News on the sidelines week 23-30 July

The iPhone 12 is smaller than the SE and Apple is the most valuable brand, revealing Victus' Gorilla Glass, Tim Cook is responding to monopoly charges, Telegram is suing Apple and other news on the sidelines ...

Forbes: Apple is still the most expensive brand in the world

Forbes announced its annual valuation of the most expensive brands in the world; As usual, Apple ranked first with a value of $ 241.2 billion, an increase of 17% over the past year. It was followed by Google, with a value of $ 207.5 billion, an annual increase of 24%, then Microsoft in third place, Amazon in fourth, and Facebook in fifth place. Most of the brands witnessed an increase in value, with the exception of some companies such as Facebook in the fifth place, and the value of their brand decreased by 21%, Samsung in the eighth place, and its value decreased by 5%, and Toyota in the 11th place and decreased by 7%.

It states that the report measures the brand value "the logo, company name and reputation" and not the value of the company as a whole.

Tim Cook responds to congressional accusations of monopoly

Yesterday was the hearing of the Congressional Antitrust Committee of the heads of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon and of course all of them defended themselves and denied the accusations; What interests us most is what Apple said through its CEO who denied these accusations and said that Apple is not a competitor to programmers as it has only 60 applications out of the 1.7 million applications in the store and it has provided developers over the years more than 150 thousand API tools in order to develop their work and help them To provide the best applications. Tim said that Apple is not a monopoly in the market in any area in which it operates or its devices are located, but rather does not usually have the largest market share. Tim mentioned the history of applications and how the developer used 50-60% of the value of the application in the advertisements and Apple came to provide him with a 30% commission, which has become a standard in the market, and despite the development of applications, but Apple did not impose a $ 1 additional fee on developers, so the same current fees in 2020 are Same as it was in 2008 when the store appeared.

You can watch the full 4-hour questionnaire of the 5 directors from this link.

The size of the iPhone 12 will be less than the SE 2020

Pictures of the 12-inch iPhone 5.4 screen were leaked on the Chinese communication platform Weibo, and the leak said with it the phrase "The true iPhone 12 screen is 5.4 inches and can be used with one hand; Isn't this the "falaj sheep" screen that you want to have.

The leak came in line with previous rumors that Apple will reduce the edges of the phone significantly, which will make the dimensions of the iPhone 12 with a size of 5.4 inches less than the dimensions of the iPhone SE 2020, which comes with a 4.7-inch screen. That is, we can metaphorically imagine it that you got an iPhone 8 Plus screen the size of an iPhone 8. It would really be cool.

The following image shows the iPhone 12 sizes compared to the current devices.

Qualcomm hints at the late launch of the iPhone 12

Qualcomm revealed in its financial report its expectations for the third quarter, in which it said that there is an important customer who will present a flagship phone that works with their 5G chips, but they expect to postpone the launch of his phone to the next quarter, which may affect the company's revenues. The company, of course, did not announce the name of Apple explicitly, but there is no customer who sells major phones and will use 5G chips from Qualcomm except Apple. The company's official statement confirmed a lot of rumors that Apple will announce the phones at the conference next month, but 5G copies of the iPhone will be postponed to October or perhaps November.

Telegram is suing Apple for a monopoly on downloading apps on iOS

It seems that everyone now wants to sue Apple, as the popular communication app Telegram announced that it has filed a monopoly complaint against Apple in the European Union; The company said that Apple had a monopoly on the right to download programs on the iPhone and prevented competition in this field, and that in 2016 they had a project to launch an application that would be a gaming platform, meaning that it would download games from it; But they were unable to launch this application in the store due to Apple regulations and decided to cancel the project. And they said that Apple's monopoly caused many cases of their condition, namely, of curbing the creativity of developers.

Of course, the Telegram complaint is strange, as they are asking Apple to enable them to download an alternative software store within the Apple software store, but in the end everyone has the right to complain.

Apple was the fastest growing company in China last quarter

A Counterpoint Research report revealed that Apple was the most growing smartphone company in the Chinese market last quarter (April-May-June), as it achieved a 32% increase in sales, followed by Huawei, an increase of 14%, while Vivo sales declined by 29% and its sister's father 31. % And Xiaomi 35%. It is mentioned that these numbers are the percentages of increase or decrease in sales and not market shares. The report said that in February Apple achieved 60% less sales than February 2019.

