Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies watched as Apple first priced a mass market smartphone at more than $1 000 – and now have upped the ante with new models at almost double that cost.
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Samsung Electronics debuted its most extensive new line-up of smartphones, taking on Apple in a slowing market with 3D cameras, an in-screen fingerprint scanner and faster 5G connectivity and a device with a folding screen.
Apple wants to make it easier for software coders to create tools, games and other applications for its main devices in one fell swoop – an overhaul designed to encourage app development.
Apple is planning to unveil video and news subscription offerings next month, the first major new digital services from the company since 2015.
Apple’s Chinese smartphone shipments plummeted an estimated 20% in 2018’s final quarter, underscoring the scale of the iPhone maker’s retreat in the world’s largest mobile device market.
Apple has warned app developers they must remove or disclose the presence of software that enables them to record the screen of iPhone users, or face “immediate action”.
Apple has released a software update that fixes a bug in its Group FaceTime video-calling feature that had allowed users to eavesdrop on recipients before they answered a call.
Spotify Technology has acquired podcasting companies Gimlet Media and Anchor FM, a declaration that their specialty is the next big area of growth for the world’s largest paid music service.
Apple investors are likely looking for the company to use its massive cash pile to make acquisitions, and names like Netflix, Activision Blizzard and Sonos are among those JPMorgan sees as strong strategic fits.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the soap opera that is the fight between Vodacom and its former employee, Nkosana Makate, over the “please call me” service.