Apple captured half of U.S. mobile phone activations in Q4, demand still at record high

Record sales of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus propelled Apple to dominance in the smartphone market in the US during the holidays and demand is reaching record levels, the individual reports issued on Friday, so indicate.

One in two mobile phones activated in the US 1 October to 31 December were iPhones, according to a survey by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners 500 buyers. Second Samsung took 26 percent of the market, with South Korean firm LG mate in third place at 11 percent.

Apple's share increased significantly from 28 percent of the company booked in the previous quarter. CIRP attributed the jump to consumers waiting for the iPhone 6 release before buying a new device, a pattern that has been repeated throughout the life of the iPhone.

Samsung comparatively reduced 5 percent sequentially. LG was 8 percent in the same period.


"By every measure, 2014 Apple phone launch was a success," said co-founder Josh Lowitz CIRP a releae. "iPhones took loyal Apple customers, with 86% of buyers upgrading from an iPhone. Samsung and LG saw rates much lower fidelity, with 25% of owners of Samsung and 18% of owners LG that triggered a phone in the neighborhood switch to an iPhone ".

Those numbers look set to continue, as 56 percent of consumers plan to buy a smartphone in the next 90 days said they have an eye on an iPhone. The research firm surveyed 451 Research surveyed 4,126 "mainly Americans" to reach that conclusion.

That number is down from the 71 percent who planned to buy before the release of iPhone 6, but still represents a huge advantage over Samsung, which ranks second with 18 percent of the purchase intention in itself a modest increase 5 percent sequentially. It is the highest level of demand for iPhone at this point in the product cycle from 451 began tracking, the firm said.


Apple's decision to increase the size of the iPhone screen seems to have played a role, with 60 percent of likely buyers saying they prefer a screen size over 5 inches.

The market is two: Apple and Samsung control 106% of mobile profits

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The data we have identified these weeks ago confirmed a trend that was more or less clear: the market is two, with Apple and Samsung which generate more profit, with 106% of the market thanks to losses from other companies as BlackBerry or HTC.

Rarely can say that a market segment has two actors, but data from Canaccord Genuity, a company of Canadian financial services has become a reality: Apple and Samsung, the two companies leading smartphones, spread over the entire the benefits of one of the most profitable markets in the sector. 

As strange as it sounds the number of the holder of this post, the fact is that two of the most important smartphone market, Apple and Samsung rivals control on 106% of all profits generated by this segment of the market, increasing year to year and quarter to quarter to date, as shown by the evolution of the benefits of the leading companies in the sector since 2010, according to Canaccord:

And how is it possible? Very simple. Because large companies, which previously controlled the market and the benefits it generated, leading some constant consecutive quarters of profit declines, which directly affects the overall increase proportionate share takes the rest, and in this case, Apple and Samsung are the big winners with 106% of the combined total of both companies. Moreover, in the case of Apple's most notorious, as the company is able to generate even more profit by selling less terminals operating margins of 37% compared to the Samsung range that stays at 22%.

Today the market is two, but given the strength and other companies are taking interest in many others, that so far only operated in Asia, for a place in Europe and the United States, this trend may change in the medium term. However, this year a lot is expected of Apple and its iPhone 6, but in regard to the Cupertino, still have much to gain.

Apple again rely on Samsung as a leading supplier of screens for the iPad

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The relationship between Apple and Samsung is like that of Romulus and Remus. Together are creating a great empire but both have so much envy and respect, trying to annihilate each other every day. However, as the two brothers who founded Rome need each other and it shows with their decisions. The latest comes from Cupertino and has again chosen Samsung as a supplier of screens for the iPad.

Specifying numbers, Apple has decided that Samsung is the leading 62% of the production of iPad screens, providing to Cupertino more than 5.2 million screen 9.7 inch 2,048 × 1,536 resolution. This increase production again as it was in 2012, put leaves in LG, which was the top supplier of displays for the device until a few months ago.

No official explanation for this change. It may be part of an agreement with Samsung to manufacture new components when the devices that are to come, or just not convinced them deadlines and quality that gave LG so far. Whatever it is, we should not worry about the quality of the produced screens because Samsung is one of the best manufacturers of such hardware exists right now in the world.

