Storm clouds are brewing over the global technology industry. A host of hardware companies are sitting on inventory stockpiles not seen since the financial crisis a decade ago.
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Apple proved one thing this year: it can charge whatever it wants for iPhones. Its growth rests on its ability to maintain that pricing power.
Apple is not only doubling down on the iPhone X, it’s tripling down. The world’s most valuable company plans to launch three new phones soon that keep the edge-to-edge screen design of last year’s flagship.
On the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about Nvidia’s new ray-tracing GPUs, Telkom’s unhappiness with Icasa, Nikon’s new mirrorless cameras and Apple’s forthcoming keynote.
If you need proof that giant technology companies behave a lot like borderless governments, look no further than the brewing “app store taxes” debate.
Apple’s Tim Cook is set to collect stock worth about $120-million (about R1.7-billion) this week thanks to a run-up in shares of the iPhone maker.
A backlash against the app stores of Apple and Google is gaining steam, with a growing number of companies saying the tech giants are collecting too high a tax for connecting consumers to developers’ wares.
Apple will release a new low-cost laptop and a professional-focused upgrade to the Mac mini desktop later this year, ending a drought of Mac computers that has limited sales of the company’s longest-running line of devices.
Social media platforms now shape public discourse as powerfully as newspapers and magazines did a generation ago, perhaps more so.
The Spotify app will be available when customers set up their new Samsung phones, a deal that could boost the music streaming service’s user base.