The switcher phenomenon continues with Android ... even outside the United States

It's been two days after record results from Apple, but still interesting data out as analysts do their work. The Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP or for short) has combined figures and found that the rate of people who decide to move from Android to iOS has accelerated, as reflected in Fortune.

But beware, there's something else to consider: occurs outside the United States. There, just as in many other western world, having a platform already secured to it and is much harder to change. However, there are many users in countries like China where the iPhone people spend after testing Android phones. The phenomenon is repeated switcher, but from another rival.

Tim Cook Apple confirms that the Watch will be sold in April

If Apple's financial results for the first quarter of 2015 and 74.5 million iPhones sold in the last three months I did not say much, I think I have something that does attract your attention. Tim Cook announced during the conference to shareholders that Apple Watch Set to launch next April.

Apple releases iOS 8.1.3 and OS X 10.10.2, Apple updates leading up to Apple Watch

Apple has just made available to the public the version 8.1.3 of iOS and OS X version 10.10.2 of Yosemite. Both updates, unless it is very crooked things (unfortunately we have precedents and not excessive months) will be the two system updates leading up to Apple Watch.

Never seen sales of iPhone: Financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2015

Again, it's night quarterly financial results in Apple. And being January, the results of the Christmas season will be, especially sales of iPhone. Hold on to the good numbers come: 74,600 million in revenue with a net profit of 18.000 billion.

The other figure that also breaks the most optimistic forecasts is the iPhone sales: 74.5 million units worldwide within months res. It is a triumph of the iPhone 6, with its new size has gotten attention. The Mac, moreover, has also broken sales records.

Image of the week: the new store in Hangzhou is already open, and it's awesome

Just over two weeks ago, Apple put a huge mural full of Chinese calligraphy created by Wang Dongling to announce the upcoming opening of the store of Hangzhou. The poster and alone as promised, but the store that was behind was even better looking. The top official image shown.

Even more pieces to collect

Hay multitud de cosas que Apple ha ido haciendo los últimos años y que están relacionadas con el Apple Watch. No en vano dijeron en su presentación que llevaban 3 años trabajando en este dispositivo. Tenemos HomeKit (el cual, a pesar del retraso tiene "emocionada" a Apple) y una buena cantidad de accesorios ya adaptados a esta plataforma presentados durante el último CES.

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.

According China, Apple would have accepted that the Chinese government inspect their products

Here is one such information for now we have to take with tweezers. According to Beijing News, a means of China, Apple would have given permission for the State Internet Information Office of the Chinese government to inspect iOS devices and Macs have been sold in the country.

The reason: the Chinese administration has been long suspected of Apple products and their safety, claiming that could be the means to spy on members of the government. For this reason it was rumored the prohición buying these devices if you were part of the government, and Tim Cook calmed the community with an open letter in which he said "has ever offered 'backdoors' your software and services to agencies and it never will. "

Adobe introduces Ink Stylus y Slide Ruler Duo

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Adobe wants to defend its platform and finally launches Lightroom for iPhone, had left his iPad version but finally reached the iPhone version. Now along with their applications in the cloud, launched in the U.S. market the Ink Stylus and Slide Ruler Duo.



Adobe has partnered with Adonit to give these two devices. The Stylus for example is able to connect to Adobe cloud services to access photos for use on our drawings. The Slide and the stylus can be used in all applications developed by Adobe.

The pack is available fortoday for $199, but only in the United States, other countries will have to wait, but will not be a long wait. Interestingly is the fact that Adobe released the SDK for all these applications, so we might see third party applications aprovechasen this cloud Adobe.

Developers at WWDC see signs of public transport in the Apple Maps

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Although yesterday we told you about the internal problems that Apple is taking the time to include improvements on their maps, it seems that this does not mean that they are stuck. Maps continue to evolve and the proof is an image taken by one of the developers attending WWDC sessions.

During one of the conversations about new features of iOS8 exclusively geared towards developers, one of the slides that showed you could see an iPad with Apple Maps running. At the bottom, along with the different icons you could see a bus, so no need to work hard to imagine that we have prepared Apple.

It seems that Apple is working on one of the most criticized features and that their competitors already have, the different public transport routes within city. If Apple has not made ​​any mention of this during the Keynote is because they would still have a ways to go. See if in fall, during the final presentation of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, be mentioned or functionality that we will see in future system upgrades.