WhatsApp is studying the use of the application on 4 devices

Finally, after long years of delay, it seems that WhatsApp is convinced that you may need to use the application in several places at the same time, as leaked images on the WABetaInfo website revealed that WhatsApp is testing the ability to use the same account in different devices, a maximum of 4 devices. This feature is very important because it may mean that WhatsApp may obtain an application on Windows and iPad. Currently WhatsApp only works on the iPhone, and you can open a browser and access content and messaging and even applications are the same. If the iPhone does not work, you will not be able to communicate from the computer unlike any chat application in the world where you do not have to make your primary phone connected to the account connected to the Internet in order to It communicates from the computer.

Corning announces a new generation of Gorilla Glass under the name Victus

Corning announced a new generation of the iconic special Gorilla Glass with a new brand name Victus. The company said that it can withstand a fall from a distance of 2 meters, which is an increase of 25% compared to the previous generation Gorilla 6, which was 1.6 meters. Scratch resistance is twice as high. The company explained that the glass comes at the same economic cost as Gorilla Glass 6, which will make us see it soon in the market. Watch the promotional video for the glass:

Apple begins assembling the iPhone 11 in India

In a surprising piece of news, a report by the Economic Times stated that Apple has already started assembling the iPhone 11 in India; This is the first time that Apple assembles its latest phones in India, as it was previously focused on old devices such as 6s / 7/8 and others, but it seems that Apple began rapid steps to participate in the Indian government's initiative entitled "Made in India" as well as to protect itself from customs that It amounts to 22%, as well as the economic and military problems between China and India that affect the import of their phones from Foxconn factories in China. It is noteworthy that the current assembly is also taking place in Foxconn's factories in India and not the factories of a new company. Previous reports talked about the Taiwanese company allocating one billion dollars to invest in India.

FaceID sensor is coming for Mac

The codecs for the upcoming Mac Big Sur system, Big Sur, were able to access codes for the FaceID feature and the popular depth camera on the iPhone and iPad. These codes mean that Apple is currently working on developing a Mac computer that will come with a face print instead of or with the traditional fingerprint sensor. It is well known that Apple is currently developing a 13-inch MacBook pro version to be released before the end of the year with ARM processors called "Apple Silicon", so will this device be the first computer to be issued with a depth camera.

Miscellaneous news

◉ The organizers of the CES 2021 conference, which was scheduled to be held from January 6-9, 2021, announced that the conference is canceled this year and will be online only because they do not expect the end of the Corona before the date of their conference.

◉ Amazon revealed a completely updated version and a completely redesign of its Alexa personal assistant app. The version came with a lot of improvements and new features, not just a design, as the focus will be on providing benefits by the various applications on your device. The update will be released next month.

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Images were circulated that were said to be of the A14 processor, specifically its memory part. The leak said that the iPhone 12 devices will come with a 4 GB memory, while my 12 Pro will have a 6 GB memory.

◉ Google announced that it will soon introduce an application that enables iOS users to back up their devices that enables you to copy your photos, videos, contacts, and appointments and save them in the Google Drive service.

◉ Nintendo has unveiled a new version of the Mario Kart game that will be in the Wild West.

◉ A leak has revealed that Apple will, next month, unveil an update for iMac devices without waiting for the September conference.

◉ Apple revealed its new store in Thailand which is made entirely of glass. The store will start operating tomorrow, Friday.

Samsung has leaked pictures of the Galaxy Buds application, and the images show the new Samsung Live headset, which is expected to be unveiled at the Note 20 conference next week.

◉ The popular unc0ver jailbreak tool has been updated to version 5.3 to support iOS 12.4.8 jailbreak for iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and iPad Air.

◉ In Tim Cook's defense it was made clear that Apple never moved the fees, which is always 30%; But a Bloomberg report revealed a leaked email from Eddie Q to the company's managers proposing to increase the fees to 40% instead of 30%, but in the end this increase has not been approved, and perhaps this is for Apple's good luck now.

◉ Apple registered new batteries for the MacBook Air, and it came in a size of 49.9wh or 4380mah, which is exactly the same size as the current Air batteries, which makes us expect that there will be no changes in the design.

◉ Apple has patented a new bone-by-bone technology; That is, the AR / VR device you wear can hear you sounds without installing a headphone in the ear, or it can be attached and the sound is delivered in stereo form from several places so that the sound quality is improved.

◉ Reports revealed that LG will supply 20 million 6.1-inch OLED screen for iPhone 12.

◉ Apple has patented two iPads that can be connected together to provide exceptional functionality. The patent mentioned two devices with an I-screen that could be an iPad 2, but it often makes sense two devices an iPad. As a reminder, the patent is not for one dual-screen device, but rather two devices that connect together to provide a third device or special functions, and then you can separate them.

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