In fact, the great majority of them don’t fade away either. Well, perhaps eventually. It seems the great majority of old iPhones get passed to new owners who, in fact, activate and use them. A new study finds a thriving market for hand-me-down and second-hand Apple smartphones — anything’s better than an Android, right?
Don’t just roll your eyes. You really should give this one a full body roll — it’s easier than you think, try it. A market research firm is reporting that Apple’s iPhone is gaining on Android, which means the smartphone war (and the attendant pointless fan boy tantrums) is anything but over.
Apple’s iTunes Ping, the company’s social network for music, was supposed to arrive with Facebook integration baked. In fact, non-public betas clearly had integration, but the final product arrived with it. Although it is still early days, another non-public beta, this still time iOS, shows that Facebook integration is making a comeback. Is this the real deal?
Every time a new iPhone goes on sale someplace, there will be lines. Though we’ve seen plenty of this kind of drama captured on film and in pictures around the world, nothing quite compares to what’s going on outside Apple Stores and resellers in China as the iPhone 4S launches.
That sinking feeling of dropping an iPod or iPhone into bowl of soup, glass of beer, a puddle or, not again, the toilet. You might be able to dry it out in a boxful of uncooked rice, but chances are it is dead and never to return. There is hope, however, and it’s all about better living through chemistry.
A half decade ago, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone on the stage at Macworld in San Francisco. Alas, the Apple cofounder has passed and Macworld is a mere shadow of what it once way, but the device continues to shape and shake a once moribund industry. Here’s a look back to the future and why we will never be the same again.
Remember how the haters panned Apple’s 2011 smartphone refresh because it only had a newer, faster processor, greatly improved camera and Siri? In addition to setting new sales records, including first weekend and a big new total from Verizon, users are responding by gobbling up data with the iPhone 4S, in fact, twice as much as those with the iPhone 4.
These days it seems even toaster ovens ship with Angry Birds installed. Thereupon, there are mobile time wasters and then there’s Epic’s game changing title that’s only available on the iPhone and iPad, which marries truly stunning 3D graphics and innovative player interaction — quite naturally, Infinity Blade is bringing home to booty as a result.
By all accounts, a lot of smartphones were sold during the just concluded holiday shopping season. From the 6.8 million device activations and more than 250 million apps downloaded on Christmas Day, commerce has been very brisk. However, the spoils aren’t evenly spread and there are significant differences in the who and where.
The mothership has gotten heat from developers and pundits over its apparent inaction vis-a-vis app piracy, a problem observers say has only gotten worse in recent months. Although criticism of Apple is unlikely to subside, the biggest iOS pirate site has been pushed off shore and the problem has moved to countries ‘that do not have copyright laws.’
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