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Wednesday Assorted Links

August 19, 2015

1. Samsung Pay and Apple Pay Are Only Fighting Over 20 Percent of the Smartphone Market Perhaps… but it’s a 20% that likely has ~80% of the most valuable consumers. And it won’t stay 20% for long. Being there first, with a better solution, matters. And, as @eric_analytics points out on Twitter, Apple Pay vs. Google Wallet would have been a better comparison.

2. Qualcomm still supplies modem chips for next iPhone, sources claim

The sources believe that Intel is unlikely to obtain modem chip orders for the upcoming iPhones. However, Intel could win orders for the 2017 iPhone models as Apple is searching for additional modem chip suppliers apart from Qualcomm, the sources noted.

Sparks the question: would an Intel baseband processor appear on the iPhone, Apple’s current core business, before it appears on any other product (e.g., iPad)?

3. Xiaomi Bakes Opera’s Data Compression Tech Into Newest Version Of MIUI Android

4. Apple Working on Large Glass Something or Other, Says Global Equities

  • A device which is 27″ to 50″ Curved Glass somewhat resembling a car windshield or a curved display
  • The whole surface area acts like an HUD (Heads Up Display)
  • The various sensors are built right into the Glass

Impossible to tell how accurate this is, but it is interesting. Dimensions (if accurate) don’t appear large enough for a car windshield. Unless it’s a small prototype. This sort of glass assembly is probably something Apple can’t build in-house (i.e., for a prototype). So, with a supplier involved, the odds of a leak are higher. “Leak” isn’t quite the right word, though, since it implies a certainty that this information is accurate.

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Filed Under: Apple, Assorted Links, Display, Interface, Payment, Processors, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sensors, Smartphones, Xiaomi

Market Scan Highlights: 2015-05-24

May 24, 2015

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Highlights from this week’s Market Scan. Read it here. Subscribe here.

  • Why China is hard to figure out (Marginal Revolution)
  • Rumor: Android M Will Come With An Update Guarantee For Nexus Devices (Android Police)
  • Google seeking new partners for next generation Nexus phones (DigiTimes)
  • Apple acquires high-accuracy GPS technology firm Coherent Navigation (AppleInsider)
  • Apple: Tim Cook: Apple Pay coming to China ‘soon’ (Mashable)
  • Apple: Key iPhone 6s specs seemingly detailed in new report (BGR)
  • Apple: Report: iOS 9 will be optimized for older devices, including iPhone 4S (Ars Technica)
  • Xiaomi Picks Leadcore to Go Vertical – In search of its own custom processor (EE Times)
  • BlackBerry: Microsoft, Xiaomi, Lenovo and Huawei ‘evince’ interest in BlackBerry (IB Times)
  • Apple: KGI lowers Apple Watch forecast significantly, says over 80% of sales are larger 42mm version (9to5Mac)
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Filed Under: Acquisitions, Android, Apple, Assorted Links, BlackBerry, China, Google, iOS, Market Scan, Payment, Processors, Sensors, Smartphones, Smartwatches

Wednesday Assorted Links

May 6, 2015

1. Apple Pay picks up support from 24 more banks and credit unions. This is what a steamroller looks like. Okay, maybe it’s still a small steamroller…. But the outcome is still “ouch”.

2. The Keys To Surviving Digital Disruption. The best part:

People keep saying, ‘I want real-time data.’ And I say, ‘No, you don’t. You want this data to mean something. What you want to do with that data is take it and tie it to information.’

I won’t know if I agree with him until my real-time dashboard tells me I do.

3. Conan O’Brien introduces Apple Watch Hand, for the tattooed set. Fake Steve Jobs would never have allowed a fake hand.

4. Anna Kendrick’s ‘Shower Thoughts’ might blow your mind. Good wit. The pencil one almost seems insightful.

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Filed Under: Apple, Assorted Links, Data, Payment

Market Scan: 2015-05-03

May 3, 2015

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Industry

  • Nest CEO Tony Fadell on the Future of the Internet (WSJ)
  • Google Now becomes a more robust platform with 70 new partner apps (ZDNet)
  • iPhone trade-ins eroding Chinese Android sales: Report (ZDNet)
  • Cyanogen looking to work with Chinese vendors to load its software on more smartphones (Android Central)

Smartphones

  • Apple: Future iPhones may sport both telephoto and wide angle cameras, patent application suggests (AppleInsider)
  • Apple: iPhone’s New Growth Engine Illustrated: China’s Middle Class (Mobile Forward)
  • More than Half of Apple’s China Levers are Unique to Apple (Mobile Forward)
  • Samsung Pay scheduled to launch in the second half of 2015 (GSMArena)
  • Xiaomi tries to end waiting period for phone buyers, amid complaints (PC World)

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Filed Under: Acquisitions, Android, Apple, Assorted Links, China, Cyanogen, Google, HTC, Imaging, India, Intelligent Assistance, Interface, IOT, Market Scan, Micromax, Microsoft, Nokia, Payment, Processors, Samsung, Sensors, Smartphones, Smartwatches, Sony, T-Mobile, Tablets, Wearables - Other, Windows, Xiaomi

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