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"iPhone sales miss" It's 13 weeks for the quarter vs 14 weeks year ago. If you count by units per week iPhone sales is up.

in Premium-priced iPhone X, iPhone 8 propel Apple to $88.3B in revenue in its best quarter ev... Comment by davewrite February 2018

I live in a small town. Today the elected members heading the city's maintenance arm (sewers, streets, parks etc) gave themselves a 100% pay raise i.e doubling their salaries. My Taxes at work. In the last few years they raised my property tax 30% …

in Apple pays China $71M in back taxes, $10M fine after misinterpreting law Comment by davewrite September 2015

CNN on IDC 2011: "They (IDC) predict that Microsoft's all-but-dead-on-arrival Windows Phone 7 platform will outsell BlackBerry and, yes, the iPhone by 2015. Four years from now, Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) will have gained 21% of the smartphone …

in IDC projects Apple unlikely to make market share gains against Android in coming years Comment by davewrite August 2015

Aw, c'mon how hard is it to run a bunch of photocopy machines? " Xiaomi will also give Samsung a strong competitor in closely copying Apple as a fast follower," then again Xiaomi's photocopy attendants seem even better!

in Samsung Electronics' heir apparent Lee Jae-yong profiled as silver spoon-fed product of corrupt nepo Comment by davewrite November 2014

Can't comment on European numbers as I don't have info. But recent articles on the web have shown that iOS INSTALLED base is closer than people think or sales suggest. In the I/O conference Google said they had an installed base of 1 billion vs the…

in Apple's iPhone 5s and 5c leads in Europe, but platform mix rises with Samsung's Galaxy S5 debut Comment by davewrite July 2014

MobileBeat had a bit more on the survey: "iPhones have few failures, Korean respondents said, with only 17 percent having any issue with their Apple smartphone, while 31 percent reported issues with Android-based Samsung phones."

in Apple now No. 1 in customer satisfaction on Samsung's home turf of South Korea Comment by davewrite July 2013

a dude from Parc Xerox (that multibillion dollar earning division that sold hundreds of millions of consumer devices.... Nope ) yep, all these theoretical geniuses have all these wonderful ideas except they have no clue to actually MAKE a product …

in Computing pioneer Alan Kay calls Apple's iPad user interface 'poor' Comment by davewrite April 2013

LOL! (when I heard the judge's order earlier I thought that THIS was exacty what they should do but I doubted Apple without Jobs would have dared to do it. Good for you Cook!) and the judge had ordered Apple to print the ad in LARGE type as well...…

in Apple's UK site says Samsung devices 'not as cool' in compliance with court ruling Comment by davewrite October 2012

All these requests for apple to manufacture in the U.S won't work unless... YOU GET THE U.S TO BAN ALL CHEAP IMPORTS LIKE ACER, SAMSUNG ETC. when apple manufactured in the u.s (Jobs even made Next computers in the U.S) it was almost killed by consu…

in Samsung denies termination of Apple LCD contract Comment by davewrite October 2012

what's the timing again? other reports say "Apple had a year left when it decided to replace Google Maps" that does NOT sound like 'a year left from iPhone 5 launch (now) ' . (a year before the contract expired... so when was the contract supposed…

in Apple reportedly waived one year of Google Maps contract in switch to iOS Maps [u] Comment by davewrite September 2012

to see what Apple is dealing with: samsung a rambling secretive conglomerate is family controlled with multimillionaire family members suing EACH OTHER in court. Samsung probably controls 20% of Korea's GDP, for years no one has dared stand …

in Samsung to sue Apple over LTE patents, partner with Microsoft to avoid Android lawsuits Comment by davewrite August 2012

so Greenpeace thinks NOBODY SHOULD INVEST in N.C (a place which I read desperately needs jobs) even a company like Apple which is trying to add their own clean energy producing component on site?

in Apple rejects Greenpeace data center estimate as inaccurate Comment by davewrite April 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by peter236 You are totally deluded. Just because China's pollution is in general quite high, that does not mean they should not criticize Apple for polluting the environment. The environment groups in China criticize wh…

in Chinese environmental group says Apple has 'changed a lot' since 2010 Comment by davewrite April 2012

How do you have FULL control when you don't even control your own OS?

in Sony takes full control of mobile business to better compete with Apple Comment by davewrite April 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Not really seeing how you're getting that. What I'm saying that Glass's mea culpa doesn't make TAL into a news show. Which it isn't. Yes, I'm aware of that. "Journalistic standards" does not …