SAMSUNG JUST ATTACKED APPLE AND THIS TIME IT'S BAD

Samsung just released this 1-minute commercial for the Galaxy Smartphone. Titled “Growing Up,” it directly mocks the Apple iPhone and its history of competing with the Samsung Galaxy.

In the ad, Samsung suggests that its devices have always been a step ahead of Apple’s.when it comes to things like screen size, storage space, weatherproofing, and more.

Taking a page from Google’s Photos ads, Samsung highlights the pain iPhone photographers with smaller storage spaces feel when the “Storage Full” ,warning pops up when trying to shoot photos.The iPhone struggled with storage capabilities and the lack of a stylus and a big screen. For the longest time, it wasn't water-resistant.

Then Apple made it worse when the iPhone 7 came along. It forced him to use dongles -- those extra bits that you'll use, lose and spend even more money replacing.Even the woman whom our hero adores had a Samsung Galaxy, while he still labored in his love for the iPhone.

Still in the hilarious ad  his lover had wireless charging. The Apple fanperson had, well, cables and dongles.

                           

Finally, in 2017, he understands that love means getting the same phone as the one who makes your heart beat faster and lives life dongle-free.The ad also shows a guy and girl falling into a lake after the girl shoots a photo. The Samsung phone and the beautiful photo survives, but the non-waterproof iPhone is a goner.

Your take on the 60 seconds Above is likely to be down to whichever mobile tribe you identify with, but it is definitely one of Samsung’s best jabs at Apple to date.

Sources
Theverge.com

APPLE HAS A SERIOUS IPHONE 8 PROBLEM

Apple is reportedly planning three new iPhones for later this year—but one of them may be in trouble.

Over the last several days, several news reports have suggested that the iPhone 8, the unofficial name used to describe Apple's next big smartphone, could be delayed.

Those reports suggest the company is facing problems in its supply chain and technical troubles with critical features like a fingerprint sensor integrated into the display.

All the while, Apple is said to be pressuring its suppliers and employees to get the phone ready in time for an as-yet-announced September unveiling.

 Use of the company's virtual personal assistant Siri has fallen in the last year, according to a report, and Apple has made a big change to how customers pay for apps and music through digital services like its App Store.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts Wamsi Mohan and Stefano Pascale followed that report this week with a note of their own, claiming

 Apple's iPhone 8 could be delayed for three to four weeks. The analysts, who visited companies in Apple's supply chain, said that Apple is "working through" problems with the fingerprint sensor and 3-D face-scanner. Again, the analysts said Apple and its suppliers are working to fix the problems before it's too late.

 Apple's virtual personal assistant Siri lost 7.3 million monthly users, or about 15% of its total U.S. user base, according to data from researcher Verto analytics.Apple has taken its fight with graphics maker Imagination Technologies to another level by opening a 22,500-square-foot office just minutes from Imagination's headquarters in London. While Apple hasn't acknowledged the move, it's viewed as a shot over Imagination's bow, and an attempt by the iPhone maker to attract Imagination employees for its own graphics efforts.

Apple and Imagination are embroiled in a legal spat following the iPhone maker's decision to stop sourcing graphics technology for its iPhones from Imagination. Since then, Imagination's shares have plummeted and the company is for sale.

One more thing...

Apple announced this week that it's building a data center in China. The move will allow it to comply with a new Chinese law that requires all foreign companies wanting to do business there to open data centers in the country so they can store user data there.

Sources :
Fortune

APPLE FANS:MICROSOFT IS NO LONGER THE ENEMY

As Apple unveiled its iPad Pro, some wondered how the company had become a convert to an object that looks like a tablet and increasingly acts like a computer. Wasn't this Microsoft's idea?Three years after Cook's jab, the Surface Pro 3 is selling strong - strong enough that Microsoft is expected to launch a much-anticipated Surface Pro 4 at a special event on Tuesday.

In the meantime, Apple and Google have started to pay attention. This past September saw both companies introduce tablet-laptop hybrids: the Apple iPad Pro and the Google Pixel C.

Microsoft has posted a new TV commercial for the Surface Pro 4. It takes a big shot at Apple's recent ad that claimed the iPad Pro was a computer, stating the Surface Pro 4 has a powerful Intel processor and can run full Office apps.

The iPad Pro commercial is labeled "What's a computer" and tries to claim the tablet, with its optional keyboard combined with its touchscreen and pen, is somehow different that other PCs.The iPad Pro commercial is labeled "What's a computer" and tries to claim the tablet, with its optional keyboard combined with its touchscreen and pen, is somehow different that other PCs.

Where Apple and Android are going to have to convince developers and customers alike that their tablets can be a serious productivity platform, the Surface line has the advantage of Windows' 30-year history and Microsoft's reputation in the workplace.

But Apple and Google are simply attracting more developers, faster. Eventually they'll catch up.The world is changing, and so is the way we use our computers. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are just trying to stSources:d of the curve.