DanceParty, turns your Apple TV into a game console

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The Apple TV will grow in prominence even to reach the status of multimedia entertainment center of Apple. There are developers who seem to want this to become a reality, this is the present case with DanceParty.

DanceParty we can play via AirPlay, but need an iPhone and AppleTV connected to a TV. With iPhone in hand capturing this dance and representing our entire movement on the screen with the character you have chosen.

Yes, like the famous Dance Central but with an iPhone in hand instead of a Kinect. Devices such as the Wii or Playstation with a special command, offered us the same thing now offers DanceParty. We play alone or with company, allowing the game shared among multiple players together. It is expected that DanceParty out during the month of July.

Philips begins to deploy its weapons to suit iOS 8

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Although we still have a long way to go, the truth is that in the past Keynote saw as Apple aims to bring iOS for the iPhone to be the control center of your home.And Philips has already shown its cards slightly to adapt its range of LED bulbs Hue to this new system. 

They have shown a picture via his Twitter account as could be integrated into the iOS 8 notification center, as a widget. Until now we had to access the application that controlled our set of bulbs to change any settings on it.

Now, from the notification center we can turn on or off our light bulbs, and even set different sets of lights and then access faster without loading the application. I also like to see options from OSRAM, the automation system is very good value and I think we could offer interesting choices with this new feature of iOS. 

Keynote WWDC2014 video available

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For you who have not seen the Keynote WWDC2014 video: 

Although of course there are opinions for everything, Keynote WWDC 2014 has been anything but lacking in substance: iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, iCloud Drive, Health, HomeKit... A flurry of news it will take to assimilate to its launch general public this fall but which at least we have taken a good step.

If you have not seen the presentation, I recommend watching the video. You will enjoy a good number of really funny moments, taunts competition, and of course, new, many new features.

Official Keynote WWDC 2014

The App Store is improved with app packs

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Apple has unveiled at WWDC 2014 new enhancements in the App Store. Trying to improve the way to find new applications, Apple will improve the App Store this fall with quite interesting new features.

Among these new features we found the Explore section, where the App Store will recommend us applications that come closest to our tastes and needs. Additionally, the search will be improved, showing just below suggestions on what we might be looking for as we introduce a search.

These two new features are added three more. On the one hand application packs, where developers can apply several applications to offer with a more competitive price. We will also preview improvements in applications such as videos of them and the ability to offer beta testing their application, thus receiving feedback from their users as they test their application before it goes on sale. These improvements come in the fall and will be available to all developers. 

Health: all our measures of health in one place

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The rumors are confirmed. This time Apple has introduced Health, the new place in our iOS devices in which all measures of health we do with our iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad will be stored.

This new application included as standard on iOS, will be accompanied by Healthkit, an environment that will allow developers find that your application is compatible with iOS Health. Thus Apple seeks to unify all health data in one place and third-party applications can access all of our data to make an accurate assessment of our health.

A clear example is Nike +, an application that monitors only our careers but with Health may access data as our weight, our sleep and even the calories you have eaten in the last days. Only have to use third party applications to perform measurements and give permission to Nike + that can use them.

What is "Continuity"?

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In the mission to further integrate iOS with OS X, Apple has just introduced a new system for sharing applications between iOS and OS X called Continuity at WWDC 2014. With this new system we can share what we are doing to our iOS device and transfer it to your Mac and also vice versa.

Continuity is Apple's way of calling the entire system that has been devised to share the most of our iOS devices with our Mac with OS X Yosemite. Handoff is the system that allows us to share any application on your iPhone and vice versa, for example, if you are writing an email on our iPhone, the Mac will detect it and can finish writing therefrom. The system will also work with Safari, presentations, and any application that offers support for Handoff. Also allow us to have instant Hotspot meter without any password. 

Additionally it also introduced integration of SMS and calls with OS X. If we set our iOS device, our SMS will see in iMessage as if it were a normal message. Likewise this compatibility extends to calls, allowing us to use our Mac as a handsfree for our iPhone. This utility also allows you to call people from our Mac to our contact list and call phones we find on the web via Safari, all calls going through our iPhone.

iOS 7 slash an amazing 90 percent

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When it is obvious that iOS 8 is presented this Monday, but is not available until fall with the launch of the next iPhone, iOS 7 adopting reaches very high levels. A study in the United States and Canada throws these data.