Apple gets the lead in user satisfaction with their iPad by JD Power

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A year after being placed as a leader with both the iPhone and the iPad and lose the position in favor of Samsung, Apple is having a spring joy watching the JD Power company repositioned the iPad as the best tablet according to a survey customer satisfaction. A maximum of 1,000 points, 830 have achieved. Now Samsung tablets are in second place, but only a negligible difference of eight points. Amazon, which last year was in second place, has dropped to fifth.

In general, the major complaint among respondents is the ease of use. And Apple does not escape criticism: all tablets have become more complex to use as they have become more powerful and applications have to do more. In short, Apple remains the leading competition but still pushing hard, and therefore all devices evolve fast.

Samsung does it again: plan an event focused on health before the WWDC '14

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Of a sudden, Samsung wants to talk about health. I think something similar to the disastrous attempt Galaxy Gear (both first and second generation) . It seems hasty to be the first to reach a field full of mines. Samsung is guided by rumors.

It is very curious as Samsung tries to imitate Apple to unimagined levels. This time again, Samsung is back with its own initiative focused on health devices. One issue about which I have spoken extensively. In fact, the level of copy has reached the surrealism.

Not only copied products, now copy filing dates to try to get ahead. As a personal opinion, I think they will return to present a "somewhat" trying empt Apple's plans. A product that even they know that it serves.

Not only copied products, now copy filing dates to try to get ahead. As a personal opinion, I think they will return to to present a somewhat trying empt Apple's plans. A product they do not even know that it serves.

Of course, Apple does not have exclusivity on health-related devices nor on when hold their events. But is that so far, Samsung had said little or nothing about to enter the world of accessories dedicated to health. And suddenly want "talk about health" and do so immediately before the conclusion of WWDC 2014 we know that one of the main issues will be precisely oriented gadgets health. Curious.

It seems that Samsung has seen the potential and growth of this new market niche and wants to make their own counter programming. Hope it is not so, despite the harsh differences between Samsung and Apple, the competition is always something that has a positive effect on the user and would be very sad to see how Samsung is quick in excess, failing in providing some interesting new single to present battle with Apple positioning. We'll see what he's up to Samsung.

Apple sends a message to Samsung

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The judicial process involving Apple and Samsung has come to an end, at least until the parties resort. Sure thing that they do. The verdict reached by the jury yesterday afternoon provides that Samsung violated 3 of the 5 patents argued by Apple, for which must pay $119.6 million. A tiny figure if you compare with the $2,200 million demanded by Cupertino. 

Many will say that Apple has won the verdict but they really missed out of receiving every penny of what they asked. If you look at the two contenders will see gigantic companies, both generating the greatest number of benefits in the industry. They have money to bore, does not mind a bunch of million? I think they will not lose sleep.

Personally, I do not understand patents. Nor will go to discuss who copied who or about the nature of software patents and design. What does that strikes me is why this trial. Above all, what Apple wins besides money, denouncing Samsung who also its competitor is a provider of important components.

This is how giants sent errands

"It is not about money, it is about sending a message" - The Joker in The Dark Knight.

In keynote of the original iPhone, Steve Jobs declaring us the paradigm shift saying he was light years ahead of what existed in the market. We saw a few months ago that Samsung was the first to recognize this break and jump on the new concept of smartphone launched by Apple's flagship. This strategy was one of the great plays of the time.

The money is secondary, what matters is that the rest of the industry take good note

Apple appealed that Samsung had copied its designs, patents, devices ... and decided to denounce. To be honest, all without exception large technology companies have been reported in sometime. To prevent others follow the same path of Samsung, the Cupertino went on the offensive, suing Samsung for half the world.

They have won some lawsuits and lost others. In California, Apple won one of the most important condemning Samsung over $900 million. Now, Apple receives $119.6 million. But what Apple wanted was not money but send a message to the rest of the industry, "if we consider that we have copied us, take the consequences":

• Hundreds of lawsuits. 

• Trials worldwide. 

• Meeting the payment of millions in lawyers. 

• Years and years of litigation.

Samsung can meet these expenses, but not all manufacturers are able. Not everyone has that kind of money or have access to the necessary resources. The aim is to use the offensive as a deterrent for others. Add sample to Samsung what might happen to consider that Apple copied.

