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Samsung expects a 60% drop in profits
Just as it happened with Apple, which addressed investors that it expects to see a decrease in returns, and indeed this happened weeks ago. Samsung is also experiencing the same crisis as it has written to investors that it expects a 60% decline in the company's revenues and profits during the first quarter of 2019. The company has achieved sales of 60.56 trillion Korean won during the first quarter of 2018 and said it expects the number to decline to 51-53 trillion. . As for profits, it was 15.64 trillion won and is expected to be 6.1-6.3 trillion. Reports said that the reason for this decline is the drop in the price of chips, as well as the decline in demand for screens.
Apple plans to split iTunes Mac into several programs
Reports have revealed that Apple intends to split iTunes in Mac OS into several separate programs. The report explained that with the increase in Apple's focus on the field of services, iTunes has become very complex, so Apple is currently working on providing a separate application for Music, another for PodCast, a third for Books, a fourth for TV programs, a fifth for dealing with the iPhone, and so on. This ends the current role of iTunes, which does everything. The report did not clarify whether Apple will be satisfied with this update in Mac, ie Windows will be deprived of it and continue to obtain a bundled application for services, or will it prevent Windows users from obtaining the next Apple services as it is rumored?
Huawei welcomes the sale of 5G chipsets to Apple
In conjunction with a series of news that Apple has problems providing the 5G chip by Intel. A Bloomberg report revealed that Huawei had contacted Apple officials and told them that it had no objection to providing a 5G communications chip to Apple for upcoming iPhones. This offer is a strong way out for Apple, especially since the providers of this type of chip are currently two companies, Qualcomm and Samsung, and Apple has many problems with both of them. But there is a serious obstacle facing Huawei, which is the national security challenges, because of the relations of Chinese companies with the Chinese government, which the US government has hostile to. Therefore, it is not expected that the supplier of the SIM card for the first American phone will become a Chinese entity.
Amazon has thousands of employees to hear Alexa's requests
A report by Bloomberg revealed that Amazon, in its endeavor to develop Alexa, has employed thousands of employees in several regions around the world, such as India, Costa Rica, Romania, and even America, and their job is to hear the questions that Alexa users ask. The report said that although the questioner's data is hidden, only his first name and account number are shown, but not his full name or address, but there are immoral matters as Alexa sometimes observes the voice of a woman singing while showering, children screaming, and other things. And Amazon created a chat app between listening staff to enable them to message each other with useful clips, but some of them actually share recordings of customers they find entertaining. With this procedure, Amazon aims to quickly identify the questions and thus meet them, so its personal assistant is the real competitor to Google in the quality of responding to questions.
On its part, Amazon confirmed this, but explained that it is a normal procedure to improve the service, such as recording customer service calls; She said that not everything the customer asks is recorded and heard by a real person, but rather this happens with very few users and randomly to train employees and develop artificial intelligence.
Gartner Center: Global demand for computers continues to decline
The Gartner Statistical Center revealed a 4% decline in sales of personal computers during the first quarter of this year compared with the past. The report said that despite the market decline, Lenovo witnessed a 6.9% improvement in sales, which increased its market share to 22.5% compared to 20.1%. Followed by HP, which lost its first position to become the second with a share of 21.9%, and then Dell with a share of 17.6%. As for Apple, it maintained its fourth position despite the decline in the number of its devices sold 100 million devices to 3.97 million, or 2.5% decline in sales, but its market share increased due to the market decline and became 6.8%.
The following image shows sales in America only.
Netflix has stopped Apple AirPlay support to prevent it from following users
Netflix users on Apple devices faced bad news this week as the company suddenly stopped Apple's broadcasting capability, known as AirPlay, due to technical problems. The company explained that these problems are, of course, solved when supporting AirPlay 2, but this will not happen because AirPlay 2 technology does not provide them with what is known as "digital identifiers", a technology that Net Flex uses to find out if their user gets a good experience from the broadcast that he gets or not. Accordingly, they stopped the service. But at the same time they made it clear that those who want to enjoy watching on TV can do so through applications, whether supported in the TVs themselves or the Netflix application on the Apple TV itself. Because when viewing from within the application, the company can know how good the user experience is (in short, it monitors you, but the company reminds it in a tactful way).
