The iPhone was first released in 2007, but at the dawn of the decade it was still a relatively niche product, confined to one wireless carrier and targeted at the early technology adopter. Now it’s a much bigger deal — in the first calendar quarter of 2010, Apple sold 8.7 million iPho...
While Intel and AMD are ahead of Apple when it comes raw performance, it looks like the tech giant might have found another reason to start developing its own fully functional processor; security. Since Intel and AMD chips are vulnerable to hacking, Apple will be ...
Rather than scattering its investments across a wide range of silicon architectures, Apple's mobile strategy focused on only one silicon chip designer, resulting in vast economies of scale benefiting one company. This has dramatically shifted the industry. However, Apple's recent development of mobile...
Two years ago, Apple surprised the world with the tech-laden, $999 iPhone X. The usual suspects complained about its stratospheric pricing and assured their audiences that there was no chance it would gain traction because "some users" were assumed to find it too expensive. But this year, A...
Apple had to do something to get more people to upgrade rather than hold on to their devices even longer. Dropping the price of the iPhone 11 $50 cheaper than the XR was a start, including a free year of Apple TV+ family helps, but there are still plenty of iPhone users who are ...
June 29, 2007, was a momentous day in the tech world — on this day, Apple Inc. released the iPhone, the world’s first-ever “smartphone.” In the history of civilization, there is only one mark that matters — the line delineating life before and after the launch of the iPhone. An...
I’ve had Apple products for almost as long as I’ve been interested in tech, yet in all that time, I’ve never really put much thought into how I use my devices. But, like many people squinting bleary-eyed and hungover into the dawning of a new year, I’ve realized it’s about...
All Apple would need to do is licence its technology to others and it wouldn't need price insensitive early adopters. The difference is that it chooses not to. That's fine and that is where the comment does reflect reality - but that happens industry wide anyway. On top of that both...
director of analysis at NPD Group. “It was intended to be something that would get Mac users into the store at a time when there was pretty slow growth in the PC industry. This was going to be a nice holiday offering for Apple, but it was sort of an incentive to get users excited...
John Biggs writes how the Apple Watch changed the world. Not just the watch industry, but people in general. Watch analysts believe that Apple created a halo effect. Of the millions of people who bought and wore an Apple Watch, a majority had never worn or thought about wearing a watch....