Captain America and "product placement"

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In the new Captain America movie appears a scene where the protagonist enters an Apple Store next to the Black Widow. Apparently, from Cupertino want to enhance the "product placement". 

According to the editor of the Houston Chronicle Dwight Silverman, Apple has publicly jobs for Buzz Marketing Manager. This job aims precisely to get Apple products appear in the series and movies. In addition to negotiate some celebrities to take them when they are seen in public.

The Annual Academy Awards's selfie made ​​by Samsung must have hurt Apple

Apparently the new job is within the internal configuration of Appleso we are talking about an expansion of marketing teams and therefore an extra effort for Apple devices are present in the small and large screen. Marketing actions of competition as selfie Annual Academy Awards by Samsung (and which became the most retweeted tweet of the story).

There was a time when Apple took advantage of this advertising technique, and apparently it seems to repeat with your marketing team strengthened.

I leave the scene of Captain America that you mentioned:

iPhone sales continue to grow, shortening positions with Samsung

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Is the iPhone in crisis? Not likely at all. This analysis shows that IDC notes that iPhone sales have grown in the last quarter compared to last year and very highly.

As we have seen in recent months, the market for mobile phones seems to be gradually becoming saturated. However, in light of the analysis of IDC with respect to sales of the iPhone and other companies during the first quarter worldwide, it seems that Apple is not stopping its growth in sales. 

In fact, according to data provided, Apple is narrowing the difference in iPhone sales over herself while fast approaching the number of Samsung, who is still dominant. IDC analyzes show that although Samsung has sold more phones in the first quarter, Apple has beaten back its iPhone sales record, reaching 43.7 million units (compared to 60 million Samsung). Apple, with its relatively limited supply, compared to the broad market, has managed to successfully defend themselves from rival companies.

While Samsung has reduced growth by 1.7%, Apple has increased by 16.8%

This is shown by the growth in iPhone sales, which in turn is increasing as even though the number of Samsung phones have increased, their growth has declined a slight 1.7%. Growth in iPhone sales, as we said, has increased 16.8% over the first quarter of 2013, a modest but very positive number and exceeds the expectations of analysts and the company itself. This means that Apple continues to grow in terms of sales of the iPhone worldwide.

However, also shown in the analysis of IDC, we must say that companies like Huawei or Lenovo, with its recent acquisition of Motorola, have grown to 63.3% in sales of devices, which is highly commendable despite not going from 13 million phones sold. iPhone sales have not been affected in the same way as we talk about premium devices, so that the target user is not the same. Either way, it is clear that Apple is growing.

The iPad, a tablet you use and all

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You carry the Nintendo Wii to your parents house for Christmas to have fun as a family with a strong boxing and bowling session in Wii Sports. Your parents freak out and immediately decide they want one. Do not wait too long and the same falls Reyes them. Their neighbors are soon also try the game as if it were a virus, suddenly everyone needs a Wii. 

Surely you remember the situation, it was very common a few years ago, as common as all those consoles terminasen gathering dust as a decorative item plus saloon. With tablets has gone something like, everyone wanted one last Christmas and as above were undoubtedly one of the gifts star.

No wonder. After all this is a great invention. One for the first time about really personal computer users of all profiles and age. My father reviews the latest eBay auctions comfortably in his chair while my mother lying on the sofa reading an electronic book or surf the Internet laughing with the last link we have spent her friends. And yes, a Wii is watching them from the corner of the room where he has spent the last six years off. 

But of course, my parents use iPad, the second generation to be exact, and use it daily because they not only like, but also understand and know how to use it for things you really wanted to do but often not made ​​by the difficulty sitting down at the computer and face their thousand inconveniences.

His neighbors also succumbed to the fever tablets, but the iPad was $499 more than they were willing to spend on this occasion. Luckily for them, the supply of tablets that had come under the shadow of the iPad stretched in all directions. Samsung, Sony and hundreds of previously unknown brands crowded with more attractive prices, some as ridiculous. All work the same and serve the same, right?

All work the same and serve the same, right?

