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Is Apple Reducing the Role of Industrial Design?

by Omid Rahmat

Bloomberg is reporting on changes at Apple’s with the departure of Evans Hankey, the company’s VP of industrial design, who will not be replaced. Instead, the company’s core group of about 20 industrial designers …

Tags:Apple| Manufacturing

Osram Gets the Better of Apple Adopting MicroLEDs

by Omid Rahmat

Whether Micro LED is incorporated into smartwatches, AR headsets, or smartphones, two major factors will determine the market competitiveness of this technology. The first factor involves lowering the costs of Micro LED chips. A …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| MicroLED| Osram| TrendForce

The 2 Billion User Sweet Spot

by Omid Rahmat

Apple, Alphabet (nee Google), and Amazon all reported their financials as the reporting season reaches its peak. Frankly, you can pore over the endless chatter about the results, but this paragraph is about all …

Tags:Alphabet| Amazon| Apple| Financial Data

Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google Form the No-Apple Android XR Alliance

by Omid Rahmat

Roh would not elaborate on the specifics of Samsung’s first new XR product, which will not appear at Wednesday’s launch event. “We’re getting there, but we’re not too far away,” he said. “For the …

Tags:Apple| Google| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Qualcomm| Samsung| XR

Apple’s Foldable iPad for 2024

by Omid Rahmat

(3/3)Anjie Technology will be the new beneficiary of the all-new design foldable iPad. There may be no new iPad releases in the next 9-12 months as the iPad mini refresh is more likely to …

Tags:Apple| Foldable Devices

No Safe Space for Smartphones but the Future

by Omid Rahmat

The recent analysis of the Chinese smartphone market came out within days of the IDC worldwide smartphone tracker. The numbers align with no corner of the market immune from a sharp downturn in numbers. …

Tags:Apple| Canalys| IDC| OLED| Samsung| Smartphones

Pushing OLED Tablets

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung, Lenovo, Asus, Microsoft, and Huawei have delivered, and been open about OLED tablets for a while and this seems a good time to remind everyone about that because Apple – yes, it again …

Tags:Apple| Asus| Huawei| Microsoft| OLED| Samsung| tablets

AR/VR/XR: Pick One, Any One

by Omid Rahmat

Apple is a multi-trillion dollar company. You have to let that sink in for a while because if that doesn’t cause you anxiety, nothing will. It also happens to have a billion loyal customers. …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| meta| oculus| VR| XR

The Ed-Tech Reset at FETC 2023

by Len Scrogan

The ed-tech conference season in the U.S. kicks off at the start of each year with a strong event, the Future of Education Technology Conference, which rotates it venue from Orlando to Miami, Florida …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Education| Virtual Reality

Apple Taking on Samsung, Google, and Amazon in The Home

by Omid Rahmat

The central product appears to be a dockable iPad screen that feature a touchscreen and function similar Samsungs SmartThings and Googles Home along with Amazon Alexa with new Apple iOS software coded to pull …

Tags:Apple| Google| Samsung| Smart Home & Home Networks

GSEO Shipping Apple VR Lens Modules This Spring

by Omid Rahmat

Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) will supply lens modules for VR head-mounted devices, to be launched by Apple in 2023, with shipments to begin in February-March 2023, according to GSEO’s supply chain makers. DigiTimes Apple’s …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| VR

Apple Introduces New Mac Mini with M2 and M2 Pro

by Artem Alekseenko

Apple unveiled the new Mac mini®, supercharged by M2 and the all-new M2 Pro. With the M2 chip, Mac mini is even more powerful, capable, and affordable with a new starting price of just …

Tags:Apple| Mac mini| Retina