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  • iPad wins again, Google cancels upcoming tablet products

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    I would do same the if I were Google. 

    The tablet market is like the desktop PC market. It will become less important (but it won't disappear).  There is a reason that Apple is pimping up the iPad with more laptop like features. 

    When I bought my iPad in 2014, I had the intention to use frequently in my professional and private life.  But that did not happen due to its limitations.  The last few years I only use it to occasionally play a game.  The moment it dies, I won't replace it
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  • App Store continues to vastly outpace Google Play in consumer spending

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    MacPro said:
    It must be a nightmare for Android developers when so few users update and so many versions of the OS out there on so many disparate types of hardware.
    No it isn't.  Being a developer for both iOS and Android, I can make a decent living because I develop my apps for both platform.   It is 1000 times more difficult to come up with a new profit making idea than to port a profit making app to the other platform

    80% of my apps would be loss making if they were only available on a single platform
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  • 2020 5G iPhone coming in 5.4- and 6.7-inch sizes, LTE 6.1-inch iPhone [u]

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    genovelle said:
    uktechie said:
    2020? That’s more than a year behind their competitors. 

    If I’m paying Apple’s premium prices I expect the best so the 2019 4G model is going to be a difficult sell for Apple.

    I look forward to getting a 5G iPhone but I expect 2019 sales to be poor, at least in areas where 5G is available amor about to launch soon (we’ve had it for a few weeks in major curries in the UK). 
    No really. When 3G & 4G came out they were a year behind and that was a good thing. The tech was not there yet and the modems were unrefined making them very power hungry especially as they searched constantly for towers that did not have exist yet and we’re not presenting the advertised speed. Of course there were no real complaints because the buyers of those other models tend mostly to be either non techs or complicit with Android so they pretend nothing happened. Apple prefers to release products when they are ready which for the customers Apple is targeting makes it well worth a premium. Our phones also have a much longer life. When was the last time you heard that an android phone was passed down twice in a family and is still on the latest software?
    4G required a lot of new masts, which took time to build.  5G (at least the part using the existing frequencies) can reuse the existing masts.  So that part of 5G can be operational quite quickly.

    There are 2 crucial points here to consider:
     - When  the 3G to 4G migration took place, people were on average buying a new phone every 18 - 24 months, now it is more in the 30 to 36 months range.  Meaning that a user will be stuck till end of 2022 with a 4G phone if he buys one in the 2019 christmas quarter. This will most probably jeopardize the sales in the christmas quarter for the vendors that don't offer 5G phones.
     - The article gives the impression that the speed increase is only happening with the mm waves.  This is not fully correct.  Users will experience a speed increase with 5G using the existing frequencies
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  • Apple's iPads are transforming students' lives in multilingual European classrooms

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    ajl said:
    frantisek said:
    I wonder about that multilingual environment. I do use iPhone like that and it is plain horrible experience. Mainly switching two languages, occasionally up to six. Even two languages are nightmare as apps or iOS, no idea where is problem, do not remember what language was used in each conversation or chat so I constantly switching keyboard or typing or dictating with wrong one. In this particular case I can not call iPhone smartphone until it will remember language on conversation/contact base.
    ? Mine does.

    I am living in Belgium with 3 official languages (Dutch, French and German) and with a a very prominent role for English (NATO and EU headquarters are here).  It is not uncommon to have sentences  or even words with a mix of languages.  iOS and macOS have very limited support for multilingual environments.  And I mean multilingual in the sense of simultaneously supporting multiple languages.  

    If I use a browser I want to have the user interface (menu, ...) in English but the content of the page in Dutch.  If I use a spreadsheet it is the same:  the function names like sum() must be in English but the content (e.g. date formats) in Dutch.  This concept is unsupported in iOS or macOS, but the majority of Dutch speaking Belgians wants it this way

    Siri cannot cope with a streetname like Desguinlei (a main road in Antwerp), where the first part "Desguin" is French and the 2nd part "lei" is Dutch.  No matter how you pronounce it Siri cannot understand it and hence cannot find the route to it. And if you type the word Desguinlei in Apple Maps, it says something that no human can guess what it is. 

    Also multilingual support in Safari is non existing.  You cannot change the settings of Safari to "please give me the Dutch version of a webpage, fall back to the French version if Dutch is not available and then fall back to English". This very neat feature is foreseen in the http protocol and Firefox does support it,  Safari doesn't. 

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  • iPhone's global marketshare drops in March quarter as Chinese rivals remain ascendant

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    kevin kee said:
    Funny that in reality everywhere I go I see people mostly use iPhone. There are a few possibilities of why this is the case:
    1. People don't upgrade their old iPhone as often
    2. People don't use their non-iPhone as often (unlikely)
    3. Geographic (developed countries vs developing, city vs urban, etc.)
    4. Demographic (young vs old)
    5. The numbers are inaccurate (most likely) or somebody lies about the number (unlikely)

    Maybe you should  not extrapolate your neighborhood to the whole world.  There are a lot of developed, high income countries where the market share of iPhones is below 15%. 
    muthuk_vanalingam