Apparently not . Or that's the first conclusion is reached again and again every time you look Chitika graphs on web browsing from tablets and find that year after year , by far the tightening competition and the market flooded with tablets to follow bargain price , hardly anyone use anything other than the iPad . They have tablets , yes, but as decorative items.

And is that not all tablets are the same. Even those that work great, even on paper outperform the iPad in technical data that do not interest any mother. Only one has iOS, only one has 500,000 applications are not extended versions of phones, only one hit as soon as for those who already have one for years continue squeezing without feeling the need to buy another. It's called the first iPad you buy will be your faithful companion for longer than is best for Apple itself. The rest? Well, they are great in the magazine or just in the gap left above the Wii.

Darth Vader: Apple is finished!

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Yesterday was the day of presentation of results from Apple and as always, half the world stopped to see if its harmful results were confirmed: 

• Apple has stopped growing and goes irretrievably destruction. 

• Manufacturers mostly competing against Apple with commodity products, which are so used luegono like yours. 

• Manufacturers, except in the category of Samsung smartphones, not money making products or flagships whose sales do not exceed harmful and expensive iPhone 5c. 

But... that reality does not spoil a nice story against Apple!

Judge a company so severely for his "disappointing" quarterly results is extremely shortsighted. Guided by the expectations of Wall Street or a perpetual and constant growth, and expect a new category every two or three years at the level of iPhone is a mistake. First, because it is impossible, because it ignores second how innovation works. But still and all, sales of the iPad have had a drop of 16%, a drop of 19.48 to 16,350,000. Enough to tell that story: Apple is finished!

The key to the Apple's strategy is in the long run

"If your bearings in the long run, the interests of customers and shareholders are aligned" - Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. 

The real question we should ask is whether Apple is oriented in the long term or otherwise endeavors to squeeze the company to satisfy Wall Street. And if we step back and strive to look at the forest instead of the tree, we see that Apple's strategy is called ecosystem: 

• An ecosystem creates loyalty to the company that controls it, because your customers are captive. 

• It's harder to get a customer who is really into it, change device. The more you invest in the ecosystem, the harder it is to change totally platform. 

• The user benefits translate into comfort and integration of different devices. 

Apple is placing their pieces on the chessboard with utmost patience and undistracted

And how can we know that Apple is building a robust ecosystem? At the conference of shareholders yesterday, Tim Cook shared many details: 

• Even I was surprised by the growth of iTunes accounts to 800 million. If we consider that at WWDC Apple said last year he had accumulated 575 million, we have a growth of 225 million. Here it seems that Apple itself may increase the growth rate.

• We are interested in the number of credit card accounts, the chances of Touch ID and Cook's statements about the possibility of including a system of mobile payments.

• ITunes sales for the quarter were 5,200 million, growing 24% and a cumulative 70,000 million downloads of apps. It is estimated that the App Store has generated 85% more revenue than Google Play in the March quarter. 

• The iPad generates traffic to 4 times the sum of all Android tablets, although its market share.

• The Apple Stores are present in 15 countries and have recently opened stores in Brazil and Istanbul. They have reported plans to double its stores in the next 3 years. 

• Apple bought 24 companies in the last 18 months. Some are more important than others such as Authentec, which was the technology that allowed the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor.

All these data confirm us that the Californian company has always done: enhancing ecosystem services and to place the chess pieces in the right place. Quarter after quarter, device to device and year to year. Think long term, 5, 6 or even 7 plays later from what we see now, like the great masters of chess.

But iPad sales have fallen!

Yes, iPad sales have fallen and are not good news. Is it important? Yes. Apple would want a perpetual growth? Of course. But we must not read too much into one quarter. You can afford a drop in a quarter that is relatively bland in terms of sales (the next so often) when compared with Christmas because it has an ecosystem that protects it from these falls and allows it to counter the blows.

Those who say that Apple is finished, ignore the rest of positive data were confirmed in yesterday's conference:

• Sold 43.7 million iPhones when were planned 38 million. 

• Mac 4.1 million, slightly above estimates of about 4.03 million. 

• 66% of new activations iPads come from new customers. 

• Taiwan, Indonesia and Brazil have a double-digit growth. 

• Mac 4.1 million, slightly above estimates of about 4.03 million. 