Apple updates betas to developers
This week, Apple released the second update of the developer betas for its upcoming systems, and these systems are:
IOS 12.3, which mainly came to add the TV App that Apple talked about at the last conference and includes more than 150 channels and broadcast services.
TvOS 12.3 TV system, which also came to add the TV App and support compatibility with iPhone in this feature.
◉ Apple TV 7.3 and also came to support the same previous feature, the TV App.
◉ Mac OS 10.14.5 and no new features were revealed in the system.
◉ watchOS 5.2.1 and its new features were not disclosed.
Leak: WhatsApp is working on an application for the iPad
The wabetainfo account on Twitter posted a tweet in which it revealed pictures showing that Facebook finally, after 9 years of delay, is currently working on a version of the WhatsApp application on the iPad. WhatsApp since its release and it works on the iPhone only and does not accept the iPad, not even in the same way and concept of other applications such as Telegram that sends an activation message on the phone so that you can type the number on the iPad. Currently, iPad users can use WhatsApp via the Web page. The release date has not been revealed, it is only mentioned that it will soon be available to some users via the TestFlight app.
Firefox browser gets an important privacy update
Mozilla announced the development of its Firefox browser, preventing the so-called fingerprinting scripts, a technology that used to allow websites to create a kind of fingerprint for your device to track you across the Internet, even if you cleared cookies, as well as cryptomining scripts, which allow websites to mine using the visitors' computers. Mozilla announced that it has teamed up with the popular site and service Disconnect to monitor the list of sites that use these privacy-harmful technologies and users' devices. The features are currently available in the Firebox beta or Firefox Nightly version and later will be added to the main browser.
Miscellaneous news
◉ Apple announced the cancellation of the $ 99 fee that was paid for transferring user data from his old computer to the new one. The fee was paid for Apple employees to transfer the data from the device owner.
◉ A report and a poll revealed that 86% of American teenagers expect that their next phone will be an iPhone.
◉ A new update has been released from the Unc0ver jailbreak tool to become the Beta 49 version. The update is designed to fix all known instability issues. It is reported that the tool provides a jailbreak for devices from iOS 11 to iOS 12.1.2.
◉ Apple has appointed a specialist in artificial intelligence from Google to become part of Apple's artificial intelligence team led by John Giannandrea, the former Google leader.
◉ Microsoft announced that the maximum number of people in Skype group chats will be doubled to 50.
◉ Microsoft announced the launch of the first beta version of the Edge browser, which is based on the open source Chromium technology, "for Google Chrome."
◉ WhatsApp has launched a corporate version of its application on iOS, after many months of its availability on Android.
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A Bloomberg newspaper report revealed that Amazon is working on a competitor for Apple's AirPods. Of course, the Amazon headset will be available with Alexa's assistant, and it will come as usual at competitive prices, which is what distinguishes Amazon products.
◉ Apple launched the tvOS 12.2.1 update for the TV system yesterday evening, and it came to add new features to Siri as well as Apple's remote.
Google has raised the price of subscribing to its TV service by $ 10 for the direct subscriber and $ 15 for subscribers by Apple devices “Paying by Apple and therefore there is a commission deducted in favor of Apple.
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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Thank you for this nice topic
Everything became for him in return, and in return for high greed filled the horizon ,, services are in exchange for money and the price increases. Shippers come outside the box and sometimes headphones and companies win billions and do not want to reduce to a single cent, but rather raise their prices day after day
Thank you
Deactivate iTunes from Windows, so that the iPhone holder keeps having to buy a Mac!
It's called a frustration originally
Mind .. how to stop iTunes for Windows and Windows is the widespread system by about XNUMX% compared to about XNUMX% for Mac?
Where is the news of new Samsung phones, especially the A80?
Thank you 😘
Nice news and finally download WhatsApp Business 🙄