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Apple Watch to Have Larger Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple’s success with its M series chips is leading to the firm putting a lot of resource into the technology and this is limiting improvements to …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| OLEDs| Smartwatches

Sigmaintell Releases VR Forecast

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Chinese market researcher, Sigmaintell, has issued a new report on AR and VR and said that sales of VR headsets reached 11.2 million in 2021, up 65% year on year. It …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 27th June 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Apple| ATSC| Desktop Monitors| DRM & Content Protection| DVB-T & T2| FCC| Foxconn (Honhai)| Hisense| Huawei| Poland| Samsung| Security| Smart TV| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Reality

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Bloomberg: Apple planning A14 Apple TV

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple watcher, Mark Gurman, said that the firm is about to “embark on one of the most ambitious periods of new products in its history” between the autumn of this …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| iPhone| Notebooks| Smartphones| STBs| tablets

Apple Takes 62% of Premium Market in Q1 2022

by Artem Alekseenko

The global premium (US$400 and above wholesale ASP) smartphone market sales volume declined 8% YoY during the quarter, but it still performed better than the overall smartphone market, which declined by 10%, according to …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Apple| Smartphone Market

Laptop Mag Looks at M2 MacBook Pro 13

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Laptop Magazine had a good look at the new M2 MacBook Pro 13 notebook from Apple. It lamented that the LCD display on the unit has wide bezels but liked that …

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DSCC Updates its Tablet Forecast – Good News for OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published its latest results and forecasts for tablets using OLED, miniLED and regular LCD tablets. The firm differentiates OLED and miniLED as ‘advanced tablets’. Advanced tablets were up 362% from …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| OLEDs| Samsung| tablets

Apple to evaluate BOE’s iPhone 14 OLED panel this week

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that BOE has passed samples to Apple for evaluation as a supplier for the expected iPhone 14 and hopes to get approval ‘within the month’. If the go …

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Links Mid-Week – Week Ending 17th June 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. Would You Buy the World’s First Laptop With …

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Apple Considering Larger MacBook Air

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reported that Apple may have a new 15″ MacBook Air next year and a new 12″ MacBook Pro for later this year. A 15″ MacBook Air would be the largest …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| Notebooks

Guetskens Updates his HDR Ecosystem Tracker

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yoeri Geutskens has posted the latest version of his HDR ecosystem tracker on Twitter. He also said that he thinks (although it’s not certain) that the Apple TV 4K with tvOS …

Tags:Apple| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| STBs

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Apple Adds Some AR Functions, but no News on Delayed Headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There was lots of speculation before this week’s Apple WWDC event about support for AR and any news or hints about the expected upcoming Apple AR/VR headset. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted …

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