• 66% of new activations iPads come from new customers. 

• Taiwan, Indonesia and Brazil have a double-digit growth. 

• India and Vietnam have doubled their sales. 

• 85% of buyers 4s in China are new to Apple. 

• There is also a 69% 5c buyers in China who are new. 

• A large percentage of these users come from China Android. But we had not been in a third of the buyers of the new iPhone Galaxy S5 come?

These data are particularly interesting given the saturation of developed markets. Apple is growing with more affordable terminals (but still scored in the high range) in China and India and part of Southeast Asia is a good sign. It shows that there is a market premium interested in their high-end products. 

It will be very interesting to see how Samsung and Apple face the growth of regional brands in the Chinese and Indian market, as the renamed Mi or Micromax. But we'll see in the future.

Apple vs Samsung: Google agrees to protect Samsung against charges of patent infringement

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Google two years ago agreed to cover some of Samsung's potential legal costs as protection against Apple's latest multibillion-dollar patent lawsuit, a rare glimpse into how closely the two companies aligned themselves in the smartphone wars, a federal court jury learned Tuesday.

Apple disclosed emails and letters showing that Google executives agreed to pay some of Samsung's legal costs if it loses its patent fight against Apple. Apple unveiled the evidence to show that Samsung and Google are intertwined. The tactic was meant to undermine Samsung's argument that it has nothing to do with whether Google-based technology integral to its smartphones and tablets violates Apple's patent rights.

Central to Samsung's defense is its argument that Apple should have targeted Google because the patents at issue in the trial are based on Google's technology and its Android operating system, which has run Samsung smartphones and tablets.

But Apple put the previously secret 2012 Google agreements in front of the jury to bolster its position that Google's role is irrelevant because Samsung controls the technology it includes and sells in its own smartphones and tablets.

The evidence surfaced as Apple and Samsung reach the final stage of their epic federal court showdown. The Google indemnity agreements cover two of the five patents Apple has asserted in the trial.

Google representatives could not be reached for comment.

With a few pieces of testimony left to finish Friday, lawyers for the feuding smartphone powers will turn to finalizing a thick packet of instructions for the eight-member jury and head to closing arguments Monday.

On Thursday, Samsung wrapped up its case against Apple, which is accused of violating two of the South Korean tech giant's patents, including one video patent alleged to be involved in the iPhone's FaceTime feature. A Samsung expert told the jury that Apple should pay about $6 million for infringing those patents.

Apple argues that its technology does not infringe any Samsung patents.

Samsung's case against Apple, however, is a sideshow to the four-week trial's main event. Apple has urged the jury to find that Samsung smartphones and tablets violate five software patents in iPhones and iPads, and has asked the jury to award about $2.2 billion in damages.

Samsung disputes infringing those patents, arguing they were for the most part developed by Google as part of its Android operating system. In addition, a Samsung expert has valued the Apple patents at about $38 million, a fraction of the royalties sought by the iPhone maker.

The jury could begin deliberating as soon as Monday afternoon.

Reporting source: Howard Mintz

Apple makes fun of Samsung a press announcement about its environmental responsibility

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There are some ideas we want every company to copy

Apple is celebrating Earth Day with a series of "pronouncing" that range from the ad Better narrated by Tim Cook, the new website on environmental liability and future Campus 2 or expanding its recycling program. The last of these actions is a press release published in at least two newspapers in the UK, The Guardian and Metro, where the company takes to throw a dart at Samsung in a time returning to face in court.

The move does not catch us by surprise considering the topicality and the efforts being made by the Koreans at the media in its 45th anniversary to project an image as an innovative company with the launch of a website about his design philosophy and openness its own Museum of Innovation in South Korea. This exhibition also includes products of rival companies like Sony or Apple itself, but you will not find in a single iPhone and tries to see the Galaxy S II as the epicenter of the revolution of the smartphones.

The original Apple thus plays a dual role, returning to throw in a "concealed" the idea that they are leading the way and the rest follow them (Samsung or whoever is the hint), and emphasizing their environmental initiatives decided:

"There's one area where we actually encourage others to imitate us. Because when everyone makes the environment a priority, we all benefit. We'd be more than happy to see every data centre fuelled by 100% renewable energy sources. And we eagerly await the day when every product is made without the harmful toxins we have removed from ours. 

