News on the margin the week December 31 - January 7

Foxconn will manufacture an electric car and an S21 coming on January 14th, Intel is providing a destination fingerprint for bank machines and Facebook Pages without Like, Apple leaders are getting double Tim Cook's income and other news on the sidelines.

Foxconn will build an electric car

Looks like we'll know who will be Apple's future electric vehicle manufacturer. In the world of the iPhone, iPad and Mac, Apple relies mainly on Foxconn and a number of other companies such as Pegatron and Westron, but what about the car that is rumored to be coming after 5 years? It seems that it will be Foxconn as well, because the company has contracted with Byton, the Chinese specialist in electric cars, for Foxconn to manufacture an electric car for it. The car is characterized by acceleration from zero to 100 in 5.5 seconds and can walk a distance of 430-550 kilometers on a single charge and supports fast charging of the car battery from zero to 80% in 35 minutes. So will Foxconn become a professional manufacturer of cars and thus become Apple's factory in this field as well?

A video of the cars that Foxconn will build

The iPhone 12 family controls 76% of phone sales

The CIRP Research Center revealed its October and November sales of the iPhone launch months. The report revealed that 76% of sales of iPhone devices in the US market were for devices from the iPhone 12 family. The report said that it was the highest percentage of control for a new phone, and last year, the iPhone 11 family represented 69% of sales. In view of the phones, it appears that the traditional 12-inch iPhone 6.1 comes out with a 27% share of the list and was unable to defeat the popularity of the iPhone 11 last year, which achieved 39%. The report said that the iPhone 12 mini at the bottom of the list with a sales share of only 6%, a share less than what was expected for this phone.

Intel provides a faceprint camera for bank machines

Intel officially announced the provision of the RealSense ID sensor, which is similar to Apple's FaceID fingerprint, and the company said that it is mainly targeting bank machines, points of sale and smart locks to be able to enter the place or even use your bank account without the need to take out the card. The company said that the device is a camera and a scanner that aims to simplify the entry procedures and use of various services in a real-time manner, and it identifies users more accurately with the passage of time, whether they grow hair or use glasses and other conditions. The first copy, F455, will be available at a price of only $ 99 as of March 1, while the version designed for companies is priced at $ 750. According to the company, the chance of error is 1 in a million, and the correct recognition accuracy is 99.76%. It is intended not to make mistakes and tell you that you are not the allowed person, and of course it works with AES-256 encryption.

Facebook announces that Pages will be No Like

Facebook announced the re-design of the pages and the way they appear; The company said that it will remove the Like button on Like pages, and it will switch to Follow Follow, and the company said that by doing this it is more logical, it does not mean that you follow the page that you “like” its content. The company said there will be design modifications to provide easy navigation between profile and pages, add tasks for page managers, stats and other new details. The site said that the changes will gradually appear to users.

Apple AR glasses will soon enter a new development stage

A DigiTimes report revealed that Apple will soon move the project to release the AR glasses to the second phase of the Prototype design. The report said that the first copies did not meet Apple's expectations regarding battery life and the weight of the glasses, so the company started a new design that is expected to last for about two months and then enters a phase called "engineering verification" and lasts 6-9 months, which makes sources say that it is expected to enter production at the beginning of the year. Next.

Apple may use GaN to reduce the size of its chargers

A report by the Chinese newspaper DigiTimes, which is close to the factories of Apple suppliers, indicated that the American company is considering relying on GaN materials and technology in order to enable it to manufacture chargers in small and light sizes. The report said that Apple has asked 3 suppliers from Ireland, China and America to manufacture GaN chips during 2021. The GaN-on-Si chargers have the advantage of reducing size and temperature as well without sacrificing performance and charging power. It is likely that if Apple decided to apply this command, the charger would be available, and possibly with the release of the iPhone 13 at the end of the year.

Samsung will be the exclusive supplier for LTPO screens in the iPhone 13 Pro

Many reports say that Apple will rely entirely on OLED in the 4 versions of the iPhone 13 at the end of this year. In order to distinguish the Pro version from the regular version, it will use the LTPO h technology, which is characterized by its lower energy consumption compared to the LTPS screens it is currently using. This week, TheElec said that the Korean company Samsung has obtained an exclusive supply contract for this type of screen, which will also come with a 120Hz update. Samsung has already presented its first phones with this technology, the Note 20 Ultra. The report said that LG will not be able to compete with Samsung in the Pro and Pro Max screens, and it will only provide OLED screens for the iPhone 13 and 13 mini, but it plans to compete with its Korean sister in the next year 2022.

Apple leaders get twice as much as Tim Cook

A press report revealed the salaries and bonuses obtained by Apple leaders in 2020, as Tim Cook earned a total income of $ 14.7 million, while Luca Mastery, Deputy Tim Cook for financial affairs, received $ 26.2 million, which is roughly the same as Jeff Williams, COO, and the same as that of the store manager. With this, Tim Cook has received half of the salary of his deputies, but it remains that Tim gets a number of shares that are determined according to the performance of the company's share, and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars, and Tim Cook last September got about 334 thousand shares (the share price is now $ 128).

Apple Store increases the difference in revenue over Google

A recent report by the Sensor Tower Center revealed that the Apple and Google stores achieved $ 110.9 billion in revenues in 2020, and Apple reaped the lion’s share of it with 65%, while Google was 35%. Although both stores achieved almost equal growth rates of 30%, due to the large share of Apple, the difference between the revenue of the Apple Store versus Google increased to $ 33.7 billion, compared to $ 25.8 billion last year.

A special version of the AirPods Pro to mark the Year of the Taurus

Apple launched a special version of the AirPods Pro with the bull sign on the occasion of the beginning of the New Year in China, which will be called the Year of the Ox, as China releases every year a name on an animal for the year, and currently we are in the year of the "rat" in the Chinese name and the Chinese New Year begins on February 12 . Apple said it will provide 25400 copies, only 11480 in stores and 13920 online. Apple said it will provide it in Asian countries such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia.

Notebook sales break the 200 million mark for the first time

The TrendForce statistic revealed that NoteBook sales broke for the first time the barrier of 200 million devices in 2020 and achieved a 22.5% increase from last year. The center expects that computers will continue to grow with a growth rate of 8.6% in the current 2021. The center said that there was a strong demand for computers with the Google Chromebook system, causing the share of Windows computers to drop to less than 80% for the first time. The center expected that by the end of the year, the market shares are expected to be 70-75% for Windows, 15-20% for Chrome and less. From 10% to Apple. The center said that the launch of the M1 computers caused a 0.8% increase in Apple's market share.

Miscellaneous news

◉ A report revealed that all upcoming iPhone devices by the end of 2021 will come with a LiDAR camera sensor.

◉ Updated Checkra1n jailbreak tool to version 0.12.2 to fix a number of issues as well as USB support in Apple 4K TV.

Samsung has published an invitation to its followers to attend the launch of its latest S21 phone, which will be next Thursday, January 14th. The Galaxy Buds Pro headset is expected to be launched at the same conference.

◉ At the end of last Thursday, December 31, Adobe officially stopped support for Flash Player, and Adobe said that it will block any Flash Player content as of January 12, in order to protect users' safety.

◉ A report said that the iPad 9, expected to be released at the beginning of the year, will be based on the Air 3 design that was launched in March 2019.

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