Tag: Apple

October 19, 2018

In a note received by AppleInsider, Guggenheim believes the “growth via ASP” from 2017 doesn’t apply for this year. The iPhone XR’s lower price tag is anticipated to be “ASP dilutive,” in part because Apple is deemed to have made […]

October 8, 2018

Unveiled at an event on Monday, the Xeon W-3175X is a 28-core, 56-thread chip that is intended for professional applications. While it has a base clock speed of 3.1GHz, the processor is capable of reaching to to 4.3GHz when boosted, […]

September 26, 2018

According to a report this week by Bloomberg Businessweek, the five biggest tech companies in the U.S. —Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft — spent a total of $80 billion in the last year on “big-ticket physical assets,” a category […]

September 24, 2018

Apple is using new case and button designs, and the display is thinner, according to iFixit. The company has also optimized other components, for instance shrinking the Taptic Engine, though it is longer. In the Series 4, the Taptic Engine […]

September 20, 2018

The customary teardown of the iPhone XS, this time by FixjeiPhone, appears at first glance to be the same as the iPhone X’s treatment last year. From the outset, however, the technician disassembling the device notes it is harder to […]

September 19, 2018

A few days ago, I sat in a medical recliner at the University of California, San Francisco. A cardiologist placed 10 stickerlike electrodes onto my limbs and chest and then connected the wires to a dated-looking contraption with a screen […]

September 18, 2018

For the past few years, I have been a naysayer on one feature of smartphones: their growing size. My position was unusual given the increasing prevalence of larger screen devices. The world’s top phone makers have all added more substantial […]

September 17, 2018

The U.S.-China trade fight is becoming more perilous for Apple Inc., as the Trump administration’s tariffs threaten some of its gadget sales in the U.S. and as China weighs retaliatory measures that could target iPhone production there. The trade tensions […]

September 14, 2018

Apple just announced three brand new phones at its September event. The iPhone XS, an update to the iPhone X, is joined by a larger 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max and the iPhone XR, a new $749 6.1-inch model that we […]

September 14, 2018

On Wednesday, Apple announced its new iPhones, curiously giving the cheaper and more colorful iPhone XR a ship date of over a month after the more luxe iPhone XS and XS Max models become available next Friday. Why didn’t Apple […]