 Of course we know we can continue to do better. We've set some pretty ambitious goals for reducing our impact on climate change, making our products with greener materials and conserving our planet's limited resources. So the next time we come across a great idea that can help leave the world better than we found it, we look forward to sharing it."

In my opinion, if there is something I would not mind seeing companies fight tooth and nail is precisely in this. As Apple says on a day like today, everyone wins. 

Apple wins or Apple loses, really can be only one?

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One of the great debates that are built around the technology business is about who is winning and who is losing. It seems no middle ground support and often results in one winner and several losers. Depends on who you ask, you can say that Apple and Google won, Samsung and Microsoft lose, especially the latter.

Google wins because Apple lost and Microsoft has been crushed. Microsoft is ready for an imminent return because the other two were asleep. Samsung is overtaking Apple and Microsoft at the same time. Is this true? Is there a common base or economic sense to support these claims today?

I win, you lose

There is a misperception that the economy is a zero sum ​​game when you lose. That everything I wear is because you have removed yourself. This concept is closely linked to the term commercialism, we define: 

Economic system based primarily on trade development, mainly to export, and considers the possession of precious metals as a characteristic sign of wealth.

From this perspective, the economy of the countries was during the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries as if it were a game of poker: the players' chip pass from hand to hand according the skill of each. Similarly, the wealth of each country is measured in terms of the amount of precious metals (gold and silver) which was in their possession, having two ways to enlarge:

1. Trading, exporting more than it imports. If lots sold abroad, goods are exchanged for precious metals and the country's wealth increases. 

2. Attacking the neighboring country to plunder their gold and silver and protecting the territory from external invasions.

This perception that it was only possible to increase the wealth neighbor taking it away (peacefully or militarily), seems to come to this day and is installed directly in the technology industry. Involves large as Microsoft, Samsung, Google and, of course, Apple. 

Rethinking the winners and losers

What if all this is not so? Is it possible that Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung win at the same time and coexist in relative "peace"? That is not necessary for Apple to win, others have to lose. I think it is possible, in fact, has long been so.

If you look at the different businesses, we see that they are not 100% incompatible with each other:

• Apple is a vertical business that is almost impossible to replicate at that scale. Its main strength lies in the attractiveness of its closed system. 

• Google has a universal character who aspires to be everywhere and on all platforms, both iOS and Android and Windows Phone. Not forgetting the PC, mobile and tablet. Where will be the user, will be Google. 

• Google is like Microsoft in its horizontal nature concerning the platform. The new CEO seems to have regained the essence of Microsoft to have presence beyond its own platform. For example Office for iPad.

• Samsung, Korean hybrid that also follows a vertical scheme but aims to have a product for every age and budget.

Each has its strengths and weaknesses. Some do better than others and will win money, sometimes more and sometimes less. The rivalry is more intense among businesses of the same type as the Apple and Samsung vertical or horizontal as Google and Microsoft, but that does not mean that one should die for the other to succeed.

Can Apple beat all records when discloses its quarterly results, but that does not mean that Google and company will have to go wrong, do you think?

Samsung Google wanted to do the dirty work, attacking Apple

• New documents show how Samsung would have weighed the possibility that Google did the dirty work of attacking Apple. 

• In that time Samsung was one of Apple's suppliers for its processors in iOS devices.

Lawsuits, contingency plans and a lot of dirty war. This could define what Apple and Samsung have been living for the past few years, as is clear from the dozens of documents that the last great judgment is showing. Apparently, the director of Samsung America itself would have asked his marketing manager to weigh the possibility that Google did the dirty work of a campaign against Apple. Thus, in the struggle against Samsung Apple would have no more than a secondary position, without staining your hands in no time.