Sources:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/6F0BBEDA-9C7B-11E6-A942-2E624397FAB1

DEATH AT APPLE FACTORIES AND THE IPHONE'S CREATION NIGHTMARE

The sprawling factory compound, all grey dormitories and weather-beaten warehouses, blends seamlessly into the outskirts of the Shenzhen megalopolis. Foxconn’s enormous Longhua plant is a major manufacturer of Apple products.

 It might be the best-known factory in the world; it might also might be among the most secretive and sealed-off. Security guards man each of the entry points. Employees can’t get in without swiping an ID card; drivers entering with delivery trucks are subject to fingerprint scans. A Reuters journalist was once dragged out of a car and beaten for taking photos from outside the factory walls.

There were 18 reported suicide attempts that year alone and 14 confirmed deaths. Twenty more workers were talked down by Foxconn officials.The iPhone is made at a number of different factories around China, but for years, as it became the bestselling product in the world, it was largely assembled at Foxconn’s 1.4 square-mile flagship plant, just outside Shenzhen. The sprawling factory was once home to an estimated 450,000 workers. Today, that number is believed to be smaller, but it remains one of the biggest such operations in the world. If you know of Foxconn, there’s a good chance it’s because you’ve heard of the suicides.

In 2010, Longhua assembly-line workers began killing themselves. Worker after worker threw themselves off the towering dorm buildings, sometimes in broad daylight, in tragic displays of desperation – and in protest at the work conditions inside.

The epidemic caused a media sensation – suicides and sweatshop conditions in the House of iPhone. Suicide notes and survivors told of immense stress, long workdays and harsh managers who were prone to humiliate workers for mistakes, of unfair fines and unkept promises of benefits.

Apple may well be right when it argues that these facilities are nicer than others out there. Foxconn was not the  stereotypical conception of a sweatshop. But there was a different kind of ugliness. For whatever reason – the rules imposing silence on the factory floors, its pervasive reputation for tragedy or the general feeling of unpleasantness the environment itself imparts – Longhua felt heavy, even oppressively subdued.unprotected construction workers, open chemical spillage, decaying, rusted structures, and so on

Sources:
This is an edited extract from the Book: The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant

WHY MICROSOFT IS EATING UP APPLE MARKET SHARE QUICKER THAN EVERYBODY THOUGHT

Remember when buying a Mac meant that you got cutting-edge technology? Nowadays you're overpaying for old, stale ideas wrapped in "thin and light" aluminum shells.But Microsoft has made the PC interesting, relevant, and fun again. It began with Microsoft showing OEMs what a modern system should look like with the release of the Surface and Surface Pro line, then the Surface Studio. And now we have OEMs jumping on board the "Always Connected PC" bandwagon, which may finally bring cellular access to portables in a meaningful way.

Even Windows 10 S, Microsoft's cut-down, streamlined edition of Windows 10 -- a Windows RT reboot -- is an example of Microsoft thinking out of the box, Sure, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but there's nothing wrong with that.But while Apple's billions aren't tied to the success or failure of the Mac, the desktops and portables are still part of the ecosystem, and having devices that support the iPhone and iPad is still important because it keeps people in the ecosystem.

Windows 10 is on a rapid, free-of-charge update cycle, based around the Windows Insider program designed to ensure that Microsoft focuses on features that users actually want, rather than ones they don't want.

And Windows 10 is aggressively pursuing the sort of influential customer who used to be steadfastly in the Apple camp.
It now has a Linux subsystem built right into it, that for this web app developer at least makes Windows my platform of choice for the first time ever.

 If there are no new Macs, people will start to look elsewhere, and that weakens Apple's grip on users.But if Apple has dropped the ball, and can't keep the Mac offering updated, it seems that Microsoft, along with its army of OEMs, is ready to fill the void.

sources:
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-windows-is-beating-apple-2017-3

Apple is bowing down to windows

Apple this week updated macOS Sierra to version
10.12.5 with more than three dozen security
patches, and a change that lets users install
Microsoft's latest version of Windows 10 on their
Macs.
Sierra 10.12.5 "adds support for media-free
installation of Windows 10 Creators Update using
Boot Camp," the update's brief release notes
read. Creators Update was the name Microsoft
assigned to Windows 10 1703 , the upgrade
issued last month.
Boot Camp, which is baked into macOS, lets Mac
owners run Windows on their machines. A
Windows license is required. Boot Camp, while
not virtualization software like VMware's Fusion
or Parallels International's Parallels Desktop,
serves the same purpose: Running Windows
applications, including custom or mission-critical
corporate software, on a Mac personal computer.
Previously, Mac users were forced onto a
circuitous road to put Windows 10 Creators
Update into Boot Camp. According to a Microsoft
support document published before the upgrade
was released, Mac owners first had to install an
.iso of 2016's Windows 10 Anniversary Update,
aka 1607 , to Boot Camp. Once 1607 was in place,
they could then upgrade Windows 10 to 1703
from within Boot Camp.