89.7% of the iPhone that are assets in these countries have latest operating system installed on them. The previous study data showed overall 85 percent and was conducted in March this year.

The adoption of iOS 6 has also gained nearly a point, from 7.9 to 8.8 percent, down users with iOS 5 and iOS 4 or lower installed on your terminal. To continue the current growth, when it is officially released iOS 8, iOS 7 users will have reached 95 percent.

Test Healthbook concept

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Healthbook is one of the developments that are expected to arrive with iOS version 8. The application would be the data center that would unify all the information related to health. From the activity, sleep, food and even other data such as heart rate, Cholesterol. Sure, as long as the rumors and information "leaked" is true.

As we have seen physical mockups of supposed iPhone 6, a user has created a prototype of how it would Healtbook. An application with an interface based on cards like Passbook and that there is little more to tell until you really know what will be monitored.



You can also try the app healthbook concept in the following website

Financial Times: "Apple is preparing its own platform for smart homes"

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According to the Financial Times, Apple is developing its own platform for smart homes. A system that would use our iPhone, and iOS devices in general, as the control center for our home. Thus being able to turn on lights, control security, appliances and more.

News that sounds powerful, but the options that Apple could be integrated into the operating system itself, rather than what would do. And, today, we have systems through the use of third-party apps that allow us all that through products such as Welmo Belkin, Placed...

But that "Apple style" and the choices that come with iOS 8 which is attractive and exciting. Imagine finally open source Siri for third-party apps with voice commands and control to get home.

The Apple smart home

A platform for the Apple smart home is something important but which responds to actions other manufacturers like Samsung or Google are already taking place. Of course, here, you never know who had thought of before. In order of announcement is clear that Apple is the last to arrive but if we look back we see some movements are now engaging with this alleged new intelligence platform.

First of all would be the new AppleTV settings. As you recall, configured our AppleTV with a simple touch, thanks to our iPhone without entering Apple ID. Then there is the issue of iBeacon, the AS under sleeve iOS 7. With this technology we have seen that you can implement numerous possibilities both in shops, public places or even the home. For example, Placed or MOCA platform.

Continuing, we see now the recent rumor of including NFC in the iPhone. Apple always said not to consider including an immature technology, the fact is that it is very useful and convenient for setting / pair devices with a single touch. So why not use it now. The truth is that the WWDC is a few days and we will focus on iOS and OS X.

Rumors: the myth of iPhone 6

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One of the effects of large waves is the effect of recoil prior to arrival. Less than a week to get the WWDC2014 Apple rumors are paused and machinery generate stops looking. What we will see on June 2 will be the first official presentation of the company unveiling its plans for new versions of OS X and iOS operating systems, and maybe one more surprise.

However, we are thinking in a year with new generation of iPhone, and exclusive leaks are still slipping through the cracks of the network. Meanwhile, this is what we have:

• No doubt the iPhone 6 will generate more prototypes generated from the curious. We have already seen, combining everything we "know" so far, different interpretations of how it could be. Now it is the turn to case manufacturers who have created an aluminium model to generate products for the new release, according with MacRumors. And watch out, these leaks have historically never been far from the actual product...

• Another rumor most commented this past week are the pictures of the possible LED light panel that the new iPhone 6. Apparently, Apple will incorporate the latest in LED technology to thin even more the new model, according to MacRumors would be considerably thinner than the iPhone 5s, for example.

• This section talked a lot of "how" will be, but we must also assess the affectations of these changes and their impact on iPhone ecosystem. In 9to5Mac published an interesting article on how a larger iPhone will force developers to rethink their applications: iOS is ready for dynamic scaling, however, is the task of the programmers use this space to the fullest, and now seems to have much more that should be better utilized.

• Another article I liked reading this week is publishing in TechNightOwl on quality control at Apple, and how every little problem is even software level makes them start over the whole process. I think reading it will be very useful to understand that any rumor about Apple security is a process that can not be the fastest, but is intended to be the most accurate.

• Finally, a very good article by Mark Wilson to FastCoDesign: four myths about Apple, viewed by an ex-designer of the company. Well thought out, realistic and that we should come in handy to read when some fake try to sneak a impossible design: Apple are probably the best, but they are still human. Nothing iPhones with projected holographic display and keyboard...for now.