Samsung against Apple, Apple against Samsung. Two of the largest companies in the world have been and are confronted. Some say the first hit while other courts of half the world already have spoken ten times for both parties. But it seems that this latest trial, which began March 31, will be decided once and for all who is right. And it is in this trial where most documents are filtered. Among them was a very interesting mail that Samsung asked whether it would be a smear campaign led by Apple Google:

"How you told me, we are not able to compete directly (against Apple) with our marketing. If the policy of Samsung is to avoid attacking Apple for being a major customer, can we ask Google to launch a campaign against Apple based in the many best products Android has for Q4? "

Interesting strategy Samsung against Apple, which due to the inability to directly attack the company for being chip supplier, weighed the possibility that a third party did. A technique that, despite its legality is questionable ethically. 

Apple's attitude toward money

"Money is a good servant but a bad master" (Alexandre Dumas). 

What is Apple's attitude about money? Other times we have said that what moves and motivates them is to make this great product:

"We are pleased with our revenues, but our goal is not to make money. It may sound a bit frivolous, but it's true. Our goal and what excites us is to make great products. If we succeed, people will like and if we are operationally competent, we will do money" (Jony Ive). 

Apple makes products you like and appeal to emotion, that is something that can not always explain. Apple can not compete with the specifications because the next day a competitor shows a slimmer, more powerful or more memory smartphone. 

So new rules under which they always have advantage over others invented. The Cupertino company often sells because it goes to the heart of people, sensitive part, the irrational. Technology has become a very important element in the massive day for millions of people and, therefore, depends on the tastes of the people. It is subjective to 100%.

The mobile industry allies to prevent phone theft

Avoid mobile theft. That is the purpose of the agreement signed by Apple, Google, HTC, Huawei, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Microsoft and the five major operators in the USA, installing default anti-theft software for smartphone from 2015.

The alliance, announced by the Association of American mobile phone, CTIA, claims that all phones are sold with a program to block and delete the contents of the phone remotely in case of theft. It's actually something that now comes standard on the iPhone with Find My iPhone or most Android devices with the function of Android Device Manager, but from July 2015 will come in virtually any phone, at least in the USA.

The movement is a small victory for consumers. For years operators opposed INSTALL manufacturers such programs because so they could sell their own burglar or insurance services. Now the software will come installed by default.

The mobile theft is a growing crime in USA. It is estimated that in 2012 only in that country stole 1.6 million phones. In cities like San Francisco, 50% of the total robberies reported to the authorities deal with the sustrascción a phone. The new alliance will try to curb these figures. 

For when a similar initiative in Latin America or Europe?

Android antes y después del iPhone

Como suele pasar en estos casos, el juicio entre Samsung y Apple, por el cual se ha visto involucrada Google, salen a la luz documentos que dan la vuelta a la tortilla. El documento presentado en el juicio, revela marcadas diferencias entre Android antes y después del iPhone, en contra de Google.

Cuando Google adquirió Android en 2005, su objetivo era lanzar un teléfono con Java al estilo BlackBerry con un teclado físico, descartando los dispositivos de pantalla táctil como el iPhone . Un documento interno de Google que detalla los requisitos para v1.0 de Android resalta aún más las marcadas diferencias entre Android antes y después del iPhone.

El hecho de que Android experimentó un cambio drástico tras la revolucionaria presentación del iPhone, ha sido bien documentado por el autor Fred Vogelstein en su libro Dogfight, que reveló que Google tuvo que "empezar de nuevo" en Android después de que el iPhone fuera presentado. Estos documentos ilustran adicionalmente las diferencias entre las dos plataformas.

Versión 0.91 del documento:

Escrito en 2006, describe a Android como un producto que "será, como mínimo, el apoyo a un teclado con las teclas siguientes: Numérico, Estrella, Libra, Enviar, Fin, Inicio, Volver , 2 teclas suaves , 5 - navegación de cinco direcciones (arriba- abajo, izquierda-derecha y seleccionar). "Por otra parte, Google señaló que "no se admitirián las pantallas táctiles. El producto fue diseñado con la presencia de botones físicos discretos como un supuesto".

Después de que el iPhone se introdujo en 2007, sin embargo, el documento tenía una actualización importante para añadir una nueva sección de la pantalla táctil que se detalla "se requiere una pantalla táctil para la capacidad de navegación, incluyendo multitouch basado en el dedo. La navegación basada en Stylus no es compatible".

Aquí está todo el documento que detalla los requisitos funcionales de software para Android:

Proyecto Software Android Requerimientos funcionales