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We’ve always had an idea that Google paid Apple an obscene amount of money to make its search engine the default search engine of choice for all iDevices. According to Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt, Google pays Apple $1 billion for the right to be its default search engine, with that cost only to go…
Apple fans waking up this Monday morning were greeted with a barrage of headlines promising a sneak peek at the upcoming iPhone 5S being assembled in a Foxconn plant. The series of photos were posted on a Chinese website and allegedly show the outer housing and the innards of the next generation iPhone. Not surprisingly, these…
Apple is apparently working to improve the way iUsers unlock their devices. PIN codes are apparently not safe enough for the Cupertino-based company as it explores (and patents) an innovative way(s) for device unlocking. The patent application we’ve caught was filed back in August 2011, but has only recently became public. The idea is to…
A cracked screen apparently isn’t good enough reason for some phone owners to get their handsets fixed. According to a new study by British mobile phone insurance website MobileInsurance.co.uk, as many as 1 in 4 iPhone owners are currently using their handset with a smashed, cracked or broken screen. The site was prompted to carry…
Steve Wozniak didn’t quite have optimistic words about Apple in a recent report from German publication, Wiwo.de, in which he expressed some of his opinions in regards to how the iPhone is stacking up to the competition nowadays. Despite being the company’s co-founder, he has in the past acknowledged his fondness for newer Android handsets…
Apple and Samsung are without a doubt the top dogs in the cellphone market. In 2012, both companies managed to grab most of the market share, recording an insane 103 percent in cellphone profit, according to Cannacord Genuity’s estimates. These bitter rivals were able to obtain this seemingly impossible number from the failures of companies…
Apple is looking to help promote some of the great new authors that are struggling to find their spotlight by adding a new Breakout Books section of the iBookstore. This surfaces some of the new books in the iBookstore from “emerging authors,” many of which are priced very reasonably when compared to the more well-known…
According to Strategy Analytics, Apple became the number one mobile phone vendor in the United States during Q4 2012, overtaking Samsung, LG, and all of its competitors for the first time with 34 percent market share. Previously, Samsung had taken the lead for shipments each quarter since 2008. The numbers come from the Wireless Device…
Apple has just released iOS 6.1 to all of its iProducts, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Users can expect the new version of Apple’s mobile operating system to feature enhanced support for LTE connectivity, the ability to use Siri to purchase movie tickets through Fandango, and improved iTunes Match capabilities that allow subscribers…
iLounge is out with a report that both supports and modifies previous rumors about the upcoming iPad and iPhone models for 2013. Everyone knows there will be a new iPad and iPhone at some point this year, but when they will come out and what they’ll feature are two important mysteries at this point. The report…