Apple's iPhone trade-in program has just hit the United Kingdom and Germany. First launched prior to the iPhone 5s / 5c's September announcement in the United States, it allows customers to gain some credit back for their current iPhone and trade said handset in for a shiny new one. Unfortunately, though, the return on any iPhone seems to be way below what most would perceive as a respectful amount, and thus, the trade-in program is probably just for those who find the business of private selling just way too intolerable.
A number of new research studies into the effectiveness, responsiveness and overall quality of smartphone and tablet touchscreens has found that Apple Inc. is still leading the pack. Mobile ad company Agawi has been putting a number of popular iOS and Android devices through their paces in an attempt to measure the performance of the touchscreen technology on the device, with the results putting the fruit company way ahead of the competition.
U.S. president Barack Obama has, in a live address discussing the shutting down of the government, compared downtime and site issues with Obamacare and healthcare.gov to the launch of a new Apple product. Whenever the fruit company does release a new gadget - particularly when said gadget just so happens to be an iPhone - the Apple site tends to grind to a halt, with the frenzy of shoppers flocking to stores causing all manner of disturbance besides.
Apple may have had a rough ride of it in the early 1990s, but ever since its co-founder and eventual CEO Steve Jobs returned to the company in 1997, some may say that Apple has been on something of an unstoppable upward motion that has culminated in the firm now being one of the most revered in business. Able to make huge profits and owning the manufacturing and retail chains that make it so streamlined, Apple is perhaps the blueprint by which companies now form their own strategies.
Here's our full video comparison of Apple iPhone 5S vs Samsung Galaxy S4. It seems fit to put iPhone 5s and Galaxy S4 through a rigorous comparison to see which one actually comes out on top.
An interview with a top Apple executive is a fairly rare occurrence, but with both the iPhone 5c and the new flagship iPhone 5s in the hands of hundreds of thousands around the globe, the Cupertino company's biggest names have offered their opinions on some of the topics we all just love to hear about it. CEO Tim Cook, along with Jonny Ive and Senior Vice President of software Craig Federighi, have all given their two cents on the shape of the mobile market, as well as touching on the more sensitive topics like rival Android's fragmented nature.
Although Apple currently have their hands full for the next few days as they roll out the public release of iOS 7, it seems that they still have the manpower to make some important changes to how application distribution works with the App Store. The much anticipated iOS 7 will go live tomorrow with literally millions of devices all hitting Apple's servers to get the biggest change to the OS yet, but behind-the-scenes they have made some changes to the App Store that will allow users to download legacy version of the apps compatible with older firmware running on the device
iOS 7 GM download links have just gone live on the Apple’s dev site. Those enrolled on the iOS Developer Program now have immediate access to what is essentially the finished iOS 7 build, and can start installing the firmware on their provisioned iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices through the usual well publicized download channels.
So here we are, only a week away from Apple’s iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C announcement. Apple has already sent event invites for its September 10th iPhone event, a date that the internet as a whole seems to have designated 'new iPhone day.'
If it seems like you can't go more than three clicks without being bombarded with new iPhone news, then we're going to have to apologies right here, and right now; this post isn't going to offer any respite.
