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This week, Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple, had emailed a message to the company’s employees regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s request to unlock a certain iPhone device. Using the subject line “Thank you for your support,”, the email contains a number of references to the open letter that Cook sent out last week.
Earlier this week, a federal judge had ordered Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by unlocking a certain iPhone device linked to the terrorist attacked that happened in December of last year in the city of San Bernardino in the state of California. The court order originally had Apple reply to the order in five days, which means that the deadline for the response would be Tuesday of next week.
It is kind of like in the movie Minority Report. But instead of waving your hands in front of a giant screen, you are doing it using your fingers over the display screen of your iPhone or iPad. Yup, it sounds more like science fiction at the moment, but Apple actually has a new patent that proposes exactly that.
Apparently so, according to a Bloomberg report. Ever wonder how Google the creator of the Android mobile operating system, rival to Apple’s own iOS, manages to have its search engine inside iPhone and iPad devices? Well, it turns out that Google has paid Apple a whopping one billion dollars just to have it search engine included in the iOS environment.
According to the latest forecast by research firm Gartner, it appears that this year, consumers will be buying less hardware products such as personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Yes, Gartner’s numbers indicate that the volume of end user sales will increase to 2.4 billion units this year, but the growth rate will be painfully slow -- only 1.9 percent compared to last year’s numbers.
Like Hulu, yet another third party is trying to turn the Apple Watch into more than just a wearable device. Peel, a manufacturer of smart remotes, has just debuted a universal remote control mobile app designed to be used on Apple’s one and only smartwatch (so far).
It has been reported that for 2016, Apple is planning to produce fewer smartphones. Some industry watchers are now saying that this may be a sign that the iPhone maker might be having some sales related woes.
It is no secret that mobile users in India are not exactly as financially flexible as those based in other smartphone markets such as the United States or the United Kingdom. Apple must have realized this because it has decided to reduce the prices of its newest flagship devices, the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus.
How fast time flies. Another year is about to pass, and no doubt people are now looking forward to the next year while at the same time wondering what is next. As for Apple’s legion of fans, the question for them is: what can they hope to expect from the tech giant in 2016? Is it gonna be sort of the same old, same old? Or is the iPhone maker cooking up something new for next year? Here is what we know so far.
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