came out with 38 points. But in the overall evaluation, Apple is first with 91 points, followed by Razer with 88 points, Dell with 78 points, and Samsung with 73 points.


Apple will focus on Siri and AR at WWDC

A report revealed that Apple will focus on some points at the WWDC conference that will be held in a month and a half. Siri will get a large part of the importance and radical updates that Apple will talk about at the conference, such as the possibility of requesting that Siri send certain attachments by mail, "Send such-and-such and such-file to so-and-so" and the possibility of booking tickets, flights and trains by Siri. In addition, of course, the AR field that Apple focuses on recently, Apple will reveal exclusive updates to it with the Swift language, and it will also witness a great development in the field of scanning your documents from the current format available.


An American teenager asks for one billion dollars in compensation from Apple

An 18-year-old American teenager named "Osman Bah" has filed a lawsuit against Apple asking her to compensate a billion dollars because her facial recognition system has classified him as a thief. Othman said that there was a thief who used his stolen ID card to carry out thefts of $ 1200 on May 31, 2018, and as a result, Apple programmed surveillance cameras to identify, know and monitor the faces of visitors. Later, Apple classified “Othman” as the thief and informed the police that arrested “Othman” on November 29, but police officers watched the theft and video and made sure that the thief was completely another person, not Osman, and released him and the charge was dropped from all states except for New Jersey, which continues to be considered “ Othman “A wanted criminal, which prompted Othman to sue Apple and accuse the facial recognition system of causing his arrest and classifying him as a thief


Apple may launch AirPods and brushes soon

◉ Renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed that Apple is currently working on releasing 2 new headphones from the AirPods family. The headphones will focus on sound insulation, and one of these headphones will come with a completely new design. The report said that Apple may launch one of them at the end of this year and postpone the second for its advancement in 2020, and most likely it will be the version with a different design.

◉ In another context, the US Patent Office revealed that Apple had patented a brush with a design close to the design of the Apple Pencil. It appears the company wants to offer a family of products aimed at artists.


Goodbye BBM service

The Indonesian company, Emtek, which has a license to work on developing the BBM chat service for BlackBerry, announced that the service will be permanently terminated as of May 31. The company has repeatedly tried over the course of 3 years to re-popularize the popular legendary chat application, but it seems that its time has passed, which made it decide to stop and stop the service. It is noteworthy that the famous Canadian BlackBerry company itself has declined significantly and then stopped developing its system and applications and tried to provide Android devices to no avail.


Miscellaneous news

◉ Google launched its fitness app called Fit Activity in the Apple Store after it was exclusively for Android.

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◉ Apple has launched a YouTube channel called Apple TV to post videos and backstage photos of the content that you will display in the Apple TV app and its new service.

◉ A report revealed that Apple has instructed employees to give priority to repairing the Mac keyboard, which some users suffer from malfunctions. The report said that Apple's goal is to repair the device within 1 day only, so that it will be delivered to the customer the next day to present it to the device.

◉ JCPenney announced that it has discontinued Apple Pay support and all contactless payment services due to a delay in technical support and the store's current lack of availability.

◉ Apple this week celebrated Earth Day by lighting part of its logo in green.

◉ Apple has sent the third beta version of its iOS 12.3, Mac 10.14.5, tvOS 12.3 and 5.2.1 systems to developers.

◉ The head of AT&T said that he believes that companies should account for 5G customers according to the speed that reaches them, as the faster the speed increases, the higher the price.

Apple announced the expansion of its hardware recycling process and opened a new metal recycling plant in Maine Austin.


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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