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Apple Exceeded Lenovo in China Sales

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:37:40 +0000

It is confirmed that the sales of Apple in greater China have exceeded those of the world’s third-biggest personal computer maker–Lenovo by shipment volume for the very first time.
Lenovo’s sales in China has been growing at fast pace for seventh consecutive quarter, rising by 23.4% from a year ago to $2.8bn. This enabled the company to consolidate its position as the PC market leader in the Chinese market.
However, strong demand for Apple’s iPhones, iPads and Mac computers quickly pushed up Apple’s second-quarter sales in greater China to $3.8bn.

iPhone4 Reclaims Ttitle of Favourite Mobile

admin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:35:11 +0000

According to the mobile tracker research by uSwitch.com, iPhone4 fell out of consumers’ favour at the beginning of the year when ranked by live searches and sales. However, after struggling to stay in the top five as the most popular handsets over the past few months, Apple’s iPhone4 has managed to soare two places to reclaim the spot as the UK’s number one mobile phone back from from HTC. Selling more than 18 million iPhones, profits of Apple was up by 95% to £3.7bn in the second quarter.
Though Apple get the top spot back, Android phones still dominate the market, accounting for 7 of the top 10, strengthening Google’s stance against Apple even further.
At the same time, the Blackberry Torch keeps going down this month, falling three places on the charts.
The biggest winners unders the current situation are the consumers in the field. As the war between handsets manufacturers go on, prices of deals are being driven down.

Apple purges adult apps from iPhone

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:15:56 +0000

The developers have outrage over Apple’s decision to ban certain words, adult theme applications from the iPhone.

Thousands of applications with adult subjects have removed content from the memory has been since Friday, although some, like one of Playboy, they remain to be.

Apple has said that certain programs were removed after customer complaints.

Developer Jon Atherton is angry that previously approved applications were drawn, and accuses Apple of “experimenting with our livelihoods”.

Apple said it had to respond to its customers.

“They came to the point where our customer complaints from women that the content will always degrading and reprehensible, as were also the parents who found themselves with what they could see their children, always angry,” Phil Schiller, senior vice president of product marketing, told the New York Times.

Knee-jerk reaction

When asked why some applications, were intact with adult content, he said that Apple had considered as “known” companies participated, and whether they “already published material”.

Fresh chilli is an Australian company that provides applications for the iPhone, including the recently created prohibited Wobble, the images of women’s breasts makes available.

“I am now worried that the eco-system is run by Puritans, and is not fair to all players,” said Jon Atherton developers on its website.

“And worst of all is not a reliable source of income. It can drop to near zero, if they decide to change the rules,” he added.

The company made £ 320 per day from their applications, a figure that has fallen to 5 € since the ban, he said.

“On Friday evening we received an email from a clear sky, saying, basically, thank you, but we do not want you any more. Apple said it was removing all sexual apps open,” he told the BBC.

He said that if Apple was on the protection of young people should enable parents, has set the controls for appliances.

It called on Apple to publish its new guidelines so that developers were aware of what they could and not so good as to clarify what, why are not all sex-related applications affected by the ban.

“My position is that this is a knee-jerk reaction. Apple is very controlling. These applications are becoming increasingly popular, but the applications do not save an adult section,” he said.

“I would have thought it was a technological way of fixing the problem rather than pulling the rug under the feet of